Dear Green Comrades – Chloe and Efeso need to be the co-leaders, NOT Elizabeth & Ricardo
I take no glee in watching the Greens meltdown.
All the Greens need to do this election is hold what they gained last election and allow the Māori Party and the Labour Party to do the heavy lifting (again) to get us over 51%.
That’s all the bloody Greens need to do, hold what you have.
The current climate of incompetence and rank ambition amongst the Green Caucus however risks a National and ACT Government if the Greens implode…
‘Wrong chat?’ – Green MP Kerekere calls Chlöe Swarbrick a ‘crybaby’
Green Party MP Elizabeth Kerekere has been chastised by party leadership after calling colleague Chlöe Swarbrick a “crybaby” in a text message sent to other MPs in error.
Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw say they are disappointed, the message appears to go against Green Party values, and they are now launching a full internal investigation.
…Add the nonsense of starting a culture war on White Cis Males alongside the Posie Parker Pure Trans Joy, and the Greens will be lucky to hold onto 6%.
Let’s be very clear what was revealed by Dr Elizabeth Kerekere’s message.
It revealed a naked ambition by someone who has been rumoured to have been positioning a far more extreme woke clique within the Greens (I appreciate you might be choking on the idea of a more extreme woke clique within the Greens, but there is and they consider Marama not woke enough. I know. I know. I know. That’s how off the planet it is)
She was messaging co-conspirators who are involved in manoeuvring a new co-leadership team of Kerekere and Ricardo.
She showed utter contempt to Chloe, whose speech was a case study of how brilliant Chloe is, and when caught out hung up on RNZ.
She has an ambition far beyond her capacity and a Kerekere/Riccardo Co-leadershiop team would be a 3% Party.
Their naked ambition is a threat to the stability of the Party.
This ambition has seen Kerekere placed very high on the Party List provisional rankings that are clique influenced.
At this stage, if we are serious about holding the 8%, the Party must push for a new co-leadership team of Chloe and Efeso.
Those are the only two ready for Executive Power.
We should thank Marama and James for all they could do, and urgently form a new co-leadership team that doesn’t see Dr Elizabeth Kerekere or her co-conspirators anywhere near power.
For Christ’s sakes Greens, Make Chloe and Efeso the co-leaders, banish Kerekere down the Party list and get back to actually solving our problems rather than this bullshit!
I think a Kerekere/Ricardo co-leader Party would become farce level nonsense in a heartbeat. Like demanding tofu is offered up to Gaia at the opening of Parliament where the good Dr performs an interpretative dance routine naked level nonsense.
They have the charm of piranhas with less manners.
These are the wokest of the Wellington woke wokes and their level of self righteousness and self worth knows no boundary’s of human feelings.
And goodness don’t they land a lot of feelings.
A Kerekere/Ricardo co-leader Party would replace the Navy with a flax waka.
A Kerekere/Ricardo co-leader Party would declare the Sun was racist.
A Kerekere/Ricardo co-leader Party would have Wiccan Spell Casting in Te Reo listed as core school curriculum.
A Kerekere/Ricardo co-leader Party would actually open a Jedi Academy.
They have blown their cover and are now in a headlong dash to the membership voting.
Maybe we should all consider joining the Green Party right now so we can all vote.
You should probably do that.
Now.
So, here would be my top 5 for Green Party Members who want candidates who have the capacity to do the job in front of us to consider for their ranking.
1: Chlöe Swarbrick: She remains one of the most unique Political Leaders of her generation. Her oversight, insight and understanding of the process, system and solution based approach would unleash more genuine change in just one term than all the Green Party achievements since creation. She is a unique talent.
2: Julie Anne Genter: Our Transport system is fucked, our public transport infrastructure is fucked and the Trucking Industry do what they want. The only person smart enough to fix those problems and stick it to the Trucking Industry is Julie Anne Genter.
3: Golriz Ghahraman: She’s one of the smartest MPs in the Green Caucus, you need very smart people when making decisions. She has capacity to oversee many different issues happening all at once, she’s too much of a star player within the decision making process.
4: Fa’anānā Efeso Collins: He gives the Greens access to Auckland which they have never had. Fes is one of the best political leaders within Gen X, he is ready to be the co-Leader, doesn’t need training wheels and can bring a South Auckland vote the Green Party has never managed to win over.
5: Steve Abel: Steve is one of the m most important environmental voices in the debate. His activism is unquestionable, his values beyond reproach. What is most important with Steve is his intelligence on the climate change science. As a NZ Greenpeace spokesperson, he knows the tricks Industry use to hide their environmental damage. He would be essential
These 5 represent the best of The Greens and are the only ones I have any time for.
Rank them exactly like that from 1 – 5 and then place whoever you want after that, but those are the only 5 that actually matter and will be worth fighting an election for.
If the Membership are sick of the circus and want progress, those are the 5 best we have.
If the wokes who only see identity win, you will have a lot of people put forward who shouldn’t have any access to power.
TDB will be reviewing some of the candidates over the next couple of weeks and you can make you decisions after reading them.
Comrades within the Green Whanau. Let me be as a clear as I can be.
A National-ACT Government would fucking burn every single thing we hold dear to our hearts and desecrate it. We need candidates who have electoral appeal AND the intellectual capacity to do the job. The Top 5 I have pushed for here are those candidates.
Anyone else will fail.
Especially bloody Elizabeth Kerekere!
A Sustainable Eco-Village divided against itself cannot stand!
Dear Green Party Members: You have spent 6 years strategically fucking up, please, right when it matters, do the smart thing for once and make Chloe and Efeso the co-leaders.
You can all go back to hating me afterwards, just change the bloody leadership team now so we avoid a National/ACT Government.
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So the good doctor was sent home not to reflect on the bad things she said but so that Marama and James could root out the co-conspirators. This current Green Party just keeps on giving.
That top 5, selected on merit, look like they could match any other party and present the strongest Green voice for years. The problem is that I’m not sure ‘merit’ is one of the selection criteria.
Promoting incompetent mos higher up the list is the green party way.
All I see is a party obsessed about skin colour and gender, I.e. anything but white or male or straight. God, Chloe must be so close to being cancelled for having blue eyes and being white and privileged. And politically they’re as thick two short planks. And yes, they’re filled with the ambitious and competitive as any organisation is and they hate each other so they can wipe the smug holier than thou crap now. The tax payer forks out millions for this waste of space party, why??. Think of the good that money could be used for!
They’ll survive, I’m truly sorry to say because there is about 5% of the voting population who love that shit. But the use of the word Green is a false representation. Off pink tinged with black is more honest.
X-ray, The Greens hate white cisgender males. The Labour leader regretted not being able to demonstrate against biologic females. The heterosexual community is running out of options.
The Greens are reminding me of the old Values party back in the’70’s & early’80’s.
I can’t see why they would. Please enlighten us. I voted Values the first time I ever voted in a general election. I don’t see the current delusional and misguided Greens as being anything like the Values Party.
I’d be interested in knowing why you think that. I voted for the Values Party in the first election I could vote. The current “Green” Party is
If they actually want to win they need to make Chloe leader and get rid of requirements for a co leader – it’s weakening
Steve Able is the only one interested in the environment which should be the requirement to be the Greens co-leader.
But being cis white male, he probably won’t last much longer in the Extreme Woke Rainbow party.
The other thing up the woke sleeve seems to get as many transgender into NZ as residents (rumours of a new visa category for LGBTQIA+ and you already qualify as a refugee on being discriminated against if you are LGBTQIA+).
Why wouldn’t you come if the NZ taxpayers are paying for your transition and their self ID on our struggling public health system?
This 50 yo UK transgender person wasn’t able to pay any NZ taxes as her business was not profitable, and is depressed. Hey presto, instant residency criteria for the woke due to tranny bashing in the UK! https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/97064735/trans-woman-granted-nz-residency-to-protect-her-from-hate-crime-in-the-uk
In a few years and she can get that NZ pension, too, just like her elderly parents whom must be in their 70’s, came a few years ago and after another daughter also came here! Work harder young people, raise taxes as there are plenty of takers for NZ health care and pensions, from around the world!
Yep while they stop support worker showers for the NZ disabled, the Woke Wellington DHB is spending money on speech therapy so that the fragile rainbows transitioning can sound more like a man/woman.
Woke economists (often with foreign elderly relatives in tow) keep going on about getting more people into NZ to pay for the pensions. But closer scrutiny seems that the woke are importing people who need pensions and health care, not ones who work and don’t require a lot of health services going forward.
This is on top of all the medical care needed to transition, taking up psychiatry services from those struggling with mental illness, to the drugs and surgeries needed and the welfare payments, because rainbows can be on the sickness benefit while transitioning. Good to know health care and pensions are also on offer from NZ as part of the rainbow package.
Work harder NZ. The Greens seem to now despise working taxpayers as much as they despise the cis, white males.
If you want to know why the jobs are not filled in NZ, after the biggest immigration drive we have ever had and approx 1 million additional people getting citizenship, then look no further than the types of residents the Greens want as their desired Kiwis. The words, high needs, self focused, requiring a lot of taxpayer money while requiring benefits, but being the victim, comes to mind.
I reckon a blow up paddling pool and 50 packets of instant jelly should solve it all.
Preferably raspberry. Its my favorite.
Just think…. if the whole thing burns down, out of the ashes there might be space for an environmental party.
Choke was part of the pure trans joy.
I hope the Greens collapse?
Their sanity is questionable
Should be Chole not choke
Hey, PM, what is a woman? They are making family first look reasonable.
https://familyfirst.org.nz/2023/04/04/mcblog-hey-man-what-is-a-woman/
(maybe the woke groups can arrest him for hate speech due to his extremist, hate views?)
The document that reveals the remarkable tactics of trans lobbyists
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-document-that-reveals-the-remarkable-tactics-of-trans-lobbyists/
“A Kerekere/Ricardo co-leader Party would actually open a Jedi Academy.”
Judging by the mind control they have over certain media narratives are you sure they haven’t already? Greens could take children away from their parents, indoctrinate them in a religion, forbid them romantic relationships or families and still convince you they are morally superior.
“Settler/coloniser, we are your worst nightmare. And coming soon to a university near you.”
Sounds ominous, but actually the tweets from a new appointment of the government woke task force for a new “violent extremism research centre” called the National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism.
Who Is Joanna Kidman?
https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/who-is-joanna-kidman/
How did she get the job?
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/07/karl-du-fresne-intriguing-circumstances.html
What do people think about it from the left wing?
Ummmm, isn’t Professor Joanne Kidman the worst person to appoint to an extremism taskforce?
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/06/04/ummmm-isnt-professor-joanne-kidman-the-worst-person-to-appoint-to-an-extremism-taskforce/\
What do people think about it from the right?
Appointing an extremist to fight extremism!
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/07/appointing_an_extremist_to_fight_extremism.html
Nah, let them implode. Chloé and Efeso should join labour.
Kerekere argues that pre-colonial Maori were sexually experimental people. That’s not the sort of message that we need to hear at this troubled point in time in New Zealand, and not what party political leaders should be concerning themselves with, so silence would become her as it did Electra.
I had huge respect for the previous Green politicians like
Nandor, Fitzsimmons and Donald.
They at least maintained some dignity and purpose.
Even though I don’t always agree with Chloe she has my respect. She was actually voted in by her electorate plus she works very hard.
Sadly the others just don’t cut it.
Katy Pai. Don’t forget Gareth Hughes, a sound environmentalist, and also very normal. He shopped in the supermarket with little kids in tow, just like any regular sort of dad and was ok to talk with when ambushed in the aisles. He was a loss to the Green Party even if he is a white cisgender male.
fuck the green loonies
I’ll leave it too Marama to sort out the girls being mean to each other. As a white cis male I’m too busy giving others the bash So glad that there’s little else to worry about……
The Greens new co leadership rules don’t allow for an Efeso and Chloe leadership team.
Correct Duncan. Their genetic profiles don’t fit the co leadership requirements! Merit doesn’t even come into the Greens selection process unfortunately. That’s why the Parliamentary Green Party have evolved into the joke it is! Pity.
Agree 100% MB. Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. Just joined the Green party for exactly the reason you advise people to do here
My Gott! How great it would be to have Chole and Efeso as co-leaders. The Green Party will get back on track to where they were before they lost Sue Bradford. Everybody, please please join the Green Party and vote for this list Bradbury helpfully supplies here with his intellectual wisdom based on his knowledge of the merits of the candidates through his analysis as a left wing commentator. I only joined the green party because Efeso said he was standing. He has got to have the support we can give him, which clearly he and Chloe need if Elizabeth got to 4th ranking.
The collective Green idiots are the greatest asset ACT could ever wish for in an election year.
Keep it up Marama et al, you are imploding in real-time.
As a Green voter, totally agree with Martyn’s top 5. Yes there are some dingbats in the Greens–but have you looked at ACT? The monetarist party of Roger Douglas now includes warm gun lovers, and a few that appear to never have had a root! Spare us.
The key point in the post is the link to Greens membership, if you are genuinely supportive of the Greens policy you do something rather than sink further into the toxic gloop of tired online trolling as the usual suspects do here.
I agree Ricardo and Elizabeth would be a natural disaster. Nact would love it.
Ricardo is so pro low skilled immigration he makes David Seymour and Erica Stanford look half hearted.
The problem with the greens policies are many of them work in polar opposite to each other. Mass immigration is environmentally unfriendly, drives up the cost of living for poor people, (e.g. increased demand for housing/rents), and keeps their wages low. Yet you wont ever hear a word against it from the Greens.
Policy conflicts, poor leadership, and too much focus on extreme wokeness sums up the greens.
Or What about Your Top 5 , starting a New Party , Maybe adopting the “Mana Party” Template ?
“She was messaging co-conspirators who are involved in manoeuvring a new co-leadership team of Kerekere and Ricardo.”
That sounds like the shortest suicide note to me…
What you’re describing sounds like a scene from 1945 Berlin. All the splintering cabals of nazi insiders trying to out do each other in vying to replace dear Adolf while he was stuck in his bunker with the Russians closing in on all sides.
And we all know how that ended.
How dare you! suggest the TDBites manipulate the greens.
Have joined now
🙂
It’s bad karma to give the Greens good advice hoping they’ll use it. They will immediately want to take an opposite view and show you their backside. Luckily it will look green.
It’s a cult. The whole thing.
Time someone offered around the Kool-Aid at Green Party HQ
I’m all for a leadership switch to Karekare and Ricardo – sub 5% in Oct will keep the Greens well away from power
Hey come on!… They are all idiots voted for by less than 100,000 dumb kiwis who think this ultra minority are Green.
What the fart have they achieved other than social / racial divide and huge debt to everybody in their quest to grandstand on the world stage with their ” saving the world 0.002% of NZ emissions at a time.
If mmp was gone we would never hear from these wierdos
rugu You’re a backward thinker. We don’t need wrecking balls at present, knocking everything down. We will get bare earth soon enough after the next downpour event, avalanche, flood slip. The Greens are sooo disappointing in their inability to fix on their kaupapa and stick to it. And having a Maori in leadership doesn’t mean she knows the right most urgent kaupapa, and replacing one with another and a feel-good because that’s how we should be isn’t WISDOM enough. bUT DON’T BE TOO BITTER, THEY ARE JUST HUMANS AND WE ARE SUCH A FLIGHTY LOT ONLY MOST OF US HAVEN’T REALISED THAT ABOUT THEMSELVES, ONLY SEE IT IN OTHERS. cAPS ACCIDENTAL – BUT HEY I’M FLIGHTY/flaky?!
Yeah Elizabeth as greens Health spokesperson has pissed me off.
We have not heard one single word out of her since the last election on health but bucket loads on identity issues. As a GP member of parliament I would have expected her to be more vocal. So yes this latest effort from her as a green party member really gets up my goat so Martyn’s top 5 will be my top 5.
Geoff Lye. She’s not a medical doctor and physical health or bodily health doesn’t seem to be her area of interest and she hasn’t qualifications in it. As a fairly big person she may not not in the best position to address issues like obesity with all it’s related problems and could be a bit of a health risk herself. People might have thought that she was a real doctor.
She’s not a medical doctor. She has a PhD in early Maori being sexual experimenters.
That’s a point I’ve thought about for a while. I want to see the type of doctorate shown in capitals alongside the honorific ieg DrMD or whatever. It has never been done and should be clear and established what the person has knowledge in. These days when we can’t even be sure of someone’s basic sexuality, we should at least be clear about the background of people coming from educational establishments and claiming to be gurus.
Grey Area It looks as if Kerekere did her undergrad in Maori Arts at an Institute of Technology. From there she apparently went to the sadly now infamous Victoria University of Wellington and got a Ph D in the sex/gender stuff, so it could have been a natural Karma Sutra-type progression, but not necessarily applicable to the major health issues facing most New Zealanders today.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/487653/iwi-it-s-now-time-to-clean-lake-omapere
This is something that could help the Greens and their Maori side – if they got behind with mind, power and muscle to help eager responsible iwi with their green projects as in this one.
It’s one thing to pontificate, quite another to just STFU and humbly, helpfully turn up to the important project or event with willing hands. The pakeha and other young people have combined in the Student Volunteer Army, have already done the mahi, and so it is a proven idea, Maori academics and Green Party people can’t miss from following on. And call on Hone Harawira, as I feel that he would be there with his supporters if he can. What a great positive that would be for those whose dose of Green Party input has given them indigestion lately, and Maori throughout the rohe to see.
ultimately the environment is a conservative movement and some woke SJW’s aren’t going to do shit