The latest TVNZ Poll suggests the Greens and Māori Party should form an alliance.
The Greens hit 8% while the Māori Party got 2%. The chances are that Labour will require another Party to gain 51% in Parliament to form a Government come 2023 and it is that need that gives the Greens and the Māori Party real political leverage.
If the Greens & Māori Party held a hui to discuss the housing, poverty and climate crisis and agreed to a shared policy platform that binds them as a shared coalition option for Labour, they would capture the hope politics can inspire.
The crisis of the moment is larger than individual party egos and requires MMP strategic cooperation.
First published on Waatea News.
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Yes and nah, for this to happen the Greens will have to taihoa on their current land grabbing policy, this is the policy aimed at protecting native flora and fauna and the land owner having to seek consent to build or develop their own land. Maori are more than capable of protecting their own land and given most of countries prime land is now in foreign hands we need to hold onto as much as we can.
Labour will highly likely need Greens and Māori Party to have the numbers in 2023. One stunningly obvious joint policy that many Pākehā would support is returning this country’s power generation and supply to full public ownership. Re-nationalisation of such assets is a socialist move, and a Green move and a Tino Rangatiratanga move–a Green/Māori alliance could do it with public support and a strong bargaining position after the votes are counted.
Send all the exploiters of the artificially created power market packing–with drip fed compensation if they go quietly. The fact is the lines companies and the rest cruise significantly on previously built and paid for public infrastructure. These bludgers have ensured thousands of NZers cannot afford power.
A young guy Ezra Hirawani is trying to start a Māori Energy Company. He has been in talks with Māori Party representatives. Worth a read.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125262459/many-of-our-energy-assets-are-built-on-mori-land-so-why-do-mori-disproportionately-endure-power-poverty
returning this country’s power generation and supply to full public ownership
Yes.
Send all the exploiters of the artificially created power market packing
Yes!!
Also, they should now be installing solar panels in all those new-builds, to at least supplement main power. Now, when they are undergoing this major re-build program, is that glaring opportunity to do this – to shore up energy security for the future of all of us, for every household. Why they are avoiding doing this, is beyond my comprehension.
Yeah xstraight and does that remind you of someone, GST, legalized synthetics and charter schools anyone.
In the past Labour has choosen not to go with Greens for very good reasons. Their policies are toxic to growth and we would be offside with many of our overseas allies.
Ahh so the left is now admitting Jacinda is on the back foot.
For her, it’s all downhill to the election.
You will find I’ve been pointing out it’s a Labour-Green 2023 Govrnment since 2020 election night
and so have I, the arrogance of “one Labour to rule them all” is not going to last
Unless there is a real break down in protecting the nation from Covid I think you are right all though I shudder at the result. It would be 3 years of nothing getting done as Labour hold up,Greens policy by using research committees that will report just in time to not do anything until the next term. By then National or Act will be stronger and any real changes will be watered down so the voters are not too frightened by dramatic changes and vote them out of office.
No one has ever seen neokindness. Even Jacinda is surprised at how strongly she held the centre. She’s just to strong. We need to feed her strong opponents so everyone can see, she’s just to strong. There’s one aspect of strength where it’s one dimensional in a hope that it will make up for in deficiencies in other areas, and then there’s fundamental strength where you’re just strong everywhere and Jacinda is just to strong.
Even downhill Andrew she and Labour are miles ahead of the tired 80s party.
Even downhill Andrew she and Labour are miles ahead of the tired 80s party.
To be fair not the same party it was. Harawira & his faction back then the minority and ignored/pushed out. Outside of MP he built up/rebuilt an independent Maori Left Nationalist Mana Movement and even with the KD/Internet Party misteps and ensuing wider electoral implosion was able to bring a more substantial independent maori left back to MP. I think ex-Mana Movement activists are now the dominant faction in MP.
Definitely, the Professor Winiata, “children of assimilation”–i.e. Peta Sharples, and Iwi Leader Forum types, are no longer in charge at MP–it is a younger echelon now.
Plus Debbie Ngarewa Packer is showing signs of what the NZ ruling class has always feared–unity between Māori and Pākehā, she calls non Māori supporters “Tangata Tiriti”. The type of people who are relaxed about iwi aspirations and helped achieve support for Māori Wards in local Govt. and take direct action in occupations and other activity such as at Ihumatāo.
The crisis of the moment is larger than individual party egos and requires MMP strategic cooperation.
Very true!
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