Hone should jump waka to the Greens
The first rip in John Key's Big Blue Tent?
If Hone wants to make his mark the Greens should call him over the weekend and he should jump party on principle. Have a coffee on Saturday, make sure the sst times photographer is tipped off, hey presto, media platform for a live 6pm Sunday press conference by Hone.
Here's what he gets:
He should apologise for his out burst, explain that he has been under a lot of pressure having to give his support to policy that he did not join the Maori Party to vote for. Because the Maori Party have received so little for their support and the policy that has been passed under urgency demands a stronger stance than being inside the Maori Party allows he is joining the greens.
What they get:
Replace the support Sue took with her when she left, regain their edge that has made the Greens drop below 5%
Labour should shut up and watch the Maori Party meltdown if he walks.
posted by Bomber @ 6:50 PM
9 comments
9 Comments:
Its all very sad about Hone but I think you may be a little naive in your assumption that the Maori Party cave in on social issues has been just to trade off the foreshore and seabed thing.
Maybe with Hone but if that is the case he is a stupider person than I took him for.
The thing is that the rightist moves of the Act lead minority government suit those elite Maori in control of Tangata Whenua 'owned' entities very well.
The Maori Party seems to be engineering a return to some of the oppressive tribal political structures of pre-whitefella invasion.
If you're a well connected Maori you and your family will do well and no longer be dependent on the social justice strategies that maori have traditionally supported.
If you living in an urban environment and your family is both disconnected and dysfunctional ie your whakapapa has either been lost in the chaos of colonisation or wasn't allied to any iwi let alone a strong ascendant one, basically you're more buggered than you've ever been.
That prolly doesn't sit that well with Hone either although I'm like Pita Sharples has, he will learn to live with it.
We know from previous iterations of Maori seats holding the balance of power than eventually when maori political naivety (only about pakeha power structures of course many of these MP's are highly skilled operators in Maori political spheres) runs up against whitefella racism and the whitefella party dependent on Maori support starts haemorrhaging white votes, the Maori members get cut loose in a heartbeat.
What concerns me about this particularly ugly class driven iteration of Maori political power, is that this time when the Maori MP's are stomped on, they will find their actions have destroyed the one thing which has kept Maori politics alive for 200 years. Solidarity.
The solidarity which had all Maori defending the awatere low lifes for example despite the taste that left in the mouths of many.
By favouring one group of Maori over others the Maori party has split the movement and that will be the time that the FPPers strike and abolish Maori seats along with every other non whitefella non mainstream point of view.
I agrre whole heartedly The Greens a a Maori Leader and voted pretty much the same way as th MP for the whole of the last term
Q. is, is he too much of a loose cannon for Norman.
Are you mad? That would kill the Greens...
That's assuming of course that the greens would want him.
The greens to their credit strike me as a principled - dare I say it, honest - party. Hone is one of the most ill-disciplined people to ever become an MP. He would destroy all of the greens re-branding.
You didn't mention what I think could be the real reason that the greens would want them: He could potentially give the greens a Moari seat at the next election so that the greens don't have to worry about the 5% threshold. Of course that would mean that the greens would want him purely for the seat, rather than any other benefits he may bring to the party (I don't think Hone has any benefits,!), so the greens would have to swallow their principles for a seat.
"so the greens would have to swallow their principles for a seat."
The greens sucking on a dead rat simply to get power. Maybe they've learned their lesson after being treated as a doormat by labour
get over it....Labour didnt go with the greens...boohoo and had 9 successful years in government.
The Greens, particulary that Norman person have shown themselves to be incredible bitter over it.
Personally I think theres more chance of Hone joining ACT then there is him going Green.....particulary now there doesnt seem to be any reason for anyone to vote for the Greens.
Cannot see those that control the massive maori forestry interests in northland being overly please with your suggestion that he jumps to the tofu munchers.
As far as I can see the only thing he did wrong was tell a bare faced lie to his boss. If he had not told Turia he missed the meeting due to ill health he would probably have nothing to worry about.
As a white mofo (who sadly did not manage to get any land to rape and pillage) I take no offence whatsoever. I live up here and have some sympathy for his attitude.
particulary now there doesnt seem to be any reason for anyone to vote for the Greens.
Heh.
Poor old kerry.
Labour has morphed into National lite, willing to pass laws that strip us of our civil rights, and kerry thinks people have no reason to trust the Greens.
The Greens have principles, Labour has Phil Goff.
Nuff said.
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