COVID INQUIRY, NO RACIST PRIVILEGE: NEW GOVT

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It took an eternity but oh! the relief! it looks like the coalition wheeling and dealing has paid off. New Zealand is waking from the nightmare that was Jacinda Ardern who swanned off while the going was good - for her, that is, not for the nation - and left us with Hapless Hipkins who liked to pose for pix with the unspeakable Shaneel Lal and didn't even know what a woman is. 

Now we have a ministry. Now we have a government which will govern by experience and common sense, not socialist ideology, and we thank God for that. 

Pity the poor old MSM, who've had the rug pulled out from under and are readjusting to the reality of earning their living by reportage, not propaganda. Pray for NZ's Catholic clergy who, similarly bereft by the loss of a government which shared their anti-Catholic, socialist leanings, must find the courage of a Bishop Strickland and preach the Gospel and the Deposit of Faith, not a bunch of Jesuitical ambiguities and neo-Modernist nonsense.

Dr Michael Bassett gives his analysis of the new ministry (below) followed by the grassroots advocacy lobby Voices for Freedom, who were out partying this weekend on the success of their hard work as evidenced by the new-broom coalition's no-nonsense, no-racism agreements.  

 

Like most people, I was getting heartily sick of all the time being wasted over the coalition negotiations. During the first three weeks Winston grinned like a Cheshire cat, certain he’d be needed; Chris Luxon wasted time in lifting the phone to Winston and, still in campaign mode, visited the Chelsea Sugar Works rather than cementing his numbers in place. Even in the weeks after the final results it took time before the leading trio seemed to be in purposeful mode.

But then came the announcement on Friday 24 November, forty days after the election. A credible ministry with one or two over-burdened ministers, and two separate agreements, one with ACT, the other with New Zealand First, each of them is worthy of careful analysis.

 

The first and obvious conclusion is that the agreements reflect genuine give-and-take. ACT which deserved the Deputy Prime Ministership agreed to share the position, but made some significant gains, with support from the other two, to reduce regulations, pare back the public service that was allowed to grow at a crazy rate under Ardern and Hipkins, narrow the Reserve Bank’s remit to focusing on price stability, and to repeal the clumsy Spatial Planning and Natural and Built Environment Acts.

 

In the areas of RMA reform, tenancy law, agriculture, natural resources, education and health, ACT’s influence is obvious. New Zealand First’s clout is more evident in their insistence on tackling school truancy and their overly generous policies towards seniors like keeping the superannuation age at 65 when it could quite sensibly be lifted in small steps to 68 or higher with little adverse effect. There is already provision for early retirement for those with special needs.

 

Both ACT and New Zealand First favour abolition of the separatist Maori Health Authority, an end to co-governance, and a careful review of the out-of-control industry currently pushing He Puapua and expanding the “principles” of the Treaty of Waitangi.

This was our tenth MMP election and it’s the first ministry to have put together what looks like a fairly carefully balanced template for government. As the disciples of Roger Douglas, ACT is more concerned about economic growth and removing the complex and multi-layered impediments put in its way by the Ardern-Hipkins Labour government.

 

National seems to have shown flexibility in negotiations over productivity, government spending and over lifting levels of law and order. The new cabinet make-up distributes jobs reasonably fairly with a reservation about a seemingly overloaded Nicola Willis who has responsibility both for Finance and the grotesquely under-performing Public Service. Simeon Brown and Paul Goldsmith are carrying large burdens as well, while one or two junior ministers seem to have little work.

But having said that, I think the agreements look sound and the ministry as good as could be expected from the new Parliament. The public reaction hasn’t been entirely positive and doesn’t suggest an easy ride for Chris Luxon. Setting aside some snide remarks from the hopelessly discredited Labour Party (the party of Micky Savage, Peter Fraser and Helen Clark that managed only to scrape up 26% of the party vote) there have been discordant notes being amplified by the two television stations. Radio New Zealand has found air time for them too. All of them played Labour’s games for so long that their political journalists came to believe Labour’s policies were theirs to protect.

 

Right now, mischief is being brewed by the Maori Party and the Greens who have become latter day devotees of the now unlamented former Soviet Union with their economic policies, and outright racists with their social policies. As the new ministry goes about improving our economic performance and legislating equal rights for all New Zealanders, those who favour special privileges for themselves and anyone with a Maori ancestor will try a variety of tactics from breaking parliamentary protocols to marching in the streets. There have already been threats of violence.

This will be the new ministry’s first test. Equal rights for all and special privileges for no one on the basis of ancestry. New Zealand’s once proud reputation for being a liberal democracy needs to be re-asserted. Chris Luxon, David Seymour and Winston Peters we are relying on you to stay strong in defence of the package you have put together.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-a-new-ministry-at-last

For readers who want specifics rather than analysis, here's the triumphant release from Voices for Freedom:

Here's the agreement.

file:///C:/Users/Jackie/Downloads/nzfirst-agreement-2%20(5).pdf

 

Some of the goodies:

 

Ensure that climate change policies are aligned and do not undermine national energy security.

 

Refocus the curriculum on academic achievement and not ideology, including the removal and replacement of the gender, sexuality, and relationship-based education guidelines.

 

Repeal the Therapeutic Products Act 2023.

 

Commit that in the absence of a referendum, our Government will not change the official name of New Zealand.

 

Ensure publicly-funded sporting bodies support fair competition that is not compromised by rules relating to gender.

 

Protect freedom of speech by ruling out the introduction of hate speech legislation

and stop the Law Commission’s work on hate speech legislation.

 

Remove co-governance from the delivery of public services.

 

Public services should be prioritised on the basis of need, not race.

 

Amend the Waitangi Tribunal legislation to refocus the scope, purpose, and nature of its inquiries back to the original intent of  that legislation.

 

End all Covid-19 vaccine mandates still in operation.

 

Ensure, as a matter of urgency in establishment and completion, a full scale, wide ranging, independent inquiry conducted publicly with local and international experts, into how the Covid pandemic was handled in New Zealand, including covering:

                     o Use of multiple lockdowns,

                      o Vaccine procurement and  efficacy,       

                     o The social and economic impacts on both regional and                                 national levels,

                     o Whether the decisions made, and steps taken, were                                     justified.

 

Ensure a ‘National Interest Test’ is undertaken before New Zealand accepts any agreements from the UN and its agencies that limit national decision-making and reconfirm that New Zealand’s domestic law holds primacy over any international agreements.

 

As part of the above, by 1 December 2023 reserve against proposed amendments to WHO health regulations to allow the incoming government to consider these against a “National Interest Test”.
 

 

                

PS

A taste of what's to come. I might have to start watching MSM again!

 

https://www.facebook.com/alia.beetle/videos/1274552233223536

 

 

"Our Lord came in humility, but He will return in glory; the object of His first coming being to prepare for the second. Those who receive Him gladly in time will be welcomed by him when eternity begins; while those who refused to acknowledge Him will be rejected" - Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, OSB, 1945.

 

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