🏉 Eyes off the ball

A sad week in politics

My cartoon in today’s The Post, The Press and Waikato Times - here it is out in the wild

Te Pāti Māori have broken apart. With the election just under a year away how will this play out and what will the left block do?

The eyes need to be on the ball! ON THE BALL!

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Cartoon. Title: Eyes off the ball

All the political parties are on the rugby pitch. Across the touch line it reads ‘Election 2026’. Chris Bishop has the ball and is running close to the line cheering. We have Seymour, Mitchell, Simeon, Luxon, Stanford, Shane, Winston, Upston, Brooke - with the sign ‘coalition’.

Then we have Chippy, Marama, Tamatha, Chlöe, McAnulty, Willie, Peeni, Duncan, Ayesha, Sepuloni, Ricardo and Steve Abel for Labour and the Greens.

And then at the top right a referee is running to the corner where Te Pāti Māori are in a ruck fighting. Debbie and Hana-Rāwhiti are holding their party sign and John Tamihere, Mariameno, Kiri Tamihere waititi, Eru Kapa-Kingi are in a angry ruck and finally Ferris and Rawiri are in a tussle.

The turmoil is a lot to digest. Let’s hope things are sorted and we can all get back to fighting the coalition and their policies.

Kia kaha,

Emma