I have a meme (for the NZ Left) – Dr Bryce is sad sad

1. Jacinda’s personality and covid got Labour re-elected in 2020 not get policy advances .They have little to offer so why elext them back

   • The current government has nothing to offer also so why elect them back? Martyn’s article is a call for them to develop policies and coordination between the parties so that they are a credible alternative at the next election. We probably agree about the possibility of that happening though.

   • ‘They have little to offer so why elext(elect) them back?’
     Because they are the lesser of evils and, also, it will annoy you.

     • stevie Hah!

   • Good thinking Trev. Apply that thinking to your self – goodbye.
     Beatle sings goodbye to you in a home demo – then Thomas the Rhymer from
     Steeleye Span – an example of people being creative together, no Trevs!
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EIcqz-sjy4
     From early WW2 goodbyee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr5ksOyxZRU

2. The only reason Labour has risen in the polls is because of the deplorable coalition government and in fact Hipkins has been very quiet which has helped also. He is now going to release policy after Xmas – what is he now fucking Santa Claus with a carrot top and a sausage roll.
   Labour won’t go near Te Pati Maori or the Greens prior to the election and will only do so if needed to make a Government.
   Labour is still after the middle vote and there will be no transformation under this leadership just more neo-liberal crap. Lets hope they drop in the polls and some of those MP’s will grow a spine.

3. “I dream this Summer that the Labour, Greens and MāoriParty can meet for an early election year hui to present a united front that includes an individualised electorate voting strategy to maximise MMP and an agreed basic policy platform.” Martyn Bradbury

   During Tāmaki Makaurau By-Election Pre-Debate Special, Hone Harawera challenged Oriini Kaipara and Peeni Henare, which ever one of them won the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election, – that they both make a committment to get the Labour Party and Te Pati Maori, in a room together with the Green Party to discuss forming a strategic coalition to get this far right ACT, NZF, National coalition government out.

   Nobody has fought harder for Maori at every possible turn available to him, on university campus, on hikoi, on land occupations, on picket lines, in parliament. We all need to listen to what he has to say.

   Hone Harawira @25:26 minutes:
   The reality is that this government  is focused on the destruction of Māori, absolute  destruction of Māori whānau, Māori language,  Māori kaupapa, Māori economic development, Māori environmental policies, Māori anything. 
   You can travel the whole world and feel proud of being Māori because everybody wants to see it,  because it represents something of this country.  
   You come back here, you’ve got your Minister of  Education trying to take Māori words out of the books. You’ve got the leader of New Zealand First wanting to take the name out of the passport.  
   You’ve got the leader of ACT trying to take  Māori out of the bloody Treaty. And you’ve got the Prime Minister sitting in the background  going clap, clap, clap through all of it.
   So I don’t think it’s an issue about focusing  on just one or two things.
   Understand this:  
   This isn’t a general election.
   This is a by-election for a Māori seat. So for me, what matters most is what’s most important to Māori. And what’s happening at the moment is the absolute destruction of the dream of Māori having value in Aotearoa. And unless somebody stands up and says, “No,  we won’t allow you to push us back. No, we won’t allow you to push us, and keep us down. We will rise, and keep rising, and keep rising.”
   And yeah, I get the cost of living.  I get the housing thing. I get the unemployment thing. But would we have that  problem under any one of these governments?  
   There has never been a government in the  history of this country — not one — that has been so destructive of everything that is  Māori. And that for me is the primary kaupapa facing Māori in this by-election, and in the  general election when it comes up next year…..

   Hone Harawira @46:06 minutes:
   Here’s the grim reality of Election 2026. Te Pāti  Māori, Labour, and the Greens need to be sitting down in a room and working out how they’re going  to work together at the 2026 election. That might mean Peeni not standing in Tāmaki, or whatever, far be it for me to say, who, where and what.  
   But they need to sit down and work out what it’s going to take to maximise the number of seats they get into Parliament.
   Because if they  don’t do that.
   If they don’t work together, they’ll be living in Opposition for another three years. It’s as simple as that.
   And the more time they spend  fighting against one another, even just for this by-election……

   So thank you to the Greens for not standing. I wish Labour had relented on the command-and-control theory that  they’ve always operated under, which is,  “We know what’s best for Māori, so therefore  we stand in every seat.”
   They’ve got to start thinking more strategically if they want Chippy to be the leader of the next government,  
   The only way that can happen is if they do that deal with the Greens, and they do a deal with Te Pāti Māori. Because if they don’t, all three  of them are going to be back in Opposition.
   Work together. Give yourselves the opportunity to  possibly govern the country next year.
   And that takes long-term strategic planning.
   It means some people are going to have to stand back and say, “Well, I thought I could have…”
   I mean, if I  was voting, it’d be Peeni all day every day.  
   Peeni’s a great speaker from Tai Tokerau. We’ve travelled to the Kingitanga, and other hui. I’ve seen him speak at Waitangi and he’s a spectacularly good speaker when he’s focused on just being a Māori from Tai Tokerau. So I say all those  nice things about my brother Peeni. But I sincerely hope the people of Tāmaki give their vote to Orini, simply to maintain that station that Te Pāti Māori has, so that as they move forward towards 2026.  
   There’s an understanding that we can hold this, and if we work with the others, we can be part of a government in 2026.
   So my whole view is: stop taking shots at one another, stop saying my policy is better than yours. Start understanding that strategically, there are either the three of them at the table or there’s nothing.
   You know what policy they should all have?
   I’ll tell you.  
   What the one policy they should have going into  Election 2026, all three parties, and it’s this:  
   “We will repeal everything that this racist  piece of shit government has initiated in our first 100 days.” 
   If they did that, they’d get votes  from all over the place. All over.

   Listen to Hone Harawera’s full speech here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeWkjx2cxoU&t=9s

   • If forgot to add something Hone Harawira repeats almost everytime he speaks.

     “What is good for Maori, is good for everyone”

     • The same as saying, “what is good for the next Kiwi baby born is good for everyone.”

4. How on earth can Peni not stand in this seat he only lost by 40 votes. Why did Tamihere talk about Nazi Germany. Come on people it is what it is, each party is different , is the government acting in unison no because peters and Seymour are the bosses . Why expect the left to be united and the right be able to do what they like. Please explain

5. Where are the Leaders with vision and mana? I see a few on the left (and it isn’t Hipkins) but the right is woeful and pathetic. At least Key had a decent turn of phrase and could hold the floor. It’s all been shit since then.

6. The only Labour government worth having is one with a strong Green and TPM support to keep them honest. Otherwise they will lapse back into their do nothing, neo liberal arrogance. Chippy has announced that he will not reverse the policies of this administration, will not tax the wealthy because it’s too hard and can’t say that there is a genocide occuring on Palestine. There is a reason we loose people to Australia, it’s because they are better paid, why because subsequent Labour governments have failed to restore workers right and trade union power confiscated by Jenny Shipley. Labour need a kick up the arse!

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