December 17, 2025 • 6 mins
For the final time in 2025, it’s the Prince of the Provinces, the Mighty Matua! We discuss a fun day in Parliament and his Ag Person/s of the Year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For the final time and twenty twenty five it is
Martua Shane Jones, the Prince of the Provinces, And Shane,
you must have been sitting back in your chair chuckling
in Parliament yesterday with the end of year speeches. I
thought Prime Minister Chris Luxen was very funny.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah. No, he had some great lines, in particular describing
the Greens as the bottlish Bolsheviks in business class. And
obviously he made a humorous reference to our lead basically saying,
as you might recall, every time he posts something on
social media, Winston speaks French and reminds him of the
(00:38):
word we. But without a doubt, mate, the Speech of
the day went to Winston Peters. It was a full
throated war cry, assembling not only our own forces but
warning people standing against us that we are going to
blow the election twenty six wide open.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, I think it's quite whilst they're going to the
election on its head. What does that mean you're going
to be Is it going to be a New Zealand
first led coalition government?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Shane, Well, we've got pretty hefty ambitions. I've told you
on this program before they wiped us out and sought
to keep us out after twenty the twenty twenty experience,
of course, you would say to me, well, you've boughked
it upon yourself by breathing lifely to just Cinder of
us wrecking the country. But we'll move on from those
heretical statements that often run about by your good self.
(01:29):
And twenty twenty three we came back and look, we're
going to reverse history. Every time Winston and New Zealand
First has been in cabinet, it's been it's been like
a desert like experience. Afterwards, whether it was with Helen
Clark knocked out, Cinder knocked out, Jenny Shipley, he survived
and went back into opposition. So this time around, we're
(01:49):
going to ensure that we rewrite the script.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, you haven't got a great track record of hanging around.
I mean, let's face it, Winston's been sacked plenty of times.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, you know, there's a lot of volatility and randomness
in politics. At this time around, we all know that
he's had a tremendous run in terms of representing your
interests in mine. Overseas, he's widely respected. Of course, a
growing number of kiwis as a cool head. I mean
he steered us very very clearly through the pressure that
was upon New Zealand to recognize Palestine. And I'm given
(02:24):
to all these extremists who from time to time blight
our own parliament. So it's just a small matter of
his judiciousness. And of course he's known from time to
time to warn me, mister Downes.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Less's more, there's a really good video doing the rounds
on YouTube of his speech and he literally, look, the
bloke's eighty years of age, and he is on the
front foot. He's coming in from the long run. Whatever
you cricket analogy you want to use, and he's just
giving it to the Greens and to party Maury, And
there seems to be a genuine animosity that even if
(03:00):
he wanted to, or even if it suited his own purposes,
Heaven help us, Shane Jones, he couldn't go with Labor
next year.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, No, the speech was absolutely clear. It was a
rallying cry, it was a war cry. You've got a
bear in mind. Winston predicted that the Maori Party would
turn into a bunch of losers. He took particular offense
at their slur that him and I and how Mali
ancestry was diluted, and it was a sort of a
distortion and a corruption of what it means to be
(03:30):
Maldi in politics. So he quoted a line in the Bible.
As you throw it onto others, it will be thrown
back at you. And boy, has that karmic experience settled
the palms on Tommy Eddie and the Maori Party. But anyway,
less to say about those muppets. On the question of
the Greens, You've got to bear in mind they've been
through a lot of chaos, self inflicted themselves. But they
(03:50):
have such policies that they will drive out of existence
thriving businesses in a rural New Zealand. They'll also impose
a host of payable debts from climate change on us.
And they have a distorted view about our place in
the world that somehow we should suck up to the extremists,
the terrorists, and those other sort of finger puppets that
(04:14):
support this anti Israel cause.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Are you disappointed that your comments about Chloe the demonic egg, Beata,
the rents, seek and cling on didn't mate quote of
the Year that went to Andrew of Ance with the
sea bomb.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, well, just imagine if the sea bomb had to
be nutted by a male politician or how would have
broken up. But look, I've enjoyed talking to you during
the course of the year, and my own staff say
to me, look, Shane, we really need to recodify how
you think because we don't know and you certainly don't
(04:50):
know where you dream these terms up that you fling
around on Jamie's show. I said, wow, if it brings
a little bit of a tension and a few chuckles
in a biblic away, I can say my word. On
the seventh day I arrested and my work was done.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
All right, You've got one more job to do for
twenty twenty five, and that is to name your ag
person of the year. Who is it?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh? Look, I've got two obviously, I've had my battles
with Fonterra. The CEO deserves major honors, and Jamie I
might need your help. There's a farmer's first man's David.
He came to see me and he's been through hell
there in Canterbury, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying
to get his resource consent renewed for water purposes.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
David Clark David Clark is his.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Name, David Clark. He came to my office. I've spoken
with him that poor bug has been through help and
that has what that's what drove New Zealand First to
seek an extension of all water permits, et cetera for farmers,
so we give them greater certainty as we wander through
the journey from the current regime to the new RMA regime.
(05:55):
And if they need more than I'd encourage them are
to come to the Select Committee because they'll have a
lot support from New Zealand First. To replicate what we
did for the marine farming industry extending their permits twenty
forty twenty fifty to give them certainty, we need to
do a similar thing for the copies.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well, Seane Jones, thanks for your contributions, to your colorful
contributions throughout twenty twenty five. I hope you have a
RESTful festive season with family and friends, and remember just
be nice to any blind frogs, skinks or lizards you
come across during the break.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'll do that while I'm supping on red wine, rose
wine and a feed of cyme wine. I see you
by
For the final time and twenty twenty five it is
Martua Shane Jones, the Prince of the Provinces, And Shane,
you must have been sitting back in your chair chuckling
in Parliament yesterday with the end of year speeches. I
thought Prime Minister Chris Luxen was very funny.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah. No, he had some great lines, in particular describing
the Greens as the bottlish Bolsheviks in business class. And
obviously he made a humorous reference to our lead basically saying,
as you might recall, every time he posts something on
social media, Winston speaks French and reminds him of the
(00:38):
word we. But without a doubt, mate, the Speech of
the day went to Winston Peters. It was a full
throated war cry, assembling not only our own forces but
warning people standing against us that we are going to
blow the election twenty six wide open.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Well, I think it's quite whilst they're going to the
election on its head. What does that mean you're going
to be Is it going to be a New Zealand
first led coalition government?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Shane, Well, we've got pretty hefty ambitions. I've told you
on this program before they wiped us out and sought
to keep us out after twenty the twenty twenty experience,
of course, you would say to me, well, you've boughked
it upon yourself by breathing lifely to just Cinder of
us wrecking the country. But we'll move on from those
heretical statements that often run about by your good self.
(01:29):
And twenty twenty three we came back and look, we're
going to reverse history. Every time Winston and New Zealand
First has been in cabinet, it's been it's been like
a desert like experience. Afterwards, whether it was with Helen
Clark knocked out, Cinder knocked out, Jenny Shipley, he survived
and went back into opposition. So this time around, we're
(01:49):
going to ensure that we rewrite the script.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, you haven't got a great track record of hanging around.
I mean, let's face it, Winston's been sacked plenty of times.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, you know, there's a lot of volatility and randomness
in politics. At this time around, we all know that
he's had a tremendous run in terms of representing your
interests in mine. Overseas, he's widely respected. Of course, a
growing number of kiwis as a cool head. I mean
he steered us very very clearly through the pressure that
was upon New Zealand to recognize Palestine. And I'm given
(02:24):
to all these extremists who from time to time blight
our own parliament. So it's just a small matter of
his judiciousness. And of course he's known from time to
time to warn me, mister Downes.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Less's more, there's a really good video doing the rounds
on YouTube of his speech and he literally, look, the
bloke's eighty years of age, and he is on the
front foot. He's coming in from the long run. Whatever
you cricket analogy you want to use, and he's just
giving it to the Greens and to party Maury, And
there seems to be a genuine animosity that even if
(03:00):
he wanted to, or even if it suited his own purposes,
Heaven help us, Shane Jones, he couldn't go with Labor
next year.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, No, the speech was absolutely clear. It was a
rallying cry, it was a war cry. You've got a
bear in mind. Winston predicted that the Maori Party would
turn into a bunch of losers. He took particular offense
at their slur that him and I and how Mali
ancestry was diluted, and it was a sort of a
distortion and a corruption of what it means to be
(03:30):
Maldi in politics. So he quoted a line in the Bible.
As you throw it onto others, it will be thrown
back at you. And boy, has that karmic experience settled
the palms on Tommy Eddie and the Maori Party. But anyway,
less to say about those muppets. On the question of
the Greens, You've got to bear in mind they've been
through a lot of chaos, self inflicted themselves. But they
(03:50):
have such policies that they will drive out of existence
thriving businesses in a rural New Zealand. They'll also impose
a host of payable debts from climate change on us.
And they have a distorted view about our place in
the world that somehow we should suck up to the extremists,
the terrorists, and those other sort of finger puppets that
(04:14):
support this anti Israel cause.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Are you disappointed that your comments about Chloe the demonic egg, Beata,
the rents, seek and cling on didn't mate quote of
the Year that went to Andrew of Ance with the
sea bomb.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, well, just imagine if the sea bomb had to
be nutted by a male politician or how would have
broken up. But look, I've enjoyed talking to you during
the course of the year, and my own staff say
to me, look, Shane, we really need to recodify how
you think because we don't know and you certainly don't
(04:50):
know where you dream these terms up that you fling
around on Jamie's show. I said, wow, if it brings
a little bit of a tension and a few chuckles
in a biblic away, I can say my word. On
the seventh day I arrested and my work was done.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
All right, You've got one more job to do for
twenty twenty five, and that is to name your ag
person of the year. Who is it?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Oh? Look, I've got two obviously, I've had my battles
with Fonterra. The CEO deserves major honors, and Jamie I
might need your help. There's a farmer's first man's David.
He came to see me and he's been through hell
there in Canterbury, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying
to get his resource consent renewed for water purposes.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
David Clark David Clark is his.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Name, David Clark. He came to my office. I've spoken
with him that poor bug has been through help and
that has what that's what drove New Zealand First to
seek an extension of all water permits, et cetera for farmers,
so we give them greater certainty as we wander through
the journey from the current regime to the new RMA regime.
(05:55):
And if they need more than I'd encourage them are
to come to the Select Committee because they'll have a
lot support from New Zealand First. To replicate what we
did for the marine farming industry extending their permits twenty
forty twenty fifty to give them certainty, we need to
do a similar thing for the copies.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well, Seane Jones, thanks for your contributions, to your colorful
contributions throughout twenty twenty five. I hope you have a
RESTful festive season with family and friends, and remember just
be nice to any blind frogs, skinks or lizards you
come across during the break.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'll do that while I'm supping on red wine, rose
wine and a feed of cyme wine. I see you
by
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