New Zealand's small population makes politics particularly fertile ground for power-hungry egos. Combined with the incestuousness of MMP, implications for the entire country may ride on past rejections, and subsequent development of further destructive co-dependent relationships. That's kind of fitting. The story of many personal lives.
I don't know when the jungle drum started beating but its rhythm picked up tempo very quickly. Radio Live host, Sean Plunket must have kicked off the public conversation about JT (also Radio Live host) joining forces with Winston First this morning. Matthew Hooton continues in the NBR (based on the time and day attributed).
This coupling would be hugely significant. The votes they'd pull are NZ male - 'good blokes' - who feel disenfranchised by feminism; homophobes; xenophobes; nationalists; elder entitilitis addicts; women who swoon over handsome Maori men; AND plenty of good folk to boot.
Ex-politicians who want to return make me distrustful. In the current climate, the money isn't bad. Importantly, it's steady. Tamihere can argue his altruistic leanings, his vocation to improve the lives of Maori, but his return to parliament isn't necessary to further that cause.
Under National, a couple of really important developments should have progressed Tamihere's urban Maori authority endeavours - whanau ora and charter schools. These initiatives deliver power into Maori hands. Nothing Paula Bennett knows or says is any different to what Tamihere was saying as a Labour MP. However, she did cut off some Waipareira funding(? Not sure what the court resolution was in that battle.)
If the rumour that Tamihere is talking to Winston has substance, what is it that Tamihere wants that NZ First can give him?
Or is this whole episode about Radio Live making the news instead of reporting it?
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Tamihere's main problem is that he lives in a fantasy world where 1800's Maori were friendly, peaceful and got shafted by white men that abused them and stole their stuff. While some parts of that fantasy have elements of truth the blanket rejection of the reality of those years makes him another Willie Jackson and Hone the Horrible. He comes across as less radical but his alliances rest with the Maori elite and tribalism.
what is it that Tamihere wants that NZ First can give him?
An absolutely certain cabinet post after the next election.
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