After the Jedi Academy fiasco, no one believes the Roy Morgan Poll claiming Greens are on 11.5%
Roy Morgan Poll came out yesterday and no one really paid it an attention because it’s claiming the Greens are on 11.5% which after the Jedi Academy fiasco, no one one believes.
Roy Morgan has a bad history of over polling the Greens, 2 months before the 2017 election they had them at 13.5%.
Their over polling issues aside, the Jedi Academy has been deeply damaging now we know Shaw actually threatened to shut down part of the crisis rebuild budget to get this fiasco over the line.
I appreciate Green activists trying to underplay this, but come on.
Comrades If ACT threatened a crisis rebuild budget to get $12m for a private school that taught students the Free Market is a spiritual good, we would be incandescent with rage so lets not underplay what Shaw did!
The climate crisis however demands the Greens are in Parliament so we must ensure that happens!
It would be wrong for Shaw to get all the blame if the Greens came under 5%, the middle class woke activists had alienated the Greens into a threshold zone long before Shaw screwed this up.
The attention has to be on getting Chloe over the line in Auckland Central because I just can’t see the Greens making it over 5% now.
The climate depends on Chloe winning.
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What have the current crop of Greens done for the enviroment after 3 years in power. Sage took far to long to act in cleaning up the west coast rubbish spill and has given no help to avert it happening in other places.
NZ First is dead in the water. A straw poll I finished up today placed them on 0%, NOT ONE Vote. Advance NZ, ALCP, Vision NZ and TOP ALL polled higher!
I haven’t tabulated the results into a percentage OR seats in the House yet .. but it’s looking like Greens are round 4% or less and National is around 18%.
Granted it was a strew poll, focused on Canterbury renters and some landlords. The poll was available to potentially 8.7k people (online only).
I can’t wait to see how “The Climate Depends on Chloe Winning” is going to work out given NZ represents just 0.1% of global emissions. According to green politics, the climate depends on the total destruction of global free market capitalism (especially outsourcing pollution to China/Indonesia/Philippines etc) if actual gains are to be made (every person on the planet breathes the same air). Good luck Chloe, Martyn thinks you’re somehow going to make that happen.
It has been a productive year for the political scandal industry. New Zealand First had its murky slush fund donation scandal. Labour’s workplace relations minister was sacked over his relationship with a former staffer and they suffered a donation scandal. The National Party was rocked by multiple scandals –dodgy donations, an mp sending naked pictures to minors and the leaking of confidential COVID-19 patient information.
Now, after turning over all stones, they finally found a “scandal” for the Greens, when Green co leader James Shaw’ helped rubber stamped 11.7 million for a New Plymouth “Green school”. Yet, the Mayor of New Plymouth enthusiastically endorsed the school. Many private schools already receive public funding – some far dodgier. Famously, The National Party funded the Exclusive Brethren schools after secret funding of National Party election advertising in 2005.
After social media howled, the media ranted, and Green party members complained that it went against policy, Shaw apologised, and tried to rescind the funding. He was blocked by Robertson. Hardly a “scandal”.
Anything to take the focus of the real issues; the real scandals. Poverty and homelessness remain rampant in NZ. Health and education are struggling. The climate is heading for a catastrophic 4 degrees warming or higher according to the latest UN reports. Only the Greens Party have verified workable polices to move forward on these issues; in some ways they are more Labour than Labour. For example, the Council of Trade Unions endorsed their sickness leave policies. Only the Greens will regulate the “rental property management market… in a move towards European-style long term renting, and protect people against the cowboys operating in the market currently”. Only the Greens have fully addresses poverty with a minimum income, funded by tax on the top 6%.
A Green ‘scandal”? Nice try. As Groucho Marx said “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.”