Bad faith Luxon dodging evidence

The principle of Comity where the Legislature and Judiciary respect each other was the main Crown lever when they won that recent High Court decision that ruled Karen did not have to present evidence before the Waitangi Tribunal

The Court of Appeal overturned that - stating that comity does not apply to limit the power of the Tribunal, the context was different - and even if the principle did apply, the Crown needed to take it seriously too, the Court said.

“Such a duty would involve the Minister voluntarily providing the information that the Tribunal requested,” it said cos that would also be consistent with the Crown’s Treaty obligations.

You can imagine the look on Shane Jone's pumpkin head face like a plate of red hot diarrhoea dribbling down the wall - after everything he had pontificated about this in public - was shown to be fraudulent.

The God of wind was wronger than wrongness, wronging around in Wrongland.

I imagined the Pumpkin head's shocking reaction was similar to the tiny peanut Act's Justice Spokesman - Todd Stephenson used for a brain.

The peanut inside Todd's head split asunder into Crunchy Peanut Butter - as ACT plotted it's next diabolical step - to avoid the law and skirt around it - protecting Karen from the counter evidence of harm - like the scurrilous, low brow, neoliberal scum bags they really are.

As you already appreciate Todd Stephenson was the cultural vacuum ( who wants to learn more about Art but also does not believe the taxpayer should fund the arts Sector ) that Steve Braunias recently interviewed - and Todd took 20 minutes to think of a single New Zealand author - and his only artistic experience he could think of was that he went to see the musical Hamilton in New York.

Todd the cultural vacuum - thinks the Judiciary has become increasingly activist ( lol ) -

“It’s tried to become a source of authority in its own right. The tribunal appears to regard itself as a parallel Government that can intervene in the elected Government’s policymaking process. We also look forward to the delivery of the coalition’s commitment to amend the Waitangi Tribunal legislation to refocus the scope, purpose, and nature of its inquiries back to the original intent of that legislation.” - said Todd overruling the Court of Appeal.

You may not be aware that Todd once worked for Catherine Issac - Vice President of ACT and an honorary member of the Atlas Network NZ Initiative - and he is in that grip - and just a list MP - not even elected.

Last night's move by the Government ( Pumpkin head and Todd ) must have been endorsed by Christopher Luxon as - his government sought to impose Atlas Network ideology upon Māori - by introducing their Bill to repeal 7AA - just one hour after the High Court decision.

This is what a Neoliberal Attack looks like - it's what NewsTalk ZB promotes - it's an all out assault on Te Ao Maori and Annette Sykes commented that - this is pretty close to getting all of Māori up in protest now.

There's a huge number of us who would join that protest and I must admit something inside me curdled last night when I first heard the news. I really do detest these Pakeha neoliberal saboteurs trying to mess with all that is just and fair just so they can bring Direct Foreign Investment to us - and rip up everything Maori stand for.

We have a Prime Minister facilitating Fast Track consenting to disrespect the authority of the Environment Court - to skirt around the law and grant economic power to investors - so Luxon can claim "we got things done".

Ironically - "getting things done" includes Luxon evading questions about evidence - like we have 2000 MWatts of consented renewables lying around waiting to be built - so the consenting framework is not really the heart of the matter - it's the greed and distortions in "the market" that the Atlas Network devotees fail to address. They call stepping in "picking winners and losers" - but the Climate Emergency is not listening to their ideology as we pass tipping points.

Yesterday Craig Renney published an article outlining several areas where Luxon's government rhetoric does not match the evidence - 90 day trials, Three Strikes, Young people trapped for 24 years on a benefit, repealing Smokefree legislation, and how expert advice is wilfully ignored.

I have no doubt that this deliberate bad faith from Luxon is applauded by some populist trolls who think it is about time we side stepped the best lawyers, forgot about Justice, made a quick buck and avoided the evidence like it was the plague.

A dumb toxic cocktail of Neoliberal thinking besets us all while the PR spin says "We remain committed" to that destruction.

Luxon's government sits on it's hands while Fair Go gets the Chop and Sunday is slashed - because weak media suits Neoliberals - who have a hard job explaining why their mistaken beliefs are not zombie ideas.

So they set about cutting down and going around accountability mechanisms instead.

Job applicants are up three times more than last year - while the dregs who voted for this lot say "good job" and "forget about it"..."we voted for change, what's in it for me?"

The price of almost everything is still going up - including rent and rates, and the so called "downward pressure" is nowhere to be seen - while Luxon fronts up again on TVNZ Breakfast - where he will insert talking points - instead of answering questions.

I wanted to say so much more this morning - but that's enough.

The gap between this Neoliberal wrecking ball and the left bloc has narrowed in just six months and the mood of the nation is turning...

This latest middle finger to the Court of Appeal from the Neoliberals should stir something in even the most apathetic of spectators watching events unfold.

The bad faith stinks and this harm is not okay.

They crossed a line last night - what do you think?

Bad faith Luxon dodging evidence

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