The dreams of electoral success live on in the New Zealand far-left despite the facts of the 2011 general election.
Hone Harawira is running again in the 2017 general election so the left is getting its hopes up despite his abysmal failure in the 2011 general election.
In the 2011 general election, Hone was assured of re-election therefore any party vote for him could bring in list MPs.
I was deeply surprised how badly Hone and his friends on the far left performed. His party, Mana Movement won 1.1% of the party vote. That was not enough to bring in another MP.
When the Manna Movement had millions of dollars to spend on campaigning it 1.2% of the party vote but on a lost his seat because of his association with a German billionaire facing extradition. This is why the 2011 New Zealand election is the proper test of the size of the far left vote in New Zealand.
When Hone and Mana had a clean run for parliament, the hard left in New Zealand made up of him, Annette Sykes, Sue Bradford and John Minto got hardly any more votes that the people they know directly on social media and protest rallies and an assured vote from their mums.
There simply is not a far left of any size in New Zealand. Hone proved it.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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