This week, Martyn lays down a challenge — and a dream — for the fractured Left. If Labour, the Greens, and Te Pāti Māori don’t unite around a shared strategy before the next election, this anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-environment government may win a second term. It’s not enough to wait for apathy to turn the tide. The Left needs courage, unity, and a mandate. The transformation we were promised in 2017 is still unfinished. It’s time. In solidarity, the revolution continues.
Hipkins refuses to accept necessary changes such as a CGT and Wealth tax from lesser smaller unimportant parties such as the Greens. In my opinion he’s the block on a united left. That he has private health insurance says it all. He’s not liked by many kiwis who remember him as part of the mandate the shots or else you’re sacked policy.
Jay, would you prefer to have Hipkins to be like Luxon and give in to the other parties just for the company house and a knighthood.
I would prefer he follows his own path. This may mean that the left doesn’t get into government because Labour concedes its values to those it doesn’t believe. You just need to look at the present government which does not resemble what most National Party people thought they were voting for. They lost sight of the fact that they were actually voting for Peters and Seymour because Luxon is a very weak person.
Labour’s values – are those the same that Hipkins espouses. Or has he no noticeable values at all that he could display to the left’s liking? Are they just so constipated that they won’t move off their myriad seats and make room for others aware of need with something that would pass as left caring citizens policy? It’s an unpleasant and vulgar picture but shock tactics are needed for the middle class complaisants.
Both Martyn Bradbury and Hone Harawira have issued a Panui to the Labour Party, Green Party and Te Pāti Māori to form a united front to evict this anti-Māori, anti-human, anti-environment, genocide enabling government from office .
Hone Harawira is arguably the greatest living Maori statesman. 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
As Hone Harawira often reminds us, “What is good for Maori, is good for everyone.”
Will the three Left parties in Aotearoa, Labour, Green, Te Pati Maori, take notice of Bomber and Hone’s panui to work together to get rid of this far right government?
Yes, Hipkins must surrender and adopt some non-right wing policies.
Utterly agree that Labour cannot win without the support and policies of the other Left parties. Please write to your local MP and preferred party leaders and don’t ask, ‘demand’, that they bring their best ideas to the table now and are prepared to compromise for the good of New Zealand. Should we have another three years of this abhorrent CoC-up mob you all know there will be nothing left to salvage. Why do you think they are going ‘hell for leather’ now – they know it too.
How about first asking the Labour Party to consider becoming a left wing party, or for it to get out of the way.
+1.
People need to stop calling Labour “left”. Sadly they are centrist and have been for ages.
” The Left needs courage, unity, and a mandate. ”
But there is no ‘Left’ . There’s only neoliberalism. And until people start to come to understand that then there will no counter narrative to neoliberalism. Labour et al is a pretense. A fake. An ersatz entity gutted out to pretend there’s something there when there isn’t. Forty years of a fake thing that’s fucked everything everywhere.
The Invisible Doctrine
The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came To Control Your Life)
Peter Hutchison George Monbiot
https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/the-invisible-doctrine-9781802062694
Martyn – Those parties MUST work out what they have in common and what they are willing to do for NZers…
The Left need to go to the mattresses.
Go find the universal issues on which they can all agree, and form an alliance on that basis. Prioritize a more just economy, a functioning health system, and housing and commit to measures to achieve those things.
Leave the more rarefied interests out.
They’ll need to remove the craven cultists from Treasury first, if they mean to achieve anything of course.
And you will play dirges on the street on your …phone, Good place for you.