I will stand against the despicable smear on Green MP Benjamin Doyle every single day of the week because it is a obscene character assassination by the alt-Right Culture War Trolls.
Child abuse is a terrible, despicable and horrific plague on our community and we must always fight it and BECAUSE it is such a terrible, despicable and horrific crime the level of evidence must be high.
The supposed ‘evidence’ is the word ‘bussy’ and pedophilic hieroglyphics which would be hilarious if it weren’t so despicable.
However.
I still roll my eyes over the Green candidate selection process and the lack of wider perspective their candidate’s virtue signalling might cause a mainstream electorate.
Andrea Vance is scathing…
And the Greens should have seen the political risk before it ever came to public attention. To not do so was naive, incompetent and put Doyle and their family at risk.
As usual, they are very much a victim of their own preoccupation with identity politics.
And boooooy, did they play victim.
Co-leaders Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson gave a master class in deflection.
Persecuted matched with condescension is a tricky look to pull off, but the Greens have nailed it.
Swarbrick framed the controversy as an attack on the LGBTQ+ community. While it’s true that Doyle faced homophobic abuse, she ignored the core issue: whether the content of the posts was appropriate for an MP.
Words matter, especially in politics, and regardless of Doyle’s intention, some people were uncomfortable with, or just genuinely confused, by the posts.
But Swarbrick shut down concerns, making out they were only rooted in prejudice and intolerance. (Hands down the best bit of this performance was when she interrupted her earnest lecture on not policing language to tick off a reporter who tripped up over Doyle’s pronouns.)
This refusal to acknowledge mistakes was just as bad faith as the trolls who whipped up the controversy in the first place.
The Greens have allowed their factions enormous power to push their own woke candidates and this means the Party list resembles more an alienating vegan Kink munch more than a serious political party.
The next candidate after Benjamin on the list pole danced to raise funds for the last election…
…the ‘lived experience’ groups inside the Greens have been given enormous selection of candidate powers and they have propelled these Identity Politics candidates up the list, the Greens need a good hard long look at themselves and the candidates they are promoting simply because of their diversity.
The bitter shallowness of Identity Politics has replaced the power of class solidarity and we saw the ultimate showdown of this in the American election where poor white people have become as easily triggered as middle class woke activists  and now see themselves as the victim, and when white poor people start seeing themselves in the same victimhood language as the woke, we are in an enormous amount of danger.
Defining ourselves through a constant prism of marginalization helps the Right, not the Left!
Meanwhile the planet is melting.
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As the Democratic Party in the USA has been discovering, there’s more to creating a functioning, coherent, capable political party than simply sellotaping interest groups one to the other. SHRDLU candidate selection ranks equally with policy development.
What do people want and expect from Brand Green?Whales saved, forests conserved, rivers cleaned, smoke stacks closed, gas guzzlers replaced, a clean energy economy and the poor uplifted.
What do we get? Puberty blockers espoused, migrants exploited, white guys dissed, conservative feminists physically attacked.
Yes the greens will need to look hard at who they stand in the next election .Like it or not they will have to step up as they will hold the balance of power no matter which of Labour or National get the most seats .They need strong real world people who can step up and lead NZ .
I used to vote for the Greens but pretty much gave up when Chloe came to power. Chloe and Marama don’t seem to get on very well and I think that reflects right through the party. I was never a huge fan of James Shaw but not having his steady, dare I say it boring hand on the helm has allowed much of these recent disasters to happen. I don’t know what the answer is but I don’t think the current bunch are likely to change anything.
Been a Green supporter from the old Values Party days and have some very good people go through the ranks.
This lot (I mean the ones making the decisions) could not be so far off the mark if they tried, I can only hope there is some sort of plan behind what is happening, and all will be revealed.
Unfortunately I think they are so out of touch and scared of maybe having to be part of a Labour coalition that they are making it impossible to be close to power.
The old Green Party will be shaking their heads and why are they being so bloody stupid, why make your self’s so unelectable?
Maybe in their sheltered world what they are doing is perfectly normal but coming from heart land Canterbury they are treated as a joke that just keeps giving.
Sorry it’s the end for me
Well for all these complaints they are still polling more than ACT
Exactly right and at least their MPs aren’t lobbyists and Cabinet Ministers at the same time.
I fear the Green Party has become a parody of themselves. The description people used to use to dismiss and mock them is now a reasonable description of what they are.
What a load of bullshit from Andrea Vance when we have a pussy grabbing felon President from the USA that we all have to be nice to otherwise he will raise our tariffs. And we have no problem shaking hands with a UAE leader that order a person killed in the Turkish embassy never to be seen again, my what hypocrisy. And then there is the far-right leader in France no one seems to care or is saying anything about her.
Ok ok ok! What most people seem to be saying here and including MB, is that Ben and the next lady on the list just aren’t straight enough to be politicians. I say bullshit to that. By the way, pole dancing to raise funds is a lot more honorable than soliciting large funds from rich donors and splitting it up to make it look like small funds that do not have to be declared. Got something against fat ladies pole dancing? Got something against Ben they/them? Check yourselfs folks. And correct Uncle Tom and Not My Government.
And tell, how is pole dancing any more humiliating or ridiculous than Seymour twerking on dancing with the stars?? I will tell you, it’s not! And she was fund raising, you legit can do any stupid thing you like for that, stop naked for a calander etc…give Green candidates a break, it’s policy that matters and what these candidates who represent the people, stand for.
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