What MANA needs to be doing right now

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Martyn Bradbury
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With the Polls showing a razor thin win for either side, it is more important than ever that the Labour Party manages to shut down the Maori Party.

If Labour can beat Flavell in Waiariki, the Maori Party is out of power, but Labour also need to defend Tamaki Makurau from a strong challenge by Shane Taurima and with Marama Davidson being so strong, there is a chance Labour could lose.

With Kelvin Davis guaranteed back on the list, MANA need to wake up to the opportunity in front of them.

In 2014 Waiariki had 5482 votes for Annette Sykes and in Tamaki Makurau they had 2624 votes for Kereama Pene.

MANA should publicly announce they are pulling out of the none aggression pact with the Maori Party and call on MANA voters to back Labour in Waiariki and Tamaki Makurau in return for a deal in Te Tai Tokerau.

That way Labour guarantee an end to the Maori Party and shut down a National win by closing off their access to allies and Hone takes back Te Tai Tokerau and expands the opposition total by 1 with Labour picking up Waiariki.

Hone should be on the phone to Labour today.

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21 COMMENTS

  1. I can see why Willie is not happy with Hone who should take up your advice and phone Willie and the Labour party.

  2. Great plan I’m sure.

    From a pakeha perspective.

    The weak part of this plan is that Hone is ALWAYS his own man.

  3. yes the above view is widely held by many pakeha which is why it is so important for us to hold onto our Maori seats the ones that were create by racist. Now who were those people JS BARK?

  4. well if he doesn’t Willie should phone Hone I always voted for Hone because even though he can be a bit loose at times he cares about our people. Tactical voting will get two of our people in for our whanau up north. The people can give Labour the party vote and give Hone the electoral vote. As for the Maori Party they lost my vote a long time ago for two reason for shore and see bed and hopping into bed with the devil (tories) who have been kicking our people, our pacific whanau and our poor pakeha whanau in the guts. Lets do this come on Willie make the call talk some sense into our whanaunga Hone.

      • Sam
        Do you mean Mātaatua? With my ancestors having links to that legendary waka, I do know a little about it already.

        But speaking of YouTube, this is worth rewatching from back in February:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CzGS6pzNlg

        The last thing that Harawira needs is a reputation for breaking kawenata, and being seen to be betraying Māori for temporary expedience (especially after his dalliance with Dotcom last election). I don’t particularly like what the Māori party has become myself, but the time to side with Labour was before the agreement was made, or after the election when it naturally ends.

          • Sam
            It is my belief that you know neither, what; pari passu, means, nor how to use it in a sentence.

            But here is a link I didn’t have to hand in my previous comment. Kingitanga may not mean anything to you, but to the Māori electorates, this is quite important:

            “It really hurt me when the leader of the Labour Party said he couldn’t work with the Māori Party, you know I’m not voting for them any more, ” said Kiingi Tuheita.

            He offered his thoughts on the perfect political union, and made no secret of his support for Mana Party leader Hone Harawira.

            “Hone has the strength to fight what he wants for, he’s got the loyalty of the people he represents,” he said…

            Ms Fox said the message was about togetherness, and she believed the Māori Party could achieve that.

            “To listen to him today was actually quite humbling. He recognises that as Māori we need to come together and hei kotahitangi if we could be together as one we could accomplish all things, and he recognises that, and that’s his challenge to us.”

            http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/311535/maori-king-gives-nod-to-mana-maori-parties

            • Te Ururoa is a good salesman. If I remember Settlement Consensus basically just showed up under a new id and talked his way into the upper reaches of Iwi Elites. He then convinced people to take on his completely unvetted and over hyped magic beans and eat them all.

              The idea of a salesman Te Ururoa did kind of make me envision the closing scene repurposed for Hone: “You call yourself a Maori, you son of a bitch? I could go out there tonight with the tools that you’ve got and topple the five Māori seats. Tonight! Could you?”

              So the things that make Te Ururoa appealing to the fanatic right will drive voters away.

          • Isn’t it hilarious that the Mana-Internet Party alliance was crucified by the MSM and commentators – but the National-ACT alliance and gerrymandering is barely commented on, these days…

  6. MANA voters will make up our own minds, as we always have.

    Interesting idea Martyn, the only thing wrong with it is – what if Marama Fox wins Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Te Ururoa loses Waiariki and the Maori Party does a total about-face with Marama and Rahui at the helm? Who knows how much of the Kingitanga vote he might get?

    The whole election is now so unpredictable we need to consider all possibilities, not just the ones popular with mainstream journalists.

    • Marama Fox has to beat Meka. Tough one that. For me it’s either or. The Māori party focuses on Waiakriki or get spread thin in Ikaroa. The 100k/200k funding war chest is a little thin to cover all 4/5 seats. One of the most telling signs of victory is literally campaign signs and my impression is not good.

      Tamiti Coffey mentions when he was putting up some campaign sings that there use to be Maori party signs where he was putting his up. Just don’t think Te Ururoa is taking these seriously enough.

      • I know Marama has very strong support from a lot of our former MANA supporters in Heretaunga and several of our Turanganui team have endorsed her so who knows? The combined Mana-Maori vote in the by-election and last time would have beaten Meka.

        • At what cost?

          Under a regime of continual tax cuts, there can be no combinations of crown funds that can address the great infrastructure deficit experienced not just with in the Maori Economic Development portfolio, indeed the entire economy.

          Why would any one want to hand over there hard earned tax money to a political class full of dud pollies that escape criminal investigations? And this goes right back as far as any want to look or even mention.

          If it isn’t obvious, the welfare state has been totally destroyed. And Mairidome was essential to maintaining the welfare state.

          Whanau Ora is a dud. Te Puea Marea is able to accommodate more vulnerable folk, for less than government programmes. Mihingarangi’s report is clear on that https://youtu.be/QVQTgpnYQtc

          Under the current regime funds are being diverted into expensive affordable administrative costs that separate the haves from the have nots. This is totally unsupportable.

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