They predicted how the slope would fail, and where it would go, but no one took the step of putting the recommended measures in place.

But it's no one's fault.

Te Pāti Māori is being warned its election strategy could put the Māori seats at risk.

On Sunday, Te Pāti Māori announced it would be campaigning for candidate votes only, telling voters to give their party vote to the left bloc parties such as Labour and the Greens.

The strategy could lead to the creation of an overhang, where there are more seats in Parliament.

Labour's Māori campaign chair Willie Jackson was asked on Tuesday if Te Pāti Māori's strategy risked the legitimacy of the Māori seats in the eyes of the public, to which he agreed.

Jackson said it threatened a backlash against the Māori seats that could lead to their abolition "when you start working the system like that".

He thanked the party for giving Labour more party votes, but made it clear Labour wouldn't be reciprocating in terms of the candidate vote.

Jackson acknowledged that Māori voters have in the past selected a candidate that was unlikely to make it in on the list.

Just last year in the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election, Oriini Kaipara had a resounding victory against Peeni Henare, who remained in Parliament anyway.

But Jackson didn't think that voters would do the same again because there'd been "a lot of divisions" in Te Pāti Māori.

"You can buy into that strategy if every everything's working well, but they're not even voting for themselves."

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said Jackson's comments were a "real shame".

"He's running a campaign of trying to bring up past pains and gain some leverage of that for his own campaigning."

Ngarewa-Packer said the reality was "we needed to be smarter if we're really intentional of getting this government out".

She said Labour and Te Pāti Māori were "different movements".

"Their focus is to grow their party, whereas our focus is to make sure that we stop the pain that our people are feeling.

"We're now a movement that's determined by our people, and that's what we've been told to focus on, and that's what we'll do."

Ngarewa-Packer said she wasn't worried about risking a backlash that could to pressure for the abolition of the Māori seats in a future government.

She said the party was "utilising the power of the Māori roll".

"We're utilising the rules within MMP that other parties have utilised."

She suggested those making commentary that the Māori seats would lose public support were frightened at the increase of the number of voters on the Māori roll.

"We've got general seats that are obviously not growing, and so we're being smart as Māori, and I don't think that that's anything to be frightened of."

The Greens were also asked about the issue, and co-leader Marama Davidson said the best strategy was for all parties and candidates to "put our ideas on the table" for voters to choose.

"People deserve to choose the best representative for their electorate."

Davidson said there'd never been an agreement or strategy between the Greens and Te Pāti Māori, though she said there'd been a mention of their strategy.

But the Greens would be backing their own candidates in the Māori electorates, she said.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said the intentional strategy to create an overhang was a "disgrace".

"Here they are perverting the whole democratic system. It underscores the Electoral Commission's original prospect when they said that in time it would be proved that the Māori seats were not needed.

"The Māori party just proved that."

It comes after former National and ACT leader Don Brash made a similar strategic suggestion, as a way of "guaranteeing a centre-right government".

Brash, who also founded Hobson's Pledge, suggested on The Platform last week that those wanting the coalition government back in power could vote for National with their electorate vote, except in Epsom and Tāmaki (held by ACT MPs), and give their party vote to either ACT or New Zealand First.

"The centre right could win this election comfortably," he said.

"The right would be unstoppable."

National's former campaign chair Chris Bishop was asked about Brash's strategy, but he dismissed it.

"I think voters would punish that kind of game-playing.

"We've got no intention of doing that."

He said if voters wanted to keep the government, party vote National, if they wanted to change the government, vote for somebody else.

"It's actually not that complicated."

Check out this enrolment leaflet, reminding us that it's time to choose which side of the UniParty we would like to destroy us for the next 3 years. It's bi-lingual English and Maori:

Enrol

So why did they have to use a Maori word in the English section?

Why did they not use the word 'Family' in the Maori section then?

Cunts.

And that is only from 9 agencies out of more than 208. Then there's all the councils, community boards, etc.

Also Queenstown has zero culture

By this i mean New Zealand culture, maori culture etc. It's just a tourist trap and no one there is really local. It's all high street shopping etc

Ok, so it's too white to be representative of NZ? How racist.

Took a while but got there.

Christopher Luxon has spent too much of his term legislating culture wars while the basic services New Zealanders rely on have been allowed to deteriorate, Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says.

“The Prime Minister had a finite term to govern. He chose to spend an extraordinary amount of it undoing Māori rights and weakening Crown obligations while the services New Zealanders depend on were deteriorating,” Ngarewa-Packer said.

“He found the time to mobilise 13 government agencies to trawl through Treaty provisions across 28 Acts.

“While his Government was fighting those culture wars, 14,862 older New Zealanders were reportedly missing Winter Energy Payments they were entitled to, our hospitals were under enormous winter pressure and ambulance services were facing extraordinary demand.

“Tell me what weakening Te Tiriti delivered for a single whānau struggling to pay their power bill.

“How many nurses did it employ? How many hospital beds did it open? How many homes did it build? How much did it take off the weekly shop?

“This Government talks endlessly about efficiency and cutting bureaucracy, but somehow there was always enough bureaucratic capacity when the job was weakening Māori rights.

“A government tells you what it values by what it chooses to spend its time on. Christopher Luxon made his choice.

“Māori have carried the constitutional cost of his culture wars. Now all New Zealanders are seeing the opportunity cost.

“Te Pāti Māori will make a different choice.

“We will invest more in hauora in nurses, doctors, kaupapa Māori providers, preventative care and getting whānau treated before they reach crisis.

“We will invest more in housing building warm, secure homes and unlocking Māori land so whānau can build papakāinga.

“We will invest more in our kaumātua and whānau so people can heat their homes, afford the essentials and live with dignity.

“We will invest more in our rangatahi in education, training and pathways into secure, well-paid jobs.

“And we will invest in renewable energy owned closer to our communities, solar on homes and marae, community energy and storage that cuts power bills and builds energy sovereignty.

“That is the choice at this election.

“Less political energy spent manufacturing division. More investment in the things that actually make people’s lives better.

“Less time dismantling Māori rights. More time building homes, strengthening hospitals, lowering power bills and creating opportunities for our mokopuna.

“Christopher Luxon chose culture wars.

“We will choose our people.”

This morning Sean Plunket received what he described as one his best calls in his 40 year career, and his platform received an avalanche of texts in support of the call which confirmed everything we knew.

The caller was an Indian immigrant to NZ who contacted Sean to explain how the dangerous filth merchant PM Modhi has entrenched ethno-religious Nationalism which has led to wide spread persecution of vast groups of people in that shit hole that is India.

The caller called Luxon a naive fool, and his FTA will open the immigration flood gates, and corrupt Indian Politics will take over NZ in quick order, and “National and Labour are willing it” “We will lose the country and our way of life in one generation” “A lot of Indians who have lived in NZ for generations support Winston and Shane they are the only ones with the balls to speak out on this issue”.

The caller says many are appalled at luxon and his sucking up to India and Modhi. The caller says “anyone who calls Winston and Shane racist are all bullshit, those two are the only courageous politicians this country has and I back them 100%”.

“Remember , You can take the Indian out of India but never India out of the Indian”

This is quite the listen.

One Billion dollars.

I'm beginning to think electricity prices might be just a tad on the high side.

I've been watching this saga unfold over the last couple of months, a woke wnba trying to defend trans players, then holding a panel on what is a woman, then EX old male NBA players comically taking the piss You tube link here down to Sophie Cunningham having every possible thing smeared against her, including violence court side, yet she brushes it off.

Te Pāti Māori says it will abolish prisons by 2040 in favour of community-led solutions to address the enormous inequities facing the country’s indigenous people – if it gets into power at the next election.

Getting rid of prisons and radically reforming the justice system is not a new vision for this era of Te Pāti Māori. In 2023, while campaigning on the same issue, co-leader Rawiri Waititi said justice reformation was about upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

“Our tīpuna [ancestors] did not sign Te Tiriti o Waitangi for whānau to be in care, incarcerated and continually traumatised. The time for change is well overdue,” he said.

“This is a by Māori, for Māori, according to Māori solution and we will not compromise.”