We have been here before.
I believe it began with Alamein Kopu many years back, another woman with very similar grievances to Tana. For Alamein it wasn't fair, woe is me and I'm hard done by.
She was part of the alliance in the early days of MMP when these new list members rolled into Parliament on nothing more than a party's whim and set about causing trouble.
Isn't it remarkable to think that three decades later we still haven't learnt how to run the system properly?
It's become embarrassingly obvious that the Greens aren't up to much when it comes to candidate selection.
Tana, who got voted for by basically no one and scraped in at 12th on the list, now has the power to just hang about the place and cause who knows how much trouble. All paid for by us.
In the meantime, the party who could do something aren't, for reasons only they can try to explain.
They can't contact her, they won't release the report we paid for, and they won't tell us how much it cost.
They are twisting themselves into indigestion over the waka-jumping law that would solve their problems, except for the fact they’ve banged on so loudly about it being unfair.
Here is the most important part of this - Chloe Swarbrick has aspirations.
She openly states she can take the party and overtake Labour as a majority player on the left.
But how can she even begin to do that when she can't even run the place with the size it is?
How do you appeal to 28, 29, or 30% of New Zealanders when at 12 or 13% you look a shambles?
They're a dysfunctional, indecisive, dithering shambles.
If all they aspire to be is a minor noise maker, yapping away on the sidelines of an MMP system that allows increasingly fringe operators a seat or two, then this would be just another amateurish mess.
But when you see yourself in the mainstream you've got to act like you belong there.
Small clue - this isn't it.
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.
Isn't it remarkable to think that three decades later we still haven't learnt how to run the system properly?
It's become embarrassingly obvious that the Greens aren't up to much when it comes to candidate selection.
Tana, who got voted for by basically no one and scraped in at 12th on the list, now has the power to just hang about the place and cause who knows how much trouble. All paid for by us.
In the meantime, the party who could do something aren't, for reasons only they can try to explain.
They can't contact her, they won't release the report we paid for, and they won't tell us how much it cost.
They are twisting themselves into indigestion over the waka-jumping law that would solve their problems, except for the fact they’ve banged on so loudly about it being unfair.
Here is the most important part of this - Chloe Swarbrick has aspirations.
She openly states she can take the party and overtake Labour as a majority player on the left.
But how can she even begin to do that when she can't even run the place with the size it is?
How do you appeal to 28, 29, or 30% of New Zealanders when at 12 or 13% you look a shambles?
They're a dysfunctional, indecisive, dithering shambles.
If all they aspire to be is a minor noise maker, yapping away on the sidelines of an MMP system that allows increasingly fringe operators a seat or two, then this would be just another amateurish mess.
But when you see yourself in the mainstream you've got to act like you belong there.
Small clue - this isn't it.
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.
5 comments:
Darleen Tana has supposedly got “ impressive academic qualifications “. Has someone verified these? Her behaviour would suggest otherwise!
As I read this sentence: "In the meantime, the party who could do something aren't, for reasons only they can try to explain." I thought for a second it was talking about National and its failure to properly prioritise the component parts of the coalition agreements, you know, those salient, important bits about getting rid of preferential race based treatment, etc. Then it dawned, it was only about the Greens and their inertia on this sideshow issue. Ah well, we can live in hope that the really important stuff sees the light of day before the next election, however, what is the point as that would be just just in time for the inertia of National to see them consigned to the dump again so that He Puapua can get resurrected all over again. Hmm, still trying to decide if He Puapua has really been canned by the current coalition, it does not really seem that way?
What became of Alamein and the govt office furniture which left Parliament with her?
Robert Arthur - try Trade Me.
Pathological behaviour like this isn't a bug for the Greenies - it's a feature.
1. Holier than thou attitude.
2. Racial identity.
3. Bully.
4. Authoritarian.
5. Middle class.
Show me a Greenie without all of the above.
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