Māori Party fast becoming NZ First’s best friend
Do not get me wrong.
I’m all for a Māori Parliament and believe an Upper chamber would be a great extension of our political infrastructure but the drive for a separate system altogether as a reaction to the naked anti-Māori agenda being pushed by the Right is the wrong strategy by the Māori Party and playing into the hands of the Right.
No one benefits more from Māori Party intransigence than Winston.
When the Māori Party push ideas that can easily be framed as separatist, the Right, and Winston, win.
The Māori Party can shrug and declare they don;t care about winning, but that dooms them too simply being performance art rather than a political movement.
The Māori Party, Greens and Labour MUST sit down and thrash out an agreed shared agenda that doesn’t alienate and builds common ground.
The Māori Party need to be less Malcolm X (we already have a NZ Malcolm X, his name is Hone Harawira), we need the Māori Party to start sounding more like Martin Luther King. Working within the system for real change to all our people is more important than a hat wearing competition.
The Māori Party is under an enormous double standard attack based on allegations made by Destiny Church acolytes. If you want to accept evidence from people who paint over rainbow crossings, knock yourself out, but the real corruption in NZ is being committed at the top table between donors, lobbyists and willing politicians.
The Māori Party is being smeared and attacked so much because their activism genuinely terrifies the ruling class, and they deserve our support and solidarity, but while soaring so high, the Māori Party needs to remember bridge building is a better strategy than bridge burning.
The Māori Party have led the debate and the resistance against this terrible Government and its corrupt agenda, but in taking the lead comes responsibilities and part of those responsibilities is working with allies for a common good.
Labour and Greens need to come to the table, the Māori Party are already seated waiting.
I don’t think the current Labour party has any interest in coming to the table with TPM. A lot of the noise about these allegations that i’ve heard has come from none other then a Mr Chris Hipkins.
I don’t think TPM, The Greens and Labour are any more aligned then NZ First, Act and National are.
So you’re for Maori activism? I thought you dismissed that as “identity politics”. Other than that I think your column is spot on.
I agree whole heartedly .They will get no where creating havoc just calm the farm and work on a policy that will not inflame the red necks .Maori have gained a whole lot of support from Pakeha in recent months but these two people are not going to grow that support by being stupid .
This is for Brian Tamaki and his destiny church acolytes…
“Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
The rats of Labour and the Greens don’t care about any actual left wing positions. Their own ‘identity politics’ ideologies are far more alienating to any normal human being, Maori or not, than anything the Maori Party is doing.
Tamaki and Destiny Church and TPM deserve each other both show pony groups with no class.
Trevor Show ponies ? Old nags. And its the Tamihere Party, and any of them in an Upper Chamber lead by Kiri T-W, could have everyone else building wakas and paddling furiously in any direction they can.