Mike's Minute: Has the Māori Party been a success?

So given the original Māori Party was formed in 2004, would we call it a success?

A party for Māori. What have they achieved?

Have they done more damage than good? Do we differentiate between Māori and "Māori". By that I mean Māori who aren't as angsty as some and are perfectly happy on the general roll.

John McLean: Honesty

One distinct oddity in our strange world is that the darkest actors are often the more honest.

So when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced (late in 2021) his intention for Russia to invade Ukraine, outsiders should have taken him at his word. And when Chlöe Swarbrick chants “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free”, we should harbor no doubt that Chlöe sincerely wants to see an end to the State of Israel.

David Farrar: Te Pāti Māori says ending democracy is non-negotiable

Te Pāti Māori arrived at Waitangi with a new campaign pledge, and a bold ultimatum. Co-leader Rawiri Waititi announced Tuesday a bottom line for any potential coalition partner, saying there must be a Parliamentary Commissioner for Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

That commissioner would have an extraordinary power, giving it the ability to audit bills and issue a “Tiriti veto” if policy and bills did not comply with Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

TPM are at least honest about their intentions. They wish to end parliamentary democracy in New Zealand. Their non-negotiable demand is that an appointed Commissioner will have the ability to veto any law that in their sole discretion they decide is not compliant with the Treaty of Waitangi.

John McLean: Root & Branch abandonment of.......roots

Dame Tariana Turia died on 3 January 2024, at 80 years of age after suffering a stroke. Her father was American (with, apparently, some Native American ancestry) and her mother had Māori ancestry. Turia chose to strongly identify with her Māori ancestry. Fair enough.

Turia entered New Zealand’s Parliament in 1996 as a Labour Party representative. She won the Te Tai Hauāuru (West Coast North Island) Māori electorate seat at the 2002 election, a Parliamentary seat she held until 2014, at first for the Labour Party and then for the Māori Party which she formed in 2004 in protest over then Prime Minister Helen Clark’s foreshore and seabed legislation. That controversial legislation extinguished the prospect of New Zealand’s activist Courts awarding people with Māori ancestors dominion over New Zealand’s foreshore and seabed.

Derek Mackie: Bye, Bye, Manurewa Marae

Not so very long ago 

I can still remember, how we used to get along just fine 

 But now it’s all about your race 

  Don’t matter the shade of your face 

A smidge of Maori gets you ‘cross the line 

The Maori Party makes me shiver 

 With every racist chant delivered 

Hakas in the Beehive 

 Hikoi marches, nah…let’s drive! 

There’s only one thing to decide 

 The future or a past denied 

  Go forth as one, or watch us cry 

The day… New Zealand dies 

So bye, bye, Manurewa marae 

Drove my ute to Auckland airport, time to reach for the sky 

Escape the bad vibes, with heavy heart and a sigh 

Singin' this'll be the day that I fly 

This'll be the day that I fly 

JD: How the Parties of the Left Have Changed in Recent Years

Guest post on The Good Oil by JD

While woke progressives, schismatic racists and apocalyptic environmentalists rule the roost on the left, it is unlikely that the key voter demographic of the “working class” will support them in sufficient numbers to allow a return to power.

Labour, founded in NZ on the backs of the – primarily Pākehā – working classes, are now hopelessly in thrall to the identity politics of the middle-class chardonnay socialists and the colonisation apologists of academia.

JC: Maori Seats Need to Go Pronto

The Maori Party need to be gone from Parliament. Most Kiwis are fed up to the back teeth with their despicable behaviour. Their latest childish, illegal prank – to have Maori strike nationwide on Budget Day – is frankly the last straw from a mob who don’t give a damn about anyone or anything except themselves. Most of their commentary is racist, divisive and full of lies. They are not at all representative of the majority of their race, bar the racist activists and those, like themselves, who have no interest in contributing to the prosperity of this country.

Cam Slater: Te Pati Maori ‘Mobilising a Militia of Scallywags’

The political rhetoric coming from Maori is increasingly violent in tone and attitude. Te Pati Maori are using words like revolution and images of guns, along with the beating of war drums in their online advertising.

David Farrar: Te Pati Maori go personal

Newshub reports:

Applause and cheers erupted in the House on Wednesday afternoon as Children’s Minister Karen Chhour condemned Te Pāti Māori’s insults about her upbringing.

Chhour, who grew up in state care, is repealing section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act – sparking uproar from political opposition.

Chris Trotter: The Maori Party and Oath of Allegiance

If those elected to the Māori Seats refuse to take them, then what possible reason could the country have for retaining them?

Christmas is fast approaching, which, as it does every year, means gearing up for an abstruse general knowledge question. “Who was the first woman elected to the House of Commons?”

JC: The Left Are in a Buggers Muddle

Labour, Greens and the Maori Party all need to shut their traps, cease their maniacal rhetoric and crawl back into their respective caves to work out what they stand for. If they keep standing for what they espoused before the election they will find themselves sitting on the Opposition benches for some time to come. Looking like you’re in it for your own self-interest is no way to win over the majority of voters. Unlike these political entities, Kiwis on the whole are a centrist bunch who are against most forms of radicalism.