By The Spinoff
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Don’t post. Don’t do pub talk. And don’t declare it the year of growth if Donald Trump is the president.
Celebrations for a big and bodacious Oriini Kaipara byelection victory were shortlived for Te Pāti Māori thanks to Tākuta Ferris’s decision to double down on a social media post aghast at a multicultural group of Labour supporters for Peeni Henare on the campaign trail. That was compounded by party president John Tamihere entering the breach, and a mysterious reallocation of the role of party whip.
In a new Gone By Lunchtime, Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire talk through the fallout and ask what it means for TPM and their relationship with Labour.
Plus: a bigger-than-expected contraction in the economy has seen GDP shrink by 0.9%: is the government running out of time for the weather to change and was it a good idea to bet everything on growth with the jeopardy of a Trump White House was plain to see?
In other defeat from the jaws of victory news, New Zealand First’s new champion Stuart Nash enjoyed about 10 minutes of acclaim before putting his foot in it.
And as Winston Peters gives David Seymour yet another dressing down, what explains the government’s refusal to simply announce its position on a Palestinian state?
(Oh, and we issue a formal apology for propagating disinformation in last week’s audiocast.)
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