Once the Hone honeymoon is over, the hongis are all pressed and the Mana Party hangi stones are all cooled down for five months, what will the political menu here in Tauranga look like for Maori come the November elections?
The worse case scenario is the feast or famine option, served up by master chefs who are playing our people like puppets and they are doing this by painting Peter and Tariana as the enemy of their own people.
Sadly many Maori have bought into this pirau korero that is nothing more than political propaganda and we need to wake up and smell the Brash and Banks boil up that already has Hone in the pot.
Maori can now look forward to a split vote and a split vote won't get Mana or Maori inside the political tent other than Hone - but it will allow Act to come through the middle to saddle up as partners in a far right coalition.
Or in laymen terms. Maori will see a brash and burn of all the gain made by the Maori Party, none more so than whanau ora that will cost 65 jobs in the local health sector of Western Bay alone.
Wake up and smell the Brash boil up whanau, with Hone in the pot Act only has to sow more seeds of division and we will be back where we were six years ago.
But this time there will be no Tariana or Peter to forge key relationships with key leaders.
Tommy Kapai, Te Puna.