Winston is 100% correct.

@tanegurnick5071

7 ай бұрын

No he ain't

@L.budz.

7 ай бұрын

​@tanegurnick5071 you silly fool

@kiakaha6854

7 ай бұрын

nah he is, commonsense needs to prevail or we’re bankrupt

@tanegurnick5071

7 ай бұрын

@kiakaha6854 well he definitely has none of that

@L.budz.

7 ай бұрын

@tanegurnick5071 sorry mate it's you lacking the common sense

Agree 100 percent with Winston

Peters is right. The questioner did not care about democracy.

@IanG2120

7 ай бұрын

And if there were a member of parliament who was deaf and only used NZSL would Winston make such a song and dance or would it be interpreted and the question answered without throwing redmeat to his base and pandering to idiots

@wot54321

7 ай бұрын

@@IanG2120maybe you could look up Mojo Mathers (Green Party). "Mr Peters has said the decision of Parliament's Speaker's Office to refuse special funding to Ms Mathers, New Zealand's first profoundly deaf MP, to help pay the cost of electronic note-taking equipment is "unthinkable". “Other physical disabilities are recognised in the parliamentary environment and it is outrageous that deafness is not included," Mr Peters said."

@jame2433

7 ай бұрын

@@IanG2120 this comment section is cringe posting gold. We have a simultaneous translation service, but all of the people touting “it’s our democratic right” don’t even watch it 😂

@ducatidarmah122

7 ай бұрын

He has quite plainly said that democracy doesnt sit well with him. He's commi to the core.

@Drstein-u4l

7 ай бұрын

@@jame2433 Which if you were watching Parliament TV during that time, members complained that the translation service is too slow and the ear pieces need replacing.

Winston is right. NZ citizens watch these debates as is our right in a democracy to understand what our politicians are up to. Using a language that most citizens don't understand showed utter arrogant contempt for all but a minority. It was petty grandstanding by an obnoxious and racist radical.

@paulburgess2967

7 ай бұрын

Maori party the most racist party in the country bloody hypocrites

@mvb88

7 ай бұрын

Agreed. I'm all for te reo staying in New Zealand. I'm happy my daughter speaks it as it's her culture on her mums side. But as far as politics goes. They should at least at the bear minimum. Say it in both languages.

@valeriehughes1008

7 ай бұрын

I agree.. Waititi's party is still fixed in the musket war days utu and of bully, vicious attack while they grab, demand, take.. the weaker tribes rolled over - Waititi the nation is in no mood to roll over for you and we are certainly no longer weak!

@jame2433

7 ай бұрын

It’s translated in English for viewers on parliament tv. In addition I find it ironic given according to Winston, English isn’t an official language of NZ. Therefore there should be no objection to a question being asked in an official language?

@lancerudolph1648

7 ай бұрын

@@valeriehughes1008one outs then biarch?

I think Winston’s reply is EXACTLY why NZF continues to rise in the polls.

Another good example of why this country is in such a mess. Rather than focusing on the important issues at hand, we have idiots like this in parliament, asking questions in a language only a handful of people can understand, then wasting everyone's time debating about how he asked the question, rather than discussing the question itself.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj

7 ай бұрын

Its all Jacindas fault.

@waiata216

7 ай бұрын

Peters has been wasting time in parliament for 50 years with his mental garbage he spews every day. Only an idiot would support Peters

@BlendBeatradio

7 ай бұрын

Winston understood the question, he just didn't answer the question. The people at home can also push the button on their remotes to activate captions.

@leonnott9816

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@BlendBeatradioYep that’s true, however, why make it harder than it needs to be? Rawiri speaks English perfectly well, everyone in the room understands English, so logically, if his main objective was to get an answer to his question, why wouldn’t he just ask it in English?

@SB-Kiwi

7 ай бұрын

​@@leonnott9816because he feels his culture and language are under attack and is making a point.

Wearing hats in the house, dancing on the floor, shall we go and show the same respect on a marae??????????????????? this is stone age people still stone age.

@john-roywattie1483

7 ай бұрын

Parliament is not a fukn Marae it's the oppressive kkkolonisers play ground so get fukd 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@robyncopeland6567

7 ай бұрын

No respect. wearing a hat inside. Should not be allowed. Why is the speaker of the house allowing this clown to carry on.

@selwynperry7459

7 ай бұрын

TPM won't rest untill NZ becomes a banana republic

@f1reguy587

4 ай бұрын

Walk in the meeting house wearing shoes. Or pass food over their head..they will tell you to comply, and try saying that you absolutely will not…guy is in contempt of government proceedings.

These are not MPs. They are performance artists.

@5150show

7 ай бұрын

clowns actually

@ericmorgan204

7 ай бұрын

Anti-Caucasian, Anti-Christian & Anti-Democratic Activists, aka “Blatant Racists”, imo.

@valeriehughes1008

7 ай бұрын

A cunning Maori whose mindset is still set in the musket wars days of utu... grab, demand, take, by bullying, viciously threatening, and expect the nation to roll over like the weaker tribes did in history... Waititi will learn the nation is in no mood to roll over, nor are we weak any longer now we have freed ourselves of the Labour yoke and we united in our stand against this type of extremism. Irrespective of how clever the media tells Waititi he his... the nation views him very differently - we view him with disdain... especially his fellow Maori who he embarrasses greatly.

@pstrwaka7901

7 ай бұрын

No Oscar nominations coming however

@andrewandjoanhart7882

7 ай бұрын

@@pstrwaka7901 But could get a Raspberry Award... :)

what do you expect from a man who wont even remove his hat in the meeting house

@november50

7 ай бұрын

or his shoes lol🤭🤫😁

@kumarapatch1234

3 ай бұрын

Not removing hat and shoes is disrespectful ​@@november50

@november50

3 ай бұрын

​My comment added shoes to the hat comment. The cheeky emojis demonstrated the double standard when it comes to respecting one's culture, or if you wish, having one's cake and eating it.therefore the point of your comment is...?@@kumarapatch1234

Just another example of the Maori political wing being interested in only one thing and that isn't the betterment of New Zealand or New Zealanders.

@shadowbanned1999

7 ай бұрын

They see the occupied ethnostate known as aotearoa not new Zealand

@secondchance6603

7 ай бұрын

@@shadowbanned1999 LMAO!!!

@shadowbanned1999

7 ай бұрын

@joanarc7963 I'm not a "pakeha" and that whole first nation shtick is communist dribble that commie simps took to the un. Maori were never a nation. New Zealand was never called aotearoa. I know the history of this nation and the duel ethnicities that built it and refuse to get lied to by half wit idiots who don't even know history but yet expect us to bend knee to GLOBALIST ideology. The maori party and the left are the greatest threat to maori genetics.

@nickasst9408

7 ай бұрын

​@joanarc7963 The maori didn't have much respect for Moriori. I think you will find that wanting to treat everyone equally. Is alot better than genocide.

@speeddemon9555

7 ай бұрын

@joanarc7963 RESPECT ? the answer is in the clip, the Maori clowns that call themselves a political party are just a bunch of activists who have no respect for any of the other ethnic groups in N.Z. they are a bunch of losers who degrade all Maoris by their actions !!

That was such a lack of respect for the majority of the population! He is entitled to speak in his language but the translation must be provided to the public...

@jame2433

7 ай бұрын

I don’t watch parliament tv but we have a simultaneous translation service. So I would imagine the English translation of the question was provided. Everyone needs to simmer down

@jame2433

7 ай бұрын

@@naturesoundsnz I saw that bit. I don’t know that that’s a standard practice thing. If so I agree

@BattlerBears71

7 ай бұрын

​@@naturesoundsnz but the listeners on the radio wouldn't know what the question was in Te Reo as radio does not have subtitles like TV does. So should those people miss out when they are paying the MP's taxes?

@itsjustweard2328

7 ай бұрын

O come on people Even his own people don't like his racist tones in parliament.

@serenasmith26

7 ай бұрын

His language is English.

Rawiri is a drama queen, a poser.

@tpaine1815

7 ай бұрын

We could live with a drama queen, even a poser. He is a divider, he has the greatest contempt for everyone other than his own race and he believes everyone else in New Zealand has no right to be here. No drama queen, but a real danger to this country and all its people.

@johnmartin7158

7 ай бұрын

Adds colour to Parliament, otherwise it becomes boring.

@stevehughes1510

7 ай бұрын

@@tpaine1815 Yes he's a troublemaker and a fool, like Tamihere and Henare et al, but as long as they're not given free reign they can be reeled in.

@stevehughes1510

7 ай бұрын

@@johnmartin7158 He was in 'pink' the other day cowboy hat an' all. Thought he'd joined the gay Greens and Labour.

@johnmartin7158

7 ай бұрын

@@stevehughes1510 lol, yah, even Gerry adds a bit of colour and personality in his own way to the debating chambers. I remember the days of Sir Robert Muldoon and he certainly was a piece of work. I voted for Sir Robert 3 times.

I could not understand the question so I’m obviously one of 95% that can’t. I would expect it to be translated by the questioning party. So we can all hear the question. I think Winston went above and beyond answering that.

Winston is right He shows dignity and has mana The language used in Parliament should be accessible to all NZers

@pariscooper5458

7 ай бұрын

You can access British borders 😂

@jamesclark6487

7 ай бұрын

​@@pariscooper5458you can access the wheel.

@pariscooper5458

7 ай бұрын

@@jamesclark6487 no sense bruh 🤣

@user-br3xp5wm3o

7 ай бұрын

​@@PeacefulMeteorShower-th8fkMute europen culture? What's that Church or Druid rituals?

@Drstein-u4l

7 ай бұрын

It is accessible, translation is enabled by default on Radio, TV and Web.

Winston is the only one with any logical sense.

More particularly, the people paying the wages of their elected representatives should be able to hear and understand what they are saying in the people's house.

@IanG2120

7 ай бұрын

And what if there was a deaf mp who used NZSL?

@garyc1384

7 ай бұрын

You are deaf, in a sense@@IanG2120

@BattlerBears71

7 ай бұрын

​@@IanG2120 that's different because the Te Pati Maori can speak both Te Reo and English, were as someone deaf doesn't have a choice and can only sign language what they are communicating.

@changing_thoughts80

7 ай бұрын

Great idea! Let's have mandatory te reo classes for ALL New Zealand citizens. Maybe make it a requirement for renewing your licence 👍

@shaayd12

7 ай бұрын

Lol turn on closed captions bro, your problem is easily fixed

All I can say is Winston is like the daddy in the house reprimands the children 😂👏 I love it

@jackohere1878

7 ай бұрын

A senile old daddy living in and dreaming of the past - yep

@dtm400

7 ай бұрын

Grand Daddy more like. Thank Christ he's there.

@CubeX_Containers

7 ай бұрын

Love it

@VIX_SSTAGENZ

6 ай бұрын

Straight up, him and shane jones are onto it, and they are maori but the decent ones that unlike others and rawiri...

Someone should remind him he is paid by the taxpayers and is a civil servant and as so should be speaking English for the 95% of us that do. If he can’t he shouldn’t be in parliament

@waiata216

7 ай бұрын

Pakehas should learn the first language of this country or go home to pommie land

@peasant5612

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely, speak English for the 95% and he'll find actually 100% understood the question Geez he's an arrogant smart Alec

@daedalus7677

7 ай бұрын

@robintamihere4550 I didn't see what the clown said translated into NZ sign language. Did I miss it somewhere?!!

@daedalus7677

7 ай бұрын

@robintamihere4550 I just think I'm right, and lots would agree with my comments. And you mean "you're", not "your", BTW.

@daedalus7677

7 ай бұрын

@robintamihere4550 As I said, it's "you're", but I understand that it's a difficult concept for you to grasp. Anyway, 'Marshal', how'd you get on at the United Nations with your cr@pola a few years back? And don't worry, I don't think you could show me up; you don't seem to know much!

Good on Winston! Quite right! Well schooled!

Winston is correct. By speaking in a language most can't understand the person speaking is being a clown

@questor55

7 ай бұрын

Winston's response was good but sadly no-one is prepared to call out what is really happening which is that the language is deliberately being used to provoke and as a refusal to participate in norms. Its a kind of shitty power-move since Rawiri knows that no-one will call him out. Part of me says good on him and why not if no-one is man enough to do so. But as someone who quite likes Te Reo, it's gross to me to see it being weaponized like this.

@waiata216

7 ай бұрын

No he makes the mono lingual mono cultural Pakeha look like idiots which they are

@zhanghawley787

7 ай бұрын

​@@questor55it was labour that weaponised the race card and other cards etc.. , time people stand on their own feet, it's the 21st century!!!

@NZ_NATIV3

7 ай бұрын

So sad that pakeha know so littel of a official language of their own country ignorance is bliss

@zhanghawley787

7 ай бұрын

@@NZ_NATIV3 ingorence is bliss when you can't include everyone regardless of race

Id love to have seen Winston answer in sign language. The other official language of NZ. Just to be awkward. And to show he does understand Maori lol. That would piss old Tommy Tupperware off nicely.

@CameronCarter1

7 ай бұрын

Haha, Love it 🙂

@iainfenwick2433

7 ай бұрын

The middle finger salute?

Silly hats and T towels should remain in the changing rooms...not in Parliament.

@rochford59

7 ай бұрын

John Wayne and Yasser Arafat impersonators,bloody Te Pati maori and the woke Greens!!

@julespedersen2560

7 ай бұрын

😂

I think Winston is spot on correct.

Re his Māori question this just further outlines his/their lust for xenophobia over actual action and change. He raises a major point for ALL not just Māori and chooses for his message to be marginalised to less than 5% in terms of its effectiveness through it not being able to be understood. This tells you a great deal about the kind of person this man is. He/They are not interested in the greater good they’d rather carry on driving a wedge between people and performing to their own self interests and narcissism. This shows a crass inability to understand nor care about their voters nor NZ. As Winston has stated, this is not how a democracy operates and to conclude I doubt they care.

Rawiri Waititi disrepects the Moriori people being the original inhabitants of New Zealand before they were slaughted, enslaved and eaten by the invaders.

@koro287

7 ай бұрын

See, this sort of division is going to bring up the ugly truth of the ' culture ' and rub it back in their face, instead of burying it and moving on with peace and harmony.

@theobserver2309

7 ай бұрын

Yes indeed. Waititi is the living embodiment of the mindset that perpetrated these atrocities back in the way back. Perhaps it lives on in the genes, we wonder...

@chiefkaha5650

7 ай бұрын

The difference is, there was a treaty involved, the British have violated the treaty ever since it was signed due to the fact that they made a completely different treaty in the english version.

@chiefkaha5650

7 ай бұрын

@@theobserver2309Do you even know your own history? If you did, you’d know why Maori are frustrated and angry at the government.

@theobserver2309

7 ай бұрын

@@chiefkaha5650 $$$$$$$$

Love Winston's reply. Didn't need the translator , answered in English. Made his point so well

the translation service is for people who don't speak English, Rawiri clearly does and so should !

@martingray6275

7 ай бұрын

I understood that to be a sitting MP, one of course must not only be a NZ citizen, but therefore by default, must be a fluent English speaker (try getting citizenship without that...) So why on earth would you need a translation service in the national parliament?

@jame2433

7 ай бұрын

@@martingray6275 i having a bit of fun with this, but I find it quite funny that people are getting up in arms about this, when Winston really made it a point to make English an official language

@-Free.Spirit-

7 ай бұрын

​@@martingray6275There are heaps of NZ citizens who cant speak english! Its so friggin easy to get NZ citizenship. Its not like the USA where you sit a test. I did it myself years ago havung been a uk child immigrant under my parents passports 40 years later find I could be deported ffs meanwhile there were NO European or Kiwi people behind the counters at immigration and alot there fillingvout their forms with translators! I was outraged since I came here at 6 years old been here for 50 years and should have been naturalized under the immigrant scheme my parents cane here under. Ive grown up here was educated here work and pay taxes my entire life here married a kiwi born had kids here and got that slap in the face!

@W61K

7 ай бұрын

Winston is right, there are more than the non bilingual house partaking in this exchange of ideas to improve NZ so it is disrespectful and arrogant to ask qu. in a non official Parliamentary language and a language of a minority. Translation via ear pieces dose not address this issue. The Westminster Parliamentary system 'standard official language is ENGLISH so when the house televised it should be always in the official language so all can hear !

@-Free.Spirit-

7 ай бұрын

@@W61K Brilliant point there regarding "The Westminster Parliamentary system" that needs to be quoted to these woke bitches, then they should be told to STFU or there's the door

Too many oxygen theifs wasting important time that should be spent on many more serious issues.

The intention appeared to be an attempt to belittle the acting PM rather than elicit a meaningful answer. Peters rebuttal was extraordinary in its clarity. The purpose of PMQ is to have the House broadcast to the nation topical questions and answers. We are witnessing a twisted theatre from the minority opposition.

@valeriehughes1008

7 ай бұрын

Totally agree!

It's very comical when someone wants respect and yet have no idea how to GIVE respect. RW should remember this! Also, freedom of speech is for all New Zealanders, not just some. The behaviour of some members of Parliament is disgusting, children behave better in their classrooms.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj

7 ай бұрын

What do you expect.?

@shauntempley9757

7 ай бұрын

Really? In 183 years, no respect was given to Maori. Yet you claim that it was? You really need to do your research before you comment.

@karenrhodes9973

7 ай бұрын

@@shauntempley9757 Research my comment?????NZ has so many versions of history, which is to be believed, the real history would be nice, not your history for starters. As for bad treatment of Maori? 183 years ago? Why is that your problem or mine. WE were not here then. Worry about today FFS!!! GET OVER YOURSELF. One NZ for ALL NZ. Get rid of the idiots in Parliament who don't know how to behave! SIMPLE!

It’s an English parliament so abide by the rules….we are becoming a circus.

@IanG2120

7 ай бұрын

No it's the NZ House of Representatives and as such there are three official languages that can be used.

@mvb88

7 ай бұрын

​@@IanG2120only 2 official language in New Zealand. Te reo and new Zealand sign language. So im not sure what your on about with there being 3. If your referring to English. Then English legally isn't recognized as language in New Zealand. Just a correction that most people don't know about in new Zealand.

@IanG2120

7 ай бұрын

@mvb88 Your wrong NZ English, NZSL and Te Reo are official languages in New Zealand

@delinquentinparadise

7 ай бұрын

Being dragged into the sewer by Clowns who have no idea of manners or knowledge of parliamentary conduct.

@madiemikaere353

7 ай бұрын

We’ve been a circus for at least 3 years

Waiti et al did not take the oath, why are they allowed to sit.???????????????

@saxdearing3395

7 ай бұрын

He did take the oath in the end, otherwise he wouldn't get paid. Shows his priorities doesn't it?

Well the speaker needs to make an example of him

@lancedonald6070

7 ай бұрын

Winston is correct.

Totally agree, majority common sense applies Keep English as the main language, if we want to translate it into another language we as individuals can elect to do so

@karibakid

7 ай бұрын

Can the translator be trusted and some words are not translatable

@jasperhorace7147

7 ай бұрын

@@karibakid And most of them have been made up since 1840 anyway.

@IanG2120

7 ай бұрын

Don't be such a drop kick. Maori is an official language.

@valeriehughes1008

7 ай бұрын

Ah they latch on to the language given to them by the English scholar and linguist Samuel Lee with the aid of Hongi Hika using 6 tribal dialects only and creating the language of Te Reo first used in 1860.... We can't of been too bad Waititi look what we colonials have given you so much - even the language you speak and now claim to be the language of the country!

@garyc1384

7 ай бұрын

Wrong. Have you not seen th traditional maori words for ice cream aeroplanes, telephones, etc? @@jasperhorace7147

Winston is correct. It is rude, disrespectful and arrogant to deliberately speak a language that can't be understood. How would you feel if your teachers or boss started communicating with you in Japanese, Arabic, or Jive for that matter? And here in NZ we have the main television broadcaster doing the same!

@BattlerBears71

7 ай бұрын

That's why you should stop watching mainstream media propaganda and their corruption of lies and start watching more independent journalists. Clayton and Natali Morris REDACTED cover world news and have grown by the millions in their following. They are ex mainstream media news readers but left because they could no longer follow the govt narrative and lie. They have even mention our ex Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and also a story that covered the Christchurch earthquake and how it was a man made earthquake. So now I mostly only follow independent news journalists. There are some independent news journalists like Sean that still follow the mainstream media bs and push agendas.

Winston Peters is right again. We don't have translators at home so how rude to speak so only the few can understand? I listen to our country's politics and I'd like it in english please.

@lisac1619

7 ай бұрын

To be fair, I don't understand the gibberish that comes out of Halfwiti's mouth when he's speaking English.

@jdrei5080

7 ай бұрын

@@lisac1619 he has a high level of understanding of many things which do go unnoticed

@davidgrosvenor1

6 ай бұрын

What a joke, the Speaker too was a joke, he was weak! Surely everyone in NZ, English speaking land should get able to understand but Maoris involved so different! I wonder how many Maoris out of the 4% who can speak it agree! 96% didn't understand it, what next?😢

Rawiri is only self-centred acting like a child as he always does also refuses to take off his colonist cowboy hat that he loves to wear everywhere he goes (cultural appropriation). English is the first language of New Zealand which he speaks quiet well, what point is he trying to make? Even the majority of the people he claims to represent do not understand Te Reo.

Rawiri, Debbie and Marama are an embarrassment to Maori 🤡

Behind Winston … 110 % keep at the opposition

It’s akin to Westminster MP’s speaking in Welsh and being arrogant enough to assume that’s ok. I’d also point out that wearing hats indoors is bad manners.

@tpaine1815

7 ай бұрын

This man is purposefully displaying bad manners all the time. His aim is to intentionally insult, slander, scare, damage, destroy, degrade, attack. He believes we are all a bunch of colonisers who stole the country from the innocent, but unbelievably bright indigenent Maori who had previously killed and canablised the real indigenent earlier inhabitants of this land. Waititi is bent on launching a terrorist war on everyone and everything that does not conform to his view of the world, the country, the people, etc.

@JohanThiart

7 ай бұрын

Tribes signed the Treaty in defiance of the Crown…….. yeah, right!

@kkiwi54

7 ай бұрын

Except for women 👍

@selwynperry7459

7 ай бұрын

Pissed off he's bald😂

@itsjustweard2328

7 ай бұрын

Yes it is bad manners to wear hats in parliament. But apparently the Marois have no respect for white man's culture so according to them it doesn't matter as long as we respect there ways

Why does that man insist on wearing a hat in parliament house. Pre-colonial Maori didn't have hats. Is not his wearing a hat cultural appropriation? And is his wearing of it in parliament house meant to be an insult to that house and it's non Maori members, because in European culture a gentleman would never wear a hat inside.

@felicitypuds2582

7 ай бұрын

And woudl we be so rude and disrespectful as to wear shoes on a marae? He is an ignorant arrogant twerp.

@tonyp1340

7 ай бұрын

Wearing a cowboy hat isn't exactly a cultural appropriation. It's just an affectation in his case, probably intended as some sort of insult. But I don't think anyone really understands it. Just shows lack of manners really. To get respect he needs to show respect.

@jtw7777

7 ай бұрын

He's bald and has a badly shaped head, he also chose a stomach staple instead of going for a run.

@margueritemccartney3607

7 ай бұрын

He just thinks he’s cool when in fact he’s anything but.

@W61K

7 ай бұрын

He's a Clown, obviously not expecting to be taken seriously ! His actions to date are always to shock, stir and be provocative.He has not added anything to improve NZ. Openly disrespectful and arrogant. He is openly flouting his disrespect in everyway, anyway he can. Once a Clown, always a Clown !

Keep the language in parliament as English

Questions asked in maori without being translated for the public viewing via television or the internet is just pure arrogance on the part of the member asking the question. Politicians may have access to a translation service, but as Winston Peters pointed out, that service is not available to the general viewing public, and is an insult to the democratic processes that our country is founded on.

@TainuiaKid1973

7 ай бұрын

So English subtitles for television viewers.

Give an inch , they take a mile . Like who couldn't see this coming . Welcome to the next south africa .

@waiata216

7 ай бұрын

Go back to south africa whitey try getting smart to the coloured people over there.

I like Winston.....certainly speaks his mind lol

Why are they letting this people be disrespectful . English should spoken not every one what’s to speak 🗣️ Moari or understand it Ibet a load of Maori don’t speak it

I dont ever remember Jacinda getting asked a question in Te Reo?

@judithclark4184

7 ай бұрын

she was paying them

@danielle5980

7 ай бұрын

How much was she paying them?

@Chopper650

6 ай бұрын

​@@danielle5980millions.... she even gifted the mongrel mob millions

@VIX_SSTAGENZ

6 ай бұрын

Exactlty old johnny came lately though, just being a humbug as winston would put it

95% of us watching and listening to parliament only speak and understand English,we are also a crucial part of the debate,the member asking the question should also interpret to English his question if originally asked in Māori. This is nothing but TePati Māori playing theatre,rubbish games,and they should pay respect to our house of governance and get their bloody hats off indoors

I never supported Winston but on this matter he has my full support

@markswanson2716

7 ай бұрын

Get on board Jeremy.

If this behaviour only starts now, you know they are just trying to be disruptive 😂

@valeriehughes1008

7 ай бұрын

There must be a standard of conduct i the house and Brownlee when he gets into the job will find he has to clamp down on this sort of theatre..TPM are of no value, have nothing to say and represent 2.76% only of Maori... in order to get attention they carry on with disruptive behaviour... they are beneath contempt.

@johnmartin7158

7 ай бұрын

Queensbury rules would add a new flavour.

Rawiri just trying to be a smart ass.

Winston is right time for more serious problems to be addressed

One people. Well said Winston.

I agree with Winston, it is not fear to those who are interested when listening on other electronics, and to be truthful, how many in the house understands Te Reo without that device they use and why should they.

It is done delberately to try and belittle others .

Thank you Mr Peters, that's what mana looks like.

The official language of the land and our Parliament is ENGLISH I think the Speaker should have ordered Waititi to ask his question in English... if he failed to do so removed from the house. Much of the nation do not think the TPM should even be in parliament... it is a racist separatist party. Winston Peter is absolutely correct..in his response to the disrespectful Waititi. Waititi belongs in the days of the musket wars when land was grabbed by warring tribes and the mindset was take what you want from whoever you want and the the biggest bullies, most threatening, fierce and vicious won - the weaker tribe had to roll over and accept it.... now Waititi is ragging utu on the nation expecting to get all he wants and the nation to roll over... you may regret what you have started Waititi...the nation is in no mood to roll over. The trouble with Robertson is his party is very much part of the reason we have this situation today... long may he sit in the wilderness.

@ArekaCresta

7 ай бұрын

No. The official languages of the land and parliament are English, Sign Language and Te Reo Maori. Doubt he would have got any backlash for using NZSL. Which is another language not all New Zealanders speak. I feel sorry for you. You must have had many opportunities stripped from you by under-priviledged Maori, Polynesians, Asians and other non white demographics. Maybe you would feel more comfortable building gas chambers and starting your own concentrations camps? (Just expressing my freedom of speech as you have) 😊

@Razzo945

7 ай бұрын

@areka, it’s a pity you need to resort to such crap in your free speech, you have to resort to comparing something trivial to the holocaust, very sad person you are

They all speak and understand English so that is what should be spoken...end of.

And I see we now have two Maori MP's who sit in the House wearing cowboy hats...where will the disrespect end and why does the Speaker tolerate such behaviour?

@VIX_SSTAGENZ

6 ай бұрын

Are they allowed to wear hats in the marae?? Rawiri is just being difficult!!

Winston spot on

Time to make Rules that do not create division among MP's. "All NZ Government proceedings and documentaation are to be solely conveyed in the English Language only."

@AmonAnon-vw3hr

7 ай бұрын

200 people will show up with signs and the media would say "hundreds out in protest over the genocide of Maori!" Lol

What would happen if we had The NZ European Party?

@saxdearing3395

7 ай бұрын

Might be time to form one.

All represetatives should understand and speak English who are elected to Parliament.... When conveying information about policy and running NZ we all need to know and understand what they are saying. The purposeful intent of TPM using Maori to convey a message that he deemed important enough for everyone to hear should be in English otherwise why say it ? He is on the democracy payroll..... discriminatory Imo

@russellsueosborne9106

7 ай бұрын

Taxpayers are paying for sedition ....If some want out of the Pakeha world then go back to the bush .There is still heaps untouched out there !!

I agree with Winston Peters.

Have to say that that was very racist of Mr Waititi he knows that very few of the members have Te Reo and at least 70 percent of the public do not have enough Te Reo to understand very racist

Winston completely shut Rawhiti down with his response…as for Megan, on the marae you stay quiet ….priceless

so he doesn't want the question answered - simple

@valeriehughes1008

7 ай бұрын

Agreed.. but the pushing of the idiot Robertson whose party first brought all this disrespect to our Parliament put Winston in a position of having to give an answer... think Winston well...and his answer was in English.

Done as a virtue signal and to create a power imbalance.

@antonmiles8167

7 ай бұрын

@robintamihere4550 Only this time it didn’t work and cowboy hat was left looking like a try hard,a bit like how you look with your comment. Get that.

I used to speak Korean, I used to speak French, now I never use either so can hardly remember a word, to have a function use of a language takes huge effort and practice. Either language is acceptable in parliament, and translation is something you do to keep people with you instead of confusing them, and people are in parliament for good reason, they do not need the obligation of learning a language added to their problems , grow up halfwitti

@J.Smith-rc6wh

7 ай бұрын

Speaker should have stepped in

@IanG2120

7 ай бұрын

It's an official language of NZ so it's acceptable. Your the halfwit

@valeriehughes1008

7 ай бұрын

@@J.Smith-rc6wh Agree.. Brownlee will get his legs as he settles in the job... he has to clamp down on this sort of theatre.. TPM offer nothing and their only way of getting attention to to create disturbance.

Totally unacceptable for new new Zealanders not to understand a language that is only used by a minority and only as part of their minor culture .English is the main language of 95% of new zealanders Zealanders

@barneyboy2008

7 ай бұрын

Well about time you learned. Europeans don't have a problem learning more than one language.

Very fair view by Peters. As a non maori speaker I wish to hear parliament and understand what is going on.

Despite having voting for them, I honestly figured Winston and Shane would cool their rhetoric and immediately get too comfortable and disappoint like every other party I've voted for. But for old buggers, their energy since taking their seats has been really high! They've been getting stuck in like pig-dogs. I love it.

@johnr3150

7 ай бұрын

Yes, impressed with both of them.

Thank Christ we didn't vote for Co-governance,Te Pati maori playing silly bloody games,good on you Winston,you look like the adult in the room!!

For heavens sake,,,, all attendancee in Parliament speak English,( including Maori) its our National Language, it's a no bnrainer. It just goes to show the loathing that these maoris have towards our parlimentary institution, ... Does this mean, members now need to make use of Translation device just to understand this abhorent Koretake. Just goes to show how utterly rediculous this is becoming, turnig our historical institution into a friggen circus.

@veerickpatel7634

7 ай бұрын

Te Reo is also our national language

@goldsharktooth

7 ай бұрын

Point is livestream viewers dont have access to the translator in real time

@js9273

7 ай бұрын

@@veerickpatel7634 It's an official language because legislation made it so in the 1980s, but in reality it doesn't mean anything in practice. New Zealand is an English speaking country.

@Tantium

7 ай бұрын

and what happens when its misinterpreted/translated like te thingo whatchamacallit

Thank you Winston for standing up for the 95% of NZers that pay!, as well as appreciate our country’s language as English! Our govt is not a UN where we require translatory devices to understand anything in English. English is universal language in NZ, understood by all NZers and has been used in our govt from the beginning to raise NZ to what it is today. If a question is not asked/presented in English, it should not be entertained or even answered in govt. Let’s make sure this happens politicians, to let ‘THEM’ know they won’t get the answers they want unless question is in English!

@BobPackard

7 ай бұрын

You are absolutely correct. The Chinese outnumber maori, have we an Asian MOP who could address the House in a non English manner? The maori would leap uip and down, saying that the Asian language is not an official language. Which IS a valid point. However, common courtesy demands a common language.

@robinlecomte1242

7 ай бұрын

Can I add to your well founded comment, that is -'That the Standard of Dress and/or attire worn by NZ MPS, both duly elected and those who are List MP's ( the invited friends & family) be brought up the standard required (this includes Men wearing a tie) which is both required & enforced, that reflects the People who (represent NZ ) reside in the Debating Chamber, when in session. If ANYONE thinks the above is a "lulu statement" - the Debating Chambers of the following Countries - Canada, USA Federal Govt, France, Britain, Scottish Parliament, Germany - have such requirements and is enforced by both The Speaker & Clerk of The House. And it should include - "that the wearing of a Hat and/or any other head covering, or the National Emblem of another Country is not part of that Dress Code".

@SB-Kiwi

7 ай бұрын

Maori is an official language of New Zealand. He is fully entitled to speak Maori in parliament. End of story.

@CubeX_Containers

7 ай бұрын

@@SB-Kiwi It may well be. But if he wants to be taken seriously then ask the question in both languages. I have no problem with that.

@BlendBeatradio

7 ай бұрын

Maori is the first official language of NZ, Again Asians are immigrated population into NZ by the crown if you didn't listen to Takuta Ferris and his maiden speech to the house, then go back and watch it again, he explains it perfectly for Non-Maori and the colonized Maori of Aotearoa. @@BobPackard

The Maori John Wayne is just being awkward. As for Labours response, well there's no surprise there. Great response from Winston....👍

@robyncopeland6567

7 ай бұрын

John Wayne was a racist. So is this clown

How much is all of this pointless activism costing the country?

Your race does not define you! Your character does!

@waiata216

7 ай бұрын

bullshit

@bigthinker281

7 ай бұрын

@@waiata216people who live their lives through the lens of their race are usually arrogant racists. We as people have common humanity. Off course it looks like you don’t agree with that. You must be regressive in your thinking…What’s your thoughts?

@bigthinker281

7 ай бұрын

@@waiata216 So was MLK wrong? 😂 oh this makes you look silly…

Well said Winston .

Well said Winston, and get that clown off our 10 cent peice 😁😁😁😁

We were watching the Parliament exchange on TV and after the earpiece was provided there was no English version displayed on the TV screen. The Speaker of The House should have been firmer. Thank goodness Winston doesn't beat around the bush. I noticed also when Nicola Willis was giving her speech, the majority of the left side had left the chamber. Perhaps this should be a course of action to take when no English is spoken. Just get up and walk out. Seems to me that there should be a requirement for all parties to at least have 60% of each party remain in the house when an opposition party is speaking. Are we really paying $160,000 a year to see politicians leave the chamber because they don't have the courtesy to stay and listen to all speeches?

@ETethanET

7 ай бұрын

The wonderful thing about democracy is tolerance. Te reo Maori is welcome but so is respect for parliament rules -translate in English and HATS off!

If Billy T James was still around im sure he would have had a field day with the current inward looking Maori attitude.

Hmmm...I love every moment of voting for Winnie over 24 years...!

Love it ! 😂…..Winston’s no victim !

If our government represents the entire nation..dont we have to know what he is saying.. Arrogant man, and deceived..

@waiata216

7 ай бұрын

The national Party the Act party and NZF represent White racists Only the Labour and Green parties represent all New Zealnders.

If someone isn’t fluid in a language they shouldn’t answer or agree with a comment or question. Halfwhiti doesn’t use Maori at home when in conversation. The government is a cumbersome institutional best and if everything needs translating nothing will be achieved.

@ETethanET

7 ай бұрын

Please note he had to read his Te reo Maori -what he had to say did not come from his heart. He is dishonest and manipulative. A disgrace to Maoridom. Deborha Packer was put in her place too.

I am shocked by the cultural appropriation of the US by those MPs wearing cowboy hats. Everyone knows Maori never wore hats, let alone Stetsons, and representatives of the Maori people shouldn't be stealing from American culture.

PS: I'm curious. Should the member in the cowboy hat maybe just go the full hog and wear traditional Maori dress in parliament too? Or is he happy with the cultural appropriation of the western man's clothing? Is he a New Zealander or a Maori? And does he enjoy the benefit of the New Zealand passport ?

@saxdearing3395

7 ай бұрын

Do you mean grass skirt and no pants?

@waiata216

7 ай бұрын

A Maori. There is no such thing as a New Zealander. White Pakehas are just Pommies living in our country as uninvited invaders. Go home Pakeha.

I understood the word tamariki, so would have assumed the question was about the 57 tamariki beaten to death in last 7 years and answered as such.

No way should any of the debates etc be in Māori it’s ridiculous. English is the language that should be used not Māori. The Māori are being racist no one else. Māori are behaving totally unacceptable. Im of Māori decent and I’m totally fed up with the Māori antics all New Zealanders have to put up with. They are just ridiculous. Winston is so right thank goodness he’s there.

I agree with Winston Peter's, ALL nzers must be given the same right and opportunity to understand everything related to our democratic governance in nz. Those who insist that the minority who understand Maori should be able to discuss governance matters in parliament or government ministries and services in Maori without full translation available to ALL are out of order.

@martingray6275

7 ай бұрын

Yes. Tail wagging the dog. All discourse in English and if anyone needs a translation, that can be provided as a secondary measure.... Hard to believe however that as a sitting MP needing to BE a NZ citizen, you would have trouble with English...

Should of let Waitati not swear allegiance to the crown then that would justify getting rid of the treaty.

"There is a translation service available.." in NZ Parliament... WTF??? The national language in these and all other communal political fora is English.. so why the hell are we even considering that there should be a translation service waiting in the wings, to pander to the selfish disrespect of the member in the cowboy hat??? Jesus!!!

@brianseager6388

7 ай бұрын

spot on you are dead right

Why are people wearing hats in the chamber if people in the balcony cannot?

Winston is right on every level

I dont think NZ realised just how lucky they are to have Winston. It's just vote red or blue.

James Meager, new MP, maiden speech showed us all how Maori and English language can be intertwined in a dignified manner with pride and integrity. This guy in the cowboy hat is just a show pony. Hasn't even got the decency to take his hat off inside the house.

@waiata216

7 ай бұрын

Meager is a Pakeha. He is a fake maori lonly iked by Pakeha because he licks Pakeha arsehole.

@helentaylor5078

7 ай бұрын

@@waiata216 really? So who/what are Nga Tahu? Maybe you should get an education.

It's not democracy. TPM lives in the fantasy world where most people understand Te Reo.

Winston is rocking it. Good on him.