On Saturday morning I was on the panel of Waatea’s new weekend political podcast, Te Kaupapa with the co-leader of the Māori Party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer…
…I wrote in my Waatea column that Debbie’s response to Labour over Waitangi suggested a true thawing between Labour and the Māori Party and that TPM were starting to think beyond just being a voice of Opposition in Parliament to being part of a change of Government.
For the first time I felt some genuine relief that Labour and TPM could work together.
Then came 2 powerful Polls showing Labour + Green + TPM would be the majority, followed by Chippy’s stinging rebuttal of The Māori Party when he told TVNZ that he was ruling out TPMs Treaty Commissioner and the reason why he was doing that was because he wouldn’t get pushed around the way Luxon is getting pushed around by ACT and NZF.
It was a tactical decision to kick out at the Māori Party to spend a political message that Chippy is tough.
Great, Chippy is tough now what?
Admittedly, there has been a behind the scenes war between MP and Labour activists who keep playing pointless oneupmanship games and TPM has been more focused on stunts than actual policy development, which was why the comments by Debbie over the weekend were so significant, but Chippy’s smack down seemed to have not noticed those comments.
Chippy’s belittled the Māori Party right at a time when we look like we could beat this Government which begs the question, who the Christ is running strategy inside Labour?
Don’t tell me you’ve brought in the chinless wonder from down under, big David Cormack as a strategist have you?
Please lord not more of these clowns…
…bringing in the muppet show of gits as talentless as those ones is how you get Chippy slagging off the Māori Party.
I’ve watched Labour fuck it up so many times with their incremental cowardice that I need to remind readers not to rule out Labour fucking up the next election through pure incompetence.
Why shit on the Māori Party just as you need to look like you can work together?
Who exactly does Labour intend to form a Government with?
The answer is NZ First.
Remember, never, ever, ever rule out Labour’s capacity to fuck the next election up.
Never.
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Wasn’t Hipkins saying he couldn’t support having a Treaty Commissioner that could choose not to follow legislation passed by Parliament?
Labour and TPM may both be opposed to the current government, but they are not natural allies. Labour competes with TPM for the Maori seats, preferring it’s own candidates to those of TPM. More importantly for Labour, any association with a strong TPM will become an attack point for the current government. The path to power is through the centre, where Labour needs to win and where TPM is seen as less palatable.
Despite everything, Hipkins is electable (Starmer is still most popular PM in latest poll). TPM are extremists and worst than ACT. If Labour can get the Māori seats back, TPM are gone. As we know, most Māori don’t vote TPM.
Just watch China exploit any tribal co governance or splits from government sovereignty.
Look to the Cook Islands for how NZ will fall to Chinas hybrid war on the pacific.
Chippy is wrong to rule out a commissioner outright. How that Commissioner operates cld be debated but having one is a good idea. Who does that sausage roll chomping ordinare think he is, even if he doesn’t fuck it up again next election, he’s not the PM forever and the role of Commissioner would be permanent. And this recent treaty debacle, which is wasting tax payer dollars when the govt is slicing and diving away public money, is the reason why the role is necessary, as TPM rightly posit.
Labour has disappointed me far too often. That’s why I now only vote Green.
Keep up the good work Chris Hipkins.
A Labour/Green/Maori Party is a scary thought which could cause hundreds of thousands of New Zealand’s brightest and best to flee overseas.
That’s happening already Pdm, wake up.
The only focus of Hipkins is to make sure the left loses, either by getting in and doing absolutely nothing left wing, or by throwing it to National.
It takes a thick-skinned Labour panel to keep Chippy on and ignore wisdoms flowing from this blog and elsewhere. The thoughts coming from this direction are worthy of absorption. But the thickos and turncoats that brought in the Neolib and trade treaties with as many small grenades sticking out from them so they look like a Covid19 germ, that was when Labour lost its mind. Addressing the politicians as real people to be admired is a waste of time. They wander bewildered but putting on a face of effrontery enabling them to keep going.
Read about James Croll who could rise from poor beginnings to put forward a theorem on the earth after doing a lot of self-education; presumably he was taught to read and that enabled his future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Croll
Wouldn’t it be good if Labour realised their lacks and that they are still in the primer level. Actually reading individually and having discussion sessions, as was done in early days of the uprising of the working man, now that could be the answer. Not deciding in an arrogant way that they are unrecognised geniuses. Evidence is not convincing.
More understanding of our systems needed. https://theconversation.com/the-fight-for-education-doesnt-stop-when-working-class-boys-get-into-university-92153
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