High society Tory ladies

Lew ‏@LewSOS

Counterfactual: @Metiria turns up to Parliament in overalls and gumboots. What do the high society Tory ladies say then?

Mr Spin-it

Metiria Turei isn't awed by Steven Joyce's supposed super-powers - she sees he's a spinner, not a fixer and isn't afraid to call him on it. I like her style.

Greens with guts

The Green Party is enjoying its AGM over the Queens Birthday weekend and flexing its muscles at the same time. Metiria Turei has given several National MPs the biff and served John Key up a plate-full of whup-ass as well:

"Mrs Turei directly attacked Mr Key for undermining the state school system despite previously speaking of the importance of his own public education at Burnside High School.

"I'm amazed that the Prime Minister could be so blatant in saying that his pathway out of poverty was education and then so clearly stripping away that pathway today.

"He has cut back on public schools. He has increased funding to private schools because he wants his kids to have better access to better education and small class sizes."

All strength to your arm, Ms Turei. Batter those hypocrites all around the park.

Meanwhile, the natty shills are getting nervous - We thought they were above that! - very amusing.

A moment in time

I spent the morning in the company of Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei (and others) and found myself in the unique position of being the bearer of strange and earth-shattering news, having watched Don Brash on Q&A announce that his Act Party were adopting as their own policy, the de-criminalization of cannabis.
That's correct, THE DE-CRIMINALIZATION OF CANNABIS.
Act Party.
Don Brash.
No wonder Boscawen has abandoned ship.
It was great to share the joke with Metiria.

Environmental idiots!

“They’re just environmental idiots who will have disappeared again soon,” said  Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmid, badly miscalculating the power of Green in Germany.
Metiria Turei, our own Green leader, explores the excellent news that the Green Party in Germany is to lead (that's LEAD for those of you who are short-sighted and/or from the Right :-) the coalition government, with the traditional left party, the Social Democrats, taking the minor party role, as described by Metiria on Frogblog.
I won't go on, you can nip over and check it out yourself but rest assured, I'm pretty happy and hugely encouraged by the development. Labour may be languishing a little at the moment, but that just gives us Greens the opportunity to also lead the coalition from the Left, after the coming election.