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.

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.

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

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.

‘The TPM has evolved from the parry that worked with Key and achieved advantages for all Maori’.
Advantages? Such as ?

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.