Metiria – she fought with the workers and the poor

August 10, 2017

Metiria stood with the Indian Students fighting exploitation and deportation in the sanctuary of the Unitarian Church.

Metiria stood in solidarity with Unite Union workers who took strike action to defeat zero hours contracts.

She has been subjected to a vicious avalanche of manufactured outrage from media pundits, vilified by the rabid right wing and betrayed by opportunists within the left.

Her crime- to fight for the unemployed, beneficiaries and the poor. A lot of people are sickened by what passes for politics in this country.

As a Socialist, I say Thank you Metiria for being on our side fighting when it counts.

9 COMMENTS

WILD KATIPO August 10, 2017 at 12:31 pm

… ” She has been subjected to a vicious avalanche of manufactured outrage from media pundits, vilified by the rabid right wing and betrayed by opportunists within the left ” …

I’m at the point now where I think there has to be some serious attempt at putting an end to this sort of political sabotage by un-elected pundits from the right wing.

I would suggest a formal petition calling for Patrick Gowers resignation , Partially as punishment for him personally , but moreover , – as a warning to all other Dirty Politics practitioners that this sort of media interference will not be tolerated in this country.
Nick August 10, 2017 at 12:51 pm

She’s not dead.
She’s just not going to be in Parliament.
Like the rest of us.
Tiger Mountain August 10, 2017 at 3:04 pm

well said Joe
phillip ure August 10, 2017 at 4:01 pm

i thought she fought ‘for’ the poor etc..

what was her beef..?
- phillip ure August 10, 2017 at 4:04 pm
  
  why the greens need to have an internal night of the long knives…they are clearly currently counseled by fools/yes-people..
  
  http://www.whoar.co.nz/2017/greens-backroom-team-probably-quit-op-ed-bloody-right/
  - esoteric pineapples August 10, 2017 at 10:12 pm
    
    Metiria’s own words when she made the confession:
    
    “I was a single mum, raising my beautiful girl Piupiu while doing my law degree, and I was on the benefit. I had a great case worker at what we now call WINZ, who treated me with respect. I had the training incentive allowance as a grant to help me pay my fees and childcare. I had great support from my family and my baby’s dad, and his family too.”
    
    Worth reading this Phillip
    
    http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2017/08/10/gordon-campbell-on-the-turei-finale/#more-4908
    - phillip ure August 11, 2017 at 8:12 am
      
      yes..i read that..
      
      i don’t think it dents at all my case that the exercise was both ill thought out and clumsily executed..
      
      maybe you should read where i urge her to hang tough..and to not resign..
      
      http://www.whoar.co.nz/2017/op-ed-metiria-turei-struggling-solo-parent-vs-bill-english-double-dipper-dipton/
      
      and i still think she shouldn’t have resigned..
kd August 10, 2017 at 4:16 pm

Thank you Jo for a heartfelt tribute to Metiria. I too admire her commitment to physically stand with and be counted amongst people fighting to be heard and treated with dignity. I wish she was going back into parliament with respect and admiration, representing the masses who have so little real (not mere lip service) representation
esoteric pineapples August 10, 2017 at 10:16 pm

I don’t think she was betrayed by “opportunists from the left” – she got the various levels of support that you would expect from different quarters. She certainly wasn’t betrayed by the Green Party MPs and membership who would have supported her if she had continued to fight (not withstanding the two MPs who resigned, of course).