- Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Rawiri Waititi, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer miss key Budget 2025 debate, speeches
‘Didn’t bother to show up’: Te Pāti Māori co-leaders miss key Budget debate
Author Jamie Ensor , Publish Date Fri, 23 May 2025, 2:53pm
The question: Why?
Why is this story not headlined “Ha Ha You Fucking Idiots: These People Represent YOU!”?
With the sub-heading: Vote Thoughtfully Next Time.
No Minister 
But that’s not the point so it’s no use appealing to it.
TPM exist to smash the system, so every piece of insult and contempt and refusal to obey the system is to be desired, and obviously by their supporters as well. They want all the “Settlors” land back – or as much as they can get short of a civil war – plus their own Maori education, healthcare and even welfare systems. Ultimately their own government.
With the caveat that most or all of it will continue to be funded by the State that exists now, of which they already have a working example via their snouts being stuck in the current Parliamentary trough.
They’d likely be shocked, surprised and bereft if it did collapse, leaving them holding the reins, but that’s grifters for you.