Former MANA leader, Hone Harawira has been very vocal over the last 3 months that the Left need to work together to kick out this hard right anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-renter, anti-beneficiary, anti-disabled, anti environment Government.
I believe Hone is right and her is a way that he can save the NZ Left, by calling for a Māori Party and Green Party hui on February 3rd at Waitangi for a 2 day Hui leading up to Waitangi day where Greens an Māori Party thrash out an alliance for the 2026 election.
If the Greens and Māori Party forged an alliance going into the 2026 Election where they agree to work together to not only beat this hard right Government, but to ensure that whatever replaces it is actually focused on sustainably rebuilding our communities and making peoples lives materially better.
The Māori Party/Greens Alliance would:
- Agree to a united negotiating front in any deal with Labour
- Agree to a basic bottom line platform in any deal with Labour
- Agree to a MMP voting strategy that will be advanced for all electorates and promoted online for all Green and Māori Party voters to use as a per electorate voting guide.
A united voting front with Labour and a basic policy platform alongside active promotion of a voting strategy would snooker Labour, because who on earth are Labour going to cut a deal with?
NZF?
Not without support from the Greens and they wouldn’t because of the alliance with the MP.
It’s time the Left actually started using MMP to win the way the Right always have, and in the wake of the Government’s voter suppression act, we have to fight back!
It’s not enough to defeat this Government, what replaces it is as important as defeating it!
This is how Hone can save the Left, by calling for this Hui to announce an Alliance and forcing Labour to commit to a progressive agenda.
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The way politics is going, it’s perceived personality, not practical policy, that decides elections. I think The Left needs better avatars.
I remember 10-15 years ago, The Standard pouring all their hopes and dreams into Hone Harawira and how he was the Great Brown Hope for NZ, and he should be Prime Minister.
A left alliance would gain more support if TPM stopped talking about sovereignty and focused on social and economic justice for their people. The Greens have to be slightly the opposite and become more green and sustainable.
However, if both extremes, left and right/populist, solidify their vote and Nat/Lab only manage 54 to 58 % of the vote together could there be a grand alliance of the Centre.
Agree about the TPM talking sovereignty and all that other nonsense other than the cost of living that a huge turnoff for voters. Don’t get me wrong I voted TPM but IMO some of the actions that the co leader Debbie has done (pointing a gun sign with her fingers at the ACT party) during the Haka in Parliament successfully is used by the right for propaganda purposes.
As a TPM supporter I support those actions and I encourage Debbie to go further than pointing fingers at the pedos.
I don’t see how the Greens can be ‘more green and sustainable’ than they already are. But I do think there are potential Green voters who are alarmed at TPM’s drive for ‘Māori sovereignty’, whatever that means.
Both parties will do better if they focus on social and economic justice for everyone, and skip the ethnic, cultural, and sexual slicing and dicing.
I really dislike how people try to pigeonhole parties into an “acceptable” lane.
People say Greens should stick to environmental issues, and TPM should stick to “Māori” issues.
I say screw you.
Labour, ACT , Nats and Nzf try to own the whole fucking highway, so please don’t patronise us by forcing us to focus on our indigenous or environmental issues.
That’s not how our society operates.
Single issue voters are about as dumb and shallow as “swing voters”. They can just fuck off on their high horses.
Yes, you right Ximon its patronising for people to tell political parties to stick to their issues particularly when we have 3 rabid parties destroying our country. And this rabid lot have incompetent ministers unfit to even be in parliament. And these incompetent ones are only there because we have such a weak PM who made pathetic tradeoffs as he was so desperate to be PM. At the moment our PM is looking like shit maybe he needs another holiday in Te Puke.
The Maori Party and Hone Harawira have made protecting Te Reo from government attacks a centrepiece of their campaign against this government, Shane Jones who was given the gift of being fluent in Maori, is reported to have said speaking Maori is Childish.
February may be too late. The Labour Party mouthpiece ‘The Standard’ picks an early snap election.
According to The Standard, Shane Jones seeing the danger to this government of a united Left wants to bring the house down.
From The Standard:
Jones accuses Luxon of hiding
WrittenBy: mickysavage – Date published:7:51 pm, August 31st, 2025 – 15 comments
Categories: election 2026, energy, national, nz first, Politics, Shane Jones, uncategorized – Tags:
“It is hard to imagine how this Government can continue to function properly given what Shane Jones said today……”
“….He promised to jettison “the fiction around climate change”. He also suggested that speaking Te Reo was childish.”
https://thestandard.org.nz/jones-accuses-luxon-of-hiding/
Climate change and Te Reo are core issues of the Green and Te Pati Maori.
As well as making a personal attack against the Prime Mininster Shane Jones weaponised Te Reo and climate change as daggers to be driven into the heart of Te Pati Māori and Te Taiao Green Pati.
From The Standard:
Simon Wilson at the Herald quoted Jones as saying this:
They say Luxon is falling in the polls because he’s doing nothing. The leader of our Government is not doing nothing. He is doing something. He’s hiding.”
The chances of a snap election just shot up.
Get ready…..
For the Left, ‘getting ready’ means getting together.
Jones knows that Labour have zero chance of winning a snap election by themselves.
Whether or not Jones actually believes in what he is saying, Shane Jones knows he must split the Labour Party away from making any alliance with the Te Taiao Greens and Te Pati Maori, if this government is to stay in office
Shame jones is very childish and also an arrrrse licker
Re Pat Can we start pushing this idea with the image of 3 hearts as bumper stickers. We supporters will help fund that. What about it now.???!!!
Can we start pushing this idea with the image of 3 hearts as bumper stickers. We supporters will help fund that. What about it now.???!!!
The Greens Kaupapa has never ever just been about the environment. Their kaupapa has always included social justice issues. As a white 75 year old I have no problem with TPM continuing to talk about sovereignty if that is the only way that they can see social and economic justice for their people then that is the fault over 150 years of domination by the whites.
I agree with the whole idea of the two parties having a hui and coming together with bottom lines. I will never really trust Labour as they are so far from the left.
Delighted if this is going ahead, we are planning to come to Waitangi next year, it is always in election year that it is the most interesting.
So a Westcoast miner who would be a certainty to vote Labour would still vote for them if they were certain to join Greens.
If Greens were joined to TPM you can be certain NZF would not be in the mix
I can’t see the Greens joining a government that includes NZ First, and except for a few never-Greens dreamers like Stuart Nash, I don’t think Labour are silly enough to take that poison pill again.
You know shits serious when Hone is calling for TPM and Labour to unite!
It seems that the lethargic ‘public’ AND the elite wouldn’t even vote to save anyone else but themselves.. this idea of waking up and cocreating is beyond them. It won’t be save us all as a motive to vote until disasters finally threaten their personal comforts. Food shortages, seas threatening their beachfront mansion, the mining leaving behind forever, toxic leaching ponds into waterways, water competition wars between farms and communities, sealife food cycles destroyed by seabed, suicide mining, no one to rent or buy their exorbitant house prices, millions of years of geology and forests destroyed along with the intricate species making up our food chains, RUC that are another tax ripoff driving costs of living too high, their own health fails … but we’ll be forever grateful that mad Winnie, narcissistic Jonsie, little Dave , Loose Luxie let multi millionaires in to create a market to buy
their buddies houses and solved imperative issues like food labels .
The irony is they’ve only fast tracked their grandkids and others to human extinction by their cowardly, egotistical need for power.
I’ve seen saying exactly this since the last election!
As a recent Green Party member, I totally endorse a Greens/TPM huu
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