The Left Do Not Own the Poor or the Workers: New National MP Tells Parliament

‘We have a system which creates broken families and turns good people into lost souls. It’s not right, and it must change,’ James Meager said.

National MP for Rangitata, James Meager. Courtesy of the New Zealand National Party

Despite working as a lawyer and consultant, new National Party MP James Meager told the 54th New Zealand Parliament his roots were humble.

Mr. Meager described himself as a “part-Māori boy raised in a state house by a single parent on the benefit. Now a proud National Party MP in a deeply rural farming electorate in the middle of the South Island. But there is no contradiction there.”