Banana Mana

If the Maori Party cared about their mana, they would dump the banana.

Monkey With Typewriter explains why:

Single-handedly he has turned the public perception of the Maori Party away from being a nascent political party with enough credibility to sit with the Government at cabinet, and returned it to the position of glorified single-issue pressure group.

And the single policy issue is nothing more than demanding a race based political system, social system, welfare system and legal system to support arbitrary wealth distribution, as this will somehow change Maori fortunes.

"We are generally dumber, sicker, poorer, more pissed, drugged and pregnant than any other group of people in New Zealand. We know the problem, but what's the solution? Well let's repeal the Foreshore and Seabed and put the F&S into Maori title. We can be dumber, sicker, poorer, more pissed, drugged and pregnant at the beach. That'll make all the difference." (Kelvin Davis Maori Northland Labour MP on Harawira, quoted from MWT)