He is in the interesting position of having left behind something potentially quite substantive.
The Net Zero laws, we will be neutral by 2050. But then that’s the problem isn't it? My bet is we wont.
So, what's your legacy when the big bit you left behind turns into dust?
Could be wrong of course, but as 2050 gets ever closer, the goal doesn’t. In fact, we are moving in completely the wrong direction.
It's an idea and a series of polices that have been driven by good intentions but overtaken in ensuing years by cold hard reality.
He will mention it, I am sure, in his Valedictory today in the Parliament.
He will speak proudly of it, as well he might because the bit he leaves behind is the reputation that he was actually a Green MP in the true sense of the word as opposed to being like too many of the others; loud mouth protestors and reactionaries to the buzz cause of the day.
He also has the advantage of being a nice guy. You don’t have to agree with him to get on with him.
But in totality you can't help but conclude he got hijacked by causes beyond his control.
The way they handled his co-leadership was shocking for a bloke who provided so much ballast to the party. They rewarded him with yet another of their wackjob hatchet attempts which culminated, if you remember, in him standing for the job unopposed because the idiots who drove it lacked any sort of planning or spine.
He also spent a lot of time explaining, or apologising, or defending the various versions of madness that passed for Green Party behaviour.
Turei to Golriz to Tana, a report we are still standing by for by the way, how many times was it suggested he was in the wrong party? But then as easy as that is to say, what would his party have been?
He is a good old fashioned environmentalist who came from the corporate world to try and make a bit of decent change and rarely lost his good sense and fine humour in doing so.
The Parliament has too much rabble these days, so his departure sadly tips the balance even further.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
Could be wrong of course, but as 2050 gets ever closer, the goal doesn’t. In fact, we are moving in completely the wrong direction.
It's an idea and a series of polices that have been driven by good intentions but overtaken in ensuing years by cold hard reality.
He will mention it, I am sure, in his Valedictory today in the Parliament.
He will speak proudly of it, as well he might because the bit he leaves behind is the reputation that he was actually a Green MP in the true sense of the word as opposed to being like too many of the others; loud mouth protestors and reactionaries to the buzz cause of the day.
He also has the advantage of being a nice guy. You don’t have to agree with him to get on with him.
But in totality you can't help but conclude he got hijacked by causes beyond his control.
The way they handled his co-leadership was shocking for a bloke who provided so much ballast to the party. They rewarded him with yet another of their wackjob hatchet attempts which culminated, if you remember, in him standing for the job unopposed because the idiots who drove it lacked any sort of planning or spine.
He also spent a lot of time explaining, or apologising, or defending the various versions of madness that passed for Green Party behaviour.
Turei to Golriz to Tana, a report we are still standing by for by the way, how many times was it suggested he was in the wrong party? But then as easy as that is to say, what would his party have been?
He is a good old fashioned environmentalist who came from the corporate world to try and make a bit of decent change and rarely lost his good sense and fine humour in doing so.
The Parliament has too much rabble these days, so his departure sadly tips the balance even further.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
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- but I left the Greens when Shaw ousted Kennedy Graham and David Clendon because they baulked at the dishonesty of Metiria Turei. Odd how all the other honest members have gone now also.
Yeah , great Mike. Pity he didn't have the qualifications he said he had or the workplace experience.
Great example for the public. Really lifts the trust in politicians
You don't think he jumped before he was pushed perhaps ?
And he's not possibly in the running to replace Rod Carr is he ?
In most professions he would have been gone long ago.
Now I understand Hosking’s love affair with Shaw. They both embrace Climate Alarmism.
Being the most sensible Green in the party just means you're slightly less crazy and delusional than the others.
Shaw wasted a large amount of our taxpayers money buggering off to COP's and taking a useless team of hangers-on with him. Oh yeah, and generating a load of carbon emissions while he was at it.
Like all greens, he was an almighty hypocrite who told us all to cut back our travel plans while he jaunted around the world making pointless speeches.
He also lied about his qualifications. Good riddance to "nice guys" like that.
The trouble is, he'll walk into another top position that's he's not qualified for.
Jobs for the Dicks!
The Green party have never been more than a hand brake to the New Zealand economy, populated by Marxist ideological lunatics.
Graham Shaw was no exception.
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