This contest is a genuine test of whether these two can ever function together. Labour needs the seats to get close to power. Te Pāti Māori needs to hold them to keep their leverage.
Childish and churlish: that’s the calibre of the man who wants to resume the prime ministership come November.
He built this mess and now he wallows in it. His blanket denials could unravel him, especially if proof emerges. Recall my cardinal political rule: explaining is losing.
Such are the skills of ‘the man who would be king prime minister’.
About the only thing Labour actually delivered last time round was eye-watering debt for the nation and high inflation. If you want more of that then by all means vote Labour.
Given his propensity to shoot from the lip, Willie is well practised in retractions and back tracks.
Pick a standard, Chris: you can’t rail against Trump’s board for including Putin while comfortably ignoring the UN’s roster of human-rights violators. Moral clarity isn’t selective. It’s universal – or it’s just politics masquerading as principle.
Hipkins had his shot as PM and it was a dud. Kiwis saw through the spin then, and they’ll do it again in 2026. Save your breath, Chris. No one’s buying.
Every day the legacy media buries its head, it’s another kick in the guts for those MUMA workers suffering in silence. They’ve abrogated their duty to hold power to account, preferring cosy chats with the powerful over gritty truth-telling.
This is not just a cover-up: it is weapons-grade, with complicit players rewriting history to protect a powerful couple.
Willie Jackson loves to bang on about workers' rights and union power until it threatens to expose his wife's alleged bullying at MUMA. Then he turns into a trespass-issuing tyrant, banning union reps from the marae like some feudal lord protecting his castle.
There have been a few clangers recently. Some are hypocritical, some are laced with irony, some have both and some are straight out misleading.
Willie Jackson has spent his entire career telling Māori to stand tall, to fight the system and to speak truth to power. Right now he’s the one wielding power to silence victims and bust unions...and lawyer up for anyone who dares speak out.
Matt McCarten drops some astonishing bombs about a senior MP who has run a cover up to protect his missus. McCarten doesn’t hold back and torches friendships of 40 years because “it is the right thing to do”.
