Now, as we were discussing earlier, even though Carmel Sepuloni has told Penny off for saying that he wants to repeal the gang patch ban, he is not backing down.
Right?
He said it on Wednesday, they told him off on Thursday, and today he's not backing down.
He's repeated it because he says it's his personal view.
If not the Labour party’s, and he has whānau experience.
Now, why he's actually doing this, in my opinion, is because the Māori Party's doing it.
That's the real reason, because if you have a look at what actually happened on Wednesday night in that by-election candidates meeting, it was the Māori Party candidate Orini Kaipara who first answered the question.
The question was, will you repeal the ban?
She said, yes, and after she said yes, Peeni Henare then said yes too.
Now, maybe he does truly believe that it is the right thing to do.
But as I told you, it makes no sense as a political calculation.
Why would you chase the vote of 10,000 gang members if doing that means that you lose the votes of, I don't know, maybe 100,000 normal Kiwis who think the ban is a good idea.
The only answer to that question is because you actually don't care about the 100,000 votes.
You're not trying to help the Labour Party win, you're just trying to win your electorate seat.
In one of the Māori electorates, and you will say whatever it takes to match the Māori Party.
Now, Labour needs to sort this stuff out before the next election.
If Peeni or other candidates or Willie Jackson or even the entire Labour Party keeps chasing the Māori Party down the nutty radical road, they will, they will lose middle New Zealand.
Just like they did when Jacinda was being told what to do by Willie and Nanaia.
If I was giving them advice, it would be to leave the nutty stuff to the Māori Party and go to the center themselves again.
Maybe it means MPs like Peeni Henare will lose their seats, but that may be the sacrifice you have to make in order to win the election.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show HERE - where this article was sourced.
6 comments:
You have to remember that it is the Maori caucus that controls the Labour Party, so if Henare wants to remove the ban, that is what is likely to happen.
I wouldn’t tell them anything, let all the nutty ideas pop straight out of their daft little mouths.
Then you can really see what’s going on upstairs in the brain dept.
Not a lot.
If i was as close to the gang thugs as Peeni, I would pander to them too. It intrigues me how maoridom, despite so many with very limited communicatiion skills, produces a string of ultra glib women like the TPM candidate. One maori custom I fully uncderstand is the banning of female speakers from the marae.
The media report this stuff in a way that most people don't notice. There is no chance of negative news stories impacting on Labour's election chances.
Heavens!!! Banning Maori wimmin from speaking as on the marae!!! Good idea. Solves many a problem
He’s probably trying to throw his election chances as Labour want to keep TPM on the hook
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