I for one did not vote Greens for them to hand over fucking 42 parliamentary questions to the fucking National Party.
On a pointy headed academic level, the Greens bizarre decision to hand 42 of their questions over to the National Party is a stand for holding the Government to account.
It’s not a very good stand, but it is a stand.
It’s the kind of stand that sounds really good at 1.30am after a late night Wellington-Central-vegan-cycle-friendly-consent-contract-signed-after-work-function that is chaperoned. In the cold light of day however it looks like political polyamory mixed with a gleeful self mutilation.
The only thing worse than this Green Party decision to hand 42 questions over to National are the sanctimonious Green Party activists defending it by wanking on about transparent democratic process – it’s elitist sophistry at its most gagging.
I don’t think any MP in NZ has ever said to themselves, “I want to get into Government so I can hand over Parliamentary Questions to the Opposition cause you know, democratic transparency.
If the Greens weren’t happy with the quality of questions in Parliament, then ask better questions!!!
As Chris Trotter devastatingly puts it in todays TDB column…
Progressive Kiwis have only to ask themselves: “Who would we rather held this Government to account: Chloe Swarbrick or Mark Mitchell? Golriz Ghahraman or Judith Collins?” – to realise that the justification advanced to them by Green Party co-leader, James Shaw, is pure, unadulterated, bullshit.
When you hand 42 questions over to the National Party you’re not turning the other cheek for ‘democratic transparency’ you’re spreading both cheeks.
Martyn;
Worse than that is that the Greens will vote for “waka jumping” against the “anti waka legislation bill’ so this will carry on allowing National Party members to firstly join up with labour and wreck that party with right wing policy and then switch over to National.
National are doing this now.
Those who voted for TPP in Labour are already possibly future National MP’s we believe.
Dumb Green party; so can’t they see what is happening now?
There is no silver bullet to improving democratic processes. But the weak sometimes win. History furnishes numerous instances when the weak got their way. It sometimes makes sense for the lesser contender to start a fight. If the leadership sees a gambit as the only resort, and if the trendlines look unfavorable — in other words, if right now is as good as it gets — then why not act? With the way calamitous forces are gathering on multidimensional fronts we’d be better off just pushing down hard on all leavers that work.
So it’s all hands to the pumps, those groups who support Green have to make there interests known. Inexplicably, the Greens neglected to do what the National Party set in motion: unleash its dirty politics to shame its opponents of misogyny or masculinity and disabilit and ethnicity and climate. By now, RWNJs have dismembered the Greens by severing the leadership messages connecting them to voters. Green Party Social Justice Warriors are the equals of their RWNJ counterparts. The Greens Comms team should have looked at the news headlines, grasped the fact that RWNJs must operate close to Green Party members to reach them in every electorate in the country, and direct campaign team leaders to make uninvited guests no-go zones for RWNJs. It’s hard to imagine a more straightforward, cost-effective scheme whereby The Green Party could exact a heavy toll from its opponent. Neglecting dirty politics is an operational transgression of the first order.
I for one am extremely angry with this and I bet there are a lot of other Green Party members who are as well. This decision tells me that the stuff ups during the election have not been addressed and are likely to continue for as long as James Shaw continues as male co-leader. Unfortunately I don’t see any challenges to him at this stage.
I like to joke that he is a Manchurian candidate, sent to assist the party to self-sabotage itself out of Parliament.
Me too. It seems weird that nobody thought the downside far outweighs any possible upside. Weird too that none of the other MPs are saying a word about it.
There could be a possible ploy around taking the questions away in the future, but that seems extremely unlikely.
“I for one am extremely angry with this and I bet there are a lot of other Green Party members who are as well”
Ditto. Count me as one.
Not using patsy questions because they BS is one thing.
I’m all for that.
Handing it over to a bunch of nasty Tories who fabricate BS is entirely a different thing.
What on earth are the Greens thinking??????????
I’m sorry Martyn.
Had you never noticed the colour of The Grinch?
Was the virtue signalling after Saint Metiria Ascended too small an alert?
Was the political splat! of two dissident (male) Green MPs insufficient warning?
These aren’t the Greens we used to vote for. Unfortunately.
Green. Middle of the road. In the headlights. Roadkill about to happen.
Saaad? Nope. Hubris followed by Nemesis.
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