election 2023

Now Maori acknowledge and celebrate that they came somewhere else.

In that sense they are the first settlers, they are not indigenous.

Websters go for a different view based on who got there first and bring in the colonization and "dominance" - relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group

So depending upon how far back you want to go, you are basically talking about who got there first if you want to claim "indigenous".

Then we get to the confusion about ethnicity and I think skin colour. What does European actually mean?

My family came from variously Scotland, Wales and England. Prior to that they came from??? Need to test my DNA. My family has been in NZ since 1815. Am I european???

I am a citizen of a single country, New Zealand. I am consequently a New Zealander, not a european.

All policy programmes should be decided with an eye on the much-fabled swing voter, a third of whom voted for Labour in 2020 but have now declared they’re voting for someone else in 2023.

That swing voter is around 52 years old, more likely to be female and Pākehā, with an average household income of between $102,000 and $149,000 and living in their own home.

While describing themselves as just right-of-centre, most worry that income differences are too large, that the government should provide a decent living for the unemployed, while at the same time believing that welfare benefits should stay the same.

Most hold the view that the Treaty settlement process has gone far enough, which goes some way to explaining National’s position on Three Waters and co-governance.

www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131022042/arderns-departure-moves-the-heat-on-to-luxon

hipkins is the front runner

but he won't get anywhere without the support of the labour maori caucus, so what will he have to promise them?

the labour maori caucus don't really care about labour

they don't really care about democracy

and they think the swing-voter is wrong

the stuff story above is all about what national, in opposition, needing to tell the electorate of their plans 

but the country is where it is right now largely because the maori labour caucus, in gov., hasn't truthfully told voters the extent of their plans 

until they do so, swing-voters have every reason to judge them by the actions, which is following the hepuapua report to ethno-national separatism

with them holding more power and rights than anyone else, and no democratic oversight

if hipkins wants to get into bed with that devil, secretly or otherwise

his political life deserves to be very short

 

Brilliant. Hipkins is either going to accept the Maori corcus 😜😂(core cuz) or not?

I'd say he will, and he will carry on the same as Cindy.


So he's fucked.. unless he doesn't and kicks them to touch! I doubt the woke labourites will do that!

More of the same coning. Their fucked

Just reading Bryce Edwards on this.  Further proof that Ardern is so far up her own arse that she actually pinned a date on the election as she quit!  The lady has no shame.


What’s more, there are some questions about whether Ardern should even have used her prerogative to set the election date unilaterally given that she was resigning – many might see that this should be a question for the new PM, not the old


democracyproject.nz/2023/01/20/bryce-edwards-why-jacinda-arderns-resignation-changes-everything/

if you want a quick brief on Hipkin's nature
www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2023/01/prime_minister_hipkins.html

As expected, Chris Hipkins has become the presumptive Prime Minister. I’ll blog in more detail on him, but for now will share this analysis at Radio NZ by Brigitte Morton who reminds us he has often been an attack dog for Labour, and a different style will be needed as PM. She covers:

In October 2021, Northland was sent in to an 11-day lockdown after three allegedly “sex workers” with possible gang connections crossed the Auckland border. Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins accused them of using “false information to travel across the border”. But it was later revealed through OIAs that Hipkins knew at the time that a blunder by officials had been the reason and the women were at no fault at all. He has never apologised or corrected the record, nor has he bothered to even correct the reports that these were gang-related sex workers.

In the case of Charlotte Bellis, he was forced to apologise and correct the record. But only because the Kiwi journalist, then pregnant and stuck in Afghanistan took legal action. Hipkins, in his defence of the government’s MIQ system used Bellis’ personal information as a political weapon and made incorrect statements about her circumstances, including that she ignore consular assistance.

Late last year, in defence of the Minister for Local Government Nanaia Mahuta and government contracts awarded to her husband, Hipkins dragged Bill English and his family in to the response. He later made an apology to Parliament withdrawing his comments.

In 2017, in what was perhaps the most concerning case of questionable judgment, Hipkins used Parliament to dig up dirt for the Australian Labor Party. At the time, the Australian federal government was rocked by citizenship sagas. A number of MPs and senators were forced to resign after it was discovered they unconstitutionally held dual citizenships. Hipkins used parliamentary questions to get information on the status of then Australian deputy prime minister.

This is not entirely surprising as his first job in politics was three years as a senior advisor to Trevor Mallard!

Chris is a likeable nice guy, but he is also willing to play the man, not the ball, and I suspect we will see Labour get more aggressive in trying to smear Luxon.

Don't forget Chippie is currently Minister of Police and Education- and aren't things going just great in those 2 portfolios!

It'll be less of the same!

Yeah but it was not colonising. It was liberation and saved more lives than were taken!