3 Bottom lines The Māori Party should consider for their Supply and Confidence vote
The big political question this election is what exactly the Māori Party will demand for their Supply and Confidence vote.
We have seen that Labour will never do anything genuinely transformative that their Professional Managerial Class Consultants don’t have a a slice of and the only way Labour will actually do anything transformative is if they are forced to by the Māori Party in return for Supply and Confidence.
Labour is still hostage to the exact same neoliberal straightjacket that National is and if we want to get Chippy and Grant to pass Real Left legislation, it will be by forcing them to do it.
The problem with the Greens is that they are so feckless that they will fuck up any post negotiation and flip flop around. Their entire strategy of taking vacant baubles in the form of powerless Ministerships tells us they are so incompetent they couldn’t get laid in a monkey brothel wearing banana costumes.
The woke are great when it is a Vegan Militant Cycling Mummy Blogger Free-the-nipple rallies or mob violence using the thugs veto to shut down gender critical feminists in public spaces, but not so good at challenging the neoliberal hegemonic structure.
Chloe will win Auckland Central and they will probably take Wellington Central as well, so even if they slip below 5%, there will be Green political representation, so the Class Left don’t need to ride to the Greens this election because they are getting in anyway PLUS they just don’t deserve it.
If the Class Left want real change this election, they should consider voting for the Maori Party.
The difference between the Greens and John Tamihere, is that when John Tamihere says he will take GST off food and tax the rich, you fucking know he is.
When the Greens say they’ll do something, most voters laugh.
Now the Māori Party could make those demands very selfish and look self interested, or they could see it as the opportunity to build legacy.
MANA was set up knowing that there are more white babies in poverty than Māori babies and that what was good for Māori babies in poverty was good for white babies in poverty.
This is an opportunity for the Māori Party to build a unique coalition of voters desperate for transformative change.
I think the 3 bottom lines in return for their Supply and Confidence vote should be broad universal policies that make an immediate material difference to the poorest amongst us.
1 – Remove GST from food.
2 – Tax the rich with a financial transaction tax
3 – Follow Commerce Commission recommendations to set up new supermarket option using Iwi in the same way as 2Degrees was created as the owners with a focus to lower cost to consumers, raise wages and conditions for staff and pay more to suppliers.
Removing GST from food, taxing the rich with a financial transaction tax and creating a new supermarket chain around Iwi would build the Māori Party legacy status.
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Close Waihopai, cancel our membership in Echelon and 5-Eyes, end Andrew Little’s plan to sign us up for the nuclear AUKUS pact. Ban all foreign military vessels from entering our ports. End all military exercises with foreign armed forces.
Declare neutrality and send a diplomatic mission to the UN to confirm our international recognition of this country’s neutral status from the UN General Assembly and Security Council.
The Maori Party could do this country a great service and save many New Zealanders lives if they prevented us from being drawn into any more unjust wars and foreign incursions and demanded New Zealand become a neutral country..
You’ve forgotten the most important proposal that the Maori Party have ever made. After corporate interests ensured it was dumped by both major parties, the Maori Party were the only ones to support reviving the Full Employment Policy — a full six years before Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn could do the same.
They claimed they would once again abolish unemployment, and the dole would no longer need to exist. The policy then disappeared.
Breaking up the duopoly of Woolworths and Foodstuffs Co-Op needs to happen, but there are more pressing issues. The local economy is a basket case, with barely any advanced production, and far too reliant on primary industries — it’s a sure-fire recipe for low living standards.
The Maori Party are excellent….at making Labour unelectable.
Yes Andrew and hopefully once many NZers find out al Act nasty policies this will help make National unelectable.
Act will cancel the winter energy payment and people will die from the cold. In Epsom it’s summer all year round and no one dies.
Mā te whai rākau tino herehere whānui i ia kāinga, ka whakapaukaha i te mana whakahaere tūmatanui o te iwi. Ka whakapaukaha te whakawhanaungatanga ā-tangata, te whakapono tōrangapū, me te kaha whakahaere o te iwi. Ka whakapaukaha hoki i te whakararuraru i ngā whakapaukaha ā-tangata o te kāwanatanga, ka whakapaukaha i te whakapono ā-tangata, me te whakararuraru i te whakaaro tōrangapū.
The Maori Party need to not buy into the kingmaker thing it makes people edgy and nek minute in the next poll their polling is dropping the media are just shit stirring.
It’s all moot anyway. The Maori Party is the antithesis of inclusive. I will lay odds they will not achieve 3% of the vote in October oe even come close. They’ll be lucky to make 2%. What the different polls are saying now is virtually irrelevant but it would be remiss not to mention the last TVNZ poll had the Maori party @ 2% having dropped a significant 1% .
A far more important race is that of NZF and ACT.
No politician times their run better than Peters. NZF is @ 3% and Winnie has barely yawned for months. He’s just biding his time to harvest the votes of many disillusioned Kiwi’s. NZF will get closer to 10% of the vote than 5%. He will be king maker again. He however will never go with Labour again.
Please feel free to take this to the bank.
If we don’t want to die in the service of the now desperate, capital-based neo-liberal American “Empire”, we MUST quickly do the following:
A. Dump 5 Eyes,
B. Dump Rocket Lab (principally funded by US defence suppliers).
C. Dump recently arrived “retired” senior US military offcers from our Civil Service.
D. Maintain non-nuclear policy.
E. Exclude ALL foreign military vessels and aircraft from Aotearoa/NZ
F. Distance ourselves from NATO and other military alliances, instead of “cozying up”, as we’ve been doing
for some time, now.
G. Insulate our intelligence services from their counterparts in other countries.
H. Ensure ALL basic international relationships are based on trade, not defence or intelligence.
I. Immediate declare our new position of “Armed Neutrality” (a la Switzerland), via all and any international
channels (including UN).
T I M E I S R U N N I N G O U T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Item E means the antarctic supply base at CHCH airport will shift to Hobart. Valued at over $200M to the local community.
“Around 100 direct flights a year leave from our airport, carrying more than 5,500 passengers and 1,400 tonnes of cargo, including fresh food. ”
https://www.christchurchairport.co.nz/about-us/who-we-are/gateway-to-antarctica/
You say Labour only implement PMC dictates. Why would Maori Party be immune? Look at 3 Waters surely a project of the MPMC. But yes you can trust JT would remove Gst from food, people are desperate. Plus it’s a tax cut for the rich too.