The graceless win of Kelvin Davis

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The graceless win of Cameron Slater’s mate in the North, Kelvin Davis is difficult to swallow. Here Cameron Slater’s mate in the North is shitting on Hone Harawira by calling Hone all steam, no hangi as Kelvin rubs his ganged up win into Hone’s face.

Hone on the other hand has been humble and gracious in defeat, compare Kelvin’s triumphalism with Hone’s modesty on Campbell Live.

When a passionate defender of the poor and champion of feeding the hungriest children in NZ is damned by the mainstream media for having the audacity to team up with Kim Dotcom, (a man who has been beaten up, illegally spied on and has had all his property stolen yet still wants to fight back), and then finds Labour and NZ First and the Maori Party teaming up to end him so that a graceless arsehole like Davis can win, well – that’s heartbreaking.

The loudest supporters of Kelvin Davis are David Farrar, Cameron Slater and John Key. The people of Te Tai Tokerau have 3 years to ponder that.

While we are waiting, let’s have a sing song shall we?

His hair is coal black coal 
His lips sneer with Dotcom lies
His win a political home goal 
He’s got Kelvin Davis eyes

 

37 COMMENTS

  1. Kelvin Davis is right there in two words, everything that is wrong in the Labour Party. He is the booby prize for those of us who hoped for a left alliance in government…but the main man for the scabs who threw this election to advance themselves.

  2. That’s right Martin Martyn, turn on one of Labour’s few success stories because Whaleoil supported him.
    The real story here is how Labour did not support him yet he succeeded!

    • Kelvin Davis – low IQ stooge for the underbelly of neo liberalism …….

      Supporter of the TTPA , mass surveillance and loss of sovereignty.

      Supporter of the low wage economy , 280,000 kids in poverty , asset sales , the borrowing of $200,000,000 each week to justify tax cuts for the rich , and unaffordable housing.

      Supporter of welfare cuts to kick more people out on the streets.

      Traitor to his countrymen and women.

  3. When a Labour candidate needs a National Prime Minister’s endorsement (as well as two right wing bloggers), you have to wonder what is wrong with that picture.

    But more than that, how does Kelvin Davis sleep at night?

    As for Winston Peters’ endorsement. That will not go forgotten either…

    • I am pretty convinced the gambling lobby gave Winston a nudge up north. Didn’t he used to be minister of racing?

      You can probably add alcohol and tobacco both things Winston is passionate about.

    • Exactly Frank. That sort of action from National, and its acceptance by Labour is exactly why many Labour supporters abandoned them at the polls. Labour bought into Key’s politics, took the bait and fell for it.

      Had they not intervened the left would have had two seats, instead we have one, filled by a politician that is a lighter shade of blue.

      As long as Labour continues to let the Right dominate and dictate the game, it will always be on the back foot. Labour have to wise up – ignore what National says. Davis is a turncoat – in the old days he would have never even been considered loyal enough to be a candidate.

      For god’s sake Labour wise up – only slightly more than one third of electorate voted for National. THEY ARE NOT THE MIGHTY FORCE media & others make them out to be. A strong opposition that is obviously DIFFERENT will capture support. Ppl didn’t vote because they couldn’t see through the mud – both teams looked too much the same because of candidates like Davis.

  4. So ugly politics has become eh Martyn,
    This will do little to promote co-operation between all parties who were challenged by John Key in parliament in this last year as Key was trying to get difficult legislation passed and sought opposition parties to offer some support.

    Nor will this carefully planned ganging up of candidates during election cycles with this type of backstabbing foster an air of co-operation during this term of what is shaping up as National’s grand term of greater change.

    If it took this type of dirty politics to get themselves across the finish line instead f the more secretive Black ops type they were engaged in, we are in for an equally bad form of “dirty politics” as usual as before.

    It appears the same players behind this new type of “dirty politics” are the same characters of David Farrar, Cameron Slater and John Key who sanctioned the “black op’s” smear campaign of the past.

    New “business as usual” they will claim and this will further sour the electorate opinion of Politicians, when we need to clean up dirty politics not promote other forms of it.
    Paddy Gower has this am admitted he should not have used the term “tricky” on Cunliffe’s position on leadership, another sign media has sown seeds of nasty again.

  5. It is a sad day for the North with Hone gone from the political scene.
    And it is incredible for critics of Hone to say “he didn’t achieve anything in Parliament”. How could he ? When he was one lone voice ?

    What he did achieve was to bring to everyone’s attention the needs of the displaced and the disadvantaged, and he finally managed to get a Feed The Kids Bill on the legislative table. That will now disappear…. along with those made homeless by Housing NZ’s new policy of tipping people out of their state housing after a certain length of time.

  6. The people of Te Tai Tokerau , like all Kiwis , are becoming that which they hate the most . It’s beyond their control and beyond their understanding and it’s going to get worse on an individual basis . Collectively , that mind set will prove devastating as has been witnessed in our latest election results . The most at-risk voting for their abusers .
    The Herculean effort needed by good politicians and a compassionate media to turn that mind set around is almost beyond comprehension .
    When good people act and fail ? We need to be very , very concerned .

    To quote something I read recently ;

    ” When We Become The Thing We Hate ”

    How our trauma and unhealed wounds erode empathy, fuel fear, and create “others”

    ” With deeply-rooted, ethnically-based violence continuing in places such as Sudan and Syria, hate-killings like the recent shooting in the Wisconsin Sikh temple, election year Democrat vs. Republican politics ripe with petty name-calling, school bullying an epidemic, and rageful protests against police killings revealing that Latinos feel they have been unfairly targeted right here in Anaheim…

    … how do we wind up with so many people in this world who see groups of others as, well… “others”?

    We long to belong, yet all of us know what it feels like to be the outsider.

    Feeling victimised sometimes leads to doing to someone else the very thing that was done to us. Victims can become perpetrators. This isn’t the part of ourselves that we are most apt to want to explore, yet if we don’t, then what?

    We speak of seeking “tolerance”. We say “education” is the key. We espouse “cultural sensitivity” as part of the answer.

    Yet, what if that isn’t enough?

    We are troubled when we see these issues at-play in society at large, yet these same issues show up in our close, intimate relationships… especially the one we have with our own inner self.

    Why is it so hard to genuinely empathise with “others”?
    Why is it so easy to get stuck on our differences and so hard to see what we have in common?
    Is faking it and superficially “playing nice” the best we can do?
    How can we deal with the inevitable resentment (and desire for revenge?) that holds us captive?
    How do unresolved traumatic experiences contribute to stereotypes? “

    • The troll voting is becoming quite humorous.

      When your comment on trolls has so far -3 from 21 it can surely only be trolls themselves being upset and voting negative.

      We can see you guys. You are not as clever as your masters tell you.

  7. “Kunning Kelvin” heh, I look forward to talking to him in person at some stage in the Far North. It is a complement to Hone and IMP in a way that XKeyScore and Winston and Cunliffe and even ex MP doddery Dover Samuels had to publicly weigh in on Davis behalf just days out from election day. And don’t forget the Labour party put a hell of a heave into the West Auckland end of the electorate too, when they could not even win the party vote for their leader and most senior MPs–sometimes down to weak local organisation.

    Since the late 70s Hone has done more to build Māori pride and capacity to deal with post colonial NZ every year since than Kelvin ever will.

    Hone virtually started modern Māori direct action with He Taua, confronting pissed Auckland Engineering students making a mockery of the haka in 79. The haka seems to be more respected these days particularly when performed by a certain rugby team.

    Anyway the biggest thankyou to Hone will be to boost Mana Movement activity over the coming months.

    The lesson here is the ruling class does not tolerate Māori that take a more class based ‘unite all who can be united’ approach as Mana is doing. Similarly the Labour social democrats should be all over ‘Feed the Kids’ but the managerialists see that as putting off the middle class! Every activist has to work with Labour at some point but I will be wearing a stab proof vest from now on.

      • Not to mention whale oil and Farrar’s support. Same with Nash. He could be DPL and Davis Leader. With the help of those two and John Key anything can happen.

      • Im for a coalition of Internet /Mana and the Greens. No vote for
        Davis or Nash or even Cunliffe now altho’ I voted for him ,he did everything Key encouraged him to,well done Cunliffe .either a bad reader of people or you didn’t want to win, you let Key control you.
        People feared Dot com because Key rubbished him , Key rubbished Labour the Greens,and others ,Key was trained in USA
        style and people fell for it .Not sure about Robertson but he cant be as bad as other candidates.

  8. Labour the party of swinging dicks and self serving little men. The party whose egoists have sold the working people of this country down the river. The party of wonks and professional politicians.

    Thank god the working people of this country voted with their feet, and walked away from the ballot box.

    The middle classes in this country are looking to fall – I hope you enjoy it. Because us working stiffs did’nt.

  9. what i find the hardest to comprehend isnt KD trying to win the seat from hone – its the tactics and language employed

    What sort of grown adult who wants us to vote them into power cant find a more diplomatic way to say the will fight hard without attacking possible allies?

    Of course KD wanted to win – but is he seriously asking us to accept the only way was to ruthlessly attack another left wing contender?

    Much like when paul henry and willie jackson/JT got pinged for the language they decided to use – my reaction there was the same – “your telling me experienced professionals couldnt think up a way to get their chosen message across without causing this reaction?”

    The answer is of course they could – anyone could – so its a deliberate tactic and should be roundly condemned as self serving and damaging

  10. The elections were last week, and apart from specials nothing will change in the next three years, other than by-elections. Start building the foundations for 2017, because 2014 is all over rover!

    • News for you, FIRST, UNITE and Teachers Unions will be active and Mana Movement and Greens in various formats never stopped, as for Labour, the party would not even officially front a “Stop the war on Gaza” rally.

  11. For me the saddest result of this whole election was Hone losing his seat! I have to admit I had a little cry as it destroyed my faith in truth and justice! To see someone that has given 9 years of aroha, passion and dedication to their electorate lose their seat while Kermit the Seymour got given his and the other sorry bunch of new Nat mp’s was too bitter a pill to swallow!

    On the plus side I wonder whether Hone has more to offer outside of the Beehive as being a lone voice in a swarm of wasps must be quite soul destroying and ultimately you can’t get much achieved even if your private members bill gets pulled out of the ballot you have to rely on the numbers to pass, which they never had thanks to Banks and Dunne! And with the numbers the way they are now it would be a Long and painful 3 years!

    It may be time for Hone to have some quality time with his whanau and enjoy life while working with like minded people than trying to fight a system from within!

  12. Hello whats this coming down from the north surely it’s not Shane Jones, wait a minute no it’s not Shane but it is a clone. Another one for National.

  13. I think it was a tragedy for the people of the north that Hone lost the seat.

    Whilst it is not a popular view, regardless of my personal opinion of KDC, I believe that Mana could well have had two MPs but for that alliance.

    Regardless of any rights and wrongs I believe it was a strategic mistake. It gave the right a very large stick with which to beat the left, and the forces of the right were never going to pass that opportunity by. If a risk assessment had been done before the alliance perhaps this risk might have been seen to outweigh possible rewards.

    • … and they could have also got 5, 6 or even 10 … but it did not come off. It’s called taking a risk to make a meaningful change. What it did do is frighten the shit out of the puppet masters and their global might came in and ‘killed off’ Hone and all of IPM … temporarily.
      The duplicitous Labour party played it’s tag match role and supported National. (both Dunne and Seymor could have been eradicated) The Uncle Tom Maori party sold their souls willingly to lick jonkey’s boots for another term … Winston was elegantly closed out …. it really looks far too convenient to me.
      The Rockstar (think Brian Jones face down in swimming pool) will be a train-wreck before halfway thru the term. The populace of Aotearoa have been somnambulant since the 1980’s … now they are shaken awake.

  14. dotcom is a crook who tried to play with new Zealand politics for his own purpose. he does not love this country he has not worked to make this a better country he has used the gullible and naïve to further his own selfish agenda. Hone made a tragic mistake aligning with the internet party and was punished by the people he was supposed to represent. I enjoy the way you labour guys keep slagging each other off it shows that once again the voice of the people was correct in judging labour unfit to govern our country. that is the bitter pill you must swallow if you are to have the humility to learn, the courage to grow and the determination to succeed. far easier I know to spit out the pill and spray your venom on everyone else

    Close to the bone on that “crook” remark, Peter. Dotcom has not been convicted of any offense here in NZ, and in Germany their version of the Clean-Slate Act applies. – Scarletmod

  15. Hone went out like a real man – not blaming anyone, not bitter despite his obvious intense disappointment and not putting his opponents down. Credit to him.

  16. Agree Davis victory is as hollow as David Seymour win in Epsom only at least David was humble about it the realities of his win, Davis another reason not to vote Labor… smug ego with delusions of adequacy.. fits the profile of a Labor lifer..

  17. hone got his arse kicked because of his hardly ever in parliament ,side trips to Eiffel tower and horrible basher family,even his old lady done a laggin for beating up vulnerable mental patients.his loud yelling for the poor didn’t cut the mustard for the majority and me, even tho I gave them my party vote ,in my opinion I reckon he buggered it for the good fullas like sykes and minto, good riddance hes gone .

  18. It was so sad watching the election. Seeing Hone was terrible. However that image of Hone was so raw and powerful when he lost, I believe keeping his integrity intact in defeat, will actually mean he will go on with more power in the future.

    Keep the Mana Internet Party going! 1.4% was not that bad considering how much the MSM and all other political parties behaved in the last few days.

    I voted for Mana Internet Party because of Labour and the Greens saying that TMOT and dirty politics was a ‘distraction’. I am normally a Labour voter, but could only give them my electorate vote after that.

    BTW in a herald poll afterwards about 675 believed KDC and only 300 believed JK. The media just told everyone it was a failure and did not deliver but it sounds like it did. The way Labour and Greens behaved afterwards did not translate into votes, it translated into 1 million not voting or people voting for someone else.

  19. What a rotten mess this election has been ,someone says dirty politics from the left ,what a joke the dirt all came from Keys government and he made sure it got sprayed all over the left.i can see why people don’t bother to vote ,its just a filthy game for power, and the people are the losers.

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