From hundreds of thousands to barely hundreds, Eru’s Toitu Te Tiriti sinks to Heal The Nation Hikoi level failure
All the attention will be on Bishop Brian Tamaki’s Brown Shirts trying to storm the Harbour Bridge, but something far more dramatic occurred that deserves attention.
Eru Kapa-Kingi’s counter protest and relaunch of the Toitu Te Tiriti brand was a terrible disappointment that bordered on Shubz’s Heal the Nation Hikoi fiasco.
The Right Wing Māori social media influencer’s catch cry is ‘show me the receipts’ which is now being shouted back at him over the supposed $100,000 Heal the Nation Hikoi.
In Eru’s case, he wouldn’t have needed to show any receipts because all the good will has been burnt not spent!
Last year hundreds of thousands of Kiwi rallied to the Treaty Principles referendum, this year barely hundreds turned up, despite Eru hijacking the Palestinian protest and the Trans movement (who are grateful anyone still reaches out to them after the culture turned).
It was always a very open question as to who would rally around Eru and Toitu Te Tiriti in the wake of Eru declaring civil war on the Māori Party.
Before Eru’s attack the Māori Party were on 7%, after his suicide bomb attack they fell to 1%.
It was always a confusing message to get across to support his protest, ‘Hate this Government? Come join me who empowered them” isn’t really much of a rallying call to arms is it?
Not even a very soft profile piece by Audrey Young could save him. She will be feelings as foolish as Duncan Garner for interviewing Shubz!
The abysmal turn out will be a relief to the Māori Party Leadership, and it sets the stage for the Monday Court case where they will argue an extended case against Mariameno.
That looks to be bruising just before Waitangi Day.
If Māori Party can hold onto four Electorate Seats plus a low Party vote, they could trigger an MMP Overhang which makes it more possible for a Labour/Green/MP majority.
Young’s softball profile says it all, we all know who she supports, and so does Kapa-kingi getting profiled by her. Brilliant breakdown of the Kapa-Kingi family modus operandi, Ferris and the Māori party leadership over on Waatea news by Dr Rawiri Taonui in the opinions section titled Te Pati Māori update. This is brilliant analysis and a gripping read.
LOOKING AT THE NEWS LAST NIGH IT APEARS THAT ERUS MARCH WAS A LOT BETTER THAN YOU HOPED FOR MARTIN .And it showed all manor of races were marching together ,unlike Tamikis bunch of robots .
It was about 1500 people as one reporter records it, and it was a weird fuzzy petticoat for Eru to make a come back on including as it did other groups to bolster numbers, under the waffling call for love and unity rather than any meaningful protest about any number of worrying specific issues NZers and specifically Māori are having to deal with. Along with the Young profile it really looks like a naked promo tour for Eru to me. And what about the discrete veil drawn over Ferris’s destructive racist attack on “Indians, Asians, Black and Pakeha … to take a seat from Māori.” Clearly Ferris is much more of an idiot than anyone initially gave him credit for, seemingly dumped by Kapa-Kingi clan now, but at the time he made those racist insults about people coming out to support Peeni, they were all very much in the same corner.
In colonial states it is the norm for the left political parties to lead independence movement and therefore to promote “nationalism” and “patriotism”. In most British possessions, including the American colonies, the word “patriot” has been synonymous with “anti-colonialist”.
However in New Zealand the Labour government of Michael Joseph Savage and Peter Fraser decided to double down on the colonial connection declaring “Where Britain goes, we go. Where she stands, we stand”. Consequently the way was left open for the right wing to assume the mantle of patriotism, even denominating itself as “the National Party” when the reality is that the right in New Zealand is emphatically and shamelessly colonialist as it is in virtually every other colonial entity throughout the world.
The difference is that New Zealand has no left wing nationalist movement of the kind that brought independence to the British colonies in Africa and Asia and other parts of the world. That leaves Brian Tamaki free to advance the fantastic proposition that he leads “The True Patriots of New Zealand”.
What is really interesting is that the whole debate over patriotism and nationalism is occurring within te ao Maori, even if the words actually used by the true “true patriots” (in lower case) are “mana motuhake”, “rangatiratanga” and so on rather than “patriotism” and “nationalism”.
The European New Zealand political class are left right out of the debate because they have chosen not to be part of it, except to fire off denunciations of one faction or the other within Maoridom. They remain steadfastly colonialist even as the ground is eroding under their feet (or to use a more topical analogy, the landslip is poised above their heads).
The right will not change. Can the left?
That topical analogy is a bit off and you sound like a fanatic with an ax to grind boiling everything down to colonialism. If by left you mean Labour then your question is certainly rhetorical, however the Greens and TPM have truely left policies. Especially TPM.
Colonialism is the big issue because it impacts the constitution, race relations, the economy and foreign relations. None of these big issues will be addressed until we are ready to deal with colonialism. New Zealand First, ACT and National are staunchly colonialist, when push comes to shove Labour will take the colonialist side leaving only The Green Party and Te Pati Maori which are forced to compromise with the colonialism in order to have some influence over the government and even in order to take up their seats in parliament. I am not disputing that the Greens and TPM have “left” policies. I am not a purist in that regard. However they have been forced to make concessions that they would rather have not made, and until the Labour Party takes a stand for rangatiratanga and mana motuhake (which most likely will never happen) there is no way forward for the parliamentary left.
Police say Tamaki had 1200 at the rally .Tamaki says there were 10000.
Which one do you believe ?
Trevor – It is funny how the NZ Police helped the first hikoi managed by Te Pati Maori, and stopped the second hikoi managed by church group…things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
Police. 1,000 people can look like 10000 if you don’t know how to count crowd numbers. Things may get murky when authorities get freaked by very large crowds, but then it’s easy to estimate numbers by distance and density as was done with the the Ari Treaty protest.