Yesterday, in a standup presser, Prime Minister Luxon declared the Treaty of Waitangi to be a partnership. A concept favoured by so called “Maori” radicals and academics (really post modernist Marxists) but rejected by most serious scholars of New Zealand history.
It is more than disappointing to see Mr Luxon succumbing to this claim. One wonders why he has found it necessary, and the only answer can be that the National party under Mr Luxon has been captured by similar Maori activists. Not credible? Read on.
You might have been disturbed recently to see Maori and Labour MPs making a mockery of parliament with savage dances, chants, and singing, all accompanied by large numbers of supporters in the public gallery.
Yesterday new National Party MP Rima Nakhle gave her maiden speech. The Takanini MP is an Australian-Lebanese New Zealander. She said
“I love my Maori brothers and sisters, our Maori people, our Maori culture and our Maori language.
Lebanon experienced hundreds of years of occupation and persecution. The Ottoman Empire tried to wipe out the Arabic language in Lebanon. So I understand the importance of preserving one’s language and culture.”
The conclusion of Ms Nakhle’s speech brought a thunderous haka from the public gallery. The equal of any that accompanied previous speeches from Labour and Maori party MPs.
Before the election, Christchurch Central candidate Dale Stephens said he and other National Maori MPs will fight to-
“keep elements of co-governance in place. The first thing the likes of Tama Potaka and myself will need to be doing is getting the definitions really clear”.
Mr Potaka was selected as Nats candidate for Hamilton West, mainly as a result of Mr Luxon’s reverence for DEI and to appease media critics who said the party had too many white males.
Tama’s university thesis written in 1999 advanced the idea that Maori need a special voice in local government and that the Treaty had awarded them this right. Mr Potaka stated
“Most mainstream formulations of Treaty relationships invoke notions of partnership between Maori and ‘the Crown.”
He also stated-
“Local government has been instrumental in the dispossession of Maori resources and the subordination of Maori self-government. This cultural arrogance has provoked inherent Maori suspicion of local government,…
Mr Luxon is PM because he signed an agreement with his coalition partners where he pledged to support them in exchange for their support of his party. He can’t go back on that agreement and remain as a credible Prime Minister
Mr Luxon needs to harden up. If he continues to duck and dive on the essential points of the coalition agreement because he has yielded to radicals within his own party, it won’t be ACT or NZ First’s fault if the coalition falls apart.
THE REDBAITER on X 
7 responses to “Luxon’s timidity on TOW puts coalition at risk”
Right on, what we all,suspected of Luxon
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Yes, agree, I have always been mindful that Luxon lacks intellectual capacity and moral conviction. He talks too much at media conferences always trying to explain ‘too much ‘seemingly to appease the media - who will keep hating him anyway.
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Its all too clear where Luxon sits, he should NEVER have been leader, he has NOT the spine or the intent to take this country forward into the future. He is scared of the media and intimidated by anyone that has Maori attached to their name…….
He should have stayed in the corporate world, that’s where he is best suited…
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Luxon is a corporate chill.
He does not care one bit about NZ. The only thing he is interested in is a a tick box on his CV stating Prime Minister.
Same as John Key.
Andy
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Corporate DEI bullshit taken over National Party. Similar to what has happened to Liberals in Australia under Scott Morrison and to Tories in UK under Cameron and now Sunak.
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I would ask someone ( Shaun Plunket??) to ask Mr.Luxon
to show him in the last English language version ( the 3rd Busby edition/the Littlewood copy) where it says anything that even remotely implies that. i.e.
partnership/co-governance. IN FACT one of the very high ranking persons present stated ” Now we are all ONE people” ( under Queen Victoria’s sovereignty.
Nothing about “partnership/co-governance” in that is there????
Ask MR.Luxon to quote chapter & verse publicly!!!!!
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luxon, I think is WEF to the core, he will keep their values, or as many as he can without outright exposing himself. I think his game is one of waiting but slowly moving the WEF protocols forward, he just took the batten from Jacinda Ardern. Tho he is kept in check by Winston Peter’s for now. I think Seymour, given a chance, a sniff at a seat at Davos beside Klause Swabbe he will also go to the dark side. We must all resist anything we know to be against the interest of NZ and our personal sovereignty
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