"Sir" Wira Gardiner Harpooned At First Hurdle
In a victory for common sense in the National Party "Sir" Wira Gardiner's bid to stick his hand in another pie seems to have come unstuck at the first hurdle when he couldn't even get a seat on the Board of Directors of the National Party.
Wira left the army at age 39 to end his life as a useful taxpayer and citizen and then commenced an orchestrated litany of being a passenger on various Treaty and Maori gravy trains.
If you are a "businessman" and your primary source of income is from "treaty settlements" or the gravy train related then as far as I am concerned you are on a par with a beneficiary in terms of entitlements, status as a businessperson and achievement. It's not a real "business" when the taxpayer has subsidised it.
It is the Maori equivalent of a Pakeha child who has rich parents, has their parents fund their business and calling themselves a "company director" and demanding to be taken seriously by the rest of the world that has to earn their living independently.
Wira was attempting to extend the snuffling further by using a potential National Party Presidency to allegedly further those business interests and that of his MP wife. There is no other reason why he put his name forward as he has been a part-time supporter of the Party for years. His support for the Party under fire never matched his achievements in the military.
Wira can't help the snout grovelling.
The depth of Wira's trough snuffling was evident when the Prime Minister seemed to back his bid for Presidency and the members still said "no".
Wira has benefited clearly post-military from spotting a gap in the centre-right for a brown face who wears a suit and filling it. His politics are no more National Party than mine are of the Alliance. He simply saw early on that the centre-left had too many Treaty troughers and found a cunning, devious way to get some dosh and privilege from the other side.
Others are subtly inferring the rejection of Gardiner to be racist. What tosh! It is racism to suggest that a Maori should always be chosen for a position because he is a Maori and therefore superior to candidates of other race because of being a Maori. It reads "oh we need to look all "racially balanced", lets pick a Maori for President, oh Wira will do we can control him, no worries".
Gardiner is the husband of a sitting M.P. He was hopelessly conflicted running for Board let alone President.
There were rumblings "Sir" Wira could be helpful in forming relations with the Maori Party. But the only people I read to date in politics who think he has "mana" with his people, are all distinctly Pakeha. Proving once again that just because a Maori dresses in a suit, behaves well and can sit with Pakeha and be middle-class in a meeting, doesn't mean he has requisite "mana" at all with Maori to engage them in the process.
So congratulations to the National Party for "common sense for a change".
And picking at least in the interim someone with a substantial background loyal to the party (the most important quality in a President) dating back to involvement in the Young Nationals AND with private sector experience away from a trough.
Wira left the army at age 39 to end his life as a useful taxpayer and citizen and then commenced an orchestrated litany of being a passenger on various Treaty and Maori gravy trains.
If you are a "businessman" and your primary source of income is from "treaty settlements" or the gravy train related then as far as I am concerned you are on a par with a beneficiary in terms of entitlements, status as a businessperson and achievement. It's not a real "business" when the taxpayer has subsidised it.
It is the Maori equivalent of a Pakeha child who has rich parents, has their parents fund their business and calling themselves a "company director" and demanding to be taken seriously by the rest of the world that has to earn their living independently.
Wira was attempting to extend the snuffling further by using a potential National Party Presidency to allegedly further those business interests and that of his MP wife. There is no other reason why he put his name forward as he has been a part-time supporter of the Party for years. His support for the Party under fire never matched his achievements in the military.
Wira can't help the snout grovelling.The depth of Wira's trough snuffling was evident when the Prime Minister seemed to back his bid for Presidency and the members still said "no".
Wira has benefited clearly post-military from spotting a gap in the centre-right for a brown face who wears a suit and filling it. His politics are no more National Party than mine are of the Alliance. He simply saw early on that the centre-left had too many Treaty troughers and found a cunning, devious way to get some dosh and privilege from the other side.
Others are subtly inferring the rejection of Gardiner to be racist. What tosh! It is racism to suggest that a Maori should always be chosen for a position because he is a Maori and therefore superior to candidates of other race because of being a Maori. It reads "oh we need to look all "racially balanced", lets pick a Maori for President, oh Wira will do we can control him, no worries".
Gardiner is the husband of a sitting M.P. He was hopelessly conflicted running for Board let alone President.
There were rumblings "Sir" Wira could be helpful in forming relations with the Maori Party. But the only people I read to date in politics who think he has "mana" with his people, are all distinctly Pakeha. Proving once again that just because a Maori dresses in a suit, behaves well and can sit with Pakeha and be middle-class in a meeting, doesn't mean he has requisite "mana" at all with Maori to engage them in the process.
So congratulations to the National Party for "common sense for a change".
And picking at least in the interim someone with a substantial background loyal to the party (the most important quality in a President) dating back to involvement in the Young Nationals AND with private sector experience away from a trough.
posted by Cactus Kate at 1:53 PM
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Now children pay close and careful attention! For here is an example of why we tell you to crow only about the things you know about. Your friend Katie Prickles appears to have researched her information for this vent from the back of a postage stamp. Whilst, her opine may seem to you all to be erudite and informed like many of her other epistles. Sadly, it is quite the opposite. Remember the old saying children. A monkey in silk, is a monkey no less. Kia ora to that.
Kia ora? Is that a white man's greeting? Once again - does this man have "mana" in the Maori community?
He didn't have the prerequisite "mana" in the National Party to even get on the Board despite ex-Presidential and quasi Prime Ministerial backing.
Close but no habana. White woman's greeting.
Yes, he does. Does every Maori like him. No they don't.
Perhaps ironically, the bulk of the Maori who don't are the ones who didn't like the work he did for Sir Douglas Graham on the fiscal envelope. They are pretty much ones that you bleat about.
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