Line In Sand on Asset Sales

The Maori Party look set to do a deal with National to support them on the grounds of preferential treatment for Iwi groups to buy into pending asset sales. You know, the same Maori Party that campaigned against asset sales.

Personally I think it is great Maori wish to buy into these assets with money they sponged out of Treaty Settlements, but they can wait in bloody line like everyone else and stop blackmailing National into supporting them for a pay-off for their mates.

And perhaps use the dividends from these assets to, oh I don't know, actually pay out to their people so they can all rely less on the taxpayer for more welfare.

Tariana Turia is reported as saying:

Iwi want to be "major players" if the new National Government goes through with its planned state asset sales, Maori Party leader Tariana Turia says

Imagine the outcry if John Banks and ACT went in with this attitude:

Alan Gibbs, Michael Friedlander and Sir Michael Fay wished to be "major players" if the new National Government goes through with its planned state asset sales, Act Party Parliamentary leader John Banks says