Prime Minister John Key has forfeited his position as PM for his three year term. He will definitely go down as one of NZ's worst Prime Ministers on account of his bowing down to Iwi, to let them have sole rights to the foreshore and seabed, purely for Maori votes!
The Crown should still remain the owners for all NZers to come and go to the foreshore and seabed as in the past – as privileged.
John Key has made a terrible faux pas for which the National Government will be ousted in the next election, and rightly so.
Harking back to that extinct Waitangi Treat – it is null and void many years ago, and Maori have been over compensated for land lost to them, but there are a few who still whinge and whine for more dollars.
Just imagine folks – losing control of 100,000 square kilometres of foreshore and seabed out to 22 km, all the air space above and all the minerals etcetera below, which is one third of the land area of NZ amounting to several billions of dollars.
If you readers of The Weekend Sun have not read the article – Coastal Coalition (issue 12 November 2010) with 33 questions and answers, I strongly advise you to do so. The National Government are out next election! Maori seem to want apartheid!
We are all New Zealanders! EM Izett, Tauranga.