Tākuta Ferris calls for Māori voters to intentionally exploit electoral loophole to get rid of Government
What the flying Christ?
After destroying the Māori Party by putting his ego in front of the waka and pursuing a needless leadership challenge inside te Pati Māori, Tākuta Ferris is now lecturing Labour on how to win the election?
‘The balls on this guy.
It’s like an arsonist arguing with you over your insurance policy!
Ferris is in no position to lecture on winning the election after he blew up te Pati Māori!
YES the overhang is important, we’ve all been saying that for the last 2 years, THAT’S WHY the Māori Party reset was so crucial, to show they were evolving beyond an opposition party of activists and moving to a credible and stable party to be trusted with supply and confidence and that would have worked IF Doc, Eru and Mariameno hadn’t decided to plot!
So now Doc is arguing that the entire Left should actually trust him and Maroameno with the overhang after blowing up te Pati Māori???
Why the living Christ would voters trust Flakey Ferris with supply and fucking confidence for the entire country?
Doc is saying Chippy would need to rely on Doc for supply and confidence – how will the rest of the electorate respond to that?
Trusting a Māori Party with its shit together is one thing, trusting those who caused the schism is another.
All Ferris has done here is give NZF a new attack line.
Labour must destroy the usurpers in those Māori electorates that are standing as Independents or else Winston gets to paint the entire Labour/Green/Māori Party Government as utterly reliant on Flakey Ferris for supply and confidence.
That dog don’t hunt.
There is one chance left to utilise the overhang for the Left, and that is if te Parti Māori can hold onto 4 electorates plus have a very low Party vote, which when you survey the brand destruction caused is a real possibility.
te Parti Māori need to hold 4 electorates, and run candidates in Doc and Mariameno’s electorates to aid Labour coming through the middle, then and only then could a Labour+Greens+TPM Government have 51%+.
Relying on Ferris to be Supply and Confidence would be a nightmare that the Political Right would exploit all the way until the election.
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Takuta team has Maori content providers on tiktok, FB, etc.. pushing anti-JT rhetoric and apparently getting the likes and support from Maori commentors. Maori people ain’t the smartest when it comes to politics, they (generalising) seem to let their feelings get the best of them instead.
It is a strange strategy. Maori voters on the Maori Roll can vote for whichever candidate they like. All parties are able to contest the Maori seats. Setting out to suppress other parties contesting these seats is anti democratic. Tau iwi and tangata whenua can also vote for TPM or other parties on the Party vote. Why is this different? Overhangs are not new. I am struggling to think when it worked in the Left’s favour. An overhang can work both ways as it did in the Andrew Bayly by-election. This is naive and imho desperate. Get out the party vote ye parties of the Left.
The really sad thing is, is that with all the shit this current government is heaping on our country the Left are still scratching around chasing scenarios that might get it to a precarious 51%.
We need a bold Labour party with a clear plan to show a path forward.