Internet/Mana Party

[Oakie]

I thought my indigenous brothers would have learned by now. Beware of smiling white men offering gifts in exchange for what they have. I guess $250,000 is the equivalent of a few muskets and blankets 160 years ago.

I'm no supporter of the Mana Party but I feel a bit sorry for them. They were earnest in what they believed in now seem to have become star-struck by the smiling German.

I wonder where Sue Bradford will go now.

Discuss.

[Akzle]

im going to elect them. Simply to piss you old white fucks off.

*9/10ths of your post was irrelevant.

**make that 10/10ths.

[Laava]

im going to elect them. Simply to piss you old white fucks off.

*9/10ths of your post was irrelevant.

**make that 10/10ths.

That is how a democracy works! Now you're getting it!

[Hitcher]

How long before he becomes Hone Dotmaoridotnz?

[Stylo]

Laila Harre reportedly about to be announced as the new leader of the Internet-Mana party.

They have a party name and a leader now ( to be announced officially ) who's an extreme left wing extremist and a union party affiliate, nothing more and has done nothing except complain in all the time she was on the stage.

No policies announced or forthcoming, totally in-line with the Mana/ Internet doctrine which is simply an agenda to remove the John Key Government.

God help us

[Gremlin]

God help us.

That's not even the worst part...

There will be people voting for them

edit: On the bright side, I'm thinking it's only robbing voters from Labour and Greens (maybe only Greens?)

[R650R]

im going to elect them. Simply to piss you old white fucks off.

*9/10ths of your post was irrelevant.

**make that 10/10ths.

Make that two votes. I used to vote Winston just to protest vote against the other fools.
They will be sleepless in Wellywood about the possibility of dotcoms persona awakening the youth vote, we're one hit viral election them song away from a bigger mess than the Winston tradeoff ever was...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen

[oldrider]

Maoridom taking one step forward (Independant Maori party) and two steps backward! (Maori.Dot.com.money party) Buggar!

[SPman]

No policies announced or forthcoming, totally in-line with the Mana/ Internet doctrine which is simply an agenda to remove the John Key Government.

You don't read very widely, do you.

..Because of confused reporting some people think this arrangement is a merger of Mana and the Internet Party. It isn’t. Instead it’s a strategic alliance (or strategic warfare as a friend puts it) where each party remains separate and independent but we co-operate together to form a group called Internet-Mana which will put forward a joint party list in the election campaign.
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There will be those who say Mana has only gone into this arrangement for the potential campaign money which the Internet Party can provide. However Mana’s priorities for 2014 have always been the Māori electorate seats and we already have the maximum funds we can spend on those campaigns. (In the three months leading up the election only $25,000 is able to be spent on an electorate campaign)
Where the additional resources will help is in the Internet-Mana party vote campaign. Mana on its own would have struggled to run a strong party vote campaign but now a joint campaign committee will oversee and fund this campaign.

Not sure if I like the alliance or not - the only thing they appear to have in common is to get rid of Jonkey - otherwise, a party fighting for the bottom of society, with a bunch of wealthy fatcats seems odd. Interesting if it works out.

[SMOKEU]

Vote ALCP.

[AllanB]

Kim.dot.cum has separated from his Asian wife. Guess he is sniffing out some brown meat now.

It will blow up - .dot.cum will have some large (haha) skeletons in his cupboard.

[Oakie]

They will be sleepless in Wellywood about the possibility of dotcoms persona awakening the youth vote,

My worry is that they can promise whatever they like to attract the youth vote knowing full well they'll never have to deliver. "Free skateboards for everyone ... vote for us" ... "Yes you can buy booze at 16 ... just vote for us". Hopefully our youth are a bit more sophisticated than that though. It'll be an interesting election campaign, that's for sure and I reckon the Labour / Greens alliance will now be fighting it on two fronts.

[R650R]

Kim.dot.cum has separated from his Asian wife. Guess he is sniffing out some brown meat now.

It will blow up - .dot.cum will have some large (haha) skeletons in his cupboard.

He is actually quite a dubious character, when the mega upload story first broke and it was worldwide news a lot of the conspiracy sites said something else was up.
He is supremly self confident given the predicament he has been in, like some higher power is backing him...
It remains to be seen what is the bigger picture of him being here is though...

[R650R]

My worry is that they can promise whatever they like to attract the youth vote knowing full well they'll never have to deliver

And that is different from the current political dog and pony show???

[Oakie]

And that is different from the current political dog and pony show???

Because National, Labour, The Greens and NZ First all have a shot at being in the position to make policy after the election so they need to be able to follow through with what they are saying now. Whatever way it falls, Internet / Mana won't be guiding the country's policy so they can say whatver they like ... just like the 1970's 'Mickey Mouse Party' whose main election platform was free cheese for everyone.