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  1. Please tell me what Greens have achieved over the last 5 years as a party at the table of power. I have never voted Green as I saw them a party pushing for drug freedom but in the past they seemed to be there for the environment which was an important voice. The voice is now a whisper.

    1. They managed to get private practise developers (with many taxpayer funded incentives like zoning changes) to build 70m2 apartments for $1.6 million https://thegreenhouse.apartments. The intensification was needed to ‘help poverty’.

      It doesn’t matter if the new houses are flooded and fall off their foundations – they built a house, just not one that is value for money for taxpayers and is going to last!

      “When they moved in Maria said she was told it was a million-dollar home.
      She and her mother are wondering why their three-year-old home was so badly damaged in the floods.”

      Auckland flooding: Several Kāinga Ora houses lifted off their foundations
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2023/01/auckland-flooding-several-k-inga-ora-houses-lifted-off-their-foundations.html

      Maybe instead of spending 1 million on this new house and given away a lot of state house land to private developers, they could have just spent the money on renovating existing housing and built more lasting housing on the land they already owned!

    2. Trevor the Kaupapa of the Greens has always been two arms: the environment and social justice. It has never been just about the environment.

      They have lost their way and I will be voting Te Pati Maori.

    3. Everyone knows I despise The Greens Defence Policy and my greatest arguments have been with Green members because I’m leftwing.

    4. Cool, you think peoople who smoke out should be imprisoned.

      Scratch a gammon and an authoritairan comes out,

  2. The only one who can save the greens is if Chloe leads. The party will be put out to pasture at election with the new faction rising. The party needs time to heal itself and get back on track. The electorates will make it so, come what may.

  3. It’s quite interesting how sex and genderist Elizabeth Kerekere is pre-fixed by the title “Dr”, while Whetu Tirikatene -Sullivan, long-serving Maori Labour Cabinet Minister, who had a solid Ph D in Political Science from a reputable Australian university, wasn’t, as far as I can recall. Kerekere’s garish public attire contrasts with Tirikatene’s stylish class and dignity, which was more befitting of a politician who takes their job seriously and respects the Parliamentary institution, and she was very much a role model for women politicians who expect to be taken seriously, and importantly, who show respect towards other people. It simply was not in her nature to behave as appallingly as Kerekere apparently did at Select Committee.

  4. The only GreenLeft candidate I’m aware of there is the Mexican guy, who while certainly ticking a few DEI boxes does have some actual concern for the class struggle, which is a nice change for a modern Green Party member let alone politician.

    1. So much love for the common kiwi that he flew to Mexico during covid to visit his boyfriend when “non essential” travel was discouraged and returned via MIQ when most kiwis overseas couldn’t get in.
      Perhaps a contender for next New Zealander of the Year.

  5. The GLN party. Would be scary to view the policy portfolio of this party.

    1. It would be based as fuck. Taxing the rich pricks to pay for big beautiful hospitals.

  6. Martyn, my deepest sympathies over the collapse of the Greens.

    Time was, I used to vote Green, because the Greens were deeply concerned with the environment. But no longer. I’ve always been an environmentalist, but the Greens have long forgotten their environmental roots. As we see above, they’ve fallen down the rabbit hole of wokery.

    Everybody who has voted Green in the past few years needs to pull their support and either put their vote elsewhere, or work to establish a party which is actually concerned with the environment. I’d consider voting for such a party. Meantime, ACT gets my vote.

    1. ACT completely oppose environmental legislation. They would sweep aside and and all regulations and just have a free for all in which anyone can pour what they like down the drain.

      1. I think Sean is no longer involved with Top.

        If it was between Kerekere and Plunkett, it would be Plunkett a million miles ahead

    1. The infighting in Alliance was a sight to behold .Makes the Greens look united

    1. Marco+Battler: “….lots of Green voters switched or swinging to ACT”

      Let’s hope that enough do that, so as to tip the Greens out of parliament.

  7. So, the new authoritarians in the GP have outed themselves. Good to know.

    Confirms to me why I won’t be voting GP again anytime soon.

    1. I am completely the same with NZ First in the running as well . . imagine huge numbers of others are also finding themselves in this position.
      Woke Labour are going to find themselves chained to a rapidly sinking Greens who have voluntarily given themselves ‘cement shoes’.

    2. Too bad about the mass pay freezes and public service cuts that ACT want to impose on this country. Anyone who wants to impose wage freezes and user pays health is the enemy in my opinion.

  8. Can’t wait until Seymour guts them like a fish in the candidates debates!

  9. Anker, you have no answered my question as to why you support a party that hates public services and wants to cut wages.,

    How do you feel, when you go to the supermarket, and you just know the workers there are not going to have any more payrises when ACT comes to power?

  10. Probably time for the Greens to split. The wokes are determined to hijack the current shell entity. They can be left with the shell entity.
    The breakaway could form a new party and call themselves the new greens, or probably more appropriately the old greens. Or they could move over to TOP and call themselves the Green Tops lol.

  11. What about this though? https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131923147/senior-green-members-to-quit-over-dragged-out-elizabeth-kerekere-bullying-investigation

    Weirdly, no journos are writing about the only reason, ever, that these things take a long time. Bully
    Kerekere has lawyered up, so the Greens can’t say much about it, leaving her cheerleaders to spout this garbage. I almost feel sorry for them, Bully Kerekere has them on the ropes for now. But longer term, she’s surely toast.

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