by frog
Happy birthday to us! Today we marked a decade of being represented in Parliament as the Green Party. Interestingly our win in 1999 spelled the end of at least six parliamentary careers.
When Jeanette won the Coromandel after special votes had been counted National’s Murray McLean and Arthur Anae, Labour’s John Blincoe and Eru George, the Alliance’s Mark Ryan and NZ First’s Ian Walker all lost their places in Parliament.
In other interesting and probably not so well known facts some of our MPs have now met the Dalai Lama at least twice as parliamentary representatives. Over the weekend Russel, Sue K, Keith and Dave had a very informative 90 minutes with the Dalai Lama. Back in 2007 we actually hosted the Dalai Lama in our caucus rooms.
The Green win ushered in Parliament’s first hemp suit (from memory a rather natty dark blue number).
At present our 2009 parliamentary intake boasts the highest number of vegetarian MPs. We have a caucus that is 22.2222% vegetarian.
David Clendon’s ascension to being an MP means Kevin Hague will always have someone to chat to over a falafel.
On a more serious note we have achieved some remarkable stuff from pushing forward energy efficiency to keeping kids safe – hip, hip hooray!
Published in Featured | Parliament by frog on Mon, December 7th, 2009
Tags: Dalai Lama, hemp suit, vegetarian
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
yah. Provide your reasons please. One would think...
Congratulations to all.
It’s been a wild ten years, eh?!!!
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The trainer wheels are off. Now perhaps you can aim to actually get into government…Just like the big kids.
Go on, be brave!
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Nandor’s hemp suit! Smokin’!
Where is it now btw? If Nandor’s not using it, it’d look well on the wall at the BackBencher or where ever relics of the past are displayed (no, not the Act Party caucus, or the Progressive’s AGM.)
Can anyone point me at information on growing de-natured, THC-lite hemp commercially, for fibre, carbon etc?
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Wow, have ten years passed that fast?
Lets see what you guys have achieved in those ten years, well, first we have…..actually, what HAVE you achieved?
Ten years and nothing on animal welfare issues.
Ten years and nothing on legalising drugs (thank god)
Ten years and our rivers are dirtier than ever.
Nothing you have achieved has been on ‘Green issues’,perhaps it would be more honest of your MP’s (and those you rort to get into the house pre election) stopped asking for votes based on the lies you tell re animal welfare.
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Here Lies Big Bro
No Substance, All Blow
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bro – what about those abominations the present government and their Federated Friends are enacting right now – factory cows, no action on sows, plans for live sheep exports? Who are the purveyors of animal cruelty here bro? The Government – and who might they be? National and Act and Maori. Your heroes. Shame bro, shame!
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@Big Bro – What about repeal of section 59 of the Crimes Act? – People can be animals too.
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Or mice can be people, mouse!
Bro – you know and I know that you are displacing your disgust with your own heroes, Douglas and Hide et al, onto the Greens when Act and National and the lobbiests that control them are the perpertrators of the very acts you say you despise. Easy (and dull) for you to rant at the Greens lack of influence, knowing how difficult it is to change the greedy types that make up the parties you support. To make your claims even more bizzare and hypocritical is the glaring fact that the man you adore and adulate, Roger Douglas, is one of the arch-criminals in the cruel and nasty world of factory pig farming. How you can berate the Greens and keep your face straight at the same time just amazes me Bro – are you blanking the facts about Roger Douglas out each time you blame the Greens for animal cruelty? You never address the issue of Douglas the Pig Torturer and I suspect you are to cowardly to talk about it now – we’ll see.
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I have to say I’m suprised only 2 out of the 9 MPs are vegetarians…
At 2 out of 5 that means ACT has a higher percentage of libertarians..!
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