Love it!

Welcome to the blog gd. aint seen you b4

I wanna hear more.

A new young vibrant forward thinking Maori PI movement that live in the 21st Century and ses partnership with other ethnic groups as the way to raise the living standards is whats needed.

To use that oldie A group thats wants to bake a bigger cake rather than just getting a bigger slice of a diminishing cake.

She is such a dynamic polynesian writer giving the public perspectives they would never receive from european journo’s

Her input is so needed for balance and I will even say, originality.

I am shocked at Tane’s criticism, buit still believe him to be Maori because Maori don’t care about any other input but their own.
So narrow, unimaginative and untravelled.

Unfortunately, in saying all this, Tapu is educated and on the ball.
Her political insights are far deeper than many of her fellow PI’s.

The political education of her people may be a bit slow for 2008 as a whole picture, but the question is, who can they turn to. Who really has their interests understood comprehensively; the Maori party?

I would like to see Maori and PI’s come together poltically, it would shake the beehive and could prove a huge catalyst in changing the paradigm of politics in this country. The very thing Labour is trying to subvert. They see the projections and are moving to stiffle the electorate as all cultural sectors of it are having the scales removed from their eyes.

Tapu and her educated PI colleagues know. what about the 100,000 others who don’t know who to turn to????

Tane, is it your opinion that everyone should be treated equal regardless of race? Do you agree that there should be one law for everyone, or seperate laws based on racial discrimination?

No Sam, Brash touched on a topic that resonated with a very large portion of the public, to discard it as dog whistling is very lame really. Or are you calling a vast percentage of the voting public bigotted just because they want evryone treated the same?

Two Fijian netballers have withdrawn from the FIJI team for the World Champs due to family connections in the military – have just blogged about it here:

http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2007/11/thanks-helen-and-winston.html

Yeah, I’m not sure I agree wtih Wat including Labour in that list – but I think he means its a party that runs on polices rather than on dog-whistling and wedge issues.

The PI pastors etc are very powerful people and a word to their flocks that the Socialists should not get the tick would stuff the South Auckland vote

If they were why are they proposing Tax Cuts, when Ms Clark used vitriolic statements denouncing them?

Why is it also OK for a Labour MP to punch another without recourse?

Just because one percent of the country have those veiws, that is enough in your eyes to label the whole speech racist? Or are you saying all National Party supporters are racist?

http://kiwiblogblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/farrar-thin-end-of-the-wedge/

[DPF: Oh yes poor little diddums Sammy. I did that nasty nasty trick of quoting a newspaper columnist. Wow that is such dirty tactics. I mean next I'll start quoting what people said on TV. That's just gutter disgusting politics isn't it.]

What were those examples Don Brash’s team came up with of Maori privilege? Oh, that’s right… a school debating team and pretty much zilch. You’ve been suckered mate, and you’re still recycling lines months after the National Party abandoned them for lack of evidence and media ridicule. Keep up the good work.

(btw, I’ve never bought the idea that the labour movement is, in itself, purely about with heading off the revolution. But I do agree that if unions and the welfare state didn’t exist then capitalism would be unsustainable, and that libertarians and ACT Party extremists are digging their own graves. It’s an interesting topic, but I don’t think capitalism’s going anywhere in a hurry so I’d rather work to gradually reform it for the better. Drinking brandy and waiting for the revolution while the workers suffer ain’t really my style.)