If the Green Leadership mistake their better than expected result as evidence that their middle class identity politics virtue signalling alongside incremental environmental gains was a success, then they are doomed.
It seems insane that these feeble old men warble at each other while America burns with social injustice and Covid.
One of the most interesting changes with a majority Government is the re-emergence of the importance of the factions inside a Party.
By artificially inflating the needs of the new National voters interests over Jacinda’s own tribe, she is telling the landlords of NZ she won’t do anything to harm them yet the mentally ill, the homeless, the working poor, the beneficiaries, the renters the prisoners, the poor and the disabled – their interests come AFTER the National Party landlords???
Psychological reset of the electorate & the demographic death spiral of National
…come on Hamish, if Duncan Garner will go Vegan for getting it wrong, you have to leave Twitter.
With a huge Caucus, Jacinda needs the room in her Cabinet for Labour aspiration, not Green aspiration and will only throw Shaw the scraps of Climate Change Minister.
After plague and pestilence, the righteous crimson tsunami has swept all before it with the vengeance of low level socialism.
I started 2020 arguing that Māori would be a decisive voting block in this election, but not even I could have hoped for the kind of result we ended with.
What Jacinda is banking on is the cowardice of the current Green leadership of Davidson and Shaw to be bullied into accepting a substandard deal.