Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 27, 2016 16:04:37 GMT 12
Weekend Sun/Sunlive 27/5/16
NO ROOM FOR RACE-BASED SEATS
Waiariki MP and Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell continues wasting public time and money petitioning the Government to make part-Maori race-based seats on all NZ councils and local authorities compulsory.
He thinks the five per cent threshold to demand a poll is too low but that's not his problem,
it's the resultant referendum where 80 per cent of electors – as in New Plymouth – vote against separatism and race-based anti-democratic initiatives.
Hopefully, the Rotorua Lakes and New Plymouth mayoral aberrations won't be around come October, so this nonsense won't be an issue after that.
It is little wonder Mr Flavell endorses this type of race-based rubbish because he has a Maori parliamentary seat that should have been abolished 100 years ago and technically that's still on National's bucket list. Basically, it's called protecting your patch, particularly when his discredited Maori Party has a woeful 1.32 per cent of MMP party votes and even less of the electorate votes, indicating most Maori voters don't support the Maori Party.
R P
Matapihi
DEMOCRACY SORELY UNDERMINED
Are ratepayers aware that ‘their' rates help pay their council's
membership to Local Government NZ?
In August 2015, the LGNZ president Laurence Yule signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group.
LGNZ has done a deal to create partnership obligations to councils involving “economic development, environment, infrastructure, employment, social issues, health, housing, energy and local democratic representation and decision-making”.
Meanwhile, the Ministry for the Environment, at Minister for the Environment Nick Smith's direction sent a group of ministry employees around the country to ‘consult' the community about freshwater.
The deal is done and the Iwi Leaders Group's seven outrageous demands are virtually signed, sealed and delivered thanks to LGNZ.
Democracy is being sorely undermined when LGNZ can ignore 75 per cent of the rat paying public in their wishes to ‘not have' representation based on ethnicity.
MJ A
Pyes Pa.
REGARDING CHILDREN AS CASH COWS
Re: G Clark's letter ‘The Government encourages those irresponsible parents!' (The Weekend Sun, April 29).
G Clark rudely suggests I am “enamoured” by my “blue-tinted spectacles” which I sadly do not own, as he declares I'm incorrect in not blaming the Government for the fact that, out of all the children in New Zealand in Child, Youth and Family care a massive 60 per cent are Maori out of a population of just 15 per cent.
May I suggest G Clark visit his optometrist and renew his bi-focals as he reiterates exactly what I said – which is that there is too much easily accessed benefit money which encourages people to breed and regard their children as cash cows, or just breed because they are too lazy to use contraceptives and just do not care. G Clark always blames the Government for all his complaints and ailments.
The welfare system in New Zealand is one of the best in the world but it is abused by those who carelessly bring children into the world with neither the means nor desire to properly care for them.This is why I suggested there be benefits for the first two children only. And yes, sadly Maori do predominate the numbers who abuse their children.You cannot blame the Government for their lack of responsibility – why is it that 85 per cent of non-Maori have a cleaner record?
We are all NZers.
Perhaps the answer would be for the media to name and blame all abusive parents. The shame of public exposure of all cases of abuse just might prevent yet another attack on a defenceless child.
M B
Tauranga City.
NO ROOM FOR RACE-BASED SEATS
Waiariki MP and Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell continues wasting public time and money petitioning the Government to make part-Maori race-based seats on all NZ councils and local authorities compulsory.
He thinks the five per cent threshold to demand a poll is too low but that's not his problem,
it's the resultant referendum where 80 per cent of electors – as in New Plymouth – vote against separatism and race-based anti-democratic initiatives.
Hopefully, the Rotorua Lakes and New Plymouth mayoral aberrations won't be around come October, so this nonsense won't be an issue after that.
It is little wonder Mr Flavell endorses this type of race-based rubbish because he has a Maori parliamentary seat that should have been abolished 100 years ago and technically that's still on National's bucket list. Basically, it's called protecting your patch, particularly when his discredited Maori Party has a woeful 1.32 per cent of MMP party votes and even less of the electorate votes, indicating most Maori voters don't support the Maori Party.
R P
Matapihi
DEMOCRACY SORELY UNDERMINED
Are ratepayers aware that ‘their' rates help pay their council's
membership to Local Government NZ?
In August 2015, the LGNZ president Laurence Yule signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Freshwater Iwi Leaders Group.
LGNZ has done a deal to create partnership obligations to councils involving “economic development, environment, infrastructure, employment, social issues, health, housing, energy and local democratic representation and decision-making”.
Meanwhile, the Ministry for the Environment, at Minister for the Environment Nick Smith's direction sent a group of ministry employees around the country to ‘consult' the community about freshwater.
The deal is done and the Iwi Leaders Group's seven outrageous demands are virtually signed, sealed and delivered thanks to LGNZ.
Democracy is being sorely undermined when LGNZ can ignore 75 per cent of the rat paying public in their wishes to ‘not have' representation based on ethnicity.
MJ A
Pyes Pa.
REGARDING CHILDREN AS CASH COWS
Re: G Clark's letter ‘The Government encourages those irresponsible parents!' (The Weekend Sun, April 29).
G Clark rudely suggests I am “enamoured” by my “blue-tinted spectacles” which I sadly do not own, as he declares I'm incorrect in not blaming the Government for the fact that, out of all the children in New Zealand in Child, Youth and Family care a massive 60 per cent are Maori out of a population of just 15 per cent.
May I suggest G Clark visit his optometrist and renew his bi-focals as he reiterates exactly what I said – which is that there is too much easily accessed benefit money which encourages people to breed and regard their children as cash cows, or just breed because they are too lazy to use contraceptives and just do not care. G Clark always blames the Government for all his complaints and ailments.
The welfare system in New Zealand is one of the best in the world but it is abused by those who carelessly bring children into the world with neither the means nor desire to properly care for them.This is why I suggested there be benefits for the first two children only. And yes, sadly Maori do predominate the numbers who abuse their children.You cannot blame the Government for their lack of responsibility – why is it that 85 per cent of non-Maori have a cleaner record?
We are all NZers.
Perhaps the answer would be for the media to name and blame all abusive parents. The shame of public exposure of all cases of abuse just might prevent yet another attack on a defenceless child.
M B
Tauranga City.