Now imagining the Lib Dems doing this next time proportional representation is voted down. - ThreadSky

samfr.bsky.social • 177 days ago

Now imagining the Lib Dems doing this next time proportional representation is voted down.

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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lonelyrobot.bsky.social•177 days ago

I can't help but feel a little sorry for the stenographer

mikedimmick.bsky.social•177 days ago

I think it just got notated as "[Interruption]". Bottom of the page at https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20241114_20241114_40

thetoffdog.bsky.social•177 days ago

Oh Ed.

battyhelen.bsky.social•177 days ago

Ooo! Good call!!!

andrew-f-smith.bsky.social•175 days ago

The problem is, that to be culturally appropriate, they would have to do Morris Dancing.

fooldude.bsky.social•175 days ago

... and the problem with that is?

andrew-f-smith.bsky.social•175 days ago

This is true 😀👍

amdramdee.bsky.social•177 days ago

I reckon Ed's on it as we speak.

lizgloyn.bsky.social•177 days ago

I mean, I rather wouldn't with them not being Maori, but I *would* happily imagine the Lib Dems bursting out in Morris dancing with the bells and sticks.

hbsj.bsky.social•177 days ago

That's a good call for a LibDem haka!

gilliancarrin.bsky.social•177 days ago

Yes, that definitely says "constitutional badass warrior".

lizgloyn.bsky.social•177 days ago

It's the bells that do it. Scottish sword dancing also acceptable in this context.

gilliancarrin.bsky.social•177 days ago

Yes, add a "hey nonny no" and it will def succeed.

arnabdutt.bsky.social•176 days ago

🤣

tmlinner.bsky.social•177 days ago

You’re ace. Respectfully, I don’t think these things are at all equivalent and should not be equated. I’m not sure our UK friends quite understand the stakes on Indigenous issues in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Text will sound harsher than I mean this to be. I mean this gently.

samfr.bsky.social•177 days ago

That's the basis of the joke? I'm not suggesting they're the same!

tmlinner.bsky.social•177 days ago

I might be overly sensitive, I grant. The problem is that people actually do that here - equate their (however worthy) pet campaign to the struggle for recognition of Indigenous rights. It’s exhausting.

samfr.bsky.social•177 days ago

Rest assured I definitely don't think that. The point was the absurdity of the Lib Dems doing something like that over a much less emotive/important issue.

tmlinner.bsky.social•177 days ago

I I went over the top, I apologize. For context: my wife is an Indigenous (Red River Metis) politician in Canada!

littleoldlady56.bsky.social•176 days ago

I don't think you went over the top, you were very polite in the way you made your views known and you introduced a paradigm not widely understood in the UK (for perfectly good reasons). Exactly the kind of engagement I love about Blue Sky!

inglesongrey.bsky.social•177 days ago

Morris dancing, surely?

ahmerwadee.bsky.social•177 days ago

My thoughts precisely! 🤣

treeoftea.bsky.social•177 days ago

I think this is Ed Davey's calling

mattwest72.bsky.social•177 days ago

Would hate to be the equivalent of the Hansard person during that

myowndrum1.bsky.social•177 days ago

How....Morris dancing?

inselaffesi.bsky.social•177 days ago

I don't know why this is deemed laudable.

davelachouffe.bsky.social•177 days ago

The Conservatives will have to do some Morris dancing,

tomxolotl.bsky.social•177 days ago

📌

clarabow24.bsky.social•177 days ago

I love this 👏👏👏

ilotem.bsky.social•177 days ago

Davey would probably bungee jump into Westminster while doing a morris dance in the air just to show the gravity of the situation.

grandjambon.bsky.social•177 days ago

To which Lindsay Hoyle stands up and says "The noes have it, the noes have it, unlock!"

liberaljimocrat.bsky.social•177 days ago

Everyone’s saying Morris Dancing, but wouldn’t the closest thing be @wendychambld.bsky.social leading the parliamentary party in a rendition of The Land?