Darleen Tana drama could end in a month, following Green conference
A decision on whether to use waka-jumping rule to eject former Green, now independent, MP Darleen Tana from Parliament could come in a month’s time, following a discussion between the party and its members in Christchurch on Saturday afternoon.
The Greens were open about the fact the party would discuss what to do about Tana at their AGM in Christchurch this afternoon. One option, the Herald understands, is to schedule a Special General Meeting in a month’s time at which party delegates will discuss what to do.
A motion to use the waka-jumping legislation to eject Tana would require consensus among delegates or a 75% majority to succeed.
Tana was not the only thing on the agenda. New Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick challenged her members to help deliver on her campaign promise to grow the party into the dominant force on the left of New Zealand politics.
This AGM is Swarbrick’s first as co-leader, and one which she led alone after co-leader Marama Davidson took leave to battle cancer, Swarbrick challenged members to “look at ourselves in the mirror and consider whether we want to evolve as a Party”.
Chloe is clearly challenging the Greens on some of the things they hold important vs the need to make radical and immediate change to combat climate change and deep social inequality.
We are in Late Stage Capitalism on a planet melting far faster than many had feared.
The leading environmental Party should be dominating the news headlines on the climate, instead we are stuck dealing with the Tana drama!
The argument against using the Waka Jumping legislation is righteous and pure.
No Party should punish an elected representative who has quit the Party our been forced out on a matter of principle by dumping them altogether from Parliament and if Tana was an electorate MP or had quit on a matter of principle it would be an appalling power to invoke, but Tana is a Party MP and has been forced out because of a damning investigation into allegations of migrant worker exploitation by her partner, that is completely different to quitting on a matter of conscience!
The longer the Tana Drama continues, the weaker the Greens look.
Chloe has asked the Party to be trusted with this power, they should accept because Chloe is probably the best politician of her generation and is the best bet we have to forcing legislation that will respond to the challenges we have.
The planet is melting and the Greens need to be leading that debate, while Tana is there, they cant do that.
Imaging the Greens in charge of the country.We would be soon have thousands if public servants tied up in meetings and reports .Thousands of trees will die so reports can be printed covering every aspect of moving forward. as the country ground to a halt as we would have to stop doing many things to save the planet.
Well it would most certainly be better than the corruption we are getting from this coalition of chaos the worse this country has ever seen, clearly you haven’t been around long enough but hey keep protecting Uffindell.
I have been here since 1973 half of that time I was self employed so know how a business can be effect by a bad government. I voted against Muldoon and for Clark on her first 2 terms and obviously against Labour in 23
The Greens are poor defenders of the environment. They are good at pronouns and wordy speeches while the planet burns. Blaming National for being no better is not a great argument.
Image that you can spell, *and* make a factual comment. I’m trying hard to imaging that. If you don’t know what you are talking about, the option to remain silent should be more attractive than it seems to be. Trolling is all you’re doing really.
Yes there is no place in a New Zealand Government for this current Green Party.
They have become the Swarbrick Mexican Party.
Truly opportunists with no regard to climate issues.
The next one on the list for the greens is….wait for it, another identity politics wannabe MP
Until the greens drastically change up their hiring process and actually pick candidates with an environmental passionate background and not just maori activists then they will never be the 2nd largest party in NZ.
Look where their maori female centric policy has got them, even a female refugee has caused them headaches.
The greens have not been an environment party for many years, it has morphed into a ‘victim hood’ party and a party of identity politics first, female focused second and environment party a distant third.(only in the 6mths lead up to a general election do they ever focus on environment issues with any passion).
I hope they don’t invoke the waka jumping law, let Tana be there and their eyesight for the next 2+ years.
I see the Maori Pacifica group have resigned sighting bad feeling about their dealing with the one that died and the one who left and now Darlene story .This is the party some say should be in control of the country. What a joke.
Good on you @ MB and your TDB team for bringing this out.
Chloe Swarbrick should take over the prime ministership in my opinion. God only knows how that could be done but then seymour’s part of the coalition so anything’s possible I guess. Roger douglas’s david seymour… I mean what were people thinking, to vote for it. Who are these people?
Luxon, Peters and Seymour are derailing us. They’ll have their instructions and those instructions didn’t come from us.
Exactly right.
Swarbrick has no trouble talking but there’s a lot of hui and no doey.
Martyn – The Greens never believed one of their MPs would jump the waka was silly…If they supported the waka jumping bill, this could have been sorted out last week.
” Chloe has asked the Party to be trusted with this power, they should accept because Chloe is probably the best politician of her generation and is the best bet we have to forcing legislation that will respond to the challenges we have.”
As a farmer and as a white, heterosexual male man-person I 100% agree with the above statement.
My female human partner and I met Chloe Swarbrick a few years ago and we got nothing but positive and sincere energy back from her. Fellow farmers? Chloe Swarbrick and The Green Party are your salvation.
Now, before you throw your tractor over into the neighbours in a blind rage, think about it… Please.
Chloë is verbose and that’s about it.
Nike! Just do it!
Mop up the last of that gravy babez cos there aint gonna be no more after September.
How a MP elected to parliament solely on a Party List can even remain till the end of the week once they’ve either left or been thrown out of that party? Surely the term Independent List M.P is a oxymoron.
I think the greenies enacting the Waka jumping legislation would display the testicular fortitude and pragmatism many think they lack. And help show they do in fact live in the real world. Or at least the 2024 version of this Clown show.
How can Darlene Tana think she is in parliament representing anybody but herself? The rest of us don’t have our own personal representation, why should she?
Yes, the Greens need a long hard look in the mirror. They have just about everything covered as far as sexual orientation is concerned but they aren’t called the Sexual Identity Party.
They desperately need to get back to being the Green Party proper, not just when they have time, after pushing sexual identity barrow.
The environment is what they were elected to promote. Their secondary mission is social justice.
So can they please forget about sex and race for awhile and do what they were primarily elected to do instead of mucking around like a bunch of moody teenagers.
And now watch as every utterance around this issue becomes a major headline and hit job for mainstream media.
By stark contrast, as but one example – Shane Jones and his illicit meetings and corruption…………….*crickets*……
The greens need to dump their co leader bull shit and give Chloe sole charge and let her clean this shit up .
Tana is just free loading so should be kicked to the curb as Jacinda did with Sharma who has just gone down the nearest rabbit hole never to be seen again .
Chloe stop the bull shit and get these people in behind you and take the party foward
Yes and just as Luxon kicked Uffindell to touch…oh wait?
You need to move on from Uffindel. No one cares but you.
Agree.
A few of us do care because we see him as a good example of who not to nominate as a political candidate. It’s wise to remember these messy episodes and the selection people should be remembering them too.
So, not a question of ‘moving on’ but more a question of not repeating our mistakes.
I read that Chloe said they might have Dharleen sorted by…September… which means it will be pretty much a full year since the election before she goes. My first ever vote was for the Green party— now I wouldn’t touch them with a 40 foot non-binary-tiriti-centered-korowai-granny-bashing-at Albert-Park barge-pole.
” The longer the Tana Drama continues, the weaker the Greens look. ”
They are weal and ineffective and held hostage by identity free cuddles for everybody politics.
They are dead and nothing they do or plan to do is going to be enough to confront the COC and their free run.
I thought Chloe was intelligent and had political nous. Nah.
They have drifted so far down the road of identity politics they have killed the mana that Fitzsimmons , Donald , Bradford , Lock and Tueri commanded and in effect they have destroyed themselves.
Its a sad indictment of a once mighty political party and the destruction of a once powerful real left opposition to the Managerial class Chipkins party and the current neo liberal mafia in government.
2026 or sooner Chloe needs to re set and give me a reason to vote for the party I have supported since 2014.
I’m not hopeful.
So let’s see. They give Tana 21 working days to respond. In that time they consult each other as to not offend anyone’s in the party for no being consulted. After 21 working, hoping she resigns, Tana says Fuck You, I’m staying. At that point the Greens will decide what to. No decision has been made, that only starts then…? Now, having kicked her out the party, they’re no longer obliged to give her 21 days. They could have pulled the waka lever last week. But they’re too scared to lose likes. You got a say, the Greens are their own worst enemy. It’s a Kindergarten.
Your are SO right Bomber…but instead of rallying around a skilled leader and the political base that effectively landed the Greens the largest number of seats in the party’s history at the last election….the factional nonsense of identity rears it’s ugly head and threatens to pull the Party apart.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350358045/ruptures-emerge-over-greens-handling-darleen-tana
The likes of Tana and Kerekere are undermining this country for their own personal virtue signaling.
Chloe would have done better to join the Labour party and deal with it’s factional bullshit, just as Peter Garret did in Australia.
At least he stepped up and eventually became the Environment Minister.
Chloe I fear is a political leader this country needs but will be lost to history because she aligned herself to a tardy bunch of sanctimonious navel gazing narcissists.
The Greens need to grow up
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