"Tomorrow, I expect that the protests will be smaller. But if Key had stayed he could have projected a defiant image as even Sharples and Turia have reportedly not left the area yet. However, he chose to run off like a chicken. Perhaps radical Maoridom have pointed out another of Key's achilles heels - that when challenged directly he doesn't like it. He chooses to hide rather than confront the fact that both Maori and Pakeha are opposed to asset or land sales of any description."
Chris Ford, blogging at Voxy has some harsh words for the Prime Minister, whom he regards as not so much rooster, as hen.
3 comments:
To be fair you are generalising. I am Maori and Euro, and a mainstream Kiwi and I'm not opposed to the asset sales. And I wouldnt hang around to watch a bunch of half wits show their butt and fire guns at flags, or throw dirt, or eggs or what ever.
Protesing at Waitangi is about as meaningless as camping on the reserve in Invercargill. Most people jst think your a bludger and never give two hoots about the actual meaning of the protest.
Nothing to fear then, Animal, from the protest. We shouldn't take today's actions as an indication that Key has fallen out with Maori. Even the abrasive reception he got from Maori authority, where they dismissed his attempts to explain away his duplicitous behaviour around the removal of Section 9 of the SOE Act, should not be construed as a dive in his standing with Maori, eh.
Oh Robert!
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