The environmental credentials of all the Green MPs

Save one, RIP Efeso.

Let’s do them in their own order.

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1. Marama Davidson (list only) - zero. Hates on white people. Which is funny as her husband is one (in fact he’s British). Full 100% support of transgender which is probably compensation for this but she doesn’t see that the homophobia of her uncle is often shared by transgender activists… fascists.

2. James Shaw (list only) - works for Shell Oil (not a joke). But as with Efeso did not embrace the woke side although nor did he fight back against it. And the bill that he is currently trying to push in Parliament before resigning is a shit one, lockdowns on climate. Has a nice 1.7m house in Wellington so I guess he plans for a Shell led speaking tour circuit to pay for that mortgage now that he’s resigned.

3. Chlöe Swarbrick (Auckland Central) - full of hot air. Zero environmental focus. Fancies herself as Emma Goldman no doubt. Her 2020 results at several election booths were definitely “massaged”. Has been accused of providing cover for Golriz Gharahman’s shoplifting (and is guilty of this in my view despite her denials).

4. Julie Anne Genter (Rongotai) - rides a bike every 3 years (her election cycle). Husband is beneficiary of many government contracts. She’s from an upper middle class Californian family and probably jets there at least once a year.

5. Teanau Tuiono (Palmerston North) - primarily a communist. Any environmental activism needs to keep that in the context.

6. Lan Pham (Banks Peninsula) - has some environmental focus but this is undone by her identifying as “Tangata Tiriti” or in translation “People, not Maori, of the Treaty” which is a shit reading of the Treaty and an embracement of being part of a slave class subservient to Maori in this woke “utopia” as imagined by (mostly foreign, ie Boston Consulting Group) dystopia.

7. Golriz Ghahraman (Kelston) - a light fingered MP who resigned after being caught on CCTV stealing upmarket clothing from two retailers, one in Auckland and one in Wellington. She is in court on these charges in about a week.

8. Ricardo Menéndez March (Mount Albert) - from Mexico. There is something funny about this guy’s story other than that he is a son (a very wispy beard I have to add so ‘son’ could be an error) of a prominent Mexican psychiatrist. No focus on the environment at all. His brother, who died a decade or more ago) emigrated to NZ in the early 2000s and Ricardo seems to have followed him. But I have real doubts about his back story. Some reckon that he was not even legally allowed in NZ when he became an MP. Tried to get his boyfriend from Mexico into the country at the height of lockdown and put MP pressure on immigration to do that (i.e. just another hypocrite).

9. Steve Abel (New Lynn). - has an environmental focus but politics are also very left wing and like Swarbrick he is a fan of the chant “Palestine from the river to the sea” which to my hearing is problematic. Yes there is of course Greater Israel from the river (Euphrates) to the river (Nile) which is just as problematic as well but two wrongs don’t make a right. Communism is never the answer. Despite his age, old enough for Swarbrick to call him a boomer*, he seems unable to stand up for women in this age of their rights being removed by transgender activism.. fascism. So weak in other words.

10. Hūhana Lyndon (Te Tai Tokerau) - focused on Maori exclusively. Any reference to Pakeha (NZrs of a European background) tends to be derogatory and in her maiden speech she made this clear. When she recites her ancestral background (about 1/3rd of her maiden speech) she leaves out the Pakeha of which her mum looks to be one. She is related to Winston Peters (half Maori) who riled her up with the claim that Maori are not tangata whenua (people of the land albeit it commonly is used to describe Maori as the only people with a claim on these lands). Environmental activism? None unless you think a billion (imaginary) trees is that.

11. Fa’anānā Efeso Collins (Panmure-Ōtāhuhu) - RIP Efeso, he died today after collapsing at a charity event. I’m not sure how much environmental focus that he had but he was an advocate for (and from) the Pacific. One of the few non-wokes of the Green Party MPs.

12. Scott Willis (Taieri) - behind the installation of wind power in the Waitati which caused some ructions in that community. I am not sure what environmental focus he has aside from this. Was a little keen on all the covid restrictions in my view. Not woke but doesn’t push back either. Disclaimer: I do know Scott but not very well.

13. Darleen Tana (Tāmaki Makaurau) - another fan of “from the river to the sea” which is a shame as she does seem to have environmental credentials and even started up a bicycle focused business at one stage, a rare small business experience for the Greens. Has a moko which is a little (a lot) woke. If she could drop the shitty identity and genocidal stuff, she might be ok on her enviromental focii.

14. Kahurangi Carter (Christchurch Central) - blocked me on Twitter for something which was very mild (I’m banned so I can’t remember what it was for). But that may have been under instruction from the Swarbrick team who have encouraged her to become an MP. Seems ok. Has a Maori focus as well as an environmental one but not exclusive with it like so many above her on the list. From the Waikato originally (as I am) but now lives in Christchurch (the South Island gets shortchanged politically in this country so hopefully she keeps that in mind as well). She helped to put herself, 14th on the list, into Parliament by increasing the votes that the Greens received in her electorate.

    Trivia, was an actress in NY at one stage.

    

    Kahurangi gets a pass. It should be noted that none of the others here do.

15. Celia Wade-Brown (Wairarapa) - former Wellington mayor with an environmental focus but one that would be very convenient for the WEF. Is originally from England. She is a boomer so not sure how she gets along with Chloe “OK Boomer” Swarbrick. Someone I know, from Wellington, is not nice about her. New in Parliament courtesy of a couple of retailers who didn’t back down when told to be quiet about light fingered Green MPs.

* not actually a boomer but that’s not necessary.