Banks Peninsula voters have unceremoniously booted Vanessa Weenink from her National Party electorate seat in Parliament. When the counting’s done, she’ll lose to Labour’s Tracey McLellan by over 2,000 votes. In typical Leftist deflectionist fashion however, she’s taken not one iota of personal responsibility for her loss.
Instead, Vanessa has blamed her very own political party, National Party voters and the hordes of deplorable New Zealand bigots that - with her infinite wisdom and mad eyes - she’s uniquely equipped to see.
Weenink claims the National Party has “lost its way” by moving far right and being dreadfully swayed by its ACT and New Zealand First coalition partners. She’s asserted that the National Party needs more “urban liberal squishy centrists” just like herself, and more “woke liberals like Chris Bishop”. Weenink has proclaimed from her pulpit that Banks Peninsula voters “literally hate us [National]”.
Vanessa qualified as a medical doctor. But don’t be fooled. New Zealand’s medical colleges have been churning out Mad Marxist Medicos for decades. She’s Whacky Quack Weenink, pure and simple - at the helm of the Medical Association when – like the Manawanui - it sank.
Following the election, Vitriolic Vanessa has been particularly scathing of the National Party’s support for the ACT Party’s Treaty Principles Bill, even though the Nats’ support was expressly only for the Bill’s first reading in Parliament, after which the Bill disappeared into oblivion.
Verily according to Vanessa, the last Government, led by “her” National Party, thoroughly disrespected the Māori language.
Weenink’s vilification of the National Party is especially ungrateful given the Nats’ inner sanctum took her under their wing and made her their successful Banks Peninsula candidate in 2023 general election. She’d previously been a Labour Party member and staffer, ardently supporting Labour Party MP Duncan Webb in the 2020 general election.
It’s tempting to conclude that Vanessa Weenink must have been a Labour Party plant in the National Party, inserted to destabilize and undermine what used to be New Zealand’s lower-“c” conservative party. But that would be failing to see the world as it is, and what National has become.
Former National Party cabinet minister Chris Penk (who took the fall after the most recent attempt to unseat Sir Luxolot) has chimed in, warning that “National can’t risk sliding towards the political right”.
Since the election, Police Minister Mark Mitchell has expressed “deep respect” for Weenink.
The general tenor of Weenink’s and Penk’s reproaches of the National Party is, in essence, that National should be more like Labour (from whence Weenink came). But in truth, when all boiled down, it’s difficult to slide a cigarette paper between the National and Labour parties. In their current incarnations, National and Labour are two cheeks of the very same @r$e…
Nicola Grigg, National’s Minister for Women, opposed New Zealand First’s Bill defining what’s a woman (and what’s a man) in biological terms, claiming, “I’m convinced that the Bill would not advance the rights, opportunities or wellbeing of women and girls in any way, shape or form in New Zealand”.
Attorney-General Chris Bishop’s report on the Bill claimed the Bill would (somehow) “give rise to discrimination on the basis of age”. (Bishop’s also been given the bum’s rush.)
Education Minister Erica Stanford steadfastly resisted removing the primacy of the Treaty of Waitangi from New Zealand’s Education Act. (She eventually relented.)
Christopher Luxon blurted about the Treaty Principles Bill, “There isn’t anything I like.” It follows that the Dead-Man-Walking Prime Minister doesn’t like the Executive Government of New Zealand having the right to govern, or Parliament having full powers to make laws in a free and democratic society, or New Zealanders being equal before the law. There was apparently absolutely nothing he liked, despite the Bill having expressly preserved iwi and hapu rights under the Treaty of Waitangi, except to the extent different rights are prescribed in Treaty settlements.
Then there’s Luxo’s best friend, National Minister Matt Doocey, who campaigned in a tutu and salivates at the prospect of his son and daughter deciding what sex they are.
And so on, and so forth.
Weenink’s reaction to her defeat and departure from Parliament is characteristic of the National Party’s general arrogance, self-delusion, denialism, lack of self-reflection and divorce from its traditional supporters. As wedded to identity politics as the National Party undeniably is, it’s a political party lacking definable identity. A political party that nowadays has absolutely no idea what it stands for or where it wants to go.
This Wiccan of Wokery was therefore no National Party outlier. On the contrary, Weenink is an archetypal National Party Parliamentarian, who just happened to lose her electorate seat.
If Luxon and ShonKey had read the writing on the wall and officially endorsed strategic voting (electorate vote National, party vote NZ First or ACT), Dr Vanessa Weenink would almost certainly still be in Parliament.
Don’t rule out Teal Quack Weenink popping up for the Opportunity Party at New Zealand’s next general election…(an election that’ll be much sooner than many might expect).
John McLean is a citizen typist and enthusiastic amateur who blogs at John's Substack where this article was sourced
Then there’s Luxo’s best friend, National Minister Matt Doocey, who campaigned in a tutu and salivates at the prospect of his son and daughter deciding what sex they are.
And so on, and so forth.
Weenink’s reaction to her defeat and departure from Parliament is characteristic of the National Party’s general arrogance, self-delusion, denialism, lack of self-reflection and divorce from its traditional supporters. As wedded to identity politics as the National Party undeniably is, it’s a political party lacking definable identity. A political party that nowadays has absolutely no idea what it stands for or where it wants to go.
This Wiccan of Wokery was therefore no National Party outlier. On the contrary, Weenink is an archetypal National Party Parliamentarian, who just happened to lose her electorate seat.
If Luxon and ShonKey had read the writing on the wall and officially endorsed strategic voting (electorate vote National, party vote NZ First or ACT), Dr Vanessa Weenink would almost certainly still be in Parliament.
Don’t rule out Teal Quack Weenink popping up for the Opportunity Party at New Zealand’s next general election…(an election that’ll be much sooner than many might expect).
John McLean is a citizen typist and enthusiastic amateur who blogs at John's Substack where this article was sourced
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