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# Especially when they vote (with overwhelming support) to give themselves a pay rise.
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 6:10, archived)
# Yeah, that just happened over here. AGAIN.
 
www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000C0E1D-60A8-156D-893983027AF1010F

RAAAAAAAAARGRRRRRGGGRGRGHHH!! $122,500 BASE FUCKING SALARY?!
FOR WHAT? SLEEPING THROUGH PARLIAMENT? BOOZY LUNCHES IN THE BEEHIVE? FREE FUCKING LOCAL TRAVEL? MOTHERFUCKKERJJFGKLKLA:K!
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 6:14, archived)
# Bloody Hell!
they're all a bunch of bastards!
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 6:28, archived)
# Considering how generally incompetent they are, yes.
 
Fortunately we now have the Mori Party, and I know they're not slacking around.
For once the guy I voted for actually got in.. Pita Sharples for Tmaki Makaurau (whatchoo call it, urban? whatchoo call it, garage?).

This is a neat little site:
theyworkforyou.co.nz/mps/pita_sharples

Pfft. Having looked more closely I now see it's run by one my old school-friends I haven't seen in over ten years. Sweet!
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 6:36, archived)
# Interesting - are they generally left of centre or right?
Haha - well i guess it's a small world after all...
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 6:43, archived)
# Funny you should ask..
 
For a long, long time our Labour party (left-ish) has counted on support from Mori communities, many of whom went and voted for NZ First when MMP came in. Some went back to Labour but there's huge support for this (not-so) new party now.

Many of their supporters assumed they'd be left-leaning as well, but they've resolutely refused to back either wing on principle, and talked to both about forming a government in the last election, despite racist campaigning from the (then) National (right-er) leader.

The wikipedia article's not too bad:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mori_Party
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 6:51, archived)
# Interesting article
Our Green Party could learn from them. The Greens say they are independent of both sides. But there's a saying that they're like Watermelons - Green on the outside and bright red on the inside.

Having said that - they do tend to keep the bastards honest...
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 6:55, archived)
# Excellent.
 
Our Green Party is just a bunch of aging hippy dipshits, completely under Labour's thumb..
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 6:57, archived)
# It seems that our politicians are not much different to yours
(I helped save b3ta! BargeArse Maker of fine Trouser Trumpets since 1863, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 7:06, archived)
# Maybe she can afford a toothbrush now.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 7:06, archived)
# She can probably afford a different set of chompers for every day of the year.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 7:08, archived)
# I refuse to believe that she chooses that face.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Tue 5 Dec 2006, 7:16, archived)