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31st
DEC
Twitter stoush between MPs
Posted by karere under Maori News
A war of words has broken out on Twitter this morning after National MP Tau Henare was listed in a Herald on Sunday poll as one of the 10 MPs who should have performed better this year.
Political columnist Matt McCarten ranked Mr Henare as the sixth MP who should have performed better than he did.
“Humiliatingly hawking himself for the Speaker’s job to his political enemies because his own party wouldn’t support him. When you started life as a working class hero and morph into someone who publicly offered to sweep the floor for Don Brash, there’s nothing else to say. Referred to these days as Uncle Tau. Sad and embarrassing,” Mr McCarten wrote.
Mr Henare, who is chairman of the Maori Affairs Committee, this morning tweeted about being called Uncle Tau, “like me calling him [Matt McCarten] that back in the 80s 4 not s’portng Maori unionists,” he tweeted.
Labour MP Trevor Mallard quickly responded, suggesting Mr McCarten had “progressed while you have regressed”.
This prompted Mr Henare to respond: “yeah you would know I spose, how many schools did you close? Maori ones too. Ah well. We all can’t be saints”.
St Stephen’s - a Maori boarding school - was closed in 2000, after Mr Mallard announced the Labour government would cut funding.
Mr Mallard, who was Education Minister at the time, responded that Maori schools closed because middle-class urban Maori chose not to send their children to them.
Mr Henare, who was Maori Affairs Minister from 1996 to 1999 and Associate Education Minister from 1998 to 1999, said he introduced a scholarship programme to send rural Maori to top schools, but Mr Mallard closed that down too.
He then said Mr Mallard blamed Maori for the closure of St Stephen’s.
“…hard to reopen without support from leading whanau willing to send there kids there and they aren’t”.
Earlier this month Mr Henare gave up on his ambition of becoming the Speaker next year after the Maori Party pulled its support for him.
- APNZ
By Hana Garrett-Walker
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Maybe one day these guys, Tua and Mallard will look up into space or maybe spare the time to read the data or see the pictures sent back by the Kepler Space Telescope. This new scope has since deployment in 2010 detected something like 100,000,000, potential Earth like worlds just within our Galaxy alone. Maybe just maybe for the New Year one or the other of them will drop their superior to the other attitude and know the whole human race is a mere gnat in the scheme of things, and this constant jousting to get one over the other is childish. Just maybe the white power boys who are hell bent on oppressing anyone with brown, yellow or black skin can wake up to they’re insane delusion that they are NOT the greatest thing since sliced bread in the Universe. Hopefully the latter can finally give up their poor me delusion to and we can all sit down smoke the peace pipe and plan a new future among the stars. Far better thing to do than aspiring to be an All Black or a job a K Mart. Anyway we don’t seem to be able to save the planet so maybe just maybe we can sit down and save a few of our own so they can make go of it among the new worlds the we now KNOW are there for the inhabiting. JESUS did say ”I go to prepare a place for you” and didn’t HE also say ”in my FATHERS HOUSE are many mansions”. And Dang ain’t it a pretty Big House or rather Universe and heck that’s only what we can see with our eyes let alone in the other invisible light spectrums. Thus I do think its time we all left the Bullshit behind and took so time out to look above and beyond our petty issues here upon the surface of this world and begin the real journey of life and return from whence we came–The Stars. You Maori well know the TRUTH of this story already as handed down by your ancestors and it is our pale faced child who knows not. So lets be gentle with them. PS leave the bad attitudes behind or we might run into some issues out there.