Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 7, 2024 5:04:17 GMT 12
PROTESTS GOING OFF HALF PIE
New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones says the Māori Party is selling its supporters short.
Mr Jones says he noted the large turn-out of young people on last week’s Budget day protests, but the reality is too many Māori are crossing the Tasman because they don’t see economic prospects here for them or their whānau.
“They’re fighting battles that belong in the 1990s. They’re fighting battles where they feel the pie we need to carve up to sustain the nation is finite. We’ve got to expand the economic pie. You can’t do it if you’re an island unto yourself and a lot of the rhetoric guiding these marches in my view is the rhetoric of fighting about a diminishing pie.....
waateanews.com/2024/06/05/protests-going-off-half-pie/
New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones says the Māori Party is selling its supporters short.
Mr Jones says he noted the large turn-out of young people on last week’s Budget day protests, but the reality is too many Māori are crossing the Tasman because they don’t see economic prospects here for them or their whānau.
“They’re fighting battles that belong in the 1990s. They’re fighting battles where they feel the pie we need to carve up to sustain the nation is finite. We’ve got to expand the economic pie. You can’t do it if you’re an island unto yourself and a lot of the rhetoric guiding these marches in my view is the rhetoric of fighting about a diminishing pie.....
waateanews.com/2024/06/05/protests-going-off-half-pie/