David Farrar: Te Pati Maori expels two MPs

Te Pati Maori has expelled Tākuta Ferris and Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. I can’;’t recall if any party has ever before expelled two MPs at once, let alone a third of their caucus.

What is also unusual is there appears to have been no due process where they get to argue in their defence.

Bob Edlin: Ferris gives Hipkins another chance to spot racism in a social media post.....

Ferris gives Hipkins another chance to spot racism in a social media post – and voters food for thought about Maori wards

Political reporters have been recalling that during the 2023 election campaign Labour leader Chris Hipkins said he would not stand for “overt racism”.

“I will call it out whenever and wherever I see it,” he said.

Later, he said National’s Christopher Luxon was condoning racism by not calling it out.

Bob Edlin: Tākuta Ferris – chided by Shane Jones for delivering apology only in Maori....

Tākuta Ferris – chided by Shane Jones for delivering apology only in Maori – says his generation was born to agitate

Tākuta Ferris found to have misled the House…

That was the headline on a post by David Farrar on Kiwiblog yesterday after the Privileges Committee reported: