The fact that the Anyone But Cunliffe team inside Labour have recovered from losing their leader Shane Jones and are now as shrill and hysterical as the mainstream corporate media is a true joy to behold.
Nothing pleases me more than hearing Duncan Garner, Cameron Slater, David Farrar, Patrick Gower, The Press, Tracey Watkin, Tim Watkin, Kelvin Davis, Phil Goff, Chris Hipkins, Jessica Williams, Clare Trevett, John Key, Steven Joyce, Paul Henry, Mike Hosking, anyone on pundit blog, every National MP ever, Michelle Boag, the bitter Wellington twitterazzi and Guyon Espiner all choking on their spittle and singing as a chorus of the wounded while the strategic genius of Internet-MANA sails on past them.
Their fear, their desperation and the total panic of those who see the enormity of what the Internet-MANA game changer means is music to my ears.
First the pundits said Internet Party would never happen, then they said MANA could never negotiate a deal, now it’s the deal can’t last. Every time Internet-MANA prove the critics wrong, the critics never acknowledge their own ignorance, they just reset the goal posts of what failure looks like.
So let’s deal with 3 of the biggest myths being perpetrated by the haters.
Kim Dotcom as puppet-master – This myth that somehow Kim is a giant puppet master utterly ignores the reality that once the MPs are elected, they can bloody well do what they want. The alliance is only in effect until after election negotiations and once inside Parliament, the Party becomes self funded through Parliamentary services. Kim doesn’t have this puppet master role once the party is elected.
Bastardization of the Maori electorates and the desecration of MMP democracy- This strategy means Internet MANA will be the difference between being the government and not being the government, that means they can use the Maori electorates as a means to force policy changes that benefit Maori. When the government don’t need the numbers for a majority, as is the case with the Maori Party and National Party, subservience and lip service is the only reward. To not use the Maori electorates in this style of strategic master stroke would be the betrayal of the Maori electorates, not actually doing it.
As for the desecration of MMP democracy. National refused to end the coat tailing provision of MMP, the Right have used this feature of MMP since MMP was first bloody used and now some on the left have had the gumption and smarts to use the same feature to win the election for the opposition we suddenly get all these crocodile tears about the manipulation of our democratic system. What a load of arse.
For the opposition the question is simple – do you want to beat John Key or not? If you do, stop whining, if you don’t, then you get to go personally tell all the 285 000 kids in poverty that we wouldn’t change Governments because the means of doing so were beneath you.
The Left need to play smarter, not purer.
Political parties interfering with the extradition case – This is the one lie that really gets up my nose. It goes like this, ‘Kim Dotcom is funding a political party to stop his extradition to America and that would be a terrible interference in due process’.
What. A. Load. Of. Bollocks. From the very first day when our Government set Kim Dotcom up for the Americans, this case has been interfered with. The illegal spying, the spineless acquiescence to the US, the numerous planning stages to entrap KDC and the manner in which once caught illegally spying, John Key simply legalised all mass surveillance are gross interference’s with this case.
To suddenly now scream that Internet-MANA will interfere after all the interference caused by the current Government is a bewildering double standard.
Watch how the neoliberal masters of NZ react with total fury at the prospect of a well resourced Left wing political party using their tactics. Thankfully Cunliffe, McCarten and the Greens want to win and understand that using MMP tactically and strategically will be the only way they can win.
Game on.
The Internet Mana party arrangement now provides the stage for the full truth of the Dotcom raid, especially Key’s alleged duplicity, to be publicised through political advertising campaigns. If Dotcom is genuine in his claims to have the goods on Key, then its not surprising the Nats are spinning madly.
“This is the one lie that really gets up my nose. It goes like this, ‘Kim Dotcom is funding a political party to stop his extradition to America and that would be a terrible interference in due process’.”
I too find this one utterly bewildering. So somehow, somehow the IMP, which will garner at best 5% of the vote, are going to entirely subvert NZ’s justice system and magically give some sort of Presidential style pardon to KDC as part of their coalition agreement? Think about what you are saying. Seriously. What are you people smoking?
Crack – the John Key kind – that is what they are smoking.
I don’t know what Key, Gower & Garner are all panicing about, the judicial process will run its course, if it is independent of the State and is not subject to interference fron Key and the NACT Party we all have nothing to fear. If Key and the NACT Party are able to influence our judicial system then we all have something to fear.
So let me understand it clearly … This grey haired old lady who looks like gran and most likely can’t remember her passwords is going to electrify the torpid masses of youth distressed and somnolent behind their battle games online who will rise up to smash the hated and unpopular Key government and then … Martyn, your excitement is overwhelming.
You surely can come up with a more thought out Co. Plaint than turning to derogatory remarks about age and appearance?
“This grey haired old lady who looks like gran and most likely can’t remember her passwords..”
From your words, I take it then that you have even less faith in Key or his coalition partner Banks… After all, you merely speculate on the functionality of La Harre’s memory, whereas Key and Banks are on the record dozens of times, by their own admission, for not being able to remember such moments as helicopter rides to millionaires’ parties, or lunch dates with the newly appointed heads of the GCSB, or whatever example you wish to choose.
We appreciate and salute your keen analysis and consistency in regards to your political leanings. You really are a beacon to us all.
Either that, or I’m being really bloody sarcastic, and I think you have your head in the sand.
You choose.
One of your better posts – you should get angry more often, Martyn.
“Kim Dotcom as puppet-master . . .”
You are exactly right on this point.
“Bastardization of the Maori electorates and the desecration of MMP democracy . . . . ”
Yep, sounds about right to me, especially
“. . . . The Left need to play smarter, not purer. ”
“Political parties interfering with the extradition case . . . .”
I absolutely agree: “What. A. Load. Of. Bollocks.”
The current NATIONAL Government is a slave to the politics of expedience.
Its been 6 years of “We, the top 10%, are doing alright under the present system, so lets not change anything.
“Never mind the fact that 75% of the country has gone down the gurglers at an accellerating rate over the past 6 years. And another 15%, that is, the over-mortgaged dairy farmers who saved our butt during the last 6 years of recovery from the global financial meltdown, will soon follow . . . { Oh dear, how sad, never mind} – – ‘cos most of us in the governing elete are not dairy farmers, so we’ll be OK mate, (when we get re-elected.)”
So expect the government to keep up with the bullshit about how well the country has done over the past 6 years. About how they, the National Government, have single-handedly saved the country from the global financial crisis. All this, when in fact it is the over-mortgaged dairy farmers (many of whom are about to feel the pain of unsurvivable hikes in mortgage interest rates) who have been the pawns in the ->National Party Survival GameNPSG<- ???
Well, that's a branch of the GCSB which is a branch of the NSA.
A commitment to abolishing electorate thresholds once in office would sieze the moral high ground from under their feet..
Suppose, if IMP is winning ( I would like to see this) and bringing the number of MP’s they are hoping to ( would love to see L H back to the parliament ) who will rule the country? Labour? Cunliffe ? Hmmmmm, I am not getting too excited there, unless Labour’s all right leaning sins are washed in the holy water:)
I’m not a neoliberal master of New Zealand, or in desperate fearful panic.
But I think this opportunist horesetrading is a crock.
It’s a damn sight less of a crock than the Epsom or Ohariu-Belmont electorate deals. During Labour’s last term, National were screaming until blue in the face (pardon the pun) about the “tail wagging the dog” aspect of MMP, yet the Nat/ACT/UF coalition have relied on it for every single piece of unpopular legislation to be pushed through, and this election, may well be reliant on it just to even win. Their hypocrisy has been galling throughout their current tenure, but now, after their own horse trading of the last 5-6 years, for them to suddenly complain about the left using the same tactics, is utterly disingenuous. May they be hoist by their own petard, and may it be a painful, protracted, and lingering swan song.
[…] One of the worst lies being perpetrated by the mainstream media and Government mouthpieces is that Kim Dotcom has funded a political party to interfere in his extradition case. […]
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