Amazingly, the Hobson Pledge Trust has prised most of the race-bleating appeasers, treatyists, revisionists, grievers out of the woodwork, accompanied by the usual ranting, about racists, the bog standard response when they cannot win an argument based on facts, history logic or even common sense. Hobson's ‘one people' statement simply reinforced what the legitimate Maori version of Treaty said: sovereignty ceded, property rights guaranteed; and granting rights and privileges of British subjects with no mention of partnerships, principles or special race-based treatment.

Current Maori vested interests are not a special race yet the Labour Party's Andrew Little, Grant Robertson and Kelvin Davis have jumped into the fray, reinforcing Labours 2014 election thrust for special-preferential race-based treatment.

A strange ‘blond moment' as left wingers always champion equality not privilege. Labour's Maori policies are ruinous, but if you think that's bad go check out the Greens' absurd aberrations - no referendums simply ‘their way or the highway'.

Not a chance that Te Ururoa Flavell and Te Awanui Black, who are ensconced under race-based preference systems, want that to change – they are more than happy with a system of reverse racism protecting their little patches. The National Party bucket list stated ‘race-based' parliamentary seats would be abolished, but recently resiled from that promise. See Taranaki Settlement Bill 2016.

Sadly, those who are given whatever they demand rapidly develop a sense of entitlement quickly losing all sense of proportion and objectivity.

If proposing equal rights for all Kiwis is racist, then I'll be a monkey's uncle!

R Paterson, Matapihi.