Heh – and some things never change

Another Kiwiblog post from 2007. The Greens should be ashamed for their role to date.  Labour could not have introduced this bill without their support.  They could have insisted on a multi-party approach to the legislation.  More importantly they could have  insisted on a public policy process instead of a secret one.  But they sold…

Getting rid of the public education system should be the goal of every politician

I find this just weird, myself. The Green Party reshuffled its portfolios today and co-leader Metiria Turei is now in charge of speaking on education for the party. She came out swinging saying the Government was undermining the public school system through national standards, Novopay, the Christchurch schools announcement and charter schools. Charter schools were…

Well, you can’t say the Green Party don’t have a sense of humour

Good on ’em for laughing at themselves. Sometimes we all take ourselves a little too seriously. The Greens have been criticised by Prime Minister John Key, who said, ‘The Greens call for an inquiry on virtually anything.’ The remark prompted immediate calls from the Green Party for an inquiry, which would focus on why the…

In Shocking News a Green Party Policy is ridiculous

The ODT has a story on the Greens’ new water policy. They give this example: Mr Lepper is manager of the Earnscleugh Irrigation Scheme, one of about a dozen irrigation schemes in Central Otago. The Earnscleugh scheme supplies 110 landowners and covers 1100ha. Irrigators are charged about $51 per hectare a year. “With the addition…

“Not Enough Evidence”

The police have bizarrely decided that there is not enough evidence to show that Russell Norman was assaulted. Dim Post mirrors my own thoughts. Really anything could have happened out there: all the police had to go on was TV footage from both networks, photographic evidence, parliamentary security cameras and dozens of eye-witnesses including members…

MP standing in for idiot activist attacked

I agree 100% with DPF on this. The Chinese security guards obviously exceeded their brief, and there should be consequences for that. Unless Dr Norman was a physical threat to the Vice-President, they had no right to manhandle him. Keeping an embarrassing sign out of sight is not a legitimate reason. We had much the…

Congratulations Jeanette Fitzsimons

Scrubone congratulations the former Green Party deputy leader on her being awarded the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. She has been a tireless campaigner for the environment, and a thoroughly nice person by all accounts. The only downside is that her party made it into parliament.

Greens on the Rule of Law

Seems that the Green Party do like the rule of law. There are many views on rule of law  but “characteristics of generality, equality, and certainty” are common to most definitions. … Another view of rule of law is that “a society in which government officers have a great deal of discretion has a low…

Petitions…

This morning on Morning Report there was a report of the Green Party presenting a petition of 16,000 or so. Naturally, they insisted on the Goverment listening. One wonders why they think such things have any moral standing, given their attitude towards much larger petitions presented by others.

Sue Bradford Going

Well, Sue Bradford is off New Zealand Parliament the Green party er, nobody’s loss is everyone’s gain. Unfortunately, as many have pointed out the damage is done, and it is serious. But in spite of all that, and in spite of the fact that she is serial liar, and opposed open democracy and did her…