Stupid Greens

Newshub reports:

The Green Party “didn’t even think” of objecting to New Zealand First’s waka-jumping bill during negotiations, so now its hands are tied in supporting it.

A screenshot from a private Young Greens Facebook group reveals during negotiations Labour asked the Greens to provide a list of New Zealand First policies the Greens don’t support. The Greens “didn’t even think of the waka jumping bill”, and as a result of a failure to raise its opposition, the party has to support the bill. 

Wow that is a high level of incompetence. They fought bitterly against the bill twice before and didn’t even think about it this time!

The Greens supported the Bill through its first reading. When she launced her campaign, co-leadership candidate Julie Anne Genter signalled she may not support the Bill through the further stages.

Yet the post from the Young Greens says:

Caucus has indicated it will support the bill regardless

So this means that it doesn’t matter how good the arguments against are, or what is submitted to the select committee. The Greens caucus have decided nothing will shake them from supporting a bill which would have stopped the party from entering Parliament in the first place.