WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Election 2026 – Why Te Pati Māori must heal for us all to win
As we enter Election year, the desperate need for Te Pati Māori to heal for us all to win becomes glaringly apparent.
There are no Polls that suggest Labour + Greens can = 51%.
There are Polls that suggest Labour + Greens + NZF can = 51%.
There were polls that Labour + Greens + Māori Party could = 51%.
If we want this terrible Hard Right Government with its anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-Renter, anti-worker, anti-disabled, anti-beneficiary and anti-environment agenda gone, it can ONLY happen with Labour + Green + Māori Party.
A Labour + NZF + Green Government would achieve nothing as Winston would act as a constant handbrake to any real progressive policy.
Labour + Green can’t get to 51%
It has to be Labour + Green + Te Pati Māori.
That is why the implosion of Te Pati Māori has been so traumatic for those desperate to see an end to National, ACT and NZF.
What has been most inexplicable is the way John Tamihere has been blamed on social media for that implosion.
John responded with napalm once he found out about the plot against Debbie and Rawiri, what ever you think about Debbie and Rawiri, they deserved loyalty, not plotting.
How Te Pati Māori move on is difficult to plot.
Mariameno, Eru and Doc seem intent on self mutilating the Party until it is dead. Every time they criticise the Leadership, they hand political ammunition over to David Seymour, Don Brash, Sean Plunkett and Mike Hosking.
Te Pati Māori losing a strategic genius like Tamihere would leave the Party rudderless and without the tactical smarts to negotiate a meaningful policy platform with Incremental Labour.
Te Pati Māori must hold onto JT while attempting to find a way to work with Mariameno and Doc.
Suggestions that Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke or Oriini should also split off to do their own thing is equally self destructive.
The Māori Party need to find compromise and solidarity rather than ego and personal ambition, abusing Tikanga as a reason to dump Debbie and Rawiri because they are deemed ‘not Tikanga enough’ is pure temple politics that alienates when Broadchurch Solidarity is what is needed.
National, ACT and NZFirst could not believe their luck when Debbie and Rawiri were attacked by their own last year, those who have led that attack must be challenged on why they think their ambition should trump the needs of all Kiwis when trying to end this terrible Hard Right Government.
Te Pati Māori must heal for us all to win!
If the Coalition is so bad how is it the Opposition cannot get more than half the voting public to back them. Surely who ever wins would need a good majority to carry any weight and give stability to businesses planning long term investments.
Well, that won’t be the coalition. The irony is your theory about business and trickle down theory is a known failure, whilst nothing on the people who keep businesses open. Ironically record numbers of businesses have closed under this CoC and thus people will vote change.
Yes, absolutely, TMP must move on past their egos and clean up their act. They need to regroup for NZ and get on with assisting the Left to rid our lovely country of this current scourge. I truly find it unbelievable that there are any “thinking” people who would vote for a return of this deplorable, corrupt bunch of dishonest toads – but appears there are! So they must be very comfortable [sorted] to be able to look past the myriad of stuff-ups and deliberate lies. Do they not understand what is in front of their eyes or do they simply not give a damn? Whichever, it shows their selfish mentality and cruelty. How can you live life normally while homeless people are shovelled out of sight? Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Wake up while we still own and run our country. The day of reckoning is fast approaching.
The current leadership need to take responsibility for this political catastrophe and it is time for new leadership and compromise. This has all happened at a time when we have one of the most explicitly anti-Maori governments in decades. WTAF is going on? TPM have a serious and consequential job to do and they aren’t doing it.
On a side-note and not usually one to encourage personal criticism – but I’ve followed NZ politics for a long time – John Tamihere has form and a history of engagements within different organizations and roles that end in some type of toxic break-down.
Fresh, neutral and compromise leadership is needed at TPM – possibly younger and less ingrained in Iwi entanglements. The Maori Party is for all Maori – many of whom have not reconnected with their ancestry. TPM is also important for non-Maori in helping us all to shape a political future that works.
Nepotism and tribalism are the issues confronting TPM.
As they are with NACT1st. Too many prima donnas. Too much favourtism for friends. Forgetting that it was the people who put them into parliament, and it will be the people who will put them out.
The people are not seeing great value for money at present.
The people are learning that they don’t count in today’s political balance sheet, just one big black hole of wants and no easy profits and perks and sly percentages flowing along a pipeline right into some electronic pocket in a safe haven known only to this bunch of people. There are careful controls so that it is ‘untouched by human hands’ (as the sign read in the store window demonstration of easy-cook banana fritters prepared by chimpanzees.) That is so inconsequential, but in this time, consequential or not, all is treated equally; ignored or sidelined.
Correct. NZ First are tribal, National are tribal, ACT are tribal. So another ridiculous silly post by Bob the first.
My posts most always draw comment from you CG that’s how pertinent they are.
The compromise that could work is, make Hanna leader along side a male out side of Parliament. It’s working for the Greens in the UK – a young articulate male voice would galvanizes the one group of Māori who do not vote, young Māori males.
As it stands I worry this group will not vote – they are disillusioned and as it stands the conflict within the party is putting them off, removing people from the party is putting them off, manipulating the rules to suit the old man’s club is putting them off. Time for a change.
And lets face it Debbie and Rawiri, are not going to be snowflakes if they are no longer the leaders. No one is going to ignore them. Their voice will be heard. Because that’s what needed and how it’s going to work. Only pakeha conflict with a change of leadership diminishes the person. Debbie and Rawiri, will be diminished in the eyes of only one group if no longer leaders – the propagandists for the defense of neo-liberalism.
Bomber its a sad state of affairs when we have to rely on TMP to start behaving and stop self destructing in order to change the government and deliver real reform and regime change that is so desperately needed.
Its looking more likely that the current government will be reelected. There is no effective opposition with a plan that appeals to so many who are being exploited by the current government and its enablers.
Its a depressing scene going into another year ( and possibly three or four more years ) of this hated vile degenerates and those who support and fund them.
TMP has gifted its seats to LINO in the coming general election and who have a miserable track record of addressing deep seated poverty and the causes for poor Māori and their Pakeha kin.
Cowardice , Incrementalism , arrogance and idiocy will help the current opposition lose the election.
The Tamihere cabal have lost all credibility and confidence. They need to read the room and not let the door hit em on the way out…
Things have gone quiet so if there has been constructive work done behind the scenes then Tamahere has done a brilliant job and the CoC is history(thank god) The people of NZ can rejoice. Happy for the door to hit you on the way out.
Until TPM deal with the nepotism nothing will heal.
Show some respect CG and spell John Tamihere correctly.
Maori Party takeover by Winston at their invitation.