MEDIAWATCH: John Tamihere’s Column a spectacular pitch for Labour-Green-Māori Party Government
The problem with the Herald’s Paywall is that it is where opinion goes to die.
The Daily Blog has a larger audience than the Herald’s Paywall for Christ’s Sake!
But what John has said is important enough to drag his opinion piece out of the paywall because but is a spectacular pitch for a Labour-Green-Māori Party Government and it needs to be given far more attention than the Herald’s paywall can.
This from JTs Facebook page…
Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford – why trolls are fascinated by them.
Right now you and I are witnessing one of the nastiest things ever seen in our political landscape, and that’s a fairly hefty call to make.
I am referring to the personal attacks on Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. In addition her partner Clarke Gayford got a real good working over as well. Now, I am not referring to the comments about Jacinda made by departing MP Louisa Wall, because quite simply that’s rhetoric disguised as fact.
These past weeks have seen Ardern’s face being superimposed on some rather distasteful material along with constant disparaging comments on social media, plus there’s that nutter who was arrested for threatening to kill her.
What’s going on is not just unbecoming, it’s actually very ugly, horrible and nasty, irrespective of whether you like her politics or not. It is also the first time I’ve seen a partner dragged into the mudslinging as much as Clarke.
I am the vice president of Te Pāti Māori and come the next election, the only place we can get votes from is Labour. However we will win votes because of our unfettered, unapologetic policy programme. We will win vote contesting ideas not personalities.
In my world of politics what I say is fact based, it is not born from speculation. But where the doubters try and get you is on the veracity of whether your approach will work. You can say this type of behaviour is justified if it was more specific, targeting issues like the slow response of the police or the high cost of living right now.
I’ll dissect the former for transparency. The elevated cost of living is happening right around the world and if it was solely Jacinda Ardern’s responsibility, I would get that. But there is more to it. Firstly, supply chain disruption. Secondly, productivity chain disruption in regard to workplaces around the world trying to come back online. And thirdly, and most importantly, you have filthy, rotten gouging going on similar to what is happening right now with the gib board shortage. Clearly none of these factors can be attributed directly to the PM of the day. Thus the type of negative behaviour currently aimed at the Prime Minister is not about policy it is about her as a person. These guys are speculating against her personality and postulating on her character and even worse, that of her partner without any proof to back it up.
They are getting critical of her because for the first time in their lives a Government is saying no to tax cuts and redistributing wealth in terms of the minimum wage and benefit uplift. Most unsettling is that for the first time in 50 years they could not escape a government mandate which limited their freedom of travel, so the annual European summer holiday disappeared. We all give up our civil liberties. The well off that are flooding the National and ACT party war chests in a non election year is telling. It’s about privilege, entitlement and always getting my way because I can buy it.
Eventually the trolls will be muted once they sense a win which is to get rid of Jacinda. They’ll get their tax cuts, control the water assets and continue the duopoly in construction, banking, electricity, cartel in grocery and other select industries. This is the only Government that has instigated inquires to question them and it’s making them nervous on their well padded high horses.
Jacinda has a number of sympathetic folk but it seems to me they have gone into bunker mentality hoping this will blow over. Nevertheless, it comes down to the type of political discourse we want as we continue our ever evolving nationhood story. Discuss the contest of ideas not the contest of personalities. Hold the PM to account, but quit the character assassination.
– John Tamihere is a former Labour Cabinet Minister and Chief Executive of Whānau Ora and West Auckland Urban Māori organisation Te Whānau o Waipareira.
…this is a JT who is holding out the opportunity of working together with Labour. It is an extraordinary insight of where the relationship is and he clearly sees that relationship with the Māori Party as a righteous rudder to a larger Political Party that has lost its ballast and sails.
This marks an attempt at a political truce and a ceasefire in the face of an ACT and National Party who are openly hostile to any concept of co-governance despite being the political parties who started that process!
The 2023 election is going to be so close between Labour + Greens vs National + ACT that the Māori Party may well be the king maker.
JT is signalling as the Vice President of the Party that he intends to be a stable leadership from a Party whose antics at times make it look flakey.
This kind of positioning I think will be crucial for the 2023 election.
The game changer here is that Seymour has made the referendum on co-governance a bottom line in any negotiation with National.
I think this could ignite on the Right and trigger an MMP dynamic that could see an overhang.
It is not impossible to see that the pull for a referendum on the Right could be so great that National voters vote National for their MP and ACT for their party vote.
If National win more electorates than Party vote it forces an overhang which pushes up the total numbers the Left need to get a majority, which could require Labour and the Greens to reach out to the Māori Party to win.
That in of itself would add fuel to the polarisation of the debate.
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Explaining is losing
Perhaps Tamahere’s written piece is no more than Nacts “cup of tea”.
I guess the attacks on John Key and his family. ie Kill him rape his daughter wernt as bad as some people poking the Princess.
JT is surely just sucking up to Labour, his former party.
But you are right Bomber. NZHerald has to feed its 127 premium readers something.
You write as though Labour/Greens have actually achieved anything.
They haven’t.
And it’s still worth voting ACT just to piss off the woke academics…
Read JT’s article yesterday, he is a rare example of someone that has got better with age in political terms. The TDB sheepshaggers (for ref: Natzos/ACToids/old tories/incels) have little idea of the daily grind and practical delivery that the organisations he is with achieve for working class people.
A Labour/Green/Māori MMP electoral result is certainly the way to keep the dirty filthy natzos out while more of their supporters depart as more new gens step up.
Anyone that considers themselves left should do three things in Parliamentary political terms.
–Keep criticising Labour’s non delivery for working class people
–Stop criticising Greens as if it achieves anything, there is a core 10% support there, and start pushing them to deliver more class left initiatives like they did with rent control
–Stop criticising Te Pāti Māori for daring to exist and present the post colonial agenda, encourage them to keep on track with working class issues as well as their obvious kaupapa
A prerequisite for ending the neo liberal state is keeping NZ National and ACT out of Govt. Labour led Govt. is not the answer but it provides the space to kick start a socialist left again.
Dream on TM. Labour won’t even make a dent in neoliberalism because they are neoliberal through and through, and that is why they were allowed into power by those lovely people who interfere with every election in the world.
The only way we could rid ourselves of neoliberalism is to part company with the Empire of lies, then face attempts at regime change followed by sanctions, and, finally, war.
Jacinda brought Labour into government just on her personality as there were no great change of policy from the party lead by Andrew Little. Her personal handling of crisis like the Chch shooting and later the covid policy was spot on and she was given a gift of an Opposition at it weakest . As National regain it’s momentum and the lack of a plan going forward shows the weakness and unprepared state of Labour it is obvious that Jacinda now faces a personal attack as we go into the next election. I predict it will be a hard fight and unless one side as a massive misstep a close fight and could see NZF rise again for a final grab at power by Winston .
My fear is at a critical time for the country as we try to avoid a decline in living standards an election based on person politics will evolve rather than policies
National, by imposing US style health care, slashing state housing, and ensuring wages are either frozen or cut, will ensure a decline in living standards. It has been their goal for 30 years, ever since they imposed user pays in the health care system, and slashed wages and benefits.
There’s this delightful FB site called “wheres Clarke Gayford” one delightfull post was a shopped picture of Ardern titled im to ugly to be a prostitute,and many others wanting her to die in a plane crash…I’m just putting out that males are the main culprits.
Well, males, mankind their worst enemas: their egos.
Increasingly the same holds true for wimmin/her kind.
It’s all a competition dontcha know – a battle of the individual fearing the collective.
I’m hoping to survive long enough to see how it all works out. It ain’t going to be very pretty, but in the meantime we’ll indulge ourselves with the trivial and any bullshit excuse to kick it all down the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9BOfBtzI1Q
We’ll get what we deserve
“I’m just putting out that males are the main culprits.”
@lurcher1948 You point is what? To imply this is indicative of an entire identity group? Spend some time on Twitter and observe the mania for reputation destruction where women are the main culprits.
It’s almost like some ‘people’ can be really s%it to other people.
Looks to me like it will be a Labour/Green/Maori Party coalition, I think Winston and NZF will get 5% however I don’t think it will be enough to get National/ACT/NZF over the line IMHO.
I cant see a natactnzf govt. Luxon doesnt drink whisky and Jacinda does!
Yeah, I really cant see Winston sitting around a table drinking little bottles of water with Luxon the guy who has the job that should have been Winstons, a guy that couldnt care less about the still living members of Rob’s mob, a guy to whom “the National interest” is an unknown concept, a guy who can’t give you the name of an “ordinary bloke”.
He did that so he could help them join the masses taking advantage of modern medicine to stop the spread of a virus that could have killed them. What did your campaign of fear of the white man give them except lose of jobs money and health.
I think you have underestimated the vitriol around the PM. I do not for one minute support her or the Labour party, but I think it is incredibly nasty and much more than any PM before her has put up with. Partly there are an increasing number of morons who don’t like the fact we have a female PM.
We can speculate but I doubt any of us know sufficient to work out who will rule, 18 months is a long time, another pandemic, more bullshit for his mates from Luxon, antything can happen.
You just listen to the talk back hosts and their listeners especially the grumpy old men who always end up targeting Jacinda. I imagine them with a photo of Luxon on their mantlepiece after replacing Keys photo. They hate Jacinda because she has been successful internationally and with Covid and has been fixing up all of Keys government failures. They should be rejoicing and thanking Jacinda for saving their lives and the lives of NZ citizens.
I think the picture of Tamihere above was taken just after Newstalk ZB had to cough up thousands of dollars to Tamihere because of a particular latte drinking talkshow host, that spews vile and lies, just like the lie he made up about Tamihere. Hosking is at the highest scale in terms of lying and ego , alongside Trump.
The fact of the matter is that the partner mudslinging started with then PM Helen Clark and her partner Peter Davis, so I believe. These unproven allegations on the part of both of these people, and the underlying myth that theirs was a union not of love but of mere convenience, hurt both citizens very deeply. The fact that Helen Clark was a Labour politician is, I believe, not a coincidence, as the New Zealand mainstream media has long had a bias towards the National Party.
As for Mr. Tamihere’s so-called pitch for a Labour-Green-Maori Party coalition government, it certainly is feasible but would it be wise for the future of this nation, or would it ultimately serve to widen the racial and economic divides further? Moreover, voters are becoming ever clearer that they wish for a change of government in 2023.