Despite a $4M investment, the Treaty Principles pushback continues...
And Seymour acts like a child every time he's called out
Behind The Panels:
I made this comic on Sunday night, and by Monday morning it was announced that the bill failed a quality assurance test carried out by his own Ministry for Regulation.
It seems every week another organisation calls the bill out for what it is: divisive, unnecessary, a waste of money, and will harm Māori in the long term. Last week it was 400 church leaders, a few days before that the Ministry of Justice warned the proposed Treaty Principles Bill isn't "grounded in the Treaty", which had immediately followed global Indigenous leaders calling the bill an ‘Erasure agenda’.
That doesn’t even cover Iwi leaders, health professionals, the Waitangi Tribunal, and Historians to name a few. Even his own coalition partners think it is a waste of time, yet, despite all this pushback, Seymour has a rebuttal for each one, and is pushing it forward through a six-month select committee process which will cost an “extremely consecutive $4m”.
I hope every step of the way he continues to be called out by professionals, ministries, opinion pieces, crudely drawn political cartoons, and the general public because I can bet during this time he and others who want it to succeed will be pumping money into campaigns to get the public on his side - and we can’t forget that.
Fingers crossed this fails miserably, and it ends up being the sword Swymor falls on to kill his career.
Danz