The Maori Party is investigating a complaint against MP Hone Harawira, laid by his own parliamentary colleagues.
The complaint, laid by Te Ururoa Flavell, was supported by co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia, as well as Rahui Katene, party president Pem Bird said.
It related to a column Mr Harawira wrote for the Sunday Star-Times newspaper at the weekend.
Let's get real here; Hone Harawira is a loose cannon, and likely as not always will be. He demonstrated that last year with his taxpayer-funded side-trip to Paris, and his "white motherf@#&ers" affront in the aftermath. He comes from a whanau of firebrands, and he is no exception!
We reckon that like the Pensioner from St Mary's Bay (TPFSMB), Harawira is totally unsuited to life within a political party. There are two ways of doing things; Hone's way, and the wrong way. If only life were so simple!
Politics is all about compromise, which is a word that doesn't feature very high in Hone's consciousness or vocabulary. It's easy to look at issues as black and white, but the reality under an MMP Parliament is that all-too-frequently, deal have to be done. It's a far from ideal system, but for now, it's what we're stuck with.
In the meantime, it will be interesting to see what happens at this weekend's Hone Hui. The Maori Party was founded on opposition to Labour's Foreshore and Seabed legislation, and Harawira was to the forefront of that opposition. He has strong support in Te Tai Tokerau. This could be a defining moment for the Maori Party, or it could mark the start of Hone Harawira forming a party of one.
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Or preferably a party of none. Don't be so sure he would win on his own. If the MP puts up a good candidate people might just find that Hone's support is very much like Saddam's WMD. One great big bluff. Saddam conned the western world and they called his bluff.
I suspect that an election might just see Mr Harawira out on his Harawirarse
"Politics is all about compromise"
What a suck-up.
No wonder you struggle with the ideals of people and parties with integrity!
Hone's shaking up the ossified troughers you so often deride.
Scary aint it!!!
RG - are you saying that the bunch of communists that make up the Greens have integrity?
Dream on.
The Green MPs?
Intregrity?
Part and parcelIt's what irks Actoids the most!
Good manners demands that I ask pdm - are you claiming Act MPs have?
*tries not to smile
RG
Your grasp of politics in the MMP system is shallow by thelooks of your comment. (if it weren't for MMP the Greens wouldn't be in).
Part of the MMP system means that parties have to compromise. It is also part of politics.
Compromise does not mean cop-out, as it would seem from your comment seems to imply.
Compromise does not mean your integrity is lost.
RG - I would back the integrity of ACT (Garrett excpted) ahead of all of the Greens since the inception of MMP.
Rod Donald is the closest the Greens have come to having an MP with integrity and they showed their true colours when they promoted `Red Russel' to be his replacement. Torpedoing Tanchos and Delahunty in the process.
pdm - not Garrett eh!
Why ever not?
He had the complete support of the Act Party, was one of them, fitted in perfectly and was supported by Act's leader, the perky Rodney Hide, even after the disgraceful history was revealed! Where's the integrity in that???
Heather Roy's attempts to unseat Hide, while hugely entertaining, can hardly be described as having integrity, nor can his response. Talking now are they, those two? They are not!
As to your bitter view of the Greens, you are saying nothing other than thata you don't like them. Pffft.
I imagine that you were a defender of Garrett earlier on and therefore your judgement is faulty, so your criticism of the Greens is of no account.
Shallow, whowuddathort?
Look well together, those two words, don't they :-)
You jump in too soon without reading the what's writ.
Inv2 said, ""Politics is all about compromise"
It's not ALL about compromise. Some compromise is required, naturally enough, but politics is a great deal more than that. Integrity is sorely tested when compromise is demanded.
This is my point. I think you missed it altogether.
For pdm :-)
http://robertguyton.blogspot.com/2011/01/politician-gets-off-backside.html
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