Some countries have a written constitution. Some have an unwritten constitution. I don’t see how an unwritten constitution has any value, any credibility. In reality, it doesn’t in New Zealand.

New Zealand apparently has an unwritten constitution. According to some here, not many. According to some that means something. Not many.

In my experience and my Daughter’s experience, our unwritten constitution means nothing. Absolutely nothing. It means that my Daughter and myself have less than our full entitlement of human / legal / democratic rights.

Some very significant pieces of legislation that should form intrinsically important aspects of our constitution would definitely include the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990, the Treaty of Waitangi, the Official Information Act 1992, a few others that I don’t give a shit about today.

But the only one out of those four pieces of legislation that I have just named that would be taken very seriously – in our current socio-political environment – is the Treaty of Waitangi. With our current unwritten constitution, that does or does not exist. Doesn’t.

The other three have been (and are) made a mockery of by recent Governments, the courts, and the police.

Which has led me to realise, to decide, that New Zealand has nothing resembling a legally significant constitution. That problem is fundamentally, corrosively, intensely, undermining the integrity of our democratic processes.

That in turn has led me to decide that New Zealand is not the genuine democracy that we claim that it is. That most people assume that it is. This means we are just a nominal democracy. As evidenced by some of the quasi-fascist behaviours and policies of the governing National Party. We are an unhealthy nominal democracy.

We are not a healthy, legally safe, democracy for all New Zealanders. By any stretch of the imagination. We are becoming a politically corrupt country. At the least, New Zealand is vulnerable to corruption. In reality, we are experiencing corruption. In a very ‘hear no evil, see no evil’ kind of way.

A genuine, respected, fundamentally significant, legally guiding, constitution would be consolidated in one piece of legislation. Consolidating our most crucially important constitutionally relevant legislations.

New Zealand needs that very much. That is very overdue in New Zealand. I hate that it does not exist and that the NZ Bill of Rights Act gets scorned, defecated on, and very largely ignored by the legal profession, politicians, and police, here in New Zealand.

It is massive impediment to equality of opportunity and equality of human rights in New Zealand society.