Good to see that Claire Trevett and the rest of the mainstream media are catching up to news that Waatea 5th Estate and TDB had first announced a month earlier.
You can either read it and see it first on Waatea 5th Estate/TDB or you can read it a month later in the mainstream media.
The simple reality for MANA and the Maori Party is that they have more to gain working together to force Labour out of the Maori electorates than working against each other.
In almost every Maori electorate the MANA + Maori Party vote swamps the Labour Party vote.
Why do Maori need an independent voice? Because Labour has time and time and time again screwed Maori over to appease angry white voters. Dumping the closing the gap policy, Terror raids that only created terror and the largest land confiscation in NZ history – all were examples of Labour throwing Maori under a bus to appease the angry white middle.
Maori need an independent political voice and the Maori Party working alongside MANA is the best way to do that.
The Maori Party need MANA because if they want to see their goal of being invited to every Government table they will need MANAs connections to the Left if there is a change of Government next year.
MANA need the Maori Party because they won’t be able to topple Kelvin out of TTT if they don’t cut a deal.
So how would a MOU work? MANA and the Maori Party would both run party lists, but would agree to only run one electorate candidate in each Maori electorate. Their combined totals would swamp every Labour Party candidate.
With coat tailing, MANA and the Maori Party could bring in a combined total of 5 MPs, that’s a block that could have a huge impact in the 2017 election.
Only problem is the Maori Party are a right-wing party.
The other problem is MANA will not lay down with dogs, so there’e no chance of catching the fleas that are National.
They try to be both right and left at the same time
All they need is a German.
Maori want them to succeed
The party Hone walked away from is no different than it was when he left.
THEY LEFT HIM he did not leave them.
Also what is too stop Fox and Flavel propping up this hated bunch of crooks for another 3 years its a real possibility if the Maoris vote for them again with or without a MOU that can be discarded for expediency.
Its like rich white people voting for National too make them richer, the maori people who vote for the Maori party vote for the gains at the exspence of their fellow Maori who suffer at the hands of Key/Joyce and their poor Pakeha and Polynesian brothers.
The only party that treats Maori issues seriously and has a policy mix to do it is the Green party but not at the cost of turning a blind eye to the serious issues of poverty that the National party has expected the Maori party too do with a few crumbs thrown from Keys rather large mahogany table.
Hone at least still owns his own soul and has never put a price on it too sell out to our poorest and most destitute people.
http://www.whoar.co.nz/2016/op-ed-kelvin-davis-calls-manamaori-parties-maori-kardashians/
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..and in fact i cannot emphasise how delighted i am with the prospect of mana party and maori party working under mmp as they should..
..i put this – together with the greens and the labour party seeming to agree to similar deals – as a partial-guarantee of victory for the progressive forces in 2017..(with my ideal outcome being lab/grn/mana/maori parties forming the next government..)
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