Oli

Pretty odd antics on New Zealand X this week about a free trade deal with India, a country that is on track to be one of the worlds largest economies, is a democracy in a world where those are very rare and authoritarianism is growing rapidly, and provides a massive new market for our trading nation in an era of the greatest geopolitical uncertainty in the last 80 years. Rather than celebrating that; some have been trying to replicate some of the “great replacement” social media angst sweeping Europe - in some cases for what appear to be cynical political reasons, for others out of misunderstanding driven by what they’ve seen from those trying to scare them at a time when they already feel uncertain about the world. The reality is that New Zealand’s sovereignty over permanent immigration, residency pathways, and citizenship remains fully intact. The agreement is limited to temporary mobility, and does not create or lock in any permanent outcomes.

New Zealand will be a White minority country in less than a decade without remigration. New Zealand Whites were 90-95% of the population 1880s-1980s. Today the European population stands at 65% on the official stat. But the stat of 65% inaccurately includes so-called “Maori-identifying” Europeans, i.e. mestizos. If one excludes so-called “Maori-identified” Europeans, which is what all demographic data did prior to recent politically correct changes by leftist bureaucrats, the White European population in New Zealand now stands at a horrifyingly low 55%. The Asian diaspora here now too stands at over a million people. There are more Asians than “Maori-identifying” people in New Zealand now. Nobody voted for this. Nobody would vote for it. New Zealanders have been betrayed by a political class who tell them to “grow up” if they point out the facts of the situation.

The only way to halt and reverse The Great Replacement in New Zealand is through an overhaul of our immigration system and the introduction of remigration measures. The India FTA will only have a minor effect on immigration and the amount of “bulldust” circulating about it online is incredible. The FTA has been useful though to get immigration into the national political conversation, and one of the things we need to do is engage with the select committee and public consultation processes around the enabling legislation, identify risks and holes in our current immigration policies the FTA exposes, and lobby for solutions. Probably the most important thing here is reforming permanent residency - to either abolish the category in a similar way to what Reform UK is campaigning on in Britain, or at the very least tighten the criteria so that temporary workers and foreign students are unable to become permanent residents.