Wow.
Greens release Darleen Tana report summary showing ‘extensive’ involvement with troubled bike firm
- Executive summary reveals Darleen Tana continued her involvement with E Cycles despite selling shares in April 2019.
- She failed to disclose the personal grievance raised by an ex-employee against the company to the Green Party in 2020 and 2023.
- Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has urged Tana to resign from Parliament.
Tana’s only hope to date was some absurd conspiracy that her side of the story hasn’t been told and the Greens have been unfair, meaning she should stay in Parliament because she’s a Māori woman who understands Māori science which is an extraordinary claim to make that somehow her identity is more important than her personal obligation to the Green Party list she was elected on!
The report the Greens hadn’t released was apparently her evidence, well it’s been released and the Greens had every reason to come to the conclusion they have,
Why Tana was under the impression that the report would vindicate her is utterly beyond me, but what this entire fiasco has shown is the steel of Chloe as Leader, her ‘Facts more important than feelings’ statement utterly undermined the emotional manipulation Tana has attempted and disarms the woke identity politics justifications.
This non-binary lady’s not for turning!
Chloe’s leadership has been strong and tough and her handling of this has built her up.
The NZ Left fall in love while the NZ Right fall in line, and right now the Left are loving AND respecting Chloe.
They have the opportunity at the Christchurch conference to end this nonsense by enabling the wake jumping legislation, now the report has been made public, the Greens must capitalise on this moment and end this silliness now.
There are two ways you can misunderstand something by being too far away from it AND from being too close to it!
Lived experience only goes so far if your lived experience is bad.
The Greens need way less lived experience and need way more professional experience.
Tana would fit well in the national party as she just talks shit and waffels on .Must have been trained by Luxons media bull shit trainers .
gordon walker – Or Labour…talking shit, and doing nothing – is there unofficial motto
‘Cough-cough’. ‘Their’ dear boy. NOT ‘there’. As in ” Oh look! Over there! Another Right wing neo-liberal Machiavellian confederate who can’t spell. ( Relax. Neither can I . That’s why I use my spell-checker. Shift-Command-colon or semicolon. On a Mac anyway. You right wingers almost certainly use Windows. Suggestion. Clean them.
Killer T-Cell – Well spotted old Sport.
A do nothing Labour government or a take ou8country back National government Nate? I know which I choose.
National are squeaky clean – Very low bar
Funny you say that she belongs in the National Party, yet she’s in the Green Party who have at least count *checks notes* a thief, a bully, a racist, a misandrist and others who used to jump MIQ lists to go ‘home’ for holidays.
No fan of the National Party but I think that Darleen is currently in the perfect party for her personality type.
Bg, serial offenders are just cleverly hid by National. The Greens could learn from them.
who said she belonged to the national party ?I said she would fit right into the national party
Has become an even worse look with her husbands bike business in receivership and him “fleeing” back to Europe. Leaving her alone to “face the music”.
Why would he want to stay and put up with her shit for the rest of his life ?Imagine having to listen to that for the rest of your days
I don’t agree with Chloe’s politics but have been impressed with how she has handled a nightmare situation.
Am ok with the Greens using the Waka jumping law to out Tana, they will get blasted for being hypocritical but its not outing an MP for taking a principled stand on legislation, it’s getting rid of a bad person who shouldn’t be there.
So, using a policy/law they were vocal against as ‘undemocratic’ and voted against…you are happy for them to use it and see it as being heroic and indeed stoic in getting rid of one of their MPs?!
Sums up a green supporter very well.
The backlash if the do use the waka jumping rule means the party will be forever tarred with the hypocrisy brush.
It’s why they are pleading for her to resign, they know they cannot use the law in this case.
(PS
I hope she stays in parliament or indeed force the greens to eat that dead rat and use the waka jumping ruling)
Haha and any right wing party isn’t hypocritical?
You truly are a knob tighty righty.
The Greens have made a dreadful mess of this affair,a reflection on their inability to manage,let alone Govern.
Wether they voted for the law or not it is still the law so should be used if they see the need
” I don’t agree with Chloe’s politics…” What else don’t you agree with? That the Earths not flat after all? That Seymour’s not a tranny robot? That a feed-lot sow didn’t sit on a used condom then gave birth to roger douglas?
Chloe Swarbrick must become our PM. She’s literally our only hope. She’s the only politician I’ve met who has a genuine interest in our well being rather than of how much money she can stuff in her pockets while she can like all the others.
Killer T-Cell – Chloe has gaslit the NZ Cannabis movement by NOT drawing up a Private Members Bill to make amendments towards Cannabis use in NZ – despite claiming she will numerous times.
best thing you have said
I’m on the fence on this one. I quite like the Greens stand on the Waka Jumping Bill, because if we think of it the other way around, a party shouldn’t just be able to throw out MPs because they don’t like them anymore, or the party’s principals change and suddenly an MP, who lives by those principles is on the outer. Wasn’t there those two Green MPs who got turfed (well delisted) when Materia admitted fraud?
MMP has a tonne of faults (I think there are better ways of doing it) and this is certainly one of them, but after the recent UK elections and the way their parliament no way reflects the will of the people, having one or two MPs go rogue that’s a small price to pay.
I think with a list MP if the party boots them out they should be able to replace them.
All the party requires is the amount of representation that the voters gave them at the last election. Getting rid of Tana and replacing her with the guy with the awesome thesis gives them exactly the same. No one voted for her except the green party themselves when giving her her listing position
But hey, no one voted for the replacement either? What’s the difference?
If a party can’t control their MPs or has a bad selection process, fools on them. Of course, us tax payers have to continue to pay them, but we pay anyway.
I say split the difference: list MPs booted _for cause_ should be removed from parliament without option, while list MPs booted without cause should retain their seat unless they choose to resign. List MPs who jump ship should also be ejected, and wait for reelection.
Electorate MPs should always retain their seat, but should also be recallable by their electorate.
Darleen is full of shit and needs to go. No shame on Greens if they use the legislation. Tana is a list MP with no great history so far.
Her staying on as an independent would be for personal opportunist reasons only.
In full agreement with the second statement but perhaps the first is open to interpretation. In the current political climate parties must seen to be be tough with elected members. Break the code of conduct – perceived to be the case or real – and it is expected that you fall on your sword. Don’t bring the party into disrepute because if any renegade does and its not dealt to with a firm hand it just doesn’t look good. The Greens more than other parties perhaps as they appear to take the moral high ground on a good many issues and have been already bruised by a few renegades. So it should be. A bit like draining the moral swamp. Though in reality that’s a tough ask. But I concede I might be overthinking it. On the face of it the report is pretty damming – although again I haven’t read it.
She’s just another Green behaving like a Green.
” She’s just another Green behaving like a Green. ”
No she is just another ” entitled ” neo liberal who has seen an opportunity to exploit in this case the Greens and the parliamentary process.
With these connections I would thought she was the ideal candidate for the National , ACT or Winston Shane First.
Her candidacy and the way the political parties select their candidates for office is the problem ……in her case its possible exploitation of migrants for financial gain so I think she used her Māori connection with a sympathetic Green party who are sensitive to this approach as her passport to the entitlement and perks of being in parliament. The Greens have stood on a nail here when they should have been watching where they walk.
These people and their agenda and their financial backers are the corrosive rust that is slowly destroying representative so called democracy and the destruction of confidence in our elected official’s and government.
Those who contribute on this blog and point the finger at the Greens should open their small minds and acknowledge that this is not a problem with party affiliation but the demise of standards and accountability when it comes to those who are selected to be a member of our elected parliament.
The problem is a reflection of neo liberal politics in that once a sip is taken from the intoxicating cup of greed , exploitation and an invisible conscience and reality then regardless of your party membership its just a vehicle to exploit and enrich yourself all in the name of democracy and the peoples representative.
Our current system of me first service and exploiting many of our people to support the polices of greed will never end until the oppressed in 1916 that went on to form NZLP to stand against plutocracy and protect the people from exploitation is re formed in the 2020s to oppose , provide leadership and a clear policy position and stand strong against what we are threatened with right now will change be achieved.
This movement will need to move past public spectacle’s of the Tana’s and other distractions and focus on a plan to challenge and fight the system that exists now regardless of party affiliation.
We need a new politics and representative parliament based on real democracy.
Exactly.
Chloe Swarbrick should be Labour’s leader. Where’s Chris Hipkins btw? Serious question.
Could be here in hiding here with bob the first and lone comet.
The Guardian.
Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/17/signs-of-two-gases-phosphine-ammonia-in-clouds-of-venus-life
“Life Jim but not as we know it. “
Hilarious to think Chippie would be in the company of lone comet and me.Mind you he would learn more in 10 minutes than he has during his entire Labour Party affiliation.
We could invite countryboy as a guest proving he shouts the sausage rolls.
Steal not steel is the Green modus operandi, whether it is Golriz out shopping or Darleen stealing wages from immigrants, let’s get our spelling correct.
I think Darleen engaging in wage theft- strongly suggesting she is driving down the wages of New Zealanders at least as much as she might be stealing from immigrants- is rather more serious than that kurd lifting a few overpriced items of secondhand clothing from some Wellington gits.
Yes on the whole a dishonest bunch of opportunists.
I reckon a group hug would save the day.
Darleen needs to stop feathering her nest and get the hell out,the whole thing stinks
We have an opposition that is made up of a racist party, a lazy party and a have no control party National are set to rule for the next 6 years at least.
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