Huge news for Peeni in the final days of the by-election with the endorsement of Jacinda Ardern last night…
…this happens as Willie Jackson unleashes online over the way Māori Party activists have denigrated him by claiming he is colonised…
…the Māori Party activists are behaving in the same self-righteous manner the middle class woke did in 2016 and that risks a truly alienating future backlash.
This purity test of identity damaged the Left dreadfully by handing our opponents culture war ammunition which costs us elections, it’s a sectarianism that polarises, it doesn’t win the 51%.
Let’s be clear, the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election matters because of the ramifications it will generate for the 2026 election, which is where the real enemy is politically.
If the Māori Party win, it is the voters making a clear message to Labour that they expect Labour to bend the knee and work with the Māori Party as an equal.
If Labour win, it is the voters stating that it is the Māori Party who are the junior partner here and they have to work with Labour.
If Hannah Tamaki wins, God is dead.
To date this by-election has been incredibly honourable and a showcase of the way Māori Politics is better than the viciousness of the General Elections, it has been a success to Māoridom and it has denied the political right being able to point to sectarian infighting to prove the Māori Party are too focused on drama than working in Government.
To date that has been the case, but as we get to the last few remaining days, the nerves are fraying and tensions are coming to the surface.
What needs to happen, regardless of the result, is the Māori Party and Greens must meet before Waitangi Day at Waitangi for a special Election Hui to work out an alliance so that they have real negotiation muscle when this country votes National out.
There is a unique opportunity before us of a Labour led Government with the economic policy of Māori/Greens that would positively empower every New Zealander, not just those whose identity has been verified by Māori Party activists.
There is a much, much, much bigger political war coming next year, and the narcissism of petty difference can’t cost us that battle.
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I cannot see the TPM playing second fiddle to any party especially a white party lead by a male both are hated by this radical bunch
‘I cannot see the TPM playing second fiddle to any party’.
It is called compromising and working together in a common cause Trevor. Just because you are scared of it does not mean it cannot happen.
Fiddling is what Luxon and his mates do when it comes to paying tax and receiving allowances.
Just stick with ‘I cannot see” Trevor.
RESTORE STATE SOCIALISM IN AOTEAROA! DEATH TO CAPITA;LISM!
Fun how compromise is a dirty word when it is done by those in power at the moment. I have little to do with Greens members but thoseci know do not indicate they would except mufhbin the way of compromise.
I see that kaupapa is only one letter away from kūpapa though??
Yet the two translations for kupapa are a world apart depending on your iwi.
Hate is not the word I would use Trevor you Pakeha always get deeply personal
Askshully Bob it’s good to see them having a ding dong over our Māori seats we don’t like them to be taken for granted or gifted like the Epsom seat.
There will always be some Māori who see our people in a different light no matter who and what they represent. I prefer to look at the policies and what they have done, what they say they will do and what is their track record in getting things done. Did they get funding for our people, did they implement some good evidence-based policies for the long-term betterment of our people. Jacinda has right to speak up she did lot for our people and many other NZers for that matter. I have no qualms with Te Pati Māori I believe their intentions are good, but parliament is still very much a Westminster system, and one has to play the game smartly and abide by the rules as being kicked out is of no benefit to our people. And neither is sitting in the opposition with no power to influence change. We should always pick the best person for the job.
There will always be some Māori who see our people in a different light no matter who and what they represent. I prefer to look at the policies and what they have done, what they say they will do and what is their track record in getting things done. Did they get funding for our people, did they implement some good evidence-based policies for the long-term betterment of our people. Jacinda has right to speak up she did lot for our people and many other NZers for that matter. I have no qualms with Te Pati Māori I believe their intentions are good, but parliament is still very much a Westminster system, and one has to play the game smartly and abide by the rules as being kicked out is of no benefit to our people. And neither is sitting in the opposition with no power to influence change. We should always pick the best person for the job.
Let the Maori wars begin.
Troll bots being the first eliminated
Turangawaewae.
Takuta Ferris shows his true (racist) colours. Dweeb.
I am certain that Peeni Henare will win the Tamaki Makaurau by-election, this is a foregone conclusion.
I am also certain that National will win the general election, this is a forgone conclusion if the Left parties don’t start working together to maximise their votes to prevent that horrible outcome.
Before things get out of all proportion and spiral out of control, we need to think about what’s at stake if the Labour and Greens and Te Pati Maori can’t work together.
Hone Harawira’s Panui:
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.
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 Oriini, 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 remarks here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeWkjx2cxoU&t=9s
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