by frog
Green Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman today formally invited Winston Peters to join the Green Party, saying it would help the Greens broaden their voter base.
“More than four percent of voters at the last election voted for New Zealand First,” Dr Norman said. “I am confident that a large proportion of those voters would give their support to the Greens with Winston on board. It would give us the chance to break through 10%.”
Dr Norman praised Mr Peters’ political appeal: “David Garrett with ACT has proven the effectiveness of frequent foaming at the mouth and the value of being constantly on the offensive. Winston would be able to perform that role for us.”
The Greens are also considering changing their Constitution as an incentive so Peters could succeed as Co-Leader when Jeanette Fitzsimons steps down at the Party’s Annual General Meeting on Queen’s Birthday weekend.
“Having two male Co-Leaders would help dispel the image that we are too pro-feminist,” Dr Norman said. “Of course Winston would be Co-Leader outside Parliament like I was when I was first elected. But he has immense expertise in fundraising and managing electoral donations and already has a strong relationship with the media, so working as Co-Leader outside Parliament should be easier for him than it was for me.
Published in Parliament by frog on Wed, April 1st, 2009
Tags: Act, david garrett, winston peters
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
completely off topic, but here’s another news story you may be interested in:
At John Banks’s instruction, the Department of Conservation has begun a new breeding programme for Auks, with a view to reintroducing them to Auckland. When explorer Abel Tasman first sailed into Auckland’s Manukau harbour in 1642, he wrote that ‘I beheld before me a great harbour full of Auks, as far as the eye could see’. The great Auks of Manukau Harbour were extinct by 1900, and nowadays it is clear to no visitor why Tasman named the area Auckk Landt.
It is believed that the Great Auks of Manukau Harbour were hunted to extinction by the notorious penny farthing gangs of 19th century Sydney, to serve the lucrative black market in feathers for judges’ hats.
As the Great Auk is now extinct, DOC will have to use crypto-zoological principles to breed a new population of Great Auks to repopulate Auckland. Geneticists have extracted the DNA from eggs of the Newfoundland Lesser Auk, and are aiming to splice in the bigness gene from the colossal squid in Wellington’s Te Papa Tongarewa. Special care must be taken to isolate the bigness gene, so that they do not accidentally add the neighbouring sliminess gene or tentacliness gene.
The race is on to repopulate the Auckland area with Auks, because the New Zealand Geographic Board has threatened to rename the city if it is not achieved within two years.
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April fools day.
Almost had me.
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Don’t I get a Hat Tip frog? I thought my version before you sanitised it was much more cutting!
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Toad
Where has this out and out vicious streak come from?
I know you are no fan of the right but you seem to reserve an intense hatred for Garrett, you would do well to consider that the majority of the public agree with what he is proposing.
Mind you, its not as if they Greens ever give a rats about what the people want is it, after all, you guys know what is best for us don’t you.
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somewhat ‘laboured’..?..frog..?
here’s one for you..
‘all the green mp’s have announced they are turning vegan..”
..now..that’s a ‘real’ joke..
eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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Funny post, but might be rather prescient with regard to hoovering up NZF votes, though it does look like ACT is dipping its toes into that particular pool already.
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In other news:
Greens finally admit that the trolls were right when the trolls argued that money didn’t buy elections.
After all, the Greens spent $1.7 million this election, up from virtually nothing in 1990, and their percentage of the vote remains unmoved at around 6%
tinyurl.com/ddnx49
The verdict is in. Money doesn’t buy elections, and the greens still don’t understand how advertising works.
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you think they would’ve got to 6.7% if they’d spent no money?
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big bro said: I know you are no fan of the right but you seem to reserve an intense hatred for Garrett…
Well, he does open himself up for attack and ridicule, as the links out of my mock interview reveal.
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>>you think they would’ve got to 6.7% if they’d spent no money
Ask Winston…..
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Wait til the Next Vote – it’ll say a lot more; the last one was all about loaning Labour skates – no joke Winston is an excellent advert for NZ abroad – drink all night and still come up for a smile and an insanely newsworthy remark!
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# BluePeter Says:
April 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
>> you think they would’ve got to 6.7% if they’d spent no money
> Ask Winston…..
indeed. I bet he could get 6.7% of the vote without any declared donations at all
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lol, what planet do YOU live on?
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ROFL.
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Charles Chauvel: When will the Minister’s new-found enthusiasm for energy efficiency translate into support for Labour’s proposal to better insulate homes across New Zealand, a measure that will not only increase energy efficiency but also improve New Zealanders’ health and create much-needed jobs for this country?
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE: This is one of those programmes that never existed. The Labour Government hoodwinked the nation, hoodwinked the Green Party, put together some sort of murky idea, and went out to the voters, and, do members know what? Anybody who wanted to insulate his or her home would have been just like Mother Hubbard and would have got there to find that the cupboard was bare. Those members never funded it.
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Labour’s Third World Solution
migration – 13 November 2002 – 2182 views
Ireland’s economic miracle was driven by Germany. Under Labour, ours is being gifted by Communist China. The Germans sent money, the Chinese are sending people.
That the immigration has to be so high though in order to keep the population growth rate at 1.5% pa, is the surprise. The reason for that lies not just in the lower birth rate. It is driven more by the numbers of New Zealanders leaving, for the latest year that number being equivalent to 1.5% of the population. So the number of permanent arrivals is running at almost 2.5% of the population. Net migration then is providing 1% of the population graph, natural increase the other 0.5%.
To the extent these trends are maintained it could take as few as 60 years before the population is effectively totally renewed. To the extent the sources of the greatest number of arrivals are now in Asia, Mr Peters is quite justified to point out that New Zealand is looking at a social and demographic revolution.
http://nbr.infometrics.co.nz/column.php?id=409
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This is one of National’s little lies not Labour’s. The Green Homes fund was to come from the windfall profits of SOEs generating power via renewable sources once the ETS was in place. The Nats have never denied there would be such funding, with Nick Smith in the House repeatedly asking questions last year about where the money would go. Now National has delayed the scheme and will likely dilute it, meaning there there will not be as much money for sure. So it is convenient for them to pretend it never would have been there in the first place.
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big bro said: I know you are no fan of the right but you seem to reserve an intense hatred for Garrett…
And a further reason emerged yesterday. The man is boor as well as a bigot.
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Piss off Toad, the man has principals which are sadly lacking in your party.
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LOL!
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“Watermelon” implies a conciet.
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I didn’t know that David Garrett had refused to stand and congratulate Helen Clark. Mind, I didn’t know who David Garrett was – I am sorry I now do. What a pathetic churl.
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good thinking fwwog.
yous looking wider fwwog,
better chance of survival when you look wide,
l
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