This is the Twitter reaction (so far) to the latest revelations about Kim Dotcom forging electoral alliances between the Internet Party and others. As usual, the tweets below are in rough order of latest-through-to-oldest, and will be updated.
Internet Party @InternetPartyNZ
Hello, we are the #InternetParty. Follow us for news and updates! #NZPol
After brief optimism on rumours of an @InternetPartyNZ Mana merger, @ipredictnz prices dropped to an expected 0.65%. https://www.ipredict.co.nz/app.php?do=contract_detail&contract=VOTE.2014.INTERNET …
@nzheraldnznews What would the marriage of #KimDotcom's #InternetParty & #Hone's#ManaParty look like? #Vogue #Kimne pic.twitter.com/5HNDtp8yv9
What's Kim Dotcom's position on the constitutional significance of Te Triti?
Dotcom and Ahmed Zaoui should really start an immigration party and call it MegaZaoui...#internetparty
Actually you could merge Mana and the National party and make the the promise of jam for everyone tomorrow. Or, as the name says, Mañana.
Cheers for yr feedback, right, left & in between, re my comments on Mana/Dotcom ...sadly, the possibility rumbles on http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9859322/Mana-waits-to-see-Internet-Party-ideas …
Steve Braunias @SteveBraunias
Ugh, got followed by @InternetPartyNZ and @grantrobertson1 in one morning! Election year, innit.
@SteveBraunias does this mean @grantrobertson1 is secret MP poised to lead the Internet Party alongside Hone and Hooton? No one has denied,
Grant Robertson @grantrobertson1
@toby_etc @SteveBraunias sounding more like Dr Seuss every day Hooten Hears a Hone.
@grantrobertson1 @SteveBraunias NON-DENIAL
Internet Party to-do: ✔ Start Internet freedom party ✔ Fundraising ✔ Assemble top team ✔ Form alliances ❒ Register ❒ Campaign ❒ Win 7.8%
Hasn't Mana learned from @PeterDunneMP that getting all Frankenstein and grafting together disparate parties only ends in tears?
Is Kim Dotcom right-wing? Serious question. That was Sue Bradford's claim earlier.
@secondzeit Small state libertarian, I'd say. Which makes him a strange match for Mana...
@jamescardno @secondzeit Old left-right scale is pretty crude, but seems to fit more with the idealist-libertarian wing of Act than Mana.
@buzzandhum @secondzeit To me, him and Hone share "I'll do that just because it will stir feathers, which I'll find funny" as common ground
@jamescardno @secondzeit I think it's more base than that: one has money, the other a political network, and both want what the other has.
@eelstweeters @buzzandhum @secondzeit But he made his fortune undermining corporations and the free-market economy, which is why it's clumsy
Congrats to @suebr for politician with principles - you are an endangered species
Dotcom deal not manna from heavenfor Harawirahttp://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/9862185/Whats-in-it-for-Mana-to-side-with-Dotcom …
@VernonSmall ManaNet... haha, love it.That's one problem solved. Name? Tick. Policy agreement? #ohshit List ranking? #bugger
Mana to cosy up to someone who lives in the biggest mansion in Auckland and professes to no left wing beliefs? Totally unprincipled.
Jessica Williams @mizjwilliams
Electoral Comm confirms any umbrella party for Mana/Internet Party will miss deadline for election broadcasting allocation @LIVENewsDesk
Jessica Williams @mizjwilliams
leaves question whether Mana or Internet Party cd use *their* allocation to push the deal. EC says too hypothetical. i think they don't know
Have either Matthew Hooton or Colin King ruled out standing for the Manaternet Party?#orhavetheynot #speculation #insiders
Jordan McCluskey @JordanMcCluskey
Just keep on splitting the left. Great work Kim Dotcom.
Labour Leader @DavidCunliffeMP confident none of his MPs have been/are being headhunted by Internet party
@MorganGodfery Bradford says Intenet Party is antithesis of Mana. Meanwhile Mana members want to know what the hell antithesis means anyway
CarrieStoddart-Smith @Ellipsister
So what about Minto & Sykes? Any public comments?
Morgan Godfery @MorganGodfery
@Ellipsister They both hold formal party positions and I don't think they want to preempt the members. My guess is they're opposed.
CarrieStoddart-Smith @Ellipsister
@MorganGodfery I still don't get why Mana bothered with the press release saying no planned meetings, no exchanges re: possible merger etc
Annette Syke's facebook posts are ambiguous, but read as though she is, as Pres, open to the Mana-KDC merge. "debate this proposal openly"
Brent Edwards @rnzgallerybrent
Will Mana lose its mana on the Internet?
So it seems like there are some in Mana who actually want to do a deal w/ Dotcom leading Sue Bradford to threaten her departure. How bizarre
Jordan McCluskey @JordanMcCluskey
I predict no problems between NZ's pseudo-communist, hard socialist party and a libertarian, free enterprise party. Nope. #ManaNetParty
@JordanMcCluskey Do the Internet Party have any libertarian policies other than opposing surveillance and Dotcom's extradition
Jordan McCluskey @JordanMcCluskey
@lrmunro I imagine some of the Mana party activists I have meet will be unhappy with Hone selling out to an Internet millionaire.
Jordan McCluskey @JordanMcCluskey
Accelerating the revolution of the proletariat...with unlimited data caps #ManaNetParty
If The Mana Party is looking for a merger, Colin Craig has no convictions. Yet.
Hmm. Seems that Hone's idea of Mana is different to mine. I always thought Mana was earned, not bought.
Jessica Williams @mizjwilliams
.@suebr says she'll quit Mana if they do a deal with Dotcom. @LIVENewsDesk at 11.
The key to the Mana.Dotcom is bottom-lines - e.g. Internet Party says it could work with Nats. That's surely a deal-breaker for Mana.
not sure what to make of this web address: http://www.mana.com
Morgan Godfery @MorganGodfery
Hone has been pushing for a merger for some time. First with the Maori Party, now it seems the Internet Party. Neither option makes sense.
It seems to me that a Mana-KDC merger would be akin to a Labour-Libertarianz merger, but with more money involved. Losing members inevitable
Morgan Godfery @MorganGodfery
Unless Mana was 1) never a socialist party and a Mana-Maori merger was the long game all along or 2) Mana needs money and KDC has it
CarrieStoddart-Smith @Ellipsister
whats the diff (in outcome) between merger and umbrella? #InternetParty #ManaParty#rtpRT
Mana Movement says there have been no merger discussions with the Internet Party.
To left friends, re proposed Mana/Dotcom alliance: there is no shortcut to building a genuine movement of the people. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/239630/mana-looking-at-links-with-dotcom-party …
@vikram_nz the internet is for everyone. The #InternetParty should be too. Important it not be captured be either far left or right.
@evolvenz Brandon, #InternetParty will remain independent, strong. Alliances for common goals always possible
Maybe Hooton was half right and Shane Jones is jumping ship to the Internet Party #whynot
Ok ok, the truth is I was at the Dotcom mansion on business. I've managed to sell@asenatitaylormp to the Internet Party.
Credit where credit is due: @asenatitaylor would make a hilarious addition to Internet Party ticket. Perhaps the best, comedy-wise.
Imperator Fish @ImperatorFish
Theory: there are no MPs planning to defect to the Internet Party. But hey, look, we're all talking about the Internet Party again.
What if it's the member for Helensville who's standing for the Internet Party? Now THAT would be a story.
CarrieStoddart-Smith @Ellipsister
Also, given Mana's press release this week, bit (lots) disingenuous if talks were actually taking place re: merger. #InternetParty #NZpol
CarrieStoddart-Smith @Ellipsister
my speculation: Williamson 4 #InternetParty - has lib'n roots, solid electorate, consid'd resigning 4 Mayor so maybe not that loyal to Nats…
Callum Valentine @callumvalentine
Excited and proud to announce my involvement with the #InternetParty - I’m managing the SM side of things. Going to be an exciting 6mnths.
Could the Internet Party, co-led by Hone Harawira and Matthew Hooton, hold the balance of power in September? #insiders #speculation
fwiw Curran is by the most logical MP to jump ship to the internet party. Interested in the policy platform, going nowhere in current party.
@BKDrinkwater she's already ruled it out. Why pick her over Horan, who it defiantly is?
@TheEgonomist Ah. I did not know that. Why not Horan? No electorate.
@BKDrinkwater the wording Dotcom gives is (deliberately?) ambiguous: We have an MP. We expect to merge w Mana. We will have electorate MP
The Egonomist @TheEgonomist 58m
@BKDrinkwater I interpret that as the MP they have now isn't electorate MP but in trademark KDC optimism he is counting Mana deal as done
BK Drinkwater @BKDrinkwater Protected Tweets
@TheEgonomist Interesting. This interpretation works. Revising my views.
BK Drinkwater @BKDrinkwater Protected Tweets
Of course, if it's Horan, we can expect the InternetParty to be talking a lot more about railway sleepers.
Philip Nannestad @philipsophy
Hey remember when everyone was like 'get rid of the MMP coat-tails' and the Tories were all 'we love coat-tails' lol #nzpol #dotcomromcom
I can categorically state I will not be joining the Internet Party. Unless, of course, I join them, which I won't be.
Weird thing about that kimdotcom nabbing an mp. They talked to the party leaders who all said 'nope not ours' (derp) but no talkie to Horan?
Inside sources have told me Matthew Hooton will stand for the Internet Party #journalism
Matthew Hooton @MatthewHootonNZ
@danylmc that's a scurrilous lie without a shred of truth and we're not going to have our political strategy determined by some left-wing...
Logicians having great fun deconstructing @JonoMilne article, @KimDotcom claims, reactions, and biases/prejudices revealed.
Mana + Internet Party makes for an interesting intersection between Maori nationalism/social justice and consumer capitalism
The Horan Internet Mana Party (HIMP) has a certain ring to it.
So some Bond villain is signing up a sitting MP for something called the internet party? Jesus politics has changed since my day.
Just for the record people who know me know I am tribal Labour. It's in my bones. Ruling myself out. Fascinating though.
Matthew Hooton @MatthewHootonNZ
.@ipredictnz needs a "mana & Internet parties to merger" stock. Also "@hekiaparata to get sack".
Surprised to see ex-Alliance mates working with DotCom. I understand the enrolled non-vote strategy, but its still an odd relationship to me
@jamileeross @JudithCollinsMP @PeterDunneMP @winstonpeters @TrevorMallard@tauhenare Any of you defecting to Kim Dotcom party?
@dpfdpf No
Expect to hear a lot more from the Internet Party about weather forecasting policy. Also the racing industry.
Imagine if it's Banks #rtp
So Kim Dotcom claims between one and four current MPs are joininng his party. Any MPs want to rule themselves out?
Imperator Fish @ImperatorFish
Kim Dotcom's boast will sound less impressive once we discover it's Brendan Horan.
@ImperatorFish If correct that would be one. @MPHoneHarawira is another (the only one confirmed). @nzherald says there could be two more.
What a mix of quirky NZers in Internet Party, incl my former boss Jim Tucker!http://nzh.tw/11224539?r=iptw
Did Dotcom do an interview here, or just sit a Rorschach test where he saw himself atop the Beehive in every blot? http://nzh.tw/11224591?r=iptw
Kim Dotcom claims he has signed up 1 sitting MP to join his new party and is talking to 3 more:http://tinyurl.com/nepozb9
Graeme Edgeler @GraemeEdgeler
Think I probably need a new laptop given my new job as General Counsel for the Internet Party. Anyone got suggestions? PC.
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