Will Maori Party over cook the hangi and gift Winston another term?
The danger of the Māori Party over cooking the Hangi with their ever more radical demands for from Labour is that it opens the door between NZF and Labour.
As Winston eyes up possible conflict with the Government over the Ferry’s and Kiwirail ahead of the Deputy swap over in May 31st, the political calculations change.
The current Māori Party strategy is to use any leverage at the next election to demand enormous concessions from Labour and the Greens, which is fine and dandy AS LONG as those demands are universal wins for all Kiwis, but if they are only wins for Māori, it opens the possibility that the Māori Party will over cook the hangi, and force Labour into cutting a deal with NZF and the Greens in support.
The Māori Party must take the momentum of the Hikoi success and look to build a future for ALL Kiwis, not just Māori.
The difference between the MANA Party and the Māori Party is that the MANA Party knew there were more white babies in poverty than Māori babies and policy reflected everyone.
MANA’s policy was ‘Feed the Kids’ it wasn’t, ‘Only feed the Māori kids’.
The Māori Party have a swagger because they believe they have snookered Labour, but if the concessions the Māori Party are interested in gaining from Labour only help Māori, Chippy will be on the phone to Winston.
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Good team, Labour and NZ First. The Greens are perceived as loopy because most of them are; they’ve wrecked Wellington via the WCC.
I see no evidence of such a thing occurring. Obviously, the enemy media is going to focus on the Maori aspects of the Maori party platform rather than their excellent economic policy and nationalistic foreign and immigration stances which have broad appeals to all New Zealanders who aren’t zionist-loving nonces or American-lovers.
I will eat a shoe if Chippy and Winston ever work together again
Can’t wait, where do we send the horseshoe?
” MANA’s policy was ‘Feed the Kids’ it wasn’t, ‘Only feed the Māori kids’.”
Their policies don’t say this at all.
Idiot!! Of course the Mana parties policy platform isn’t being paraphrased in this article… Try to use the brain in your head, rather than the spare you keep in your “boot”…
One must suppose that political maturity wasn’t something that was a thing before coming to NZ for rather too many people, by the looks of it…
Understand one. simple thing, and as it’s “simple” most of you shouldn’t take too long to grasp… While Peters is a hollow gourd of noise, bigotry, and self interest, he is still safer to have as a govt partner than what amounts to a government of middle management wafflers with no actual talent to back the bravado, and the lickspittles of the globalist cabal that John Key was so successful in poisoning our society with…
I suppose that those making the “I won’t believe it will ever happen” noises are the same ones who voted for a government that made no secret of the fact that they fully intended to launch attacks upon the general population, under the guise of “prudent economic management”, and who won’t stop even after people start to die from the third world diseases that are starting to make their presence felt here…
The “brain drain” wasn’t just a catch phrase was it? We are seeing the results now, and NZ hasn’t got much longer to wait for the implosion…
An early election to get rid of this abysmal excuse for a govt is vital for the survival of what is left of what was once a great little country.
Kiri Tamihere-Waititi, Te Paati Māori chief of staff, wife of TPM co-leader MP Rawiri Waititi, and daughter of TPM president John Tamihere:
https://youtu.be/6VDLdbiyKFk