Mana schism on cannabis

Stuff reports:

An Internet-Mana plan to promote the decriminalisation of cannabis has been stopped after vehement opposition by Mana leader Hone Harawira.

An email from Harawira to Mana members last week has surfaced, showing Harawira’s anger at Internet-Mana resources being put into the cannabis campaign instead of promoting his flagship Feed the Kids policy.

A Mana source shared the email with Fairfax.

“Why am I seeing all this shit about weed and so… f***** little about feed [Feed the Kids]… just because the Internet Party is keen on weed … and got all the money to spend on all this flash advertising shit is no reason why… the same people who are also supposed to be working for Internet-Mana aren’t doing the same kind of package for Feed the Kids,” the email says.

In the email, Harawira said he would not be backing the online decriminalisation campaign, saying it should be pulled, and if it had already gone out he would be putting a statement out pointing out his frustration.

And it was only Sunday when Laila and Hone appeared together saying there was no rift at all between them.

It is very obvious there are huge tensions within the Internet Mana Party. And that is them in Opposition. Can you imagine a Government propped up by them. Labour has enough factions of their own to be unstable by themselves. Add Hone and Laila in, and kaboom!