why is nobody talking about the sub-text/’real’ story around this harawira/maori party brouhaha..?
namely..that harawira..for some time..has been complaining long and hard about what he sees as the maori party selling out to a rightwing national government..
and given how harawira calls a spade a spade..
you can bet he has been beating the ears of sharples/turia et.al..
and this is what any ’split’ will be over..
not that paris holiday..
and not his jibe at goff..
and i still reckon harawira and sue bradford should team up in a new ‘workers/battlers-party’..
harawira will win his northern maori seat…(and so get to bring in bradford/a team of mp’s ..on his coat-tails..)
it’s a natural mix..bradford/harawira..
their politics mesh well..
they would each bring their own constituency..
hard to see how they would not get both the northern maori seat…and crack 5%..
the cherry on the cake is that they are both from kaitaia/the north..
(i don’t know anything of any personality-issues between the two..)
but to me..on a purely political level..
it’s a no-brainer..
and boy..!..are they/a workers/battlers-party ‘needed’..!
(especially in the north..)
currently all the political parties…are squabbling over that ‘centre-ground..
with even the greens announcing their intentions to squat..
so there is a vacuum there..
a vacuum that could be filled..
and of course..such a party would not have just appeal in the north..
they would have a nation-wide constituency..
