There is a lot that should be said, but won’t be said about Dr Kerekere’s resigning last night.
But for the shits and giggles, let’s read between the lines.
The livestream was cut as soon as Kerekere started lashing out at the leadership, her resignation was sent to the leadership shortly after she started speaking and made public at 10.30pm
I think that there was a lot more screenshots saying far more damaging things that could have been released.
Once the scale of gerrymandering by woke identity cliques using the new voting rules was realised, the push back and leaks have not ended.
The woke clique were manipulated by Matthew Hooton last year into dumping James as co-leader without any actual plan after that, these are not the smartest political strategists. These people think Marama isn’t woke enough!
The wider membership have been appalled by this level of machination.
This soft coup against James and Marama was only possible because they are both so weak and have little to show for their leadership.
The woke identity clique have been exposed and it is now up to the wider membership to take their Party back.
TDB has been arguing members rank the top 5 this way to send a message they want a Green Party with the capacity to force economic and environmental justice:
1 – Chloe
2 – Golriz
3 – Julie Anne Genter
4 – Efeso Colllins
5 – Steve Able
This entire fiasco has been damaging for the Greens and Kerekere will be hoping a pre-emptive resignation can buy her time to get an invite from the Māori Party.
The Māori Party would be crazy to let her in.
We urgently need a Green Party focused on serving the people and not feeding their own ambitions.
We are 6 months out from the 2023 election, we did not need this shit!
If the Green Party are finished starting culture wars with white cis males and politically self mutilating themselves, could we get back to climate change and the looming economic recession?
A sustainable eco village divided against itself cannot stand!
Members must review these new voting rules so this nonsense doesn’t happen again!
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A bit of good news. Hopefully the Green Party is not lost, as for all it’s faults, it needs to survive to keep National/Act out
yes
It happens in all parties, the only winner is the media. Like National and Jamie Lee Ross they move on. Same here except the parakeet had a lower profile.
Yep, tipping points are being reached and action is needed not more fringe rainbow distractions. The North has been under water for days–200ml rainfall over 24hrs around Kaitaia area since Fri.
The Greens need to get into mobilising the wider community to support the revived School Climate Strikes, pushing for mass installs of solar and rain water collection tanks for houses and apartments, and the many other Climate Disaster issues. Plus they need to develop a plan to corner Labour, if they are able to form a Govt., into making the reforms they should have been doing since 2020.
Will Kerekere be a loose canon like Sharma and spill a lot of beans?
Here’s hoping.
Remember this is the party who went to Albert Park to fight Nazis and celebrated with pure trans joy after violence against women and the shutting down of free speech.
If you vote Greens, these are the people you are voting for
Don’t think she is that stupid, probably a spot for her in TMP if she wants to go down that track ???
I don’t think that TPM want her, she would have to stand as an independent.
Agree Ngugukai I don’t she would resign without some contingency and that may well be TPM.
A dreadful bunch of people.
Hey Martin. Genuine question: What has Ghahraman achieved to justify your ranking of 2? Efeso Collins at 4? I don’t know the man. Will he turn out to be like Teanau Tuiono? I thought he presented well pre-2020 election but again what’s he done?
The current Greens crop is pretty sparse. Very little to inspire confidence there. But what would I know. Hipkins impressed me for about a week and then went backwards.
And it’s Steve Abel.
Who are being Hootoned now?
Looking forward to seeing the outcome of the selection process.
No-one will really be happy in the green family. But they will be celebrated.
The media one ……. oops …. won.
What did they win?
LOL! Precisely zero value from any of them including Martyns most recent crush Chloe who is cut from the same virtue signaling empty headed cloth.
It’s amazing that the current National party are the worst in NZ history and yet are still streets ahead of Labour and the greens.
I agree regarding Chloe,she’s become some demigod.(Why?)
they are not the gender fairies, but just regular unappealing useless suits.
I agree Grey Area.
Rats? Ship…
Sinking?
Seems that way.
Verse 1:
Goodbye to the Green Party, who promised so much more
Divisive in their ways, we couldn’t ignore
The environment’s in peril, but they failed to act
Climate change is looming, it’s a stubborn fact
Chorus:
And it seems to me you lived your time
In vain pursuits, with no regard for the signs
You burned out long before your legend ever will
We’ll miss your voice, but not the promises unfulfilled
Verse 2:
The future’s uncertain, and our planet’s at stake
But their actions were few, and their progress was fake
We need a voice that’s strong, to speak for the earth
Someone who’ll stand for nature, for all it’s worth
Chorus:
And it seems to me you lived your time
In vain pursuits, with no regard for the signs
You burned out long before your legend ever will
We’ll miss your voice, but not the promises unfulfilled
Bridge:
Oh, the world is watching, as the climate changes fast
We need leaders who will act, before it’s all in the past
Farewell to the Green Party, it’s time to move on
The future’s in our hands, it’s up to us to carry on
Chorus:
And it seems to me you lived your time
In vain pursuits, with no regard for the signs
You burned out long before your legend ever will
We’ll miss your voice, but not the promises unfulfilled
Outro:
Goodbye to the Green Party, we bid you adieu
The world is waiting, for leaders who will pursue
The cause of the planet, and the fight against time
Let’s work together, for a future that’s sublime.
“The children of the revolution are consumed by it”
Mao
Martyn – YES! Great news
I’d like a Green Party to serve the planet not just the people.
Kerekere also probably resigned as she saw the odds were not stacked in her favour to automatically be returned to a cushy job in parliament by being high on the members lists, so resigned.
So much easier to resign and then milk the woke victim card.
We know from the Covid breaches that Kerekere thought she was outside of the rules – pretty sure Green MP’s are not supposed to publicly slag other Green members in their charter.
Expect more tower crashing moments, the world over and especially in politics over the next while. We’re moving into a new age where the corrupt filth of the world rises from the hidden and exposes itself so we can cleanse it out. Let’s do Putin and the banks next!
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it etc, etc…
The sort if talent the Maori Party needs.
Well, everyone is being so helpful, makes voting decisions much easier.
That the Green Party still has a core base that will (clearly mindlessly) vote for them no matter what beggars belief. I guess they get a lot from uninformed overseas voters who have no idea how crazy this party and their policy is.
Everyone now knows what they stand for……
The bully has resigned after being out-bullied.
How did she slip through the original selection process?
She did not slip through, she was selected for her value to attract a specific demographic!
Viva la democracy.
Green Maori Bully ?
That the ACT Party still has a core base that will (clearly mindlessly) vote for them no matter what beggars belief. I guess they get a lot from uninformed overseas voters who have no idea how crazy this party and their policy is.
Coming from someone who wants to impose Christianity on everyone.
Coming from someone who wants to recreate the gulags
You want to put people in prison for petty crimes (and have them raped in there).
Half of South Auckland children wearing ankle bracelets ?
and denies climate science as well.
Wut? I’m a lifelong atheist. Lol.
That will teach you….
You said that the government wanted people to be non-religious. You overtly made it sounded it was like a *bad* thing.
I have a feeling you may well be wrong about what “Nitrium” thinks.
They’ll get their 5% for sure and the only sensible thing to do after the election is sterilize or execute everyone who voted for them. It would make the gene pool much better.
You have named the methods we use to drive our society – ‘ core base that will (clearly mindlessly) vote for them no matter what beggars belief.’ That’s why we have this relentless growth-oriented, profit-driven mish-mash that is driving us into oblivion. Don’t just pick on the Greens, they are the canaries in the mine.
Lost me, I’m voting ACT now.
Free Peach: ever since your first comment, it has been pretty obvious that you were pro-ACT. Don’t expect anyone to be shocked by this disclosure.
I was created purely for that purpose.
Spawned would be a better word to use…
Well said Free Peach.
Well said Nitrium.
Keep James Shaw. He’s normal, even if he’s a white heterosexual male, now a protected species. Elizabeth has lovely Irish cheekbones in the above photo; pity she seems to have taken a narrow path. What a mess.
Her mother was a first generation Irish Kiwi. I knew Dr Kerekere when she was growing up . She was always a domineering know it all.
That would come from the Irish Side of the Family
How would anyone know??????????
OK, so Jimmy’s redeeming feature is that he’s “normal”. Well I can see some sparrows out the window that look “normal”, but I’m not sure I’d want them to represent me in parliament.
Snow White I suggest if James Shaw grew a beard and a ponytail his standing would be elevated.
Question.
With a recession potentially looming, why haven’t you listed former Action Against Poverty spokesman Menéndez-March?
Let the Green Party’s Hunger Games begin!
There exists a need to battle the culture of White Cis Males. Especially as climate change and economic recession are caused by it.
There can be no solution to the ailing eco-sphere or financial systems without an evolution of White Cis Male culture.
The sooner we accept that, the better!!!
LOL! White NORMAL men built the world you live in.
Stop using electricity and all other technology and THEN start your revolution.
It’s always the most useless people like you that demand that the world builders are overthrown by typing on the technology they created.
I’d say grow a brain but it clearly isn’t possible.
Well said Jays.
White Cis Male culture is destroying the world.
I get your’e threatened and scared of losing your historical dominance but put your big boy pants on, suck it up and adapt, evolve or die!
What have the Romans ever done for us.
Blood drenched conquests, dictatorships, mass slavery, and circuses! Yay!
Woo woo. All aboard the gravy train, first stop fabricated grievances.
“The woke clique were manipulated by Matthew Hooton last year into dumping James as co-leader……………..”
Is that a case of can’t be that stupid, but is stupid enough to be manipulated? lol
good riddance, may this uterus having person crawl back under the rocks they came from.
No need to make the rocks plural..
How can one person come out from under multiple rocks ?
A pile of rocks perhaps?
A word about Elizabeth Kerekere and the Pride people she is embraced by. Thinking about them – they are cohesive, they are trying to be kind to each other, they are multi-racial, multi-sexual, and wanting a better future. Maybe they are the future. The old ways have been insufficient and now we are going through huge changes that no-one in power can change or even bear to think hard about because there are such powerful entities against the people. So the people given power serve the powerful entities – but pride people have a basic human urge, to be themselves and enjoy a communal life in a group. The combines power of these people seeking a new way of being that seems bad because it is fo different – may actually offer us a way round the powerful entities. I don’t see why however, that should mean that gay people can change sex with their socks and diminish rights of people firm in their sex. Changes should be negotiated and gay/pride people won’t get just what they decide they want but if they have a reasoned group as their leaders, we could work out better ways.
Elizabeth Kerkere seems to be highly thought of, thoughtful, has a background of activism and co-operation with people, especially Maori. She reminds me a bit of Winston Peters, with the same stylish clothing! A politician who can think about people, she would have been for Metiria Turei I hope. Let’s think on this matter, and negotiate for fairness to all and practicality.
Disregard the Greens who have good ideas in discussion but fail to define, refine include needy humans and assistance in their actions. Sounding good, confident, sensible and idealistic is all; they are for the environment but don’t really like humans-at-all-levels. And that is what we need, to all be in the loop and going along with the forward-moving not the subject of disdain and finger-pointing. I have listened too long to the crap that is spouted and discard it as BS when really examined – as moist and steaming as the image in the recent caption set.
I know nothing about the Green Party so just passing a comment on how strange thinks look when a MP that warrented a suggested ranking of number 4 on their party list ensuring if Greens got 5 percent a place in Parliment for the next term
now the leaders say she was on a watch list as they were aware of tension and possible bullying of other members. It seems very messy following on from the attempt to replace James Shaw as the co leader which I understand she was involved in .
Phew, thank God Marama is still there! She.is zthe best thing that ever happened to the Green Party. A hardworking, diligent MP who is deeply passionate about the environment and then planet. If only all MPs were like her.
Loved the irony KH.
Yes KH Thank goodness for Marama. She has been a steel tipped knife that has pared away the irrelevancies of Green Party concerns and exposed the inner core for our view. And it is a lovely pavlova to be enjoyed by all the cognoscenti. The rest of us are labouring to grow potatoes like the Irish did and trying to avoid being taken out by wind-blown viruses and funguses plus problems from fly-blown-minds that maggot away at all the good that we had managed to build in this country.
“TDB has been arguing members rank the top 5 this way…”
TDB being Martyn and who else?
The Daily Blog isn’t some fringe online message board like The Standard. We come here to try and persuade people to our side. Y’know we want to gibempeople dignity in retirement. A dignified workinh life. We try and use our collective bargaining power to build stuff people can be proud of.
We don’t have sides here we are trying to sort out the wood from the trees and the shit from the clay. It’s a Broad Church at TDB compare to KB where you just have Right Wing Nutters ???
If you want to go RWNJ go to KB.
Well said Sam. Now everybody vote ACT and all your dreams will come true (apologies to Pedro).
Making things so expensive that no one poor can afford to live isn’t something I can vote for.
The Greens will really be hoping that the fact Elizabeth Kerekere is best known for breaking lockdown rules while being in a health spokesperson role means this dies down quickly. Expect her ego to keep making itself felt, and I’d be surprised if Te Pāti Māori though her with a barge pole. Especially since she’s had a history of treating Louisa Wall like crap too.
Biggest problems for the Greens are if they let Kerekere pretend she’s a victim of racism, rather than a nasty bit of work. Of course she faces racism. But Marama wouldn’t be fronting this, and Māori staff wouldn’t be complaining, if Kerekere wasn’t a bully.
Well said Sam. Now everybody vote ACT and all your dreams will come true (apologies to Pedro).
When I read articles like this and the anger and frustration in the comments section it reminds me of an old article I was shown many years ago. I invite anyone including Bomber to search for this: Climbing the ladder of awareness by Paul Chefurka. It may be of interest to see Paul’s theory on the stages of awareness we are all moving through with regards to the multi faceted predicament humanity is facing. Everyone is somewhere on this ladder- politicians, journalists, you and me. Peace <3