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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????
Spoken straight from the heart – great stuff Willie.
Meanwhile, Jabba the Slut, the “impartial Speaker of the House” (yeah, right) keeps whoring for NAct donors who are sponsoring this attack on our Constitution.
The introduction of this underhanded Bill has seen a line crossed that sadly cannot be undone (even *if* its eventually voted down on 2nd reading).
Folks had better prepare themselves emotionally for civil unrest and the frightening forces tearing our social fabric that are now unleashed.
NAct voters – this is all on you. Idiots.
Fuckin idiots. And they keep trying to excuse themselves as it was their ‘sacrifice’ to govern.
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.
Ennius – The voting public is not overly happy with this stunt…Not sure how Labour is getting back in Government without Te Pati Maori support, which is now a problem.
I agree. Luxon has underestimated how much centrist and moderate right leaning people are completely unimpressed with this stunt. Or he thinks he will get away with it which is a very risky strategy. As for Labour, most Māori vote for them and not TPM. Labour might not have noticed.
Labour will get back when they dump Chippy and replace him with Willy. Chippy needs to quit and hand over.
Of course Nathan, because the vast majority of the voting public didn’t vote for this wanker or his bullshit agenda.
Wheel – more voted for him, than Te Pati Maori
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.