It happened while Labour were chasing conclusions from Chinese sounding names so the Greens shouldn’t be too disappointed that their front bench reshuffle was as well attended as Cameron Slater’s decade of sleaze whaleoil party.
No one has noticed the consolidation of power James Shaw has stamped upon the Party with a reshuffle that sees Julie Anne Genter one step away from joining Shaw as co-leader, making her ascension the cleanest break with the activist Left that seeded the Greens the Party has ever had.
The ‘Modern Green’ movement occurs as Labour rush back to the centre on issues like Chinese property speculation, allowing public smoking and bottom lines on the TPPA.
Pragmatism over ideology allows the Greens to deal with Key but the centre is getting incredibly crowded. Labour’s drive to the middle will have discontented Labour Youth moving over to the Greens (but why on earth anyone under 25 would vote Labour anyway has always seemed a mystery), so the Greens will want to try and speak out of both sides of their mouths in the lead up to 2017 to attract disillusioned Labour voters and liberal National types.
…If the Greens lurch towards the right I for one wont be voting for them
…and I know other potential Green voters who were disgusted at their Nact framing attacks on Labour as ‘racial profiling’, when it was a legitimate concern at the mass buy up of New Zealand housing stock when their are homeless New Zealanders and young New Zealanders without a hope of buying their own home
…I will be voting for the Party that has the strongest curb on immigration and overseas ownership of New Zealand housing and land
( I have worked for the Greens and donated to the Greens for a number of years)
Labour could just as easily have a strong climate change profile (as did Kevin Rudd who was betrayed by the Australian Greens) …I would like to see David Cunliffe in charge of this portfolio
In summary: Bomber doesn’t like James Shaw.
Correction, Bomber really doesn’t like James Shaw.
Here’s a good idea for the Greens :
Why don’t they send someone over to Belgium for talks with the Iranian Nuclear Physicist, M.T. Kershe, Head of the Kershe Foundation in Belgium. He has free energy and he is willing to help countries to have free energy.
The Kershe Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-religious organisation “that aims to develop new scientific knowledge, new technologies and new solutions to major global problems like famine, water shortage, lack of electrical power supply, climate change and disease through the use of specially developed plasma reactors.
FREE ELECTRICITY …. FREE WATER FOR DROUGHT AREAS
Then we would all sit up and take notice and know who’s sitting where.
Name correction: M.T. Keshe, Nuclear Physicist
Please, please, please someone from the Greens do exactly that. Then make it the corner stone of Green party policy for the next election.
Based on this chart from the Political Compass from the last election, the Greens could move two notches to the right and two notches towards Authoritarian and still solely own the Left/Liberal vote.
That Political Compass chart is interesting enough, but the methods of ranking have always been a bit opaque, and I suspect; subjective to the creator. Plus that’s ignoring that a party’s effect in an MMP environment may be quite different than their stated policies. Take the MP who are classed as mildly left/ libertarian, but who only having been in Government in coalition with the Nats have enabled right/ authoritarian laws.
Anyway, the thing that most struck me about that Bradbury linked Stuff article was that there was no mention of; Stefan Browning, despite the GP site having him down as; “Spokesperson for Organics, GE, Biosecurity, Pesticides and Food Safety”
https://www.greens.org.nz/ourpeople
This of course may just be sloppiness on the part of Fearfacts reporters. But it also may lend support to the rumours that Browning is under pressure to stand down in favour of Marama Davidson.
that would be a mistake to manoeuvre to get rid of Steffan Browning…unethical …if it is true…and stupid!
….Browning is a very effective ‘“Spokesperson for Organics, GE, Biosecurity, Pesticides and Food Safety”
I certainly would cease my support of the Greens and join Labour
It appears that FJK knows more about what is happening in the Greens than they do. He said in the house last week, while he was insulting Meteria Turei, that she will be losing her job to Julieann Genter anytime now.
spooky …or bluster
Julie Anne Genter is great and would/will make an excellent leader of the Greens. There’s nothing even slightly right wing about her. An excellent person who is also very articulate. I went to one of her meetings on climate change and her ability to express ideas easily and clearly was impressive. She also voted against the “Bullying Bill” which shows she has brains and gumption. Look forward to her being Co-Leader some day. If James does indeed have anything to do with her re-positioning it is probably necessary as the Greens tend to be too nice to each other sometimes. In the end, however, she can only be voted Co-Leader by the individual members.
Yes Ann johns I saw that from Shonkey, saying to Meterira it was so arrogant of him, as if he was a cop directing traffic wasn’t it evil little man.
He hounded her over her clothes just six months ago so he has got it in for her no doubt.
Anyway Julie Anne Genter is a good looker and quite eloquent still a little amateurish, but bangs on about Auckland-Auckland-Auckland when she visits the East Coast/Gisborne pro rail group.
She misses the mark with her real green message there as she really never said much lamenting about our loss of rail and even advising/assisting us to get it back???
She is vibrant, and capturing in person, but if she with her neutral Midwestern US plains accent happens to really step up with good old Rod Donald/Jeannette Fitzsimmons brimstone & fire perhaps she may get me back.
But not until she begins to talk about the rest of NZ like all the provinces now crashing their economies as we speak.
Wake up Julie Anne, do you remember the air filter from our pollution testing machine that we showed you in the air of people living alongside truck corridors?
These people are dying early breathing all those Diesel and tyre particulates while you are missing the point about rail and instead are just talking about Auckland walking & cycle ways?
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