Nicola Willis and Nation's Capitulation

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It’s out. National are going to stuff it up. Read THIS Stuff what up? Putting an end to Maorification and Co-governance. But it’s worse than this. How can we know? Nicola Willis and Luxon are left hand and right hand. They were in each other’s pockets in the long lead up to the 2023 election. He the leader, she his deputy. What she thinks, he thinks, and vise versa. Yesterday, January 23, 2023, she said this “It [the Treaty] is our founding document as a nation. How that relationship works in practice is something that the courts have likened to being like a partnership,” she said. It is disgraceful that she would say this. If one reads the Treaty at face value, and honestly, with an open mind, one simply can’t see anything about ‘partnership’ in the Treaty. Read the Treaty HERE. So how did Cooke come to this idea? Like all activists, they make up their reality. They invent ideas, which is what Cooke did by saying the Treaty was akin to a partnership. He wanted Maoris to have co-governance with the Crown. He thought this would be a good idea i.e. Maori self determination. So he put it out there. And guess what? Nicola Willis has picked up on it and run with it, along with the rest of the National Party. In the book Twisting the Treaty, The Tribal Grab For Wealth And Power (Tross Publishing 2014) the author writes “High in the category of grottiness has been the behaviour of certain senior judges, starting with Robin Cooke (Lord Cooke of Thorndon), who have abused their position by delivering ideologically driven judgements resulting in confusion so that they could then step into the ensuing imbroglio and exert greater powers over Parliament, thus subverting our hard won democracy.” (page 14). What did Cooke actually say about the Treaty when he said what he said in 1987? He said the following: “An enduring relationship of a fiduciary nature akin to a partnership, each party accepting a positive duty to act in good faith, fairly, reasonably, and honourably towards the other.” University of Canterbury law lecturer David Round says: “Now according to Cooke this is the description of the relationship, implied by the Treaty’s principles, between Maori and the Crown and, when put just in those terms, it is not unreasonable. But should it not also be the relationship existing between the Crown and all New Zealanders? Surely the Crown should act towards all of us (and we towards the Crown) in good faith, fairly, reasonably, and honourably? Should that not be the case? So what are the judges saying when they say that this is what Treaty principles require? Are they implying that non-Maori New Zealanders are not entitled to the same degree of fair dealing from their own government? That Crown actions are to be judged by two different standards, depending on the race of the citizen? To hell with that.”


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