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Willie has to become Labour Party leader now.
Third time lucky maybe since I have read your comment on 3 different articles here today. He would do a far better job than Hipkins so we can only hope.
But Hipkins has neither a brain or a soul. Surely a better match for Luxon?
Yes!Yes!Yes! The question is, why isn’t he????
Jackson is correct that Bolger, Graham, Shipley, Finlayson (and you could add Key and English) would never have allowed this immature and divisive ACT stunt. I hope (though I doubt it) that Seymour feels chastened. It is noteworthy how many of the victims of state care are Māori. Meanwhile Seymour is worried about equal rights.
Luxon is a a disgrace .He shut down a whole health system over night and the same with 3 waters .Yet he is allowing this shit to drag on for 6 months for what reason ?I think it is so no one will notice that the last ferry has sunk along with the economy as a whole and unemployment is heading to an all time high even though record numbers of workers have left ,and are still leaving the country .Include them in the figures and we really have 350k unemployed .
Willie certainly earned his pay with that one! And young Hana did well too, literally ripping the bill up for ‘arse paper’.
Time for TPM to capitalise on these events. I know they claim to be more of an activist party for Maori interests, but they could summer down on the more divisive policy/rhetoric and they’d make some serious traction. A lot of people I spoke to before the last election thought TPM policy was the best, but they didn’t want to vote TPM because of their rhetoric. If they reduced some of their proposed upper tax rates and got rid of the wealth tax but replaced it with a progressive CGT, they’d do well.
I’m a TPM member and our internal on-line korero is much more thoughtful than what you hear in Parliamentary debates where tempers are running high. But then Parliament isn’t a very thoughtful place.
Remember that when TMP re-formed in 2017 its manifesto was to be firmly people-based with no change of direction unless its constituent voters said so. It has done that very consistently in the House and the Gallery support for Hana-Rawhiti’s haka tells its own story.
Of course Pākehā can join and we’ll make them welcome, but they’ll be joining as equal partners and not with a take-over plan as happens so often when Pākehā join Māori organisations. History is full of examples, most of them Government-instigated.
The majority of New Zealanders want this Treaty shit tidied up or it will keep growing tenticles and morphing into more of a cluster fuck than it already is !
Yes abolish the white man’s parliamentary system and put Maori in charge.
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