Prebble quits Waitangi Tribunal

Richard Prebble writes:

Article Three, which granted the rights and privileges of being British subjects, has been reinterpreted to be a promise that successive governments will ensure equality, the socialist dream.

Governments can deliver equality before the law, the right of British citizens.

No government ever, anywhere, has delivered economic equality.

As we will never have economic equality, the tribunal has created an endless grievance that can never be met.

This is key – it creates an eternal cycle of grievance.

n my letter of resignation, I have recommended the Government implement its coalition agreement and upgrade the tribunal by appointing a senior High Court judge, as was done when the tribunal was first set up.

The tribunal insults the chiefs when it says the chiefs did not mean to accept the Crown’s protection, create a nation, protect their property rights and extend citizenship to all Māori.

I will not participate in turning the Treaty into a socialist manifesto.

The status quo is clearly in need of change.