National and Greens

First Nick Smith attended the Greens conference, and now Metira Turei attended National’s BlueGreens Conference, as reports NZPA.

Obviously a good thing to be identifying areas where one can work together.

I don’t see any realistic prospect that the Greens would choose to support National over Labour.  Bradford, Locke and Norman are “hard left” former communists and even if environmental policies get closer, the other issues remain a big barrier.

if there is any co-operation, what is most likely is an agreement to abstain on confidence and supply votes in exchange for various environmental commitments.  There would be some sense in National offering the Greens such a deal, even if they did not need their abstentions in order to govern.