"Elliot The Idiot Of Hobson's Pledge" - 30 December 2025

Elliot, listen carefully. You posted this fairy tale about “equal rights” while defending a system built on unequal theft, broken promises, and ongoing privilege for Pākehā – not Māori. What makes it worse is that you, a Māori man, are knowingly or unknowingly laundering white supremacist ideology through your own face and credibility. Let me be direct about what you’re actually doing.

You’re erasing your own tūpuna’s dispossession

Te Tiriti is not a race privilege scheme, Elliot – it is a constitutional agreement between rangatira and the Crown that guaranteed Māori tino rangatiratanga (authority) over our lands, people and taonga. For most of this country’s history, *your people* – Māori – did not gain “greater political rights” than other New Zealanders; instead, your collective authority was systematically stripped and your lands alienated through legislation that forcibly individualised and confiscated Māori whenua.

Your own hapū, your iwi, almost certainly lost land through Crown theft. Your kuia, your koro, your kaumātua probably have stories – maybe painful ones – about where their whenua went, why their hapū is scattered, why some cousins had to leave to find work. Yet here you stand, parroting Don Brash’s talking points while erasing that genealogy from your own mouth. Either you don’t know your own history, or you’re choosing to ignore it. Both are inexcusable.

You’re the useful tool in Brash’s machine

You serve as a “trustee” of Hobson’s Pledge – meaning you sit at the table where these decisions are made. This is not accidental, Elliot. Brash and his network have deliberately positioned Māori like you as the public face of their campaign precisely so they can say “look, even a Māori agrees with dismantling Māori rights.” It’s a classic divide-and-conquer tactic, and you’re playing your role perfectly. You’re the brown face on a white supremacist project.

The question is:

do you know it, or are you too blinded by your own proximity to power to see it? Either way, you’re being used. And worse – you’re using yourself.

You’re attacking the very structures that let your own people speak

You stand alongside Brash attacking the Waitangi Tribunal, co-governance initiatives, and Māori wards – the very mechanisms that even partially recognise Māori collective rights and tino rangatiratanga. You are not defending democracy, Elliot. You are dismantling the structures that allow your own whānau to have a say in decisions that affect their whenua, their taonga, their future.

This is a betrayal of rangatiratanga itself – the very concept that should be sacred to any Māori person. You’re not just opposing co-governance; you’re opposing the right of your own people to govern themselves.

Your group traffics in deception

Hobson’s Pledge secretly ran the “We Belong Aotearoa” website targeting migrants while hiding its authorship until journalists exposed the ruse. The group misused Rotorua mayor Tania Tapsell’s image without consent in propaganda against Māori wards. Education Minister Erica Stanford condemned them for “whipping up hatred” and “spouting complete nonsense” about Treaty clauses in school law. And where were you, Elliot? Standing by. Or actively promoting. You lend your credibility to a machine designed to manipulate, deceive, and ultimately harm your own whānau.

What you’re actually saying

When you parrot Brash’s line about “greater political rights”, you’re not defending fairness, Elliot. You’re defending a settler-built system that stole Māori authority, land and wealth, then screams “reverse racism” the moment Māori get even a narrow pathway to representation or redress. The honest translation of your post is: “I want every Pākehā to feel safe that Te Tiriti will never actually mean anything that limits their dominance – and I’m willing to use my own Māori identity to make that happen.”

The real damage you’re doing

Your post circulates among thousands. Settlers share it to justify their opposition to co-governance. Pākehā use it to shut down Māori colleagues and whānau members who dare to speak about their rights. Young Māori see a Māori face saying “your rights are unfair” and internalise the shame of their own people’s claims. That is the real damage – not democracy threatened, but tino rangatiratanga eroded from within, by a man who should know better.

The question you need to answer

One day – maybe soon – you will have to return to your hapū, to your koro, to your kaumātua. You will have to sit in those conversations about ancestral land, broken promises, and why your whānau is where it is. You will have to answer for this. For using your Māori identity to dismantle the rights of your own people.

The question is: will you answer before or after the damage is done? Will you wake up, or will you stay asleep in Brash’s service?

Your tūpuna are watching, Elliot. And they are disappointed.