Comments on: ETS – last chance!

By: Our word is our bond at The Standard

Our word is our bond at The Standard — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:17:26 +0000

[...] Maori Party membership, to those who have not forgotten their principles, to those who wanted to keep their word, to those who were ignored and betrayed by their own “leaders” – the next move is [...]

By: Lew

Lew — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:04:38 +0000

It is done. L

By: gobsmacked

gobsmacked — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:30:31 +0000

Bring Back Doug!

11.23 am, Doug sagely informs us it’s a non-story. “Not reported in any other News source.”

Heh. Best call since John McCain picked Sarah Palin.

By: Lew

Lew — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:26:13 +0000

At least he didn’t call her ‘Turiana’…

By: greenfly

greenfly — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:19:28 +0000

Jeeze tc! It’s TURIA and Sharples, not Turei/Sharples.
Wrong party. Metiria Turei is the Green’s co-leader.
Tariana Turia is the one having her stomach stapled and her mana destroyed.

By: prism

prism — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:47:29 +0000

Someone out there recognises that the ETS agreement concerning forestry possibilities for Maori is too narrow – ties them to growing trees when there could be more business opportunities in other businesses. They need to reneg on the present deal and get it sorted to be appropriate for them, the whiteside have done it often enough. Big business is getting advantages, why shouldn’t they.

By: lprent

lprent — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:04:39 +0000

Just noise from the CCDs – pretty boring really.

By: lprent

lprent — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:02:45 +0000

Ah no. Just have a few dick head CCDs doing what they have always done. Everyone else pretty much ignoring it. Me, I’m just playing with the food, like a cat plays with a mouse.

By: Maori caucus divided on ETS? at The Standard

Maori caucus divided on ETS? at The Standard — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:48 +0000

[...] Ururoa Flavell is doing what he can to play down internal divisions that suggested the party could vote against John Key’s Emissions Trading [...]

By: Pascal's bookie

Pascal's bookie — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:49:07 +0000

It’s no good snoozer, they’re on to us…

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/11/23/the-manchurian-beckidate/

By: gobsmacked

gobsmacked — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:38:59 +0000

The tragedy is, the Maori Party have broken a basic rule of Politics 101: use up your political capital on your own priorities. Not digging some other party out of a hole.

The Maori Party was always going to face flak if it wanted to advance its goals, especially from “mainstream” middle NZ. But what have they achieved? A flag?

The Foreshore & Seabed has been reviewed and consulted and discussed and no law has changed. Nothing will happen until well into 2010. Will the Maori Party hold together until then?

By: ParkDrive

ParkDrive — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:23:53 +0000

Hone wouldn’t vote for it I don’t think

Tigger :

By: Draco T Bastard

Draco T Bastard — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:15:52 +0000

Well, the MP certainly have a different definition of integrity than pretty much everyone else then.

EDIT:
Pretty sure this will spell the end of the MP actually. They’re proving themselves untrustworthy to the majority of their supporters.

By: tc

tc — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:13:29 +0000

Remove Hone from the picture, dangle the MP re-entry card carrot for him, but keep his block vote was a sly tactic.

MP must surely realise that Turei/Sharples aren’t fit to lead them if it’s come to this so time to run a book on who sits next to the ineffective Sharples with a limo and nice office next term…..oh assuming they form part of a coalition that is.

By: Bored

Bored — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:12:50 +0000

In Churchill’s terms now is the “hour of crisis’. It’s pretty obvious to anybody with half a brain that to commit to a lasting solution to the ETS means a consensus is required across all political parties. This requires that John Key stands up and acts like a statesman, and leads a non party based discussion and vote by the whole of the house. Goff needs to invite him to do so and support him through this.