Labour is sweating the current Māori Party meltdown, so they have rolled out Willie Jackson, who claims Takuta Ferris is handing political extremists ammunition to paint the Māori Party as too weird to ever do business with Labour.
There are several problems with the plan.
There are several problems with the plan.
Firstly, post the by-election Willie has no credibility.
Willie couldn’t win a raffle, far less a vote. And not only couldn’t he win the vote, he couldn’t get anyone out to even contemplate voting. What we saw a couple of weeks ago in Auckland was the biggest by-election shambles in many a long year.
The next problem is the Māori Party are too wacky to ever be in Government, Ferris or no Ferris. In citing Ferris as some sort of issue, you are forgetting Packer, Waititi, and Maipi-Clark, and all the others who found themselves in front of the Privileges Committee and sanctioned in a way we had not seen previously.
These are not people remotely interested in working with others.
In that is the real issue for Labour. It's not the Māori Party's problem.
If the Māori Party weren't attached to a centre-left bloc by polling, none of this Ferris nonsense would be of any interest to anyone.
But because mathematically they are needed in an invented deal for polling purposes, they take on a larger importance.
Without them Labour stand zero chance in the election next year.
To make the story interesting, the pollsters and the media have to align all three parties otherwise the narrative doesn’t work.
Then there's the other issue for Willie: the so-called "political extremists" he talks of. Another name for them is middle New Zealand, who saw what Labour, and Labour alone, did with Māoridom 2020-2023 with the obsession, the name changes, the new rules and courses and the compulsion around all things Māori. Talk about turning the punter off with obsession.
Between the Greens with their Palestine and wealth tax fascination and the Māori Party and their separatism, no wonder Labour are worried.
They have freaks for friends.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
Willie couldn’t win a raffle, far less a vote. And not only couldn’t he win the vote, he couldn’t get anyone out to even contemplate voting. What we saw a couple of weeks ago in Auckland was the biggest by-election shambles in many a long year.
The next problem is the Māori Party are too wacky to ever be in Government, Ferris or no Ferris. In citing Ferris as some sort of issue, you are forgetting Packer, Waititi, and Maipi-Clark, and all the others who found themselves in front of the Privileges Committee and sanctioned in a way we had not seen previously.
These are not people remotely interested in working with others.
In that is the real issue for Labour. It's not the Māori Party's problem.
If the Māori Party weren't attached to a centre-left bloc by polling, none of this Ferris nonsense would be of any interest to anyone.
But because mathematically they are needed in an invented deal for polling purposes, they take on a larger importance.
Without them Labour stand zero chance in the election next year.
To make the story interesting, the pollsters and the media have to align all three parties otherwise the narrative doesn’t work.
Then there's the other issue for Willie: the so-called "political extremists" he talks of. Another name for them is middle New Zealand, who saw what Labour, and Labour alone, did with Māoridom 2020-2023 with the obsession, the name changes, the new rules and courses and the compulsion around all things Māori. Talk about turning the punter off with obsession.
Between the Greens with their Palestine and wealth tax fascination and the Māori Party and their separatism, no wonder Labour are worried.
They have freaks for friends.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
9 comments:
That's it in a nutshell Mike. I feel so embarassed that we all just let this farce continue. TPM have no concept of governance. They are just racists, but the rest of us have responsibility to correct this and outlaw a racially constituted party.
With the brazen approach so appealing to the primitive stone age attitude of many maori, TPM domination of maori seats seems assured however few vote in total. Very many can revert to the General Roll and vote for the local Labour constituency candidate , effectively getting tthree bites at the total maori control of NZ.
A vote for labor is a vote for TPM that is it in a nutshell.
Hipkin's knows this.
At last we’re starting to see in print, what many of us think. Pity Luxon can’t seem to grasp the issue and run with it.
It’s hilarious watching the racist party try and claim they are not racist “well, not that racist” 🤣🤣
These idiots do mothing for 'their people' except give them a bad name. The are just egotistical, Tamahere clan, parasites on the country they claim to be part of. They care for nobody, Maori or otherwise except themselves. As we used to say, in pre pc days, f**k off you traitors to your country of birth. Kiwis yoiu are not. And take John with you.;
The day when NZers march in massive nation-wide events to take back their country, ( as in London on 13 September), then the pendulum might start to swing. But the NZ mind set may be too gone for this action. Certainly do not expect sane leadership from our politicians now.
A binding referendum to get rid of the Maori seats would solve the problem. They would be very unlikely to get past the five % threshold for even a party seat. Quite simple really
Mike, you claim they are 'freaks'. Stop being kind.......I don't think I could name more disgusting disgraceful evil human gutter rats.
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