Cheers Hone, you arsehole, I really wanted to spend $500k on a by-election

[tri boy]

Mickey Mouse got a Hone Harawera watch for his birthday,
Honest.

[Ocean1]

mainstream media have managed to paint them as total raving arseholes because they don't fit into their perceptions, and this has been bought wholesale by the general uninformed public

So it's got nothing to do with the fact that they are in fact total raving arseholes?

You learn something new every day...

[short-circuit]

They'll have my party vote come November 26th - the Greens should just amalgamate to provide a more robust centre left option. Minto, Bradford, Hone, Sykes and Nandor - good combo

[trustme]

You missed the bit about the contract, signed up to by Cullen and Clark, being binding then? Good job we never let those idiots negotiate on any big deals eh...

Imagine what they might have paid for Tranzrail.

Hone is a Ngapuhi , never trust a Ngapuhi. Mudguards, shiny on top shit underneath.
Maori party was going OK & then who undermines it , one of their own , a Ngapuhi running true to type.

[SPman]

Maori party was going OK & then who undermines it , .

That would be Pita and co, I imagine. Jumping into the tub with National and ACT wasn't exactly what most people who voted for them expected - and their performance since then has been excrable.

[trustme]

That would be Pita and co, I imagine. Jumping into the tub with National and ACT wasn't exactly what most people who voted for them expected - and their performance since then has been excrable.

Maori party was formed as a response to Labour's foreshore & seabed act. Had they gone wiith Labour there would have been no change , going with the Nats got them some change , not all that some might wish for but way better than Labour was offering .
The whole Waitangi settlement process was also kicked off by the Nats.. Maori have atually done better under a Nat govt than with Labour governments who have taken them for granted believing they had nowhere else to go.

Hone will be all talk but will find himself without any real influence no matter who is in power. Too much of a loose cannon to be relied on.

[scumdog]

The guys is a racist, I hate him.

Damned straight.

Why don't Bradford, Minto and Harawera just call themselves Huey Dewey and Louie and be done with it??

[scumdog]

Minto, Bradford, Hone, Sykes and Nandor - good combo

What as, the Moron-R-Us drongo touring combo??

[Oakie]

The good thing is that with Hone causing a by-election, he has broken his agreement with the Maori Party who will now be able to stand a candidate against him in the General Election. Without a Maori Party candidate, Hone would have stood a very good chance of winning and then taking 4 others with him into parliament. Scary concept.

[trustme]

He's going to target ' intelligent maori voters'. This I have to watch

[Oakie]

He's going to target ' intelligent maori voters'. This I have to watch

Nah. He'd be better off going for the stupid ones.

[Fatt Max]

All I want to know is when do I get my guns back.......

[Oakie]

All I want to know is when do I get my guns back.......

What? Did an iwi renege on a land for guns deal with you?

[puddytat]

Nice big lines being drawn in the sand.....simplify it for the simpletons.

On the far left we have well, the far left.

On the far right we have Don "The Nixon" Brash....

[EJK]