The Darleen Tana fiasco needs to be cauterised by ruthless pragmatism rather than woke intersectionist feminist cuddles.
The Greens have always lacked the ruthlessness required to be effective in the bear pit of politics.
Even when they were told Elizabeth Kerekere was planning a coup against them by gerrymandering the new lived experience voting system, they sat on their hands because woke intersectionist feminist cuddles matter most.
If Tana wanted to do right by the Greens, she would step down. She won’t because this is the best gig she’s ever had.
The woke intersectionist feminist cuddle collective argues, ‘Why should Tana be judged by her husbands actions, that’s judging a women by their Husband’, where as the ruthless pragmatists are saying, “Are you kidding Sisters, the political optics of abusing migrant workers is the kiss of death, and there is actually an enormous amount of evidence showing she was aware, so here’s your marching orders”.
This is becoming like a lesbian divorce in that it N-E-V-E-R ends.
I thought due process was a white cis male heteronormative privilege?
At this stage it doesn’t matter if Tana is innocent or not, the optics are fucking corrosive and at some point she just has to go.
Leap or push, it has to happen cuddles and all.
Chloe needs a clear board to start her leadership with.
Tana is preventing her from doing that.
Way too much Oestrogen in this issue, not nearly enough Testosterone.
I believe the report into the whole saga is ready and complete, but why would you release it when another ex party member was being sentenced last week.
The report will be released in the next week or so once the GG sentencing headlines has drifted from the minds of the public.
I will admit I’m surprised Tana has not voluntary fallen on her sword, then I remembered her salary…..why would you not squeeze every pay cheque that you can whilst you can!
Capitalism Vs Socialism…..money wins every time.
Let’s hope they can forgive her like they did Sam Uffindell or Judith ” Oravida” Collins.
I mean the internal inquiry by Luxon into Uffindell was in depth and balanced, wasn’t it?
I’m right aren’t I?
Yes you are right it was fair and balanced.
Good to see you back out of the dementia ward Bob the cock.
Hell even dementia ward staff need respite from your idiocy.
Refresh my memory did Sam murder some one or steal or abuse a child it must have been really really really bad for you to bring it up in most of your posts.
It must be great to look back on your adolescent with a clear conscience that you did nothing silly to come back and be dragged up by a righteous soul
Martyn – Spot on…also, the Greens need to be hardnosed in selecting candidates…and not using check lists.
Proof that the Greens don’t have what’s required to run a country. They are amateurs.
Yes the Greens have never had and still don’t the ability to govern.
Most of them are there for the generous income something outside of politics they could only dream of.
Good to see you back out of the dementia ward Bob the cock.
Hell even dementia ward staff need respite from your idiocy.
Bob the first – 100% correct
Right on Nathan! My blood boils every time that odious Mexican opens his mouth. How the hell did he get into parliament. The mind boggles.
Dharleen is doing her Green bestest by being one of the most frequent flyers in parliament.
Agreed Martyn.
She should have been forced to quietly resigned the day GG was sentenced in order to take it off the front page. As it is the public is being drip fed one green scandal at a time, maximizing the impression of green corruption.
The Greens and credibility are becoming strangers.
Their performance suggests they should all resign.
Some people have been slow to draw the appropriate conclusions from Green MP Darleen Tana’s fall from grace. Should Darleen resign from Parliament? If she doesn’t, should the Green Party invoke the waka jumping legislation? Was Darleen elected to parliament solely on the sponsorship of the Green Party? Who can say? Electors voted for a Green Party list. Darleen was on the list. Did her presence on that list attract votes, meaning she has as much right as Chloe Swarbrick to remain in parliament? No one knows. That is the point. No one knows anything. No one knows for certain if Darleen was in the wrong in the migrant labour exploitation scandal and no one knows for certain what support she has among Green voters, so no one knows if she has a moral right to stay in parliament. Who should make that decision? In a democracy, the people who elected her would. Trouble is that in the New Zealand system they have no way of doing that. In a democracy there would be continuous election with an open ballot – in a word, rangatiratanga – and Darleen would either be confirmed in her position or she would be gone. No drama, no pontificating, no endless screeds of vehement opinion on blogs, no Green Party agonising over compromising principles by invoking the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act. It would be boring by comparison with what we have now, but hey, democracy is like that.
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