Hone Goes Tropo.

Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has pulled out of a Parliamentary committee's itinerary in Australia to go walkabout ... and of course Harawira is defiant over his outback trip.

Christchurch's New Zealand First list MP Ron Mark revealed in Parliament yesterday that Harawira had abandoned the official select committee visit to travel to Alice Springs.
He said Harawira had "gone AWOL" and "unleashed a tirade of abuse on the Australian authorities for the second time".

One wonders why this flagrant disregard for anything but his own agenda is permitted. Margaret Wilson should demand that this junkert is paid for by himself and that his monies for this period are similarly 'docked.'

And of course Hone, in his erudite fashion, would of course take this on the chin, "c'est la vie" he has already said.

And his namesake, John (Howard), should look at pressing charges against him ... this is not just protest, this is undermining existing authority, inciting at the very least discontent, at worst riot ... made worse in that he has used a goverment platform on which to do it. He should be made 'persona non grata,' not again permitted to soil the soil of Australia ... and all this from a base of abuse.

It is consequently not surprising that his PC based empowerment or arrogance has resulted in further abuse of the system for his own ends.

Sack him Pita, the Maori Party does not need a 'loose unit' like this ... if Titiwhai's Carrington Hospital Reform school were still in operation, now there would be a place for his reprogramming.