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Ryan Bridge: Do people care about the suspended Te Pati Māori MPs?
Government debt is the worst it’s been since the 1990s but today, two days out from a Budget designed to fix it, our Parliamentarians be debating a haka.
The public largely doesn’t care about this stuff. Pocketbook politics always trumps theatrics - except if you're Te Pati Māori.
No matter how today’s debate over the Privileges Committee report goes, and it could go on for a long time, Te Pati Māori wins.
A loss for them in our Westminster system, what we might think of as a sanction or punishment, is to them a badge of honour.
Already their well-followed social accounts are beating the drum…
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