Comrades.
I’ve lived in Auckland Central longer than any other electorate.
I love it as a place to live, and while I’m not in Auckland Central this election, it’s a place dear to my heart.
It is one of the most educated electorates in the country and it is younger than many electorates but what is the point of all that education alongside a climate crisis future if Auckland Central Labour voters can’t understand strategic voting?
Labour are polling in the mid 50s, Helen White is number 48 on their party list, meaning she will get in on the Party list!
The Greens however don’t look like they’ll get 5% so Chloe winning is the only way they will get back into Parliament.
The Newhub Nation Poll showed White leading, but with 20% don’t knows Chloe should fight every day.
Look, you know and I know Labour will do the barest minimum for the environment, the Greens are far better placed to push for real change and seeing as White will get in off the party list, switch your candidate vote to Chloe and gain White as a representative PLUS the Greens.
We have run out of alphabet because so many tropical storms and hurricanes have formed this year.
Siberia is on fire. California is on fire. A pandemic triggered by climate change is globally on fire!
Auckland Central progressive voters have to vote strategically the way Epsom voters do!
Candidate Vote Chloe Swarbrick
Party Vote Labour.
It’s time for Auckland Central to stand up and be noticed globally for returning e Green Party into Parliament.
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Face it if the Greens do not win it is because they have no credibility as a party that cares for the enviroment . They care more about trying to make white men into colonial villains making marajuana legal and making farmers into the enemy of the state.
Drivers on cell phones kill themselves and others but Genter refuses to increase the fine . Sage has allowed rubbish tips on the West Coast to be exposed but not helped to stop it happen . As a party they showed they had no spin and allowed Winston and Jacinda to walk all over them giving them a couple of hits so they stayed in the fold and hoped for more .
However, political party’s fortunes change and evolve. In the Greens case I suspect they will be back in parliament as the natural partners with Labour. If anyone reckons on the Greens being ‘weird’ or ‘inconsistent’ lately, – one only has to recall 36 years of the madness of the neo liberals to really understand ‘weirdness’ and ‘ inconsistency’s’…
To be fair, Farmers do want to foul our waterways to make money.
And no one should be arrested for smoking a joint.
Greens look goneburgers – similarly to National at the moment the suburban housewife set have excised the greens from their thoughts. Shame for Chloe as she is the closest thing the greens have got to a principled politician which is usually half their charm.
The real trick will be stating relevant enough to get back in 2023. I think they will unless they spectacularly implode while being out of parliament.
But they wont be out of parliament. This is no longer the 1960’s and the Green revolution happened a long time ago. They are here to stay. Whether you like it or not.
They are not the Greens. They ceased championing the environment. Instead they’ve gone off the scale with wokeness. They’re the Wokes.
They’ve been distracted by drug sideshows which is all Swarbrick is now known for and that is a pity because she actually offered far more and anything but, running for mayor.
They are woefully led and I cannot see that changing with the talentless co-leaders they have. And tactically they have been useless.
The question is, if the Green Party are returned, what hope is there that they will suddenly realise they are in politics for a reason and get real?
They need new Leadership. Then things will change.
You’re delusional.
Which of these policies do you disagree with:
Poverty Action Plan
Ocean Protection Policies
Greens Farming Policy
The loonie fiscal and defence policy and the ones before. The Greens misunderstand the tax regime that Roger Douglas created as do National people. The absence of a wages policy that is believable or credible but back to taxes.
Because so much of The Labour Party’s policies are devoted to the middle rump of the workforce and the community paid for by bringing down tariffs. So for every dollar, we sell to our largest trade partner, Australia, we get nzd$1.05. If the cuts in taxes had of improved these rates on the wealthy then that would have spoken to those electorates in a language they can understand and much more success for the greens.
Instead of that, The Greens reckon they should spend tax increase on welfare where I believe productitivy increases should fund a governments budget.
It is clear that Chloe cannot win simply by begging Labour voters to vote for her. If the Labour party told its Auckland supporters to vote for Chloe she would win but its not happening. The only possible conclusion is that Labour wants to see the Greens out of parliament. I have mentioned this several times in Comment columns and got no response. Labour and National want first passed the post – not just now but always-and by default that is what will happen in this election.
Why should Labour tell them to vote Chloe instead of White, they should have arranged a deal ahead of time but didn’t bother.
If 3 years ago that either the Greens or Labour electorate candidate stood down, then they would have won Auckland Central instead of allowing the Natz electorate candidate back in.
Judging from the polling it looks like White is a shoe in, maybe due to Covid, the Natz are having difficulty getting their dirty politics guys into NZ.
To Auckland Central voters:
Please, don’t make Chloe pay for Mr Shaw’s unique brand of Dirty Politics.
Shaw removed the voice of other Greens than himself, at least to some extent, when he made his own creepy deal with the National Party, giving away the Greens Question Time to such as Ms Collins, Paula Bennett, Foulloon, et al. At the time he took that action the female Co-Leader had not yet been decided on, so Shaw was silencing her (whoever) in advance.
Had they not been silenced, the Green Party today could be leading the way, rather than dissolving as they appear to be now. A vote for Chloe is a vote to restore the voice of true Greens in parliament, which someone tried to silence.
Chloe has always been a third place runner in Auckland. She obviously has a few highly motivated Green supporters who keep championing her but personally I think she is part of the problem of the Greens. She should be in the neoliberal Labour Party, not Green Party. Cannabis can help calm the masses and stop the riots which is why it’s currently on the agenda for the neo libs.
Auckland Central is also one of the places where pollution and waste generation is amongst the highest in the country, that is per capita. People live in artificial environments, may have studied, but most are into business, making a buck and their lifestyles rip the guts out of the environment. The only difference is, they may pretend they are ‘green’ and don’t use plastic bags, but they are not really ‘green’, they use computers, cars and other stuff, that was made overseas using enormous resources, creating massive waste, in some cases exploiting not only the environment and nature, also cheap workers working like slaves in low wage countries.
What do CBD apartment dwellers know about growing food and living off the land, I wonder? But they have nice pics on their mobile and laptop screens, signing petitions to save the last rhinos, yeah, what heroes they are. Chloe needs every vote, so she won’t care about all the detail, I suppose.
I’d be willing to vote Green for general ecological and political reasons, but as a convinced atheist-materialist-socialist I’d have to be confident I wasn’t voting for some crystal-hugging biodynamic pseudoscience bullshit. If Chloe would make a clear statement dissociating herself from Steinerist voodoo then I’d be right behind her. Is a bit of plain old rationalism really too much to hope for in these crazy times?
Don’t worry mate, she seems very down to earth (Not like me at all – again, don’t worry 🙂
Here’s a pic of her apartment and check, – not a crystal in sight! 🙂
(Though there is a “Hug a Tree” pic – Do you mind that?)
You can hear her here, where she was the guest of Martyn and Damien: Election Podcast with Chloe Swarbrick
It is worth the time to listen, as her thoughts are very clear and direct. No pseudoscience 🙂 No voodoo 🙂 and no pretentious nonsense.
Here is that pic of her apartment: Chloe Swarbrick, The most expensive thing
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