1. After Chris Bishop calls their bluff and delays the vote on the suspension until after the Budget, Labour votes with TPM against it. They whined that it would be unfair they miss the Budget debate (despite not turning up for it last year) so Bishop delayed the vote, and Labour votes with TPM.
2. Hipkins proposed compromise of a one day suspension instead of a 21 day suspension is laughable. If Labour took it atrocious all seriously they would try and get a compromise of say 14 days – but a one day suspension would actually encourage TPM to do it again
3. Hipkins lied outright against Judith Collins saying she has said TPM displayed “uncivilised behaviour from indigenous people”. This is such an outrageous smear. She said there was a lack of civility from TPM. Hipkins made it sound like Collins had called them savages. And of course she is right that there is a lack of civility.
4. Willie Jackson basically said TPM MPs did nothing wrong if they intimidated ACT MPs, because the ACT MPs deserved it!
Personally I’m delighted. The more Labour hug the toxic TPM, the more it will doom them come the election as voters realise that a vote for Labour is a vote for Waititi and Ngarewa-Packer.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
3 comments:
Surely David you cannot deny the extraordinary level of leadership that TPM would bring to any coalition together with JT's wonderful fund-raising skills.
Agree David. Keep up the great work.
Right on, David !
That would be a coalition of losers for sure.
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