Claire Trevett catches up with TDB – how the MANA movement-Maori Party MOU would work

Good to see that Claire Trevett and the rest of the mainstream media are catching up to news that Waatea 5th Estate and TDB had first announced a month earlier.

You can either read it and see it first on Waatea 5th Estate/TDB or you can read it a month later in the mainstream media.

The simple reality for MANA and the Maori Party is that they have more to gain working together to force Labour out of the Maori electorates than working against each other.

In almost every Maori electorate the MANA + Maori Party vote swamps the Labour Party vote.

Why do Maori need an independent voice? Because Labour has time and time and time again screwed Maori over to appease angry white voters. Dumping the closing the gap policy, Terror raids that only created terror and the largest land confiscation in NZ history – all were examples of Labour throwing Maori under a bus to appease the angry white middle.

Maori need an independent political voice and the Maori Party working alongside MANA is the best way to do that.

The Maori Party need MANA because if they want to see their goal of being invited to every Government table they will need MANAs connections to the Left if there is a change of Government next year.

MANA need the Maori Party because they won’t be able to topple Kelvin out of TTT if they don’t cut a deal.

So how would a MOU work? MANA and the Maori Party would both run party lists, but would agree to only run one electorate candidate in each Maori electorate. Their combined totals would swamp every Labour Party candidate.

With coat tailing, MANA and the Maori Party could bring in a combined total of 5 MPs, that’s a block that could have a huge impact in the 2017 election.