Hone Harawira takes lessons from Hide and Laws.

MP Hone Harawira has taken pages from the Roger Douglas and Rodney Hide hand book, as he learns how to rought the tax payer for Travel, and how to drum up some publicity to his just cause along the way:

While consulting the Rodney Hide book of etiquette, he must have passed the Michael Laws Training Manual on how to be a complete Ass.

Blasting out with a horrible Email - from a member of the public, using very foul language and taking the debate to an un necessary new level:

Mrs Turia has raised concern, and said her original information with regards to the Jaunt was Mr Harawira was Sick - prompting commentators to say he was bunking: which he was: Sick eh, but not sick enough to go to Paris the City of Love:

The PM has said little on the situation other to say that those comments in relation to the email were of concern:

The Speaker of the House Dr Lockwood Smith has said Mr Harawira will likely have to repay a portion of the cost of the trip:

I have said earlier I had no troubles with him going to Paris, but he should have done it on the way home, after he had completed all the Meetings: No good saying well we talked the Night before: Media report on these meetings and it doesnt look good if the Senior Member takes off and goes sight seeing:

This has ahppened before when Mr Harawira went on a crusade while in Australia:

The issue is these particular meetings are controversial at the best of times as some people see these as a particular waste of money and resources that could be much better managed at another level, such as not for profit groups at the cold face, for the issues these so called networking meetings are meant to be protecting.

Mrs Turia has raised that many will now question the ability of the Maori Party to deliver if asked to front such meetings or any other delegations in the future and she would be unable to give full support that they could.

Many Maori know what is expected of us, we know the ropes and hoops we must jump through and we know we need to dot our i's and cross our t's: Maori are growing and becoming a formidable force, professional and using the system to our advantage: This does not look good for the Development of Maori in a Modern Society.