The 3 priorities of any new Green Party Chief-of-staff

Green Party chief of staff Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield resigns

The Greens’ chief of staff Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield has resigned “to focus on her health, well-being and her whānau”, following a tumultuous time for the party.

In a statement, Green co-leader Marama Davidson said Prestidge-Oldfield had decided to step away from the position after “careful consideration”.

“This has not been an easy decision for her to make, given the huge contribution that Eliza has made to the Green Party over many years,” Davidson said.

“However, the party fully supports her decision to prioritise her health and whānau.”

Davidson said a recruitment process would take place “in due course”. Policy and research director Tom Haig would act in the role in the meantime.

The Greens also acknowledged Prestidge-Oldfield’s “incredible work” which left the party “in good stead going forward”.

Prestidge-Oldfield moved into the role in April last year. She replaced Robin Campbell who himself departed as part of an exodus of senior staff connected to the resignation of then-co-leader James Shaw.

Is there a more difficult job in the world than the Green Party Chief-of-staff?

The tone policing, the micro aggression policing, the woke dogma, oh sweet fuck, put the gun in my mouth and pull the tigger now!

Here is a tiny peek inside the culture of the Greens via Tory Whanau.

Nadine Walker is Tory Whanau’s Chief-of-staff and a former Green Party press secretary.

She’s also Chloe Swarbrick’s partner.

When Wellington Unions met with Tory last year in an attempt to get clarity from the Mayor as to her insane decision to sell Wellington Airport, the Wellington Unions were screamed at in the meeting and this exchange occurred between Walker and an invitation for Tory to front a debate on the issue…

Sixteen minutes later, Walker replied, “Tory is still going to decline going to this meeting, and I have to say, unfortunately, even with your commitment to a safe environment to discuss, I found this agenda item framed up in a way that is disconcerting.” Walker was referring to the agenda item described as “Pinning Councillors/Mayor down”. Rizos-Shaw was confused. “‘Pinning’ is merely community organizing slang for asking candidates yes or no questions,” she replied.

…here is the Nadine Walker quote that you have to read to believe…

“OK, thanks for clarifying,” said Walker. “I am used to Greens language/kaupapa, where metaphors that invoke violence are avoided, so perhaps that is why I was shocked to read that!”

…WOW!

Just. WOW!

The only thing more passive-aggressive than that statement is slapping your own face during orgasm!

Nadine purposely took the phrase, “Pinning Councillors/Mayor down”, in the context of a debate, as some sort of sexual assault threat towards the Mayor???

Un-fucking-believable.

So you can only imagine the woke cray cray that the internal workings of the Greens now use.

Efeso used to tell me a lot of it and we would laugh at how counter productive it all was.

Look, whoever takes on this poisoned chalice has to focus on 3 things:

1 – Candidate Selection: 

By allowing ‘lived experience’ groups to have such dominance in the voting structures, the Greens have bought themselves misery and sorrow as the they/thems go feral with their own weird woke pure temple perspectives. Kerekere, Tana, even Doyle all believed that just being who they were was reason enough to be representatives. It’s led to flakey candidates and damaged the credibility of the party, right now you have a candidate who raised funds by pole dancing next on the Party list, can you imagine the field day the Right will have if Stephenie Rodgers comes in off the list? A little less time raging against the heteronormative patriarchy and tad more trying to win elections would be nice.

2 – Kākāriki Alliance with Māori Party:

Because the election will be so close and because the Greens are easily bullied by Labour, they need the staunchness of John Tamihere on their negotiating team. There need to be plans to utilise MMP to its fullest, by cutting a deal with the Māori Party in the Māori Electorates, the Greens and te Parti Māori could form a negotiating block that locks NZF out and maximises MMP overhang and Party vote allocation. The deal would be Electorate vote Māori Party and Party vote Greens in the Māori electorates while ensuring a united front at the negotiating table with Labour. This should happen February next year, just before Waitangi Day, hosted by Hone Harawira in Waitangi.

3 – Reigning in their woke activists alienating cancel culture:

The biggest challenge is their woke activists who can’t help but alienate with their pure temple politics. Green Activists have to appreciate their never ending cancel culture bullshit is what drives males away from the Left and that the best thing they can do is stay on Bluesky and scream endlessly into that padded eco chamber so that their woke dogma doesn’t keep damaging our collective electoral chances.

Look.

This election is going to be incredibly close, and the Greens, despite their alienating woke pure temple bullshit, still have policy positions that are the best in NZ Politics and are essential if we are going to not only change the Government, but implement the fundamental policies we desperately need to reform capitalism and prepare for the climate adaptation we face.

I will gladly drink a glass of the Greens woke dogma to get rid of this terrible Government in the hope we can implement policy that benefits the many, not the few.

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