Chippy on the identity politics of Te Pati Māori
Chris Hipkins takes shots at Te Pāti Māori, Winston Peters
Hipkins was adamant he would not be ruling any other party in or out at this stage. Polls have suggested Labour would like need the support of Te Pāti Māori to govern, but Hipkins said Labour would not be cutting any Epsom-style seat deals.
“I mean, I’ve seen political parties have their internal disagreements, but this is next level,” he said, referring to the party’s headlines-making schism.
“It’s unclear whether there is even a Māori Party left or whether there are multiple different factions now doing their own thing
“I think one of the messages here is that identity alone is not enough. If you want to be in politics, you have to stand for something. You have to have a coherent philosophy around how you’d govern. You have to have a coherent set of views on the economy, on the role of government, and we haven’t seen that from Te Pāti Māori.”
If all you have when you come to the table of revolution is a tribal affiliation to your skin colour, genitalia or sexual orientation, what use are you to the revolution?
The true demarcation of power in a late stage capitalism liberal progressive democracy is the 1% richest (and their 9% enablers) vs the 90% rest of us.
Identity politics only goes so far, our united identities of Citizen and Class is Broadchurch that finds common ground, intersectionism identitarianism is pure temple politics that excludes.
The reset inside Te Pati Māori was an evolution from a party of oppositional activists to credible and stable partners in ending this Government and providing confidence and supply.
They are now so far away from that as the schism grows more sectarian.
The bonds we need to appeal to, Citizen and Class, reframe the narrative from I and Me to Us and We.
The Right excels at ‘All-Tribe-No-Village’ politics. We urgently need ‘More-Village-Inclusive- Tribe’ politics.
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Even the RW detractors out there must be able to see that Hipkins is sensible, rational and has way more political skills than the flaky, weak, smug Luxon, we have had to tolerate over the past two years. Let’s be honest here, if there had been more “givers” and less “takers” last election, this corrupt mob would not be in government now! So it’s sad to see our TPM party disintegrating to the point where they look like being of no help to the Left this coming election. And all this because a couple of egotistical blowhards didn’t have the brains or political nouse to raise their grievances in-house! Our voters aren’t dumb and will sort the wood from the chaff. It’s also really hard to change the fixed mind-set of those, with their heads buried in the sand, who don’t want to know or don’t care! Who you vote for next time will define whether you are a “giver” or “taker”! Whatever, you will reap what you sow.
Unfortunately Patrize a significant number of voters are dumb, sowed the seeds for a rotten coalition government and will most likely be conned again into thinking the great golden harvest and brighter future is just around the corner.
The TPM has evolved from the parry that worked with Key and achieved advantages for all Maori to the rabble we have today .What are they achieving for Maori in particular and NZ in general.
The so called leaders have no respect of the institution that they work in .
‘The TPM has evolved from the parry that worked with Key and achieved advantages for all Maori’.
Advantages? Such as ?
stevie November 27, 2025 At 9:47 am
‘The TPM has evolved from the parry that worked with Key and achieved advantages for all Maori’.
Such as [Whānau Ora]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wh%C4%81nau_Ora
…..Whānau Ora evolved out of the coalition between the National and Māori parties after the 2008 general election[1][2] and became a cornerstone of the coalition agreement between them after the 2011 general election.[3][4]
……In 2014, three commissioning agencies were established to work with community services to provide Māori-led social services, health and education. These were the Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency in the North Island, Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu in the South Island, and Pasifika Futures (which provided services to Pasifika New Zealanders).[7]
It can also be argued that TPM put removing GST from food on the agenda, a policy opposed by the National government, and initiallly by the Labour opposition. When the Hone Harawira’s member’s bill on removing GST from fresh fruit and vegetables was tabled, embarrassed by siding with the government the Labour Party MPs voted with TPM and even made removing GST off food a Labour party policy. A policy they dropped as soon as they could on returning to government.
It was TPM that made “Feed The Kids” a political movement that achieved providing school lunches.
TPM achieved all these things in the face of stiff opposition from both major parties.
The current National, ACT, NZF coalition in a dupliticious act of political treachery has gone back on its previous committment to Whanau Ora, precludes any alliance between TPM and National.
From RNZ:
A ‘destruction of Whānau Ora by stealth’ – providers
6:05 pm on 10 March 2025
Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, Māori news journalist
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/544361/a-destruction-of-whanau-ora-by-stealth-providers
This is the Maths:
Despite TPM’s troubles, if the Labour party take all the electoral seats currently held by TPM, Labour will almost guarantee another three years of a National, ACT, NZF coalition.
stevie – Whanau Ora, and Kaumatua housing
Talking shit Trevor, when the Maori Party was in coalition with keys regime saw the metastasizing of Maori homelessness, unemployment, imprisonment, health disparities, etc.. The only thing that Tariana, Sharples crowd achieved under a Jonkey regime was UNDRIP which this current COC plans to repeal
Trevor I don’t disagree but I would suggest National have gone so far down hill since Keys days it’s astonishing. No I was not a Key fan ( electricity comes to mind) but I would take that version of National any day of the week, leading the country, compared to the god bothering, sell out , sanctimonious arseholes that we have now. I bet the likes of Nikki Kaye would be appalled.
The racial rabbit hole National has been forced down by MMP deals is not to my liking but that the price to pay. I was not happy with Labour’s over the top pandering to Maori radicals either so it is a ticklish path to tread to appease both sides.
Meanwhile the Coalition of Corruption continues unabated.
They have failed to achieve anything for the general public of N.Z. and clearly their so called leaders have no respect of the institution that they work in .
The trouble with Hipkins is despite anyone waiting outside he won’t get up and open the door. He has assumed royal privilege, in a once plebeian party, (assume has different meanings and connotations).
They went with key because Turia and Helen Clarke had a falling out so unfortunately it all got very spiteful remember “ first cab off the rank “ from Helen Clarke . They achieved nothing of significance with Key