Fuck off you patronising twat and get a life.

Hopefully someone will come up with a solution..

I already posted mine in another thread.

Shane Jones and Hone Harawira for the win. The moderate and the radical. Maori starting with the far north would unite behind them on a labour ticket given Keys bungling of anything maori related. They are whanaunga after all and blood is thicker than water.

It’s just a matter of time before Hone pulls the pin on Turia and Sharples.

Perhaps the problem is that you mistake Māori poltics and Māori political loyalties, with their strong communitarian elements, for a sort of brown socialism. This is a common misconception, but it is just that — a misconception.

That having been said, I agree that the past five years have been an enormous missed opportunity for the NZ left — though I see this as being predominantly Labour’s doing. Turia’s dislike of Clark is not in the slightest bit “unnatural” given the fact that Clark led the biggest single expropriation of Māori rights and resources of the latter part of that century, and even now, Labour doesn’t seem to have figured out where it went wrong.

Labour has historically treated Māori as an electoral ATM — votes out, occasional policy in. They are deeply in debt, and Māori have — more than seventy years after the original alliance with Rātana — have signalled that they may restrict Labour’s line of credit. The sooner Labour realises that they need to make good on this debt, the better — for the country as well as the party. A Labour/Māori/Green coalition would be a genuine political force to be reckoned with — but it won’t happen until Labour realises where its loyalties lie.

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I sincerely wish the left would give up on the notion of viewing Maaori as simply another type of Pakeha we are unique peoples fighting for the right to exist as separate peoples.

Just don’t forget where you came from, the roots of your culture, language and traditions and that you’re part of a wider peoples ( pun intended). In return we as polynesians wont forget you were here first and therefore our hosts…so umm whats for dinner ?

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Poverty is high amongst Maori but also other ethnic groups as well. If it was lessening poverty and increasing life opportunities that was the expressed mission, then there would be policy changes to tailor it to different groups Maori amongst them, rather than presenting it as a “Maori exclusive” program.

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The left is as bad as the right in the treatment it accords to things Maaori. The aspirations of tangata whenua are labelled “race-based” and hard fought gains are described as “preferential.”

What we are demanding and what we shall continue to fight for is recognition of our Treaty rights – as depicted in the Te Tiriti o Waitangi (not the English version). But then, even the English version and the principles derived therefrom have yet to be fully comprehended and thus implemented by successive governments of either persuasion.

I sincerely wish the left would give up on the notion of viewing Maaori as simply another type of Pakeha – we are unique peoples fighting for the right to exist as separate peoples.