I'm voting for the Maroi Party

**ManDownUnder** · 2nd September 2005, 11:17

I saw on the debate last night - there was a question asking "Yes or No -... some question here"

They went to Winnie "Let me Just tell you this *click brain off*"

Nation, Labour etc all went on for a number of minutes, each moving the conversation back to promote their core ideology and ignoring what was asked... UNTIL the guy from the Maori Party was asking.

He simply said - and I quote his answer in it's entirety - "No".

A STRAIGHT ANSWER - I bloody near died. What would happen if they all gave straight answers - good God we'd be able to make an informed choice!

**duckman** · 2nd September 2005, 11:20

Was the question .. "Do you really have any idea what you'll do if you actually got voted in .... " OR

"Have you ever done a days work in your life" ....

**ManDownUnder** · 2nd September 2005, 11:25

Originally Posted by duckman

Was the question .. "Do you really have any idea what you'll do if you actually got voted in .... " OR

"Have you ever done a days work in your life" ....

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No but you nearly had to get your arse downstairs and clean my desk... I just about sprayed my coffee on the keyboard when I read the comeback...

bastard

**Quasievil** · 2nd September 2005, 11:26

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

I saw on the debate last night - there was a question asking "Yes or No -... some question here"

They went to Winnie "Let me Just tell you this *click brain off*"

Nation, Labour etc all went on for a number of minutes, each moving the conversation back to promote their core ideology and ignoring what was asked... UNTIL the guy from the Maori Party was asking.

He simply said - and I quote his answer in it's entirety - "No".

A STRAIGHT ANSWER - I bloody near died. What would happen if they all gave straight answers - good God we'd be able to make an informed choice!

please dont mate please could you imagine it, maoris greens and labour the country would be beyond fucked it would be destroyed

**Jonty** · 2nd September 2005, 11:27

Originally Posted by duckman

Was the question .. "Do you really have any idea what you'll do if you actually got voted in .... " OR

"Have you ever done a days work in your life" ....

You could certainly fill a thread guessing that question!! Probably a bit like that emial that has been circulating that allows you to create a National billboard - it had me amused for hours. Maybe we should geta thread going with Kb'r billboards!!

**ManDownUnder** · 2nd September 2005, 11:29

Originally Posted by Quasievil

please dont mate please could you imagine it, maoris greens and labour the country would be beyond fucked it would be destroyed

Yeah but at least I KNOW it will be - I mean the guy was direct and possibly honest!

**Lias** · 2nd September 2005, 11:30

Yeah but at least I KNOW it will be - I mean the guy was direct and possibly honest!

He's a politician.. Honest and politician arnt not words normally associated with each other.

**Quasievil** · 2nd September 2005, 11:36

Originally Posted by ManDownUnder

Yeah but at least I KNOW it will be - I mean the guy was direct and possibly honest!

how do you think he would answer the rights to foreshore, fishing quota allowances, acces to land as well as resource management policy issues
just to name a few let alone things like Moari television, moari language in schools sovereignty issues and perhaps even special moari organisations for this that and the other thing as well
And whats this about Moari getting access to super before anyone else because they on average die 8 years before other NZrs I mean men die before women on average so by that rational men should get the super before women
the party is a joke

**kerryg** · 2nd September 2005, 11:36

[QUOTE=ManDownUnder]
He simply said - and I quote his answer in it's entirety - "No".

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I saw that ...and to be brutally honest I thought it because he didn't really have a clue (he seemed startled by the question and then momentarily puzzled and then just blurted out "no"). Seemed like it could just as easily have been "yes". Maybe I'm doing the guy a disservice because the other things he said generally seemed to have a bit more thought behind them, even if there was not a lot of obvious detail or substance...but I suspect if he had been asked to explain the reason for not lowering tax petrol there would have a long and embarrassing silence......

Lame-arse of the night has to be Rodney Hide though. Like a bloody cracked record. Cullen and Keys were bloody good, all credit to both of them. Well informed, credible...damn hard to pick between the two of 'em IMHO

**MikeL** · 2nd September 2005, 11:48

Originally Posted by Quasievil

please dont mate please could you imagine it, maoris greens and labour the country would be beyond fucked it would be destroyed

hah! try thinking outside the square... I know it takes an effort of the imagination... Maoris, Green, Labour...push button, get knee-jerk reaction...

O.K., the country would be different, but what exactly would be destroyed?
The environment? Social justice? A pleasant, healthy lifestyle?
Or just your opportunities for exploitation and self-enrichment?

**Lou Girardin** · 2nd September 2005, 11:55

Originally Posted by MikeL

hah! try thinking outside the square... I know it takes an effort of the imagination... Maoris, Green, Labour...push button, get knee-jerk reaction...

O.K., the country would be different, but what exactly would be destroyed?
The environment? Social justice? A pleasant, healthy lifestyle?
Or just your opportunities for exploitation and self-enrichment?

Self-determination? Initiative?

**Beemer** · 2nd September 2005, 11:57

Considering how many of the Maori Party candidates have come out in support of Donna Awatere-Huata and her theft of at least $80,000 of funds from Maori children, I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole, not that I ever intended to before anyway. If their attitude is that most Maoris are in jail/unemployed/ill/grossly overweight/unintelligent/insert whatever you want because they are Maori and it's a white man's world, they can piss off back to the grass huts and moas they had when we arrived and stop sticking their bloody hands out.

**duckman** · 2nd September 2005, 11:58

Originally Posted by Beemer

Considering how many of the Maori Party candidates have come out in support of Donna Awatere-Huata and her theft of at least $80,000 of funds from Maori children, I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole, not that I ever intended to before anyway. If their attitude is that most Maoris are in jail/unemployed/ill/grossly overweight/unintelligent/insert whatever you want because they are Maori and it's a white man's world, they can piss off back to the grass huts and moas they had when we arrived and stop sticking their bloody hands out.

Mmmmmm.... Moa's ....is it nearly lunch time??

**ManDownUnder** · 2nd September 2005, 11:59

Originally Posted by MikeL

hah! try thinking outside the square... I know it takes an effort of the imagination... Maoris, Green, Labour...push button, get knee-jerk reaction...

O.K., the country would be different, but what exactly would be destroyed?
The environment? Social justice? A pleasant, healthy lifestyle?
Or just your opportunities for exploitation and self-enrichment?

I'd start the answer to this question with something like "Racially selected ownership and control of all coast assets"