Punters have noted my support for Chloe while contrasting it with my criticism of their woke middle class posturing and have said, ‘yo what up’.
Firstly – Chloe is a unique talent. I was astounded by her when she ran for the Auckland Mayoralty. She speaks with the energy of the new voting generation in a language that empowers and challenges. She is an incredible communicator and if she had the Leadership, she could dominate political debate. A candidate of her ability is a rarity.
Secondly – Sure, Chloe is woke but she manages to do that in a way that isn’t alienating. As a class lefty, I see identity as an important personal journey that leads you to politics but feel Identity Politics becomes terribly limited in gaining the democratic 51% as its most shrill advocates in the cancel culture landscape manage to make progress as alienating as a cold cup of vomit. Class solidarity can gain 51%, Identity Politics risks pure temple over broad-church and you get endless schisms and little to show for it. I think Chloe understands that.
Thirdly – What could be more radical than the youngest Political Leader in NZ History?
Fourthly – Chloe’s secret super power is her ability to do one thing that no other Politician can do – beat David Seymour in a debate. With ACT and political radicalisation on the rise, she has the ability to front foot a fight with David Seymour that no one else can manage.
Fifthly – She speaks for almost the entire under 30s and connects with them. If she were leader she could trigger a youth earthquake that would give her the mandate to force change from Jacinda.
Imagine Jacinda as Prime Minister with Chloe as Deputy. Imagine the policy platform of truly transformative change a Government with that leadership could actually achieve?
Unless anyone else is launching a new Left wing political Party or Hone wants to bring MANA back, Jacinda + Chloe are our best bet for progress.
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Agreed. I feel Chloe is real, unlike our virtual PM.
Although I am double vaxxed I have no time for this exclusion bullshit which is destroying our little human planet and after many articles such as this: https://www.rt.com/news/545824-cannabis-prevent-treat-covid/
I assume Little and co ( Little, Diddle, Fiddle, & partners ) have absolutely no interest in humans these days.
I would vote for a Swarbrick/Ringatu coalition. Your fourth reason especially Martyn.
Thank you, have a nice day and pray for Tongan people.
Little and co showed they have absolutely no interest in humans by their handling of coronavirus. They let it be open slather at the border and with no consideration of impact introduced measures which had no regard for the safety and well-being of people. That it?
e.g?
And you need to remember to take your medication every day, or this kind of half witted stuff will keep coming out of your mouth…
I understand for many Jacinda can walk on water but I do not see any actions over the last four years that are outstanding in the fight against poverty both financial,or morally so it would not matter who her deputy was the outcome would be the same .
To me Chloe is the same type of show pony that Jacinda is and while sharp on reply where is the depth and live skills.
I did not agree with all that Helen Clarke did but she understood life and how to reach out to those that needed a hand up without losing their dignity whereas this current government seems happy with the situation .
Very sad to see the look of despair in those coming to the food bank many for the first time whilarious at the same time the car yards are clocking up record sales of new cars. Something is not right.
Yeah the past ‘efforts’ of Jacinda are worthy such as they are. Worthy as similar to those of Helen Clark who succeeded at worthiness.
Which wasn’t enough to break that gladwrap membrane that keeps real people’s needs wrapped up and separate from the neoliberal world so it can keep on being pure economics and profit and fascinating ponzi schemes, not at all infected by the smelly hoi polloi and their needs.
(I’ve just been in hospital and seen how a system properly thought out, backed by scholarship and verified research and good training, works; and people administering it want to do a good job and solve problems not cause them.
Why is it that folk who are critical of Clark consistently mis-spell her name?
If your criticism is to hold water surely you should exhibit some attention to detail, otherwise, the rest of your claims are deeply undermined by either deliberate ignorance or are simply malicious bullying.
I’ll bet you just throw commas in when you think they might be needed, too?
Phil. Stop nit picking. Many of us misspell Helen Clark’s name inconsistently. We confuse her with both Clarke with an “e” , and the bespectacled twerp Kent who leaps into the air intoning, “ Up up and away”, without any commas – not even one wee Oxford comma – and we don’t regard all bullying as malicious – some is thuggish, some mindless, psychotic, sadistic, masochistic, political, religious, mercenary, racist, drunken, or the outcome of greed, envy, covetousness, brain damage, or the required cred to join a gang or political party, or, or, or, “ getting in with the wrong crowd” and therefore the fault of others.
Just another middle class kid…
I’d wait until Jacinda leaves before going for the Greens leadership. Chloe doesn’t need to be tainted with Arderns stink. And there is no way that Jacinda will suddenly become all the things she promised to be, just because Chloe is there.
These are much the same sort of things which everyone said about Jacinda Ardern, and we all know how that’s turned out.
Chloe and the Greens….in the words of the female weight lifters at the Olympics after competing against Hubbard (this was when some breathless bbc journo asked them about the momentous occasion of having the first trans gender compete with them, “no thank you”.
The Greens are so consumed by gender ideology that I fear what would happen if they had anymore power.
Labour and the Greens have made things worse with housing and inequality.
Other than Labours brilliant Covid response, nothing much to vote for.
So “Trust everyone under 30” is the latest twist on “Don’t trust anyone over 30”? Cos it was supposed to bring about major and deep changes.
Some of us remember how that worked out the first time.
In the end it comes down to the things Sue Bradford and Catherine Delahunty recently talked about: realpolitik, political power, understanding structural and systemic oppression and how to combat it.
Not a chloe fan. She is not the worst in parliament but that is not an endorsement of her talents.
They used to have much better Green MP’s who actually cared about the environment and came from a history of real environmentalism not from a position of uneducated, industry and woke led talk fests.
Chloe Swarbrick is smart, articulate and doesn’t dwell in debasement – bring on more intelligent, well mannered and enlightened young adults into politics, I say.
The greens lack the political courage to push the urgent agenda they claim to represent. Chloe is an impressive political operator and to criticise her because most of her generation are pretty politically apathetic, is the same as Mr OK Boomer saying Finland is crap because it is cold. Nokia pumping out dirt cheap smart phones for the masses, angry birds franchising to hell and back. Chloe could be the greens saviour, if I am not.
Hit a midlife existential crisis and suddenly a political career looks enticing, so many do nothings but save their own bums for so long in sleep hobbitland. A English friend who emigrated here 20 years has said the change in NZ society is horrific, the workers being paid less and less, the owners becoming richer and richer. How is this not a feudal society? We need young leaders, I will be teaching my 5 and 2 year old about the Ernesto Guevara tattoo that papa carries on his left shoulder, and that it not their for show. Revolution only requires love to succeed and those with a true love for the motu combined with the courage to defect every pathetic right wing label that a soul less group could invent. Dictatorships were all survived by the music and poetry of the peoples struggle and in Aotearoa Che Fu and King Kapisi are true godfather of Hip Hop and Reggae, in a Dr Dre sense, in A Bob Marley sense. The struggles of the Pacific are ours because this is a but a slightly bigger colder islands in the Pacific so to accept any North Shore or East Auckland politicians narrative that Maori are stealing their land, who was here first? I am 5th generation and my Pakeha ancestors arrived at least 600 years after the kaimatua of Aotearoa. Pakeha are still the invaders, those who understand Taika Waititi when he labelled a character in boy Chardonnay, the left has beautiful history and a troubled present but look Chile to see what happens when the left stop accepting that nothing changes. The pink wave will arrive in Aotearoa one day but in the meantime we have Chloe and Marama, who would destroy any boomer that dared cross their path. These are Dilma Rousseffs, warrior women, fighting in a male dominated world, in spite of decades of feminist progress. If politics needs an XY male, I will put my hand up, but the most embarrasing thing about this country is how strong women are insulted. Lex Luthor will never be a factor because he is a business elitist, and their is only 5% votes in the elite, and they would be in their yachts when any election passed I suspect, if Takapuna Milford isnt underwater before they finish their castles/mausoleums. 7 years I worked in the stone industry and eventually the stress got to me. Thank Brian Tamaki we have some warrior women in this country, because neither the devil nor christ could ever forgive that barefaced gang leader, who is probably actually vaccinated himself, so much practice with evangelical deviousness. I still love you Bomber, I have been away a while but like Thor Ragnarok, it is always a good time for a socialist revolution. These days it only needs a poet, a writer and only the right need violence, because they are scared, and rightly so, of the revenge of the ghosts of Pinochet, the fallen revolutionaries at the hands of the CIA, that continue to fall in central america and europe. No this revolution will be political, with eloquent speeches, not Obama trained diction, but Che Guevara passion and honesty, as he continues to be on record as one of the longest speakers in the UN. And without Obama pauses for breath. Michelle is the true power their. So if anyone wants to have a go at Chloe, you can come find me and we will talk about it ok? I am considered a gentle giant and not particulary giant in these parts, but I went to Cuba 2004 and have never forgotten the lessons of the revolution. Change is the important thing, power is worthless. Keep the peace Bomber, I know you will.
Well it’s clear Chloe won’t go with the stench of National, all that have sided with National have been left with an eternal stain, including 90% of kiwis.
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