Saturday, 17 May 2025

NZ PARLIAMENT & PEOPLE GO GAGA


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New Zealand's Parliament has lost its wits, NZ Maori have lost their way and Speaker Brownlee has lost his bottle (presumably he had bottle, once.)  


Two days ago, flying high outside Parliament were the Intersex flag, the Progress flag, the Pride flag and the Bisexual flag - advertisements for New Zealand's lamentable national psychosis and perversion. Inside the House, Te Pati Maori's Rawiri Waititi and Deborah Packer got all weepy because at last they'd been stood in the corner for breaking Parliament's rules of debate. And Speaker Brownlee (who's responsible for those flags) doesn't seem to know his nation's name, let alone the flag it should be flying.


New Zealand voted for Ardern in a landslide. And as you know, when you vote socialism in, you shoot your way out. History shows that's the way of it. Yet it's not the only way. 


Democracy has failed us and so has the Bergoglian Church, but the emergence of Pope Leo XIV from the awful pall of the Francis years gives hope that even pagan New Zealand will seek sanity in the transmission of the Divine Truths, received from the Incarnate Word, which man has replaced with a fraudulent racket in which God has no place. 'Bishop' Brian Tamaki is all very well but he hasn't the authority of the Catholic Bishops. It's up to them to restore Christ in this country.




Pope Leo  XIV tells NZ Parliament how 





It is the responsibility of government leaders to work to build harmonious and peaceful civil societies. This can be achieved above all by investing in the family, founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman, “a small but genuine society, and prior to all civil society.



In addition, no one is exempted from striving to ensure respect for the dignity of every person, especially the most frail and vulnerable, from the unborn to the elderly, from the sick to the unemployed, citizens and immigrants alike.”


“…the Church can never be exempted from speaking the truth about humanity and the world, resorting whenever necessary to blunt language that may initially create misunderstanding. Yet truth can never be separated from charity, which always has at its root a concern for the life and well-being of every man and woman.



Furthermore, from the Christian perspective, truth is not the affirmation of abstract and disembodied principles, but an encounter with the person of Christ Himself, alive in the midst of the community of believers. Truth, then, does not create division, but rather enables us to confront all the more resolutely the challenges of our time…” - Pope Leo XIV, address to the Diplomatic Corps, 16 May.





Diddums


 

ZORAN RAKOVIC: From Rulebook to Ruin: Why New Zealand's  Parliament Can't Escape Its Own Madness 

 


There are moments when the outward performance of power becomes a mirror of a deeper inner collapse. To those who watched the scenes of disorder in New Zealand’s Parliament—the shouting, the staged protests, the procedural interruptions—these were not merely political gestures or lapses in decorum.

  

They were symptoms. Not of an unruly caucus alone, but of a wider psychic malaise that has begun to engulf a nation no longer at ease with itself.

 

The punishment recently handed down to Te Pāti Māori members, for breaching standing orders in what was described as a parliamentary protest, was symbolic in itself—a gesture of control against a disorder that is far more deep-rooted, far less containable by rules, procedure, or protocol. New Zealand’s Parliament is no longer simply the arena where ideas are debated, but the stage on which the collective psychic disintegration of its people is projected.

 

In psychology, it is well established that the environment in which a person lives reflects their inner life. From Carl Jung to contemporary cognitive behavioural theorists, there is a near-universal recognition that disorder in one’s surroundings often corresponds to unresolved internal conflict.


 

Jung would say the shadow has crept into the living room.


This is not to endorse Jung's views (or Freud's). A Catholic can hold no brief for Carl Jung, dedicated as he was - like Jorge Bergoglio - to the destruction of the Church, and even less for the malignant influence of Freud.


Freud, ever the interpreter of displaced energies, might suggest that the chaotic environment is a symbolic battlefield where internal anxiety meets its external match. Karen Horney observed that neurosis often manifests not in clinical pathology but in persistent, everyday coping strategies—withdrawal, aggression, or compulsive compliance.


 

but a one - or even three-week - suspension isn't enough 



In the case of a disordered home, or a disordered parliament, one might see a similar triangulation at play: withdrawal from consensus, aggression as speech, and compliance with spectacle rather than substance. The Parliament, like a cluttered home, is speaking of things it cannot say aloud.


 

Dr. Darby Saxbe’s empirical study, which found higher cortisol levels in women who described their homes as cluttered, lends biological weight to this metaphor. Cortisol, the stress hormone, does not lie. A space that is chaotic does not only reflect stress; it perpetuates it. It creates a feedback loop in which psychological distress and environmental disorder feed one another until the occupant—whether a householder or a lawmaker—loses the capacity to discern cause from effect.


 

There is no question that New Zealanders are stressed. Housing is unattainable. Bills are rising. Trust in institutions is plummeting. Political consensus has fractured not only along ideological lines but along epistemological ones—each side no longer merely disagrees with the other, but inhabits a different moral universe.






 

The parliament, under such conditions, can no more maintain composure than an overburdened psyche can maintain tidiness. And yet, into this maelstrom marches the legislative equivalent of a broom: Standing Orders, procedural punishments, enforced apologies. These are necessary. But they are not enough.


 

Winston Peters’ recent post on social media, mocking the Parliament as a place “where they make the rules, then break them,” captures a deeper irony. His tone is sardonic, but his diagnosis is unwittingly psychological. The very act of legislating rules in an environment that increasingly disregards them is a form of self-delusion.


 

Like a hoarder making fresh promises to organise next week, the Parliament lurches forward under the illusion that better rules will fix what is, in essence, an existential breakdown. The disillusionment with representative democracy, the rise of identity-based political theatre, the redefinition of offence and harm, and the recasting of freedom as either weapon or shield—all of this is not a consequence of bad political actors, but of a polity in crisis.


 

And like any patient who is beginning to disassociate from reality, the more it is told to behave, the more it will act out.

 


It is tempting to look upon this scene and demand order—an iron-fisted return to discipline. But what if discipline itself is no longer trusted? Ayn Rand, that uncompromising advocate for the sovereign individual, would look at this Parliament not as a house of collective reason but as a madhouse of sacrificed reason.


Ayn Rand, atheist and objectivist, is yet another "blind guide". 

 

Andrea Vance wins political journalist of the year

 

When speech is no longer anchored in logic, when the individual is subordinated to the feelings of the group, and when representation becomes a competition of victimhoods, Rand would say that we are witnessing the collapse not of politics, but of values.


 

The celebration of irrational rebellion—of performative protests within the very chamber that demands coherence—is to her the final symptom of a culture that has lost its anchor. Freedom, in Rand’s view, is not the freedom to disrupt, to emote, or to offend for theatre’s sake. It is the freedom to think, to produce, to act rationally. New Zealand’s Parliament, in its current state, offers little defence of this definition. It reflects instead a society that has confused licence with liberty.


 

It is this realisation that invites a darker conclusion. Perhaps there is nothing to be done. Perhaps this Parliament, this mess, is exactly what we deserve—not because we are inherently wicked, but because we are psychically unwell.


 

Our collective inner life has been frayed by decades of meaninglessness disguised as progress. The community has been sacrificed to consumerism. The family to the state. The school to ideology. And now, the Parliament to chaos. Just as the mess in one’s home can reach a tipping point where even the owner no longer sees it, so too has this political disorder become invisible to those inside it. It is the new normal. And in time, it will only get worse.


 

Some have argued for a written constitution, for a renewed commitment to civility, for the recalibration of Māori and Pākehā rights within the Treaty framework. But these are structural interventions in what is ultimately a psychological wound.


 

Until the New Zealander begins to feel at home in his own country again—safe, sovereign, and whole—he will lash out in any room he finds himself in, including the highest chamber in the land. This is not a call to abandon rules or standards. It is a call to understand that no matter how many procedural constraints we design, no matter how often we punish disruption, we will fail unless we reckon with the deeper fractures.



Freud might tell us that the disorder is repressed trauma emerging through parliamentary slips. Jung would suggest that we are witnessing the return of the repressed shadow: the aspects of ourselves we have denied, now returned with fury.


 

Rand would say we have forfeited reason for spectacle, self-interest for self-pity. Dr. Wilhelm might point to compulsive disruptions as echoes of unresolved OCD—repetitions meant to stave off a fear we cannot name. Dr. Saxbe would warn that we are building an architecture of stress, not law. In this light, Parliament is not merely malfunctioning. It is symptomatic. And symptoms do not disappear by decree.

 


What, then, is left? Some will cling to process, as the obsessive clings to schedules. Others will embrace anarchy in the name of voice. But both are missing the point. The nation is not in need of better politicians, but of better self-understanding.


 

Until New Zealanders begin to heal from the psychic wounds of dependency, disconnection, and a loss of shared narrative, their Parliament will continue to be a place of eruptions, not resolutions. This is not an argument against parliamentary order—it is a recognition that order cannot be imposed where disorder is the only form of self-expression still available.



 




In the end, perhaps the most haunting aspect of Peters’ quip is that it rings true. The rules are made, and then broken. And we laugh, or scoff, or scroll on. But beneath that irony is a truth that should terrify us: that the rule-making, like the rule-breaking, is no longer tethered to meaning. It is performance. It is the sick psyche staging a semblance of health.


 

Like a hoarder who lays out neat piles amidst the chaos, we congratulate ourselves on restored decorum after a suspension, while ignoring the rot beneath. In such a system, what hope is there?

 

The house is not just messy. It is on fire. And no one is sure where the exits are.


Author Zoran Rakovic is blind to the exits because he's been led by blind guides. But his analysis otherwise rings true. 


Zoran Rakovic is a structural engineer with nearly 30 years of experience, who has helped design and strengthen buildings across New Zealand. His substack is HERE.

ZORAN RAKOVIC: From Rulebook to Ruin: Why New Zealand's Parliament Can't Escape Its Own Madness



 


The Descent of the Holy Spirit (Tiziano Vecellio)

 


 But when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will teach you all truth.

-Gospel, Fourth Sunday after Easter















66 comments:


  1. Some only respect boundaries when enforced.
    Victims often become manipulators-Waititi & Packer!

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  2. A vote of no confidence is urgently required!

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  3. Matthew Curtis17 May 2025 at 15:13


    i agree with winston, but he has a short memory, he sided with ardern & caused this

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    1. Matthew Curtis agreed!

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  4. Matthew Curtis he was duped like us.

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    1. Matthew Curtis17 May 2025 at 15:15


      Peter Sharman , his ego got in the way, he remembered the nat members who sacked him from a previous coalition govt

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    2. Peter Sharman Some were not duped but actually horrified by Ardern's election, and Peters should have been among those select few.

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    3. Matthew Curtis probably right. He was outsmarted by a newby. I still voted for him last election because he was better than all the others.

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    4. Matthew Curtis Winnie tells us that he was ‘duped’ by Ardern?

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  5. Matthew Curtis If you actually think Winston Peters’s caused everything that’s bad in NZ then it’s true that most kiwis of the country are very poorly informed or just too unintelligent to deserve a country with a future. They do say our people are being educated at a lower and lower level these days.
    I see comments like yours quite often where people don’t even know the facts or the truth about politics inside NZ.
    Until 2017 Winston Peters had not worked with labour since the 2005-2008 Helen Clark labour led govt where NZF had a confidence & supply agreement only, not a coalition govt. Back then labour were still a party that tried to do its best for the worker/middle class with their socialist policy making. Nothing out of the ordinary really. They favoured the people where national more favoured businesses.
    Everyone knows (well not everyone as many kiwis don’t care or are too brain dead) that National & NZF had a coalition govt form after the 1996 election. Bolger made promises and a deal on policy to NZ First. The whole point of coalition negotiations is to get agreement on what election policies will be implemented by parties involved.
    John Key’s National govts of 2008-2017 were no better. They pulled the old globalist trick of telling the population they have a strong economy (remember he said “rockstar economy” while they quietly ramped up immigration.
    That old trick only works for a while though and Key and many of his ilk bought up large amounts of investment properties and as prices surged with half of Mumbai moving to Auckland first and then down through the provinces, they sold when the prices we at all time high and made millions. Key played NZ like the idiots we are.

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  6. Rod Sharp (cont)17 May 2025 at 15:33

    With all the mass migration Aussie owned banks and companies operating in NZ, Australia made billions in extra profit where the NZ govt got landed with all the social issues and of course the costs. Hundreds of thousands of new mortgages were taken out by new arrivals. More people meant not enough houses, it forced prices through the roof, homelessness, hospital health care crisis, not enough police, not enough infrastructure upgrades. Key made Aussie banks & the Aussie treasury so much money they awarded him Australia’s highest honour to a non citizen for services to the Australian economy.
    He also passed laws giving the Maori party he power it has today. United Nations declaration for rights of indigenous people was signed in 2010 which led to the division and power grabs we see going by radical maori today.
    Key repealed the seabed foreshore legislation which gave all kiwis rights and access to beaches and coastline (done by Clark and NZ First in 2004). Key replaced it in 2010 with the coastal marine area act (2011) which gave special rights to Maori known as customary title which has now caused a massive issue as there are now over 600 claims on the entire coastline of NZ. Many are being fought in court where it’s Iwi vs Iwi, and tax payers are funding all of it. Most claims are averaging $300k -$350k. Bought to us by John Key, National and the maori party. Key hates Winston because he is a nationalist, someone who loves his country and wants to make it better or even great. He always has been. Where as Key is a globalist, there for a good time not a long time. Spin lies, make shit loads of money and when he’s had enough, walk away into the sunset (in Key’s case it was to work as the director for Air NZ, and the chairman of ANZ bank NZ once he resigned).

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  7. Rod Sharp (cont)17 May 2025 at 15:34

    Once again John Key lied and said that would never happen and regular kiwis would never have access prevented but like usual Key lied & most New Zealanders are too dumb to work it out. It is now being argued right now that “customary title” as it is written in the CMAA 2011 actually means “ownership”.
    Now going back to 2017 the Nats got the most votes. It’s customary to meet the bigger party first.First thing that happens is Winston learns National have another coup brewing. He’s dealing with Bill English but the word is that Judith Collins is going to roll him. Now if that happens, it means anything NZ First negotiate for policy wise, is cancelled. Null and void. Which means it would destabilise the govt and the economy.
    So what they did was go hear from labour as well. They had a new leader who was hardly known at the time. No one knew labour but especially Ardern would turn out to be a die hard marxist. Peters didn’t know it, labour voters didn’t even know it. All NZ First knew was the labour parties of past govt’s. Labour played their cards close. They pretended to be a normal socialist party but were hiding their true intentions.

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  8. Rod Sharp (cont)17 May 2025 at 15:35

    Also, in 2020, 50% of New Zealanders believed labour saved tens of thousands of kiwis from a gruesome death by Covid. It was a scam and once again, most kiwis were too dumb to see the truth.
    As a result of the 2017-2020 labour/NZF coalition, NZ First will never ever again support labour after all of their lies and betrayal. They had the He Pus Pua report written in secret by a panel of radical activists seeking to destroy this country, which NZ First was never told about.
    The big issue with national for the last 40 years is that they are stacked with businessmen and woman who have globalist ideologies. Jenny Shipley (famous for being a director of Mainzeal and knowingly trading while insolvent ruining a hundred or more small hard working kiwi businesses), snakes like John Key, Bill English, Chris Finlayson is another who advised the national party since the 1990’s is now working for Ngai Tahu and leading the charge in their bids to take over the South Island, claim the rights and ownership of all of the islands water etc. He sold his soul a long long time ago for money, Finlayson doesn’t even care what he’s doing is contributing greatly to the country being ripped apart etc. And now of course we have Luxon a junior wannabe globalist hoping to sell state assets, hoping to create more woke kids, trans kids, to ruin our farming economy with ridiculous climate change policies, bringing genetically modified organisms to NZ,to divide NZ more over indigenous rights but overall he wants to please those in this world that are powerful so he may have a well paid seat at a table overseas after politics.

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  9. Rod Sharp (cont)17 May 2025 at 15:37

    Remember Luxon was placed not chosen. He took over as Nat leader 8 months after he made his maiden speech in Nov 2021.
    Luxon didn’t work his way up as is the norm. Another globalist that will sign NZ up to anything the UN or WEF or WHO says, and wants to deal with companies like Blackrock (election policy to borrow huge sums), BRock owned by Larry Fink (a company well known for being so powerful it can literally swallow small countries whole and destroy their ability to determine their own future or economy. Luxon doesn’t care what happens to NZ. He cares about his career and image.
    Only one party stands in national and acts path to sell off state owned assets to foreign interests and destroy what’s left of NZ by opening us up to countries like China
    (yes national had policy in 23’ election to actually get China to build our highways called “belt and road initiative” - a deal China offers developing nations in exchange for political advantage and influence over that country which soon becomes a Trojan horse trap) - ask the Solomon Islands and others like Samoa about that)
    So in closing, both labour and national are bad news for NZ. One is captured by globalists, the other by radical Marxism.
    Only 6% of kiwis voted for NZ First in 2023. Like I said, most don’t care what happens to NZ, our way of life, culture or economy or they are too braindead they don’t even know most of these things I’ve mentioned above. 2026 will tell the direction we will go in but unless parties that actually want to fight and defend NZ get more support the only place we are headed is downhill.

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    1. Rod Sharp great write up and spot on the money 👍😊 myself l say we need to rid NZ of the corrupt Westminster system of government for good and bring in a democratic elected Republic of New Zealand

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    2. Peter Sharman

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      Rod Sharp what a great summary of facts. Some, probably most, people will read this and still not get it. Winston needs to push nationalism harder though like Farrage is doing in the UK with the Reform Party and as Trump is doing on the US. Winston and Shane Jones are the only Nationalist politicians but they need to up the anti.

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    3. Rod Sharp TLDR

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    4. Craig Snook kind of proves my point. Many kiwis don’t care what happens to NZ. They don’t read, many can’t write very well.
      They instead hear sound bites of information from the biased main stream media and form their opinions about politics based on that.
      The politically biased sound bite usually gives them a total lack of context, information or complete picture of the actual situation.
      Like putty the brains of many are then moulded how the media see fit. They say a lot of it has to do with how bad our education system is in this country. It’s made people dumb to be frank. Won’t be surprised if we lose the entire country eventually and it becomes Aotearoa where whites are taxed to oblivion and just plain not welcome anymore, like South Africa.

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    5. Peter Sharman I don’t comment much lately because I work a lot but once in a while I see people still blaming all of NZ’s problems on Winston and I’m just shocked at how uninformed they are. They listen to small sound bites of information spread by the media. For the first time in a while I thought I’d try and give someone the bigger picture.

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    6. Brent Cameron thanks, I guess I just have grown tired of seeing my fellow countrymen brainwashed by the media. Not many people know that there is far more to the story. Most people only pay attention to small sound bites of information the media put out and are easily influenced and manipulated.

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    7. Rod Sharp yes it's amazing how small minded so many people are and unable to do their own review or think for themselves.

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  10. A. Brownlee feels shelved and doesn't like his job. B. the rest of us are to blame when we let in MMP. Now you got a Green bureaucracy in there that may as well call themselves the South Pacific branch of the United Nations and guess what, find one that hasn't retired on a fat political pension just on the 10 years from Shaw, to Nandos Pantsoff.
    A. Brownlee feels shelved and doesn't like his job. B. the rest of us are to blame when we let in MMP. Now you got a Green bureaucracy in there that may as well call themselves the South Pacific branch of the United Nations and guess what, find one that hasn't retired on a fat political pension just on the 10 years from Shaw, to Nandos Pantsoff.

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  11. OMG does Brownlee look like a cartoon character or what!?

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  12. winston runs with the hares and hunts with the hounds ,he has cost the country a lot of money over the years which he is quick to forget

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  13. Heidi Sycamore17 May 2025 at 15:47


    Funny there is a bi- sexual flag … doesn’t that mean there must be only 2 genders 🤷‍♀️

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  14. With a possible exception of Winston, these fools all need to be locked up so they don’t endanger New Zealand ever again.

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  15. Lesley Kathryn Barrett17 May 2025 at 15:51


    Disgraceful

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  16. Brownlee should be ashamed.
    Worst Speaker of the house.

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    1. Shelley Roberts17 May 2025 at 16:11


      Chris Brydon Mallard wasn't that great

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  17. Valerie Anne Nation17 May 2025 at 16:12


    Shelley Roberts mallard, who’s that?! Ohhh that weasel that went to
    Ireland. Hell be in his element there with all the pro transgenderism

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  18. I WEEP WITH SHAME FOR OUR COUNTRY....😭😭😭
    NEW ZEALAND USED TO BE A PROUD MORAL COUNTRY !

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    1. Joy Hodge a proud moral country? You'd have to go back to the 'fifties for evidence of that.

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  19. Arden was selected, not elected. I feel that is a little more accurate.

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    1. Kathy Just selected by Labour, elected by New Zealand. I think that's the way it goes.

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    2. Kathy Just Yes...For her Gob...

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    3. Kathy Just Yes...Purely as a Mouth Piece!

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    4. Bryb Silverspoon18 May 2025 at 15:20


      Julia du Fresne elected by a minority- still had NZ First to thank for choosing Labour in THAT election and all we suffered after that Otherwise she'd still be a nobody.

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  20. Patricia Connolly Brown17 May 2025 at 16:19


    Brownlee needs to go as speaker of the house . He's not for filling his position correctly as speaker of the house . You need to be mentally strong for that position and he doesn't appear to be . Parliament needs someone who will stand firm and not take rubbish , will not give in and who will think about all New Zealanders and our country and what is best .

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    1. Patricia Connolly Brown those types have left NZ already

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    2. Susan Forsyth i wonder if someone with no conections to parliament could be appointed speaker. You know like the gov general. Hopefully there would be no bias. But no i guess not, these r-soles in would make things so hard for them

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    3. Roy Baylis Unfortunately the NZ Governor General is a Maori and would bias to Maori. My thoughts only.

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    4. Wayne Mackie i dont mean the gov gen herself as such but someone in that type of postition

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    5. Patricia Connolly Brown i cant think of anyone offhand who could fill this position.

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    6. Danny O'Loughlin18 May 2025 at 15:38


      Roy Baylis Winston Peters

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    7. Danny O'Loughlin yes would be very good but we badly need him where he is. Can you imagine what luxon would get up to if Winston was not there. A lot of ppl like to rubbish Winston but he does a hell of a lot in the background and he knows where all the skeletons are buried

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    8. Patricia Connolly Brown18 May 2025 at 15:39


      A man with integrity and thinks about all New Zealanders and what is good for our country. Winston doesn't take rubbish .

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    9. Patricia Connolly Brown to me the person who fits that discription perfectly is Matt King. Why should this position be filled by a MP who all have their bias's and if you want to know how meetings should be run according parliamentary principles try and get hold of New Zealand JayCees manual on the subject.

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  21. Mr Pudding Head, alias the speaker for the house needs to go on a diet. Not the publicly paid diet of free tucker that all bludging parliamentarians are on either.

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  22. MAORI CUSTOMS IN PARLIAMENTARY RULES
    Brian Kennedy writes >It has been reported that Tama Potaka, the Maori Party spy in the National Cabinet, has said that - “it is the Speaker’s role to decide how to include Maori customs in Parliamentary rules” !
    Thousands of voters, including me, who see no justifiable Special place in Parliament for any ethnic group, disagree with brown supremacist Potaka - below, regular poster John Allen tears Potaka’s divisive comment to shreds !
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    John Allen on Facebook ……….
    It’s not the speaker’s role. That has been defined in the Westminster Convention under Article 3. There is no place for Māori customs in our parliament.
    They are a very minority ethnicity amid 213 ethnicities in this country. They have no rights beyond any other ethnicity.
    There is no place for co-governance, tribalism, te Reo, separatism, division, nor their trade mark hate and violence.
    Luxon is an ars*h*le. He’s very quick to call out trivia but he refuses to acknowledge what is going on in our country and doing something about it.
    Ardern/Hipkins flew in the face of the honesty of the treaty and denied that Māori ceded sovereignty in article 1. So now it’s fashionably woke to declare me too: maori did not cede sovereignty under Article 1. You’ve gotta ask yourself what’s the point of article 1, then. Let’s just delete it if we don’t want to adhere to it.
    So to back up the lie, Ardern introduced the Crown-Maori relationship committee/quango, a department of state, with 298 employees and a budget of $450m of tax-payer funds; you and I are paying for this farce, this lie.
    Nicola Willis wakes in a cold sweat every night knowing that she avoids the wasteful elephant in the room … along with $100m on te Reo.
    What would $550m do in the health sector. It just means that Luxon has no interest in the state if the health system. Bye’s more interested in the survival of a dead language … and with some priority.
    So if Luxon campaigned on getting rid of co-governance, why has he not done away with this leftie Crown-Māori relations mob? Article 1 outlaws this quango, unless he’s born again woke-treaty-denialist.
    This committee is facilitating the self-identifying Māori takeover of our country and Luxon is loving every minute of it. He has closed down the passage of the TPB early - anti-democracy move - because he doesn’t want the debate to distract from his pending smoke and mirrors budget. Bye wants to be sucked in and see him as a saving hero. Que note to self to fill FB with debate on the TPB.

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  23. Robyn Clareburt17 May 2025 at 23:39


    Only put up the NZ Flag!!

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  24. If only Brownlee and Luxon had some Intestinal Fortitude......the mess could be straightend up!! IF ONLY!!

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  25. Nicholas Kiernan17 May 2025 at 23:41


    Leave NZ Behind it’s a ship that’s hit the rocks and is sinking like a Led Balloon, get out while you can!

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  26. It will be a bigger circus I'm sure when they invent more flags. Lol.

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    1. The biggest circus 🎪 in NEW ZEALAND 🇳🇿

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  27. Brownlee is most certainly fronting the buffet on a very regular basis.

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  28. Richard S. Long18 May 2025 at 15:22


    Brownlee has zero creditability and is a gutless puppet and the Maoris know it! Does he have any bottle - on performance NO.

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  29. Paul Clareburt18 May 2025 at 15:22


    Definitely not the authority of the catholic church. That's one religion and corrupt.

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    1. Paul Clareburt the Catholic Church is human, and its human dimension may be corrupt. The Bergoglian sect's counterfeit church is indeed corrupt. But the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church which still survives - and always will, as Jesus Christ Himself attested, in the traditional Latin Mass - is also divine, and indefectible.

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  30. more bloody religion is the last thing we need

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    1. Teresa Irving it's very hard to argue with such depth of ignorance.

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  31. Catholic Bishops have no authority - zero. How anyone can even begin to think so beggars belief.
    "Since 2002, the Roman Catholic Church has been in crisis over the sexual abuse of minors by priests and the cover-up of those crimes by bishops. Over 11,000 alleged victims have reported their experiences to the Church, and more than 4,700 priests since 1950 have been credibly accused of sexually victimizing minors. The Church has paid over one billion dollars to adults who claim to have been sexually abused by priests and there is no end in sight to these lawsuits.
    Celibacy, homosexuality in the priesthood, the infiltration into the priesthood of secular moral relativism, too much liberalism in the Church since Vatican II, damaging rollback of Vatican II reforms by conservative prelates--all have been suggested as causes for the crisis. This book, however, begins with the premise that, because the pattern of abuse and cover-up was so similar across the world, there is something fundamentally awry with Church traditions and power structures in relationship to sexuality and sexual abuse."
    https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/167/monograph/book/172
    The Catholic Church is "the Whore of Babylon" revealed in scripture.
    The plea of God is to "get out of her my people, that you don't share in her sins."
    Don't shoot me - I'm just the messenger.

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    1. Murray Smith a messenger for a mad monk who was responsible for splitting the Church instituted by Christ Himself into thousands of silly sects. Yours is a classic Protestant rant.
      Stats show the Catholic Church is less guilty of sex abuse than other denominations and secular institutions. Your oft-repeated inaccuracies are inspired by Satan, who hates and loathes the Church and so inspires the masses to vilify her.
      The Church is human, and its human dimension may be corrupt: the Bergoglian sect's counterfeit church is indeed corrupt. But the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church which still survives - and always will, as Jesus Christ Himself attested, in the traditional Latin Mass - is also divine, and indefectible.

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  32. Sandy Christiansen18 May 2025 at 21:02


    The only flag to been seen flying high above parliament is the New Zealand flag, end of.

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  33. Kohuiarau parliament not beehive government

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  34. Oh there are plenty of gods in Aotearoa. They are called Atua, and may the true God help us trying to find a public school that doesn't ran these pantheistic gods down our children's throats. The psychological indoctrination is intense and starts early. And the kindergarten and schools never stop worming their way around the Education and Training Act 2020, that actually prohibits the teaching of spirituality in our schools, without parental opt-in and consent.

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