Your old mate is sceptical and reckons, come the next election, Labour and their Green mates will have to burn a different bridge if they really want to retake the Beehive: cut ties with the openly racist extremists they were holding hands with at Election 2023 and may again in 2026 – Te Pāti Māori.
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Wednesday, 31 July 2024 14:25
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OPINION: After a testy six years between Labour and farming, followed by a sound trouncing in all the rural electorates in the last election, Labour has been doing a full-court charm offensive, trying to build relationships with the various agri leadership groups – rebuilding bridges burned to the waterline during their term in power, when they and the Greens were extremely antagonistic towards farmers.
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