The Darleen Tana Fiasco: Too many woke intersectionist feminist cuddles not enough ruthless pragmatism
The Darleen Tana fiasco needs to be cauterised by ruthless pragmatism rather than woke intersectionist feminist cuddles.
The Greens have always lacked the ruthlessness required to be effective in the bear pit of politics.
Even when they were told Elizabeth Kerekere was planning a coup against them by gerrymandering the new lived experience voting system, they sat on their hands because woke intersectionist feminist cuddles matter most.
If Tana wanted to do right by the Greens, she would step down. She won’t because this is the best gig she’s ever had.
The woke intersectionist feminist cuddle collective argues, ‘Why should Tana be judged by her husbands actions, that’s judging a women by their Husband’, where as the ruthless pragmatists are saying, “Are you kidding Sisters, the political optics of abusing migrant workers is the kiss of death, and there is actually an enormous amount of evidence showing she was aware, so here’s your marching orders”.
This is becoming like a lesbian divorce in that it N-E-V-E-R ends.
I thought due process was a white cis male heteronormative privilege?
At this stage it doesn’t matter if Tana is innocent or not, the optics are fucking corrosive and at some point she just has to go.
Leap or push, it has to happen cuddles and all.
Chloe needs a clear board to start her leadership with.
Tana is preventing her from doing that.
Way too much Oestrogen in this issue, not nearly enough Testosterone.
Right on Nathan! My blood boils every time that odious Mexican opens his mouth. How the hell did he get into parliament. The mind boggles.
Dharleen is doing her Green bestest by being one of the most frequent flyers in parliament.
Agreed Martyn.
She should have been forced to quietly resigned the day GG was sentenced in order to take it off the front page. As it is the public is being drip fed one green scandal at a time, maximizing the impression of green corruption.
Some people have been slow to draw the appropriate conclusions from Green MP Darleen Tana’s fall from grace. Should Darleen resign from Parliament? If she doesn’t, should the Green Party invoke the waka jumping legislation? Was Darleen elected to parliament solely on the sponsorship of the Green Party? Who can say? Electors voted for a Green Party list. Darleen was on the list. Did her presence on that list attract votes, meaning she has as much right as Chloe Swarbrick to remain in parliament? No one knows. That is the point. No one knows anything. No one knows for certain if Darleen was in the wrong in the migrant labour exploitation scandal and no one knows for certain what support she has among Green voters, so no one knows if she has a moral right to stay in parliament. Who should make that decision? In a democracy, the people who elected her would. Trouble is that in the New Zealand system they have no way of doing that. In a democracy there would be continuous election with an open ballot – in a word, rangatiratanga – and Darleen would either be confirmed in her position or she would be gone. No drama, no pontificating, no endless screeds of vehement opinion on blogs, no Green Party agonising over compromising principles by invoking the Electoral (Integrity) Amendment Act. It would be boring by comparison with what we have now, but hey, democracy is like that.