The Maori Party is in danger of losing any respect they might have otherwise enjoyed. They claim to speak for Maoridom so let’s first turn the spotlight on that. The reality is they polled just 1.17% in the Party vote (down 0.01% from that three years previously) and won two seats. They can only claim to speak for themselves and indeed, all the other four parties represented in the house have as many MPs of Maori descent as they do (and Labour and the Greens more). The Maori Party represents the essentially disaffected rump of Maoridom …. nothing less and certainly nothing more.
I guess I can put up with them defying dress standards and wearing silly hats in the House although one might have expected the Speaker to take a less charitable view of that having said that he expects Members to obey the rules requiring MPs to conform…
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