Luxon speaks on the Treaty at Ratana with a forked tongue
Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury
We seem to have two Prime Ministers. One says one thing when speaking to Māori and then the other says the complete opposite when speaking to the Press Gallery.
At Ratana, the Prime Minister says about ACTs toxically reactionary Treaty Principles referendum , “There is no commitment to supporting it past first reading. I don’t know how to be any clearer.
“The position of the National Party: no intention, no commitment, it’s not a policy we support,”
Yet when he is in front of a mainly pakeha Press Gallery, he has a different story!
After his first post-Cabinet press conference, Luxon wouldn’t rule out supporting the Bill further.
“Well there is no commitment to take it beyond that and I just say as the National leader our position has been well understood for a long period of time,”.
That isn’t ruling it out, that is simply stating it isn’t National Party Policy.
National have been caught out numerous times now using spin lines and phrases that imply one thing but don’t rule it out either.
When they pretended that everyone would get their $250 a fortnight tax cut, they were caught out.
When they claimed fiscal holes, they were caught out.
When they claimed they had checked their Foreign Buyers policy past International tax experts, they were caught out.
Don’t even start me about the Tobacco deaths for tax cuts, National already have a reputation in a very short space of time getting caught out misleading us.
If we can’t trust their own Tax Cut policy, how can we trust them on something as huge as allowing culture war race baiting by the reactionary part of their voting block?
The Prime Minister has not ruled out supporting ACTs referendum further, he has simply restated it isn’t National Party policy.
Martyn Bradbury
Editor – TheDailyBlog.nz
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