Green snot

Visage of victimhood: you just know she's wringing her hands don't you.

Frogblog has some pitifully limp croaking along the "I told you so" line, lamenting inaction on the didymo infestation. The Greens connexion with the government borders on self-harm - they are in an abusive relationship and they keep going back for more. Pathetic. They will have no impact unless they twist arms and launch attack campaigns, embarass the government... you know... like an opposition party. But no, they wring their feeble hands, get politically raped by Labour and then go and give the rapist their parliamentary support. They say "no" very quietly and let themselves be taken advantage of habitually.

Anderton is a sack of shit and must be attacked relentlessly about didymo, campaign links to river users should be made, protests organised, cross-party attacks co-ordinated etc. We must eradicate didymo, not protect it! - not more fucking whining and comments that make Anderton sound good!!! The Greens aren't competent at politics (ie. achieving things in a political format) because they don't understand that politics is fundamentally based on conflict and competition - co-operation is secondary. The corollary of this is that they don't have enough intelligence to realise their optimal political position within a given issue.

So Anderton announces he's sacrificing the entire South Island to an invasive foreign pest weed that will destroy the eco-systems of most rivers and what does the internet mouthpiece of the Green Party say:

"Great news that the full weight of the law has finally been put in place to deal with the didymo situation, but, I hate to say it, ‘told you so’ a year ago.
Of course, as Fish and Game have said (offline), ultimately preventing the spread of this noxious goo comes down to individuals taking action. As Jim Anderton said on Morning Report this morning, you can’t line every river with bureaucrats to stop people. But the legal sanctions coming online at least transmits the seriousness of the situation.
Why does it take an environmental problem to really get out of hand BEFORE serious action is taken? This is a classic example of a situation where the precautionary principle should have been applied at the outset. These legal sanctions should have swung into place a year ago when it was known it was in the Waiau and therefore COULD have been elsewhere, not now that we know it has spread throughout the island already."

"Great" fucking "news"!? So Anderton's hyperbolic flippancy that diverts attention from what ought to be done is supportingly parroted. Unbelievable. The Greens should of got off their fucking arses and done something a year ago is what should have happened. They are the ones propping up the bloody government and yet they behave as though they had no responsibility for it. Fuck, it is the GREEN party isn't it? Do your mother-fucking job you useless, sanctimonious pieces of shit. Their inaction and incompetence are assisting the destruction of the natural environment - the exact opposite of their whole purpose for their existence. They are just simply infuriating.

Do the Greens deserve to be there at all? They refuse to filibuster, they play by "rules" that only they accept and have no effect on the operations and reality of the competitive, winner-take-all political environment. So what is the point? Maybe the paranoid guy who thinks Russell Norman (the Australian who is the Greens organiser) is actually an American plant is right? Maybe he attached himself to Sue Bradford because, as my contact put it, "with all the medication her brains are just fried"? Maybe they have allowed themselves to be nobbled from the inside? - but Nandor is hopeless and is responsible for Auckland's poor result for them so I doubt that the conspiracy holds too much water. The Greens have a lot of goodwill in the electorate and it wasn't the National Party cultists who spoilt their vote - it was that they had a bad campaign, did not have enough fire-in-the-belly to mark out their turf and are infuriatingly inept.

Their policy "triumphs" and concessions from Labour are risible baubles. Dr Cullen allows each support party an allowance to create a toothless or meddling little bureaucracy (Families Commission etc.) that costs a max. of $10m a year each to run - that's the deal they have accepted in the past and they get even less this time around. The Govt. surplus is around $3,000,000,000.00 this year and all they will ever get while they have no balls is something insignificant: 0.3% of the surplus! And this to keep them in Government! Laughable. Could they possibly sell themselves any shorter? And when they act like victims in the last two terms they act all surprised and disappointed when they are treated like victims again.

"He still loves me, I have to go back, I need him, he won't do it again..." - people don't want to hear that shit anymore, people are sick of it, people will not vote for self-made victims whose modus operandi is to prostitute themselves, willingly, to a bully. A lesson in bully/victim theory for the children of the Greens: Labour behaves like a bully because the Greens behave like a victim. A bully cannot exist if you stand up to them. Two terms of being a victim encourages and incites the bully to greater excesses. Maybe females - the majority of the caucus - can't comprehend that they are in a victim trap of their own making?

And I've thought this for a while now so I might as well state it here: Would a party leader who had seen their chance at achieving their life goal slip away after so much sacrifice and whose expectations were dashed have the necessary will to live in a health crisis?