By Tough Love 2016 has seen the emergence of new political parties in New Zealand, least notably the excessively vibrant New Zealand People’s Party that exists for the sole purpose of lobbying in non-white interests; and the Opportunities Party who claim to be establishment outsiders “like Trump”, but then signal against everything else the new President-elect stands for. The most (marginally) promising of the newcomers is Hobson’s Pledge, whose big issue is putting an end to special privileges given to those of Maori descent and denied to everyone else. These privileges take many forms and are all based on the highly flawed modern interpretation of New Zealand’s founding document The Treaty of Waitangi. Hobson’s Pledge is helmed by white-fucking-male Don Brash, a politician who is very…