Judith Collins never very far from a controversy, recently re-appointed Una Jagose, The Solicitor General now at the heart of a serious matter where, in the face of a widely expressed desire of the coalition to expunge all racist references in New Zealand law unless such references are a part of accepted legislation, the SG Jagose issued a directive to Police prosecutors to be careful when dealing with people claiming some degree of Maori genetic makeup, for a further two years.
Now that reappointment Ms Collins, is rather an indictment of your lack of political nous.
Did you seriously have no reservations about the independent Solicitor General, having been in the job during the entire derailing of racial harmony existing in a degree but under concerted assault during the last six years, would suddenly abandon all and every racist connotation involved? That is quite a remarkable leap of faith; even if she had claimed a new attitude to the sweeping trends across all facets of judicial practice, that such a deliberate push back would never occur should you re-appoint her.
Leopards do not change their spots. Una Jagose has been at the very apex of judicial drives to enter the legislative functions with their ivory tower theories imbued in the collective in all their thinking.
Instead of re-appointing Jagose you should have found a candidate with established views that the moves to enter into legislative change emanating from senior Judicial figures is wrong and must cease. There must be someone out there or did you decide such a person did not exist?
If that is what moved you to reappoint Jagose then you should have made that fact very public and got an agreement that change was going ahead unimpeded.
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Collins is a poacher in opposition, but a gamekeeper in government. She has never delivered on her reputation as a Crusher. Stop expecting anything from National, and hopefully you will never be disappointed.
My opinion of Collins began to nosedive when, as Police Minister talking about gun control, she demonstrated that she did not know you needed your firearms licence to buy ammo.
In that portfolio, and especially if you’ve chosen to talk about that speciifc subject, I expected her to know what she’s talking about.
Style – in her case meaning “aggressive” – over substance, in her case meaning that she just drifts along as a Minister without a deep knowledge of the waters beneath. No wonder Key got pissed off with her.
The National Party of New Zealand are a super woke trojan who have transformed New Zealand, sorry Aoteroa into an international laughing stock,