Since seeing Hone Harawira squirm last December as the Government his party supports introduced the 90 day fire at will bill, I have privately suggested he would not see another Christmas within the Maori Party. Can’t imagine he’s felt any better about the party’s position on ACC ‘reforms’, its humiliating treatment over Maori Television’s RWC bid or the failure to secure Maori representation on the Auckland Super City council.
Only 7 weeks to go, but his public bollocking today over his Paris side-trip by party co-leader Tariana Turia is only enhancing that prediction. For her to be so publicly mana-reducing without having spoken to him privately, speaks volumes about the tensions in the relationship. Something more than an expletive-filled email has to blow.
n0exit, you made a great one-liner to describe maori today as’holier-than-thou’. Absolurtely succinct.
Their leaders lost ALL intergrity and respect as far as I am concerned when they tries to claim the ‘airwaves’ for web band-width some time ago. This was around the same time as the almost equally ludicrous and insulting ‘foreshore and sea-bed’ claim. Talk about having a laugh at the Pakeha.
And here’s my one liner on the whole Hone issue, ‘actions speak louder than words’.