1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Quick question in fact on the Oxford Union. Now, we 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:04,040 Speaker 1: thought it was a thing when David Longee. You remember 3 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: when David Longey turned up all those years ago. But 4 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: since then, Willie Jackson, David Seymore and now Winston Peters 5 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: have appeared. So does that diminish its exclusiveness anyway? Peter's 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,319 Speaker 1: who was there over the weekend. What did he argue? Well, 7 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: he argued that courts here undermine democracy. God blessed that man, 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: and may he spread that message far and wide. Just 9 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: last week's for sure and Marin Amendment Bill as your 10 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: latest and classic example, we had a law came in 11 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. Some people didn't like it, and you're 12 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: allowed not to like laws. But hijacking democracy by trying 13 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: your luck and interventionist courts is not helpful to a 14 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: country looking for a bit of peace and harmony. Courts 15 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: are good for a bunch of stuff. Deciding either by 16 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: judge or jury, whether mister Pollock was in the library 17 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 1: with the candlestick i e. Crime, whether another judge erred 18 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: in an initial finding i e. Appeals or whether there's 19 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: a gap in the law, and if there is, how 20 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: that gap could be filled i e. The Supreme Court. 21 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: What they're not good at, although I'm sure given their 22 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: operations of lake they would argue otherwise is taking an 23 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: already established existing law and upending it because they believe 24 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: they are superior to the ultimate court, which is of 25 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: course the Parliament, and the Parliament is the ultimate court 26 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,559 Speaker 1: because of the group of lawmakers are put there by 27 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: us the voter. Peters, a lawyer himself, of course, is 28 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: doing a great service on our behalf because too many people, 29 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: including people in the Parliament, are afraid to call things 30 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: out when they need calling out. They were afraid, for example, 31 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: to call out the Reserve Bank when it butchered the economy, 32 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 1: afraid to call out the Speaker when he failed to 33 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: properly deal with the clowns in the House, and afraid 34 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:33,120 Speaker 1: to call out the judges at places like the Waitangi 35 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: Tribunal Tribunal when they very clearly overstep their mandate and 36 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 1: look increasingly like little more than trouble makers. So Winston 37 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: Peters good foreign Minister and good at telling it like 38 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: it is. By that man of beer. For more from 39 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: the Mic asking Breakfast listen live to news talks. It'd 40 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: be from six am weekdays or follow the podcast on 41 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio