When I first started warning people that there was a new identity politics clique empowered by the new Green Party voting rules who were gerrymandering the candidate list, no one believed me.
The new constitution adopted by the party in 2022, expanded the guidelines for selecting candidates whilst allocating voting rights to previously informal interest group networks. One effect of this has been to de-prioritise talent, effectiveness and electoral appeal in the list-ranking process in favour of a kind of horse trading over how to fit in the right quota of geography, ethnicity, ability, youth & gender into the various positions on the list.
It is this new network that a far more puritanical woke clique have seized upon and manipulated to ensure their identity candidates have most influence.
No one believed for one second that a woke clique, (who see Marama as not woke enough), would be so fucking stupid to try some amateur House of Cards political machinations.
Well, here comes the truth…
Left wing Greens endorse Elizabeth Kerekere, despite investigation
Green MP Elizabeth Kerekere’s standing has been bolstered by the endorsement of a group of left wing members of the Green Party.
The GreenLeft Network (GLN), an organisation of members on the left of the party, has endorsed Kerekere as a preferred candidate in the party’s list ranking process, effectively calling on members to rank her highly. The endorsement was included in an email to members, obtained by the Herald.
…let me be as clear as I can be.
The GreenLeft Network wouldn’t know the meaning of the words, ‘Green’, ‘Left’ or ‘Network’.
This is the same dumb faction that allowed themselves to be manipulated by Matthew Hooton into launching a coup against James Shaw without thinking through the need to actually have a replacement candidate!
Hooton breadcrumbed them into a minefield and then disappeared when they turned to him for advice!
It was a Bay of Vegan Pigs!
These same fucking amateurs are the ones behind the woke clique who have been playing these bullshit games.
So how crazy are they?
Candidates endorsed by The GreenLeft Network.
- Dr Elizabeth Kerekere;
- Teanau Tuiono;
- Ricardo Menéndez March;
- Lawrence Xu-nan;
- Francisco Hernandez;
- Stephanie Rodgers;
- Suveen Sanis Walgampola;
- Gina Dao-McLay;
- Reina Tuai Penney;
- Nick Ratcliffe.
Folks, that’s not a fucking candidate list, that’s a journey of the damned into madness!
Any list that has Stephanie Rodgers in the top 10 is a mental illness, not a political statement.
Normally I wouldn’t give two shits about watching these fools destroy a Party I love, but with the election around the corner, their fuck up could destroy any chance of the Left holding onto the Government.
Here is the TDB Top 5 candidates that the Green Party Members must elect to have any chance of real progress after the election.
1: Chloe
2: Golriz
3: Julie Ann Genter
4: Efeso Collins
5: Steve Able
Yes Marama and James have been a failure, yes it is because they are so weak that the woke clique have managed to effectively plot a coup under their noses, no we shouldn’t allow the woke clique to ruin the Party.
I think the wider membership have been appalled at these types of political machinations by woke cliques.
It is time to put in place a leadership team that can actually push for progress rather than destroy for dogma.
The top 5 is that team.
Let’s get that Top 5 in, and then plan a night of the long tweets to expose and destroy the woke cliques and what they’ve been saying in private chat rooms.
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Martyn
I love beer but if started tasting like wine I’d no longer love it. Call it Beer as much as you want, it’s wine now! You may have to find something else to love. Because that party you love may be called Greens, but they are no longer a green party. No way! Sorry mate.
The GreenLeft Network is the NZ equivalent of the Peoples’ Front of Judea.
Please tell me what Greens have achieved over the last 5 years as a party at the table of power. I have never voted Green as I saw them a party pushing for drug freedom but in the past they seemed to be there for the environment which was an important voice. The voice is now a whisper.
They managed to get private practise developers (with many taxpayer funded incentives like zoning changes) to build 70m2 apartments for $1.6 million https://thegreenhouse.apartments. The intensification was needed to ‘help poverty’.
It doesn’t matter if the new houses are flooded and fall off their foundations – they built a house, just not one that is value for money for taxpayers and is going to last!
“When they moved in Maria said she was told it was a million-dollar home.
She and her mother are wondering why their three-year-old home was so badly damaged in the floods.”
Auckland flooding: Several Kāinga Ora houses lifted off their foundations
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/auckland-flooding-several-k-inga-ora-houses-lifted-off-their-foundations.html
Maybe instead of spending 1 million on this new house and given away a lot of state house land to private developers, they could have just spent the money on renovating existing housing and built more lasting housing on the land they already owned!
The neo-marxists are riding on the back of the conservationists. They are going to destroy the greens with their anti-capitalist dehumanising revolution.
Adam and Eve. Markets determine value. Regulation keep capitalism in check. Freedom of speech protect our democracy and the rights of individuals allowing the promotion of group values.
They are ‘Mao’ist’ in so far that they would like to make society as it is redundant for their own queer version, culture chance, dunce head and shaming for wrong think included.
culture change of course.
It is scary that so many find that approach do “uplifting”. Humans are social beings and humans feel virtuous when they support group rights.
When humans experience restrictions on their human rights imposed by those group rights that they have supported altruistically they realise altruism is not a group value.
the greens are a middle class pressure group johan and wouldn’t know a marxist from from a hole in the road….if you wanna fling round rightwing catchphrases at least make them apt
Trevor the Kaupapa of the Greens has always been two arms: the environment and social justice. It has never been just about the environment.
They have lost their way and I will be voting Te Pati Maori.
Everyone knows I despise The Greens Defence Policy and my greatest arguments have been with Green members because I’m leftwing.
Cool, you think peoople who smoke out should be imprisoned.
Scratch a gammon and an authoritairan comes out,
The only one who can save the greens is if Chloe leads. The party will be put out to pasture at election with the new faction rising. The party needs time to heal itself and get back on track. The electorates will make it so, come what may.
I think they need to keep destroying themselves and pissing all over their legacy !
It’s quite interesting how sex and genderist Elizabeth Kerekere is pre-fixed by the title “Dr”, while Whetu Tirikatene -Sullivan, long-serving Maori Labour Cabinet Minister, who had a solid Ph D in Political Science from a reputable Australian university, wasn’t, as far as I can recall. Kerekere’s garish public attire contrasts with Tirikatene’s stylish class and dignity, which was more befitting of a politician who takes their job seriously and respects the Parliamentary institution, and she was very much a role model for women politicians who expect to be taken seriously, and importantly, who show respect towards other people. It simply was not in her nature to behave as appallingly as Kerekere apparently did at Select Committee.
The only GreenLeft candidate I’m aware of there is the Mexican guy, who while certainly ticking a few DEI boxes does have some actual concern for the class struggle, which is a nice change for a modern Green Party member let alone politician.
The Mexican guy is there for his self interest.
He has used his position for personal pursuits,abused his privilege,made up things about other people to promote himself.
actual examples please bob the last
So much love for the common kiwi that he flew to Mexico during covid to visit his boyfriend when “non essential” travel was discouraged and returned via MIQ when most kiwis overseas couldn’t get in.
Perhaps a contender for next New Zealander of the Year.
Another dreadful Green.
These are all anti-capitalists.
Let’s do this!
Oh goodie! It looks like the gweens are going to die at the October election!
Nope, no chance at all.
There will always be 5% of the country retarded enough to vote for them.
Hehehehe!
They are not about the environment they are there for themselves,there for the chance to grandstand,there for the money.
Good to see Martyn has put in the token white guy in his preferred list of candidates…
The GLN party. Would be scary to view the policy portfolio of this party.
It would be based as fuck. Taxing the rich pricks to pay for big beautiful hospitals.
Martyn, my deepest sympathies over the collapse of the Greens.
Time was, I used to vote Green, because the Greens were deeply concerned with the environment. But no longer. I’ve always been an environmentalist, but the Greens have long forgotten their environmental roots. As we see above, they’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of wokery.
Everybody who has voted Green in the past few years needs to pull their support and either put their vote elsewhere, or work to establish a party which is actually concerned with the environment. I’d consider voting for such a party. Meantime, ACT gets my vote.
ACT completely oppose environmental legislation. They would sweep aside and and all regulations and just have a free for all in which anyone can pour what they like down the drain.
Try to read the facts.
You may well be surprised how empowering knowledge is.
Unfortunately, knowledge is not enough.
Look in the mirror Johan, you may learn a thing or two but one would be good.
Mirrors are not a source of knowledge.
Johan you will see a person of wisdom,a person of common sense.
That’s blatantly false millsy.
Is there anyone in the Greens pushing environmental issues?
Not unlike your beloved National who are pretty much hell bent on destroying it
Good sensible environmental policy not based on myths and fairytales.
Give up on the Greens Martyn. Vote TOP. They have a great tax policy.
But unfortunately they have Sean Plunket too.
I think Sean is no longer involved with Top.
If it was between Kerekere and Plunkett, it would be Plunkett a million miles ahead
Bring back The Alliance.
They were a much better left wing party,
The infighting in Alliance was a sight to behold .Makes the Greens look united
Yes but infighting is what they excel at.
Walk away Martyn, let the chips fall where they may.
D’Esterre..lots of Green voters switched or swinging to ACT
I very much doubt that.
More likely to go TOP or Labour IMO
Marco+Battler: “….lots of Green voters switched or swinging to ACT”
Let’s hope that enough do that, so as to tip the Greens out of parliament.
Yes they need to be tipped out of parliament.
So, the new authoritarians in the GP have outed themselves. Good to know.
Confirms to me why I won’t be voting GP again anytime soon.
Forget it Martyn. Critical Social Justice says both Chloe Darling and James the Ineffectual must go – they’re just too white and/or not queer enough.
The greens will still make it past 5% even if Chloe doesn’t win. There’s still enough people who still believe they’re a environmental party, even though that couldn’t be further from the truth.
They also can count on the new young voter who has had 12 years of climate change indoctrination shoved down their throats, that look at the name of the party and consider not much else, why do you think that the green party want 16 year Olds to vote?
Yes BG they will benefit from the indoctrination our youth have been exposed to at school.(Those that go to school.)
I was Labour, solid as. Now Act or even Top could get my vote.
I am completely the same with NZ First in the running as well . . imagine huge numbers of others are also finding themselves in this position.
Woke Labour are going to find themselves chained to a rapidly sinking Greens who have voluntarily given themselves ‘cement shoes’.
Too bad about the mass pay freezes and public service cuts that ACT want to impose on this country. Anyone who wants to impose wage freezes and user pays health is the enemy in my opinion.
Public service? Stop harping on about public service. Other than health folks, nurses, doctors, ambo, fire and coastguard etc, we don’t have a govt where anyone ‘serves’ the public. Certainly not at OT, MSD, KO and all the other ‘supposed’ service agencies. Let alone the ministers and their staff. It’s free for all down in Wellington for arrogant people who consider themselves way above the ordinary public. Free their pay until they serve.
Well that’s not Act?
Can’t wait until Seymour guts them like a fish in the candidates debates!
Anker, you have no answered my question as to why you support a party that hates public services and wants to cut wages.,
How do you feel, when you go to the supermarket, and you just know the workers there are not going to have any more payrises when ACT comes to power?
Making things up to suit your argument is very weak millsy.
Probably time for the Greens to split. The wokes are determined to hijack the current shell entity. They can be left with the shell entity.
The breakaway could form a new party and call themselves the new greens, or probably more appropriately the old greens. Or they could move over to TOP and call themselves the Green Tops lol.
What about this though? https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131923147/senior-green-members-to-quit-over-dragged-out-elizabeth-kerekere-bullying-investigation
Weirdly, no journos are writing about the only reason, ever, that these things take a long time. Bully
Kerekere has lawyered up, so the Greens can’t say much about it, leaving her cheerleaders to spout this garbage. I almost feel sorry for them, Bully Kerekere has them on the ropes for now. But longer term, she’s surely toast.
She will defect to the Maori Party.