Will Saturday be Eru’s last stand?

It will be a fascinating turn out this Saturday in Auckland.

While Bishop Brian Tamaki’s stormtroopers will be attempting to cross the Harbour Bridge, Eru Kapa-Kingi will be testing the political waters to see how much mutilation and damage he’s caused the wider progressive movement with his Kamikaze suicide bomber attack on Te Pati Māori.

Eru is hosting a Toitu Te Tiriti ‘activation’ this  Saturday in Central Auckland and the turn out will give us a true glimpse into the depth and influence of Toitu Te Tiriti.

Eru’s issues occurred last year when he and others inside the Māori Party mistook the huge support against the Treaty Principles Referendum as support for their purist vision of Tikanga.

Post that massive protest success, this group wanted to take the movement in a very Tikanga direction just as the Māori Party leadership wanted to evolve out of an Opposition Party and into a secure Confidence and Supply Government member.

The decision to do the latter was taken by this group as blasphemy and immediately kicked off plotting that resulted in Doc and Mariameno kicked out after Eru aired dirty laundry in front of the Marae with allegations against the Te Pati Māori leadership.

This implosion has handed the political left’s enemies enormous ammunition.

The fact Eru has scoured the earth and made a change of Government almost impossible is one thing, having the audacity to call an ‘activation’ against the very Government he’s just empowered is an ego of unbelievable proportions.

After the brutal failure of the Heal the Nation Hikoi by Right Wing Māori Social Influencers last week, Eru and Toitu Te Tiriti will be praying that the bad blood Eru has generated won’t burn them on Saturday.

What exactly are people turning up for?

To cheer on how Eru mutilated the Māori Party and made it almost impossible to beat the Government?

How is that a win for us?

All Eru did was take a good chance of beating this Government and make it less likely!

The only people he has helped are Sean Plunkett, Don Brash, Mike Hosking, David Seymour, Winston Peters and Chris Luxon!

If there is less than 2000 on Saturday, it will be an enormous failure and come down from the hundreds of thousands who marched last year.

If it’s more than 5000, it will show the supporters don’t care Eru just made it more difficult to beat the right.

If it’s 10 000, we should all go home because the next generation want disruption with no solution.

Let’s see what happens on Saturday.