MAORI SEATS WON'T GO TILL THE POLLIES SAY SO

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Maori, Maori, Maori: New Zealand, why are we waiting? Since the days of 'Kiwi Keith' Holyoake in the '60s the pollies have said the Maori seats should be abolished, and still they don't do it.

New Zealand has no option but to get rid of the Maori seats. Democratic representation cannot not be determined by differing ancestry, but only by common humanity. In a democracy you have a vote. Just one. Period. Other than residency, no qualifications are needed. Not where you came from, or when or how - just the fact that you are here. But although no rational argument exists for retention of Maori seats, now that we have MMP (and don't get me started), on this issue consecutive National and Labour Governments have sat on their hands.

Who's not fed up to the back teeth with diabolically narcissistic 'representatives' of nothing but their own racial self-interest lolling about in the Maori seats, biting the hand of the taxpayers who feed them? No one could claim even that they justify the existence of the risible Gerry Brownlee, who seems to depend for maintenance of order in the House on issuing wet bus tickets.

Maori in Parliament are over-represented, over-indulged and over-advantaged. A leftist campaign of woke Maorification, and Te Pati Maori crocodile tears and plaintive pleas for ever more nebulous 'rights' with no acknowledgment of corresponding responsibilities, have reconfigured our founding document, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, into a very expensive albatross around this country's neck.

Māori voters can now switch to the General roll without affecting the number of Māori electorates. They retain all seven Māori seats while at the same time improving Maori chances in closely-contested general electorates, to the detriment of non-Maori. In other words, Māori activists have their electorate cake, and are eating it too. Is that fair? Or is it a make-over of our democracy, re-inventing this nation as a guinea-pig for the globalists - and not for the first time? 

If that's not enough to shake Kiwis out of their sloth and complacency, how about the  alliance that's rumoured between Te Pati Maori and the goofy Greens, to secure enough seats between them to form part of a Labour-led coalition? Does that not make your blood run cold?  

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Call this inflammatory rhetoric if you like, but it positively begs to be employed if 'she'll be right' Kiwis are to be galvanised into addressing the crisis. Of course they could all register to vote as Maori, but that requires thought and action, which for most Kiwis is a bit radical. Conservative thinkers are calling for its resolution by a binding referendum. Don Brash, a successful central banker and former Opposition leader of National, asks, "should every New Zealander participate in the same electoral system?"

The answer's blindingly obvious. However. No citizen's-initiated referendum has ever been accepted by a National or Labour government. Even if New Zealand's entrenched two-party cartel of National/Labour were to accede to popular demand, the result will likely be ignored. Neither party will disestablish the Maori seats; they don't wish to do so or they'd have done it already.

Quarter of a million children in New Zealand are now on welfare. Even with Maori seats, and after all the bending-over-backwards to prioritise Maori, more than a third of all Maori children are dependent (36.5 percent) versus 16 percent of non-Maori. https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/lindsay-mitchell-quarter-of-a-million-children-are-now-depend

New Zealand's in Queer Street and it's a street and a story with a bad, dead end. 

What passes for politics in New Zealand (inevitably to be renamed 'Aotearoa' if we carry on as we are) is in reality pride and presumption. The true political authority, which alone will establish peace and prosperity in place of our secular chaos, comes from God, not man, and can be exercised only in union with His law and His Church. 

The nefarious collaboration of the Deep State in the civil sphere with the Deep Church in the Vatican means the closest thing on earth to Utopia is a long way off - which only makes more imperative the reign of Christ the Sovereign King in our churches and our homes.

 

“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas, no. 19).

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DON BRASH: Let New Zealand decide the future of Māori seats

 

The following is written in Don's capacity as Hobson's Pledge trustee

At Hobson’s Pledge, our position has always been clear and unwavering: it is time to abolish the Māori seats in Parliament.

 

 

Our reasoning is straightforward. In a modern, healthy democracy, citizens succeed on merit - not ancestry.

And right now, Māori MPs are already achieving incredible success in their own right, winning general electorate seats and earning high list rankings across the political spectrum.

That is exactly how a functioning democracy should work.

What is not a sign of a healthy democracy is reserving seats for one group of people based entirely on race or on when their ancestors arrived.

Let’s not forget history here: In 1986, the Royal Commission on the Electoral System explicitly stated that Māori seats should be abolished if MMP was adopted. Well, MMP arrived - but the seats remained.

Not only are these separate seats a relic of the past, but they are now being actively exploited by activists to skew our wider political landscape.

Take a look at what activist Katrina Smit recently wrote in e-Tangata. She openly called on voters to jump from the Māori roll to the General roll for the sole purpose of tactically ousting centre-right MPs—specifically targeting National’s Chris Bishop in Lower Hutt.

Her cynical logic? The Māori seats are guaranteed to go to Te Pāti Māori or Labour anyway, so why not weaponise the General roll to manipulate the overall election outcome?

For years, activists have encouraged Māori to move onto the Māori roll on the basis that it would strengthen Māori political representation and increase the number of Māori seats. But for the next two elections, that isn't true, and so the strategy has changed. 

The number of Māori electorates is fixed at seven until at least 2032, regardless of how many people are on the Māori roll. Thanks to changes in the way electorate boundaries are calculated, there will be no increase or decrease in Māori seats before then. That means Māori voters can switch to the General roll without affecting the number of Māori electorates at all. 

In other words, for the next two elections, Māori activist voters can have their cake and eat it too: retain all seven Māori seats while also gaining influence in closely contested general electorates. 

This is an outrageous situation. It proves beyond a doubt that these race-segregated seats are no longer just an outdated relic of the past - they are actively being used to distort our democracy.

It is also worth mentioning that there are Māori in every party in Parliament right now and 30% of the Cabinet are Māori.

 

 

If we all do Waititi says, his 'critical vote' for Maori is done for 

Remember, the number of Māori seats isn't even based on how many people choose to sign up for the Māori roll; it’s based on total population statistics. It is a rort built on a rort, and it undermines the core democratic principle of "one person, one vote."

The time for special seats is over.

New Zealanders are fair-minded people, but we have had enough. Polling shows it, and the tens of thousands of you who have signed our petitions prove it. Now, we need the coalition government to step up and act.

We are launching our major new campaign: REFERENDUM NOW.

It is time to hand the talking stick back to the people of New Zealand and put this issue to bed once and for all.https://www.brashandmitchell.com/post/don-brash-let-new-zealand-decide-the-future-of-m%C4%81ori-seats