From here:
The Government has been caught sneaking a rarely-used legal provision into the proposed Three Waters legislation which will make it harder for Parliament to overturn, National Justice Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith and Local Government spokesperson Simon Watts say.
This week, while Parliament sat under urgency pushing legislation through, Labour and the Greens added a provision that means once Three Waters becomes law, it would take 60 per cent of MPs to overturn it, instead of a simple majority which applies to almost every law passed, except for a few constitutional matters.
Give your party vote to Act next year to STOP all of this. You can vote National if you want a version of this shit that is basically “better”.
UPDATE: A week ago, the erudite and oft-principled, Chris Trotter, wrote a very good piece on our “democracy”. He was a week early with this gem:
With their single house of Parliament, their unwritten – and hence flexible and adaptable – constitution, and their highly efficient electoral machinery, New Zealanders are the masters of their own destiny to a degree unencountered among many peoples. Our courts cannot strike down legislation passed by the House of Representatives, nor can one Parliament bind another – both prohibitions guaranteeing a radically majoritarian mode of government. If the essence of democracy consists of giving effect to the will of the majority, then New Zealand must rank as one of the most democratic nations on Earth.
This week we have seen the Supreme Court continue its activist stance in declaring the prohibition on 16 year olds voting is discrimination and contrary to the NZ Bill of Rights. It only declared that, so yes, it did not strike down any legislation. But Ardern said immediately she would legislate to correct it. The Ellis decision (see here for Part I) introduces a new form of tikanga common law into New Zealand, again via an activist Supreme Court. And now we have this.
I really hope everyone is paying close attention to what is happening in this country and urging “te Reo” Luxon to wipe the floor of all of it (*snigger*)
No Minister 
You can add this too, We need to talk about Jacinda…:
Which is what happens when you simply do nothing but “refute” the accusations against you.
Throughout this entire process I’ve idly wondered if the local Maori tribe in my district might start taking action against the community-district water supplies that we use, or even the creeks that flow into my farm.
I no longer think it’s being paranoid to think that they’ll use the legislation to take control of that water, and hence the land. The nearby Maori Trust land of some thousands of hectares, including several large dairy farms, descended from the old Maori Affairs Department, has made offers to me and others over the years to buy our farms and they have been turned down. I imagine that any large corporate-like entity will use this new leverage.
Scenario: civil war. Deny a man or a woman to water and it is a genuine existential threat. The only response to that for some will be direct action.
I hope that scenario does not eventuate but I can see it happening
I never thought I would see this country descend to Rwanda like law making and the accompanying racial targeting but here we are…
Labour was given unlimited power by some very stupid people in 2020 based on a bunch of lies regarding being kept safe from COVID19…. fear drove madness – and its offspring is looming feudal oppression via a supposedly innoucous water safety bill….
Labour are attempting to destroy the countrys unity and provoke a splintering of people into identity groups – and then they can use the chaos that ensues to advance the One Party State aim at the heart of Labours philosophy…
That sounds crazy as I read what I have typed… but what other conclusions can you draw when Labour are taking a policy that was never campaigned on and are driving it through under urgency with an entrenching clause? With the clear intent of empowering tribal elites with total control of water resources in the country and the ability to instruct the water operating companies to levy fees payable to the tribal entities on every litre of water treated and reticulated….
Ms Ardern, Mr W Jackson and MS N Mahuta….. a troika of villians….
But who sits behind them pulling the strings??
Oh, and on the matter of “treachery”, see this from my post a few months ago, I guess this will be my single issue in 2023, about the beloved National Party cabinet minister and his comments about the “sour right”:
To which I got the perfect response:
On the face of it, this is an attempt to entrench a mafia level taxpayer and ratepayer extortion scheme into legislation.
But relax, National has a plan:
As per Labour must reverse Three Waters skullduggery
And relax, ACT Party also has a plan:
As per ACT Party email newsletter.
Let’s see what happens…
Heh, heh, heh. Yes, let’s see, courtesy of DPF, who usually does not use language like this: Labour fucks the constitution.
It’s probably too late for me to sell up and leave the country, even with my family’s US tickets to freedom. I suppose I’ll just have to start laying in supplies.
I’m in a similar frame of mind being a dual NZ (by birth) and Australian (for IT work) citizen. Sydney or Melbourne is looking very tempting to me right now as I fear that these ethnic activist extortion schemes are going to leave NZ completely destroyed economically and socially and NZ taxpayers and ratepayers are going to be wearing a barrel very soon.