Waiariki MP and Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell continues wasting public time and money petitioning the Government to make part-Maori race-based seats on all NZ councils and local authorities compulsory.
He thinks the five per cent threshold to demand a poll is too low but that's not his problem,
it's the resultant referendum
where 80 per cent of electors – as in New Plymouth – vote against separatism and race-based anti-democratic initiatives.
Hopefully, the Rotorua Lakes and New Plymouth mayoral aberrations won't be around come October, so this nonsense won't be an issue after that. It is little wonder Mr Flavell endorses this type of race-based rubbish because he has a Maori parliamentary seat that should have been abolished 100 years ago and technically that's still on National's bucket list. Basically, it's called protecting your patch, particularly when his discredited Maori Party has a woeful 1.32 per cent of MMP party votes and even less of the electorate votes, indicating most Maori voters don't support the Maori Party.
R Paterson, Matapihi.
6 comments
race based anything is not democratic
Posted on 27-05-2016 09:42 | By Captain Sensible
Totally agree R Paterson. Race based anything is undemocratic and has no place in NZ. Of course the few that benefit from this racism will fight tooth & nail to protect their privileges. Shame on them.
Racial pandering Nat's
Posted on 28-05-2016 08:33 | By crazyhorse
Racism is giving one racial group different rights and privileges to others. It is differential treatment on the basis of race. That is what Maori are "continually" looking for. I do not believe there should be rights over "our" fresh water or seats on councils and local authorities based on ancestry, and I think most K1W1"s would agree. We want to live in an egalitarian country, not one where your rights are determined by who your parents are. That's what the old style British class system was based on. It's also what Nazi Germany was based on. If Maori keep pushing they will certainly see a backlash. But the backlash will be egalitarian, not racist; it is the Maori position which is racist.
The 'Elephant
Posted on 28-05-2016 08:39 | By crazyhorse
Racism is often conflated by the ignorant with simple prejudice, which it is not. Principled opposition to unearned racial privilege is not racism. Nor is it typically evidence of prejudice. Racism occurs where a group of prejudiced individuals get together to create a system affording them separate, different, or superior rights to everyone else on the basis of group membership. The elephant in the room is that even if the Treaty of Waitangi provides for racial privilege (it does not), the
maori seats, do we want them
Posted on 28-05-2016 19:18 | By crazyhorse
Affected electors demanded polls, and the results of those polls were:
Racist Councillors, Mayors
Posted on 29-05-2016 09:59 | By crazyhorse
Councillors voting in favour of appointing unelected iwi representatives with voting rights onto their councils, are pushing their personal views ahead of the views of their electorate. they are doing so in a way that denies voters their right to accept or reject race-based representation on their council. That is simply unacceptable. In reality, the actions of Andrew Judd and Steve Chadwick have been so extreme that one wonders whether consideration should be given to the introduction of recall elections in New Zealand. This is a mechanism that is available in a number of jurisdictions around the world - including Canada, Switzerland, Venezuela, the UK and the US
@ crazyhorse
Posted on 29-05-2016 14:12 | By Captain Sensible
re recall elections; Great idea. Where do I sign?!!
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