Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee has suspended the House in the wake of Oriini Kaipara’s maiden speech.
After testing the Speaker’s patience with a much longer speech, followed by song, the Speaker suspended the House as a Haka broke out.
He cried out, “No, not that. The guarantee was that wouldn’t take place”
He then suspended the House.
Oriini’s maiden speech was a journey of resistance, rebirth and an unashamed to be Māori worldview.
It was beautifully written and passionately delivered.
The suspension for another Haka makes it crystal clear that while the Māori Party are in a ‘reset’, they will still grind up against a system they inherently believe serves the interest of the rich and few rather than the many.
The new pivot to material solutions and finding ways to build bridges between the Greens and Labour is the exact tonic to internal ego’s and the desire to air dirty laundry in front of the Marae.
The enemy is not the Māori Party leadership, the enemy is the National, ACT and NZF Government and their appalling anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-renter, anti-beneficiary, anti-disabled, anti-environment agenda that strangles the common good for their donors interests.
Every Poll tells us how close the next election is, every poll tells us Labour will need the Greens and Māori Party, so instead of trying to attack the Māori Party from inside, perhaps the internal dramas and egos driving this division need to reflect on that.
Everyone on the Left needs the Māori Party reset, not just the Māori Party.
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What is Brownlee’s problem with a haka? Does he know nothing of marae protocol?
He’s a fat white racist guy that’s still bitter for losing his seat in Christchurch. And biased, he’s biased as fuck!
Gerry Brownlee- fine with with Simon Court defending noncing kids.
Maori culture though? That’s verboten
Now why is the former Wood-work that is Brownlee behaving in such a manner???!!!!
Is he Running Later for a Plane or just being Typical National Party in Support????!!
Will he demand Everyone Reads a Page of a book that Doesn’t Exist because when questioned he throws a Woodwork Temper Tantrum and storms out of some place because Out of His Own Laziness He is like Willis and Luxon Way out of his Depth Mentally????!!
You can tell Brownlee is still a woodwork teacher at heart.
Still yearning for the days when he could give naughty boys and girls six of the best and only English used in class!