Both are grievance parties.
Both are led by politicians who specialise in outrage.
Both need someone to blame. New Zealand First targets migrants, particularly Indians. Te Pāti Māori blames non-Māori.
Both make extravagant promises.
New Zealand First promises to buy back the BNZ, establish a $100 billion infrastructure fund, increase defense spending to 3% of GDP and give every newborn citizen $1,000 in KiwiSaver.
Te Pāti Māori promises a $3.1 billion food programme, a billion-dollar energy fund, $100 million to establish Māori-owned supermarkets, 2,000 houses on Māori land and half of all new social housing for Māori.
Neither has presented a fiscal plan to show how its policies are even remotely possible.
Both specialise in attacking the establishment while seeking the power to become part of it.
New Zealand First’s reversals are spectacular.
Peters made Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister. He served in the government that introduced compulsory vaccination and now courts the anti-vaccine vote. He supported the ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration and now champions exploration. I
While today attacking Labour, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi was in 2014 Labour’s candidate for Waiariki.
What attracts their supporters is not a coherent programme of government but the politics of grievance: the conviction that someone else is responsible for their misfortunes.
But the most remarkable similarity is that both parties are doing more electoral damage to their coalition partners than to themselves.
Winston Peters’ racist attack on a Chinese-born MP appears to have cost him little support. But it damaged Christopher Luxon.
Te Pāti Māori’s courting the gangs may not have cost the party votes. It may have cost Chris Hipkins any chance of becoming Prime Minister.
The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. This article was sourced HERE
Both make extravagant promises.
New Zealand First promises to buy back the BNZ, establish a $100 billion infrastructure fund, increase defense spending to 3% of GDP and give every newborn citizen $1,000 in KiwiSaver.
Te Pāti Māori promises a $3.1 billion food programme, a billion-dollar energy fund, $100 million to establish Māori-owned supermarkets, 2,000 houses on Māori land and half of all new social housing for Māori.
Neither has presented a fiscal plan to show how its policies are even remotely possible.
Both specialise in attacking the establishment while seeking the power to become part of it.
New Zealand First’s reversals are spectacular.
Peters made Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister. He served in the government that introduced compulsory vaccination and now courts the anti-vaccine vote. He supported the ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration and now champions exploration. I
While today attacking Labour, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi was in 2014 Labour’s candidate for Waiariki.
What attracts their supporters is not a coherent programme of government but the politics of grievance: the conviction that someone else is responsible for their misfortunes.
But the most remarkable similarity is that both parties are doing more electoral damage to their coalition partners than to themselves.
Winston Peters’ racist attack on a Chinese-born MP appears to have cost him little support. But it damaged Christopher Luxon.
Te Pāti Māori’s courting the gangs may not have cost the party votes. It may have cost Chris Hipkins any chance of becoming Prime Minister.
The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. This article was sourced HERE
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