ACT party leader and deputy PM in waiting David Seymour is confident his Treaty Principles Bill will be passed by Parliament unanimously “very soon”, according to someone with no connection to ACT, Parliament, Mr Seymour or – frankly – reality.
Mr Seymour has said in the past that his party does not regard Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi – as a partnership between Māori and the Crown. He believes Te Tiriti o Waitangi to be a founding document, but the idea that it is a partnership is based on a misinterpretation.
Asked how he (Mr Seymour) could be so sure, the source (not Mr Seymour) said Mr Seymour had happened upon the correct interpretation by chance one evening last July.
“He was apparently strolling back to his apartment after a meeting, when he was stopped by someone he’d never seen before,” the source told WWNews. The person, described by Mr Seymour’s source as “clad in silver raiments”and giving their name as Angela Moran “I think”, offered Mr Seymour a Duty-free Shop bag containing large golden tablets.
“There were about ten in all,” the source continued. “Angela told Dave that the secrets of racial harmony and profits for all were contained therein. Dave said he pushed for time and could Angela give him an executive summary?”
According to the source, Angela obliged and then disappeared “as if in a puff of smoke, though that may have been a council bus going past”. Mr Seymour hurried home and quickly jotted down all he could remember.
“In the morning he looked at his notepad and there it was, the correct interpretation of the Treaty,” the source exclaimed.
The likelihood of the tablets being examined by other parties appears remote. “He took them all,” the source reported.
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