11-03-2024, 02:37 PM
This should prove to be extremely interesting; I suspect that she doesn't suffer fools gladly. And one or two have popped their heads up in reaction to her election...
Either this particular fool genuinely doesn't comprehend Green policy/movement, or he does indeed, but prefers to smear & portray them wrongly.
And the arrogance of attempting to instruct a new leader of another party is presumably, not something which he'd appreciate himself but has no qualms about doing - although I can't recall him doing so when James Shaw became Green leader....
It does mean that this greed focused Neoliberal govt won't go uncriticised, which is no bad thing.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/...p7P_xUXC1U
"ACT leader David Seymour has issued a warning to Chlöe Swarbrick after she won the Greens co-leadership.
The Greens confirmed on Sunday morning she's replacing James Shaw after she received 169 votes from Green Party membership delegates. Zero votes were cast for rival candidate Alex Foulkes.
Speaking on Sunday after the announcement, Seymour said he likes Swarbrick "on a personal level" - and offered her some advice.
"A massive salad of soundbites is not going to cut it. She's going to have to think deeper and harder about what solutions the Green Party's offering," he told media.
"I hope they will turn away from fueling envy and saying that there is some well-off people, that if we just took their money that would solve all our problems. That's not a real solution.
"They're going to have to start campaigning on solutions that grow the economy and make New Zealand a wealthier place. Otherwise, they're just playing this zero-sum game, drag them down.
"Sounds really good but it's not a pathway for a better New Zealand and it won't stand up to the scrutiny of being a leader."
In her victory statement, Swarbrick accused the Coalition Government of "bully boy behaviour".
"This week, the Government completed their cruel and, frankly, bizarre 100-day programme. They know that many of the things they have done will make things worse for people and planet and they've told New Zealanders that they don't care," she said."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/3502075...-co-leader
"The new Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick used her first speech in the role to chide what she calls “legacy politics”.
Speaking to media on Sunday, Swarbrick thanked party members for electing her to stand alongside Marama Davidson. She also paid tribute to Shaw.
“The Greens care a lot about whakapapa. We know that we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us. We know, as the late great green Efeso Collins said, no one stands alone, no one succeeds alone, and no one suffers alone,” she said.
“James Shaw is one of those giants who have contributed decades to our movement.”
She condemned the “stitch up” that was legacy politics, represented by the Labour and National parties, that “limits the oxygen and the options that people need to imagine and, in turn, limiting real world results”.
The country voted for the MMP electoral system,in the 1990s to “break” a duopoly political system, she said.
And she attacked the “bully boy behaviour” of the National-coalition Government.
Watching the Government’s lawmaking in Parliament in recent weeks had been a “gaslighting” experience, she said, as it pursued an agenda “simply because it says that it will, despite actually evidence that says that it is going to make the country a worse place”.
Either this particular fool genuinely doesn't comprehend Green policy/movement, or he does indeed, but prefers to smear & portray them wrongly.
And the arrogance of attempting to instruct a new leader of another party is presumably, not something which he'd appreciate himself but has no qualms about doing - although I can't recall him doing so when James Shaw became Green leader....
It does mean that this greed focused Neoliberal govt won't go uncriticised, which is no bad thing.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/...p7P_xUXC1U
"ACT leader David Seymour has issued a warning to Chlöe Swarbrick after she won the Greens co-leadership.
The Greens confirmed on Sunday morning she's replacing James Shaw after she received 169 votes from Green Party membership delegates. Zero votes were cast for rival candidate Alex Foulkes.
Speaking on Sunday after the announcement, Seymour said he likes Swarbrick "on a personal level" - and offered her some advice.
"A massive salad of soundbites is not going to cut it. She's going to have to think deeper and harder about what solutions the Green Party's offering," he told media.
"I hope they will turn away from fueling envy and saying that there is some well-off people, that if we just took their money that would solve all our problems. That's not a real solution.
"They're going to have to start campaigning on solutions that grow the economy and make New Zealand a wealthier place. Otherwise, they're just playing this zero-sum game, drag them down.
"Sounds really good but it's not a pathway for a better New Zealand and it won't stand up to the scrutiny of being a leader."
In her victory statement, Swarbrick accused the Coalition Government of "bully boy behaviour".
"This week, the Government completed their cruel and, frankly, bizarre 100-day programme. They know that many of the things they have done will make things worse for people and planet and they've told New Zealanders that they don't care," she said."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/3502075...-co-leader
"The new Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick used her first speech in the role to chide what she calls “legacy politics”.
Speaking to media on Sunday, Swarbrick thanked party members for electing her to stand alongside Marama Davidson. She also paid tribute to Shaw.
“The Greens care a lot about whakapapa. We know that we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us. We know, as the late great green Efeso Collins said, no one stands alone, no one succeeds alone, and no one suffers alone,” she said.
“James Shaw is one of those giants who have contributed decades to our movement.”
She condemned the “stitch up” that was legacy politics, represented by the Labour and National parties, that “limits the oxygen and the options that people need to imagine and, in turn, limiting real world results”.
The country voted for the MMP electoral system,in the 1990s to “break” a duopoly political system, she said.
And she attacked the “bully boy behaviour” of the National-coalition Government.
Watching the Government’s lawmaking in Parliament in recent weeks had been a “gaslighting” experience, she said, as it pursued an agenda “simply because it says that it will, despite actually evidence that says that it is going to make the country a worse place”.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
