Keeping Stock - skittery as a wee mousey

The most hilarious moment at the Local Government NZ meeting I attended on Wednesday in Dunedin was hearing the keynote speaker telling the assembled mayors, deputies, chairs and councillors, to prepare themselves for a Government that included the Greens. One of my fellow councillors is, like Keeping Stock, highly reactive and allergic to 'green' and must have taken a huge gulp of air so as not to pass out at the news that the Greens will be shaping our future after the election, if they're not doing that already. Keeping Stock, as mentioned, fizzes and froths as the moment where his greatest fear is realised draws closer and closer but today he broke down completely and entered the realms of pure fantasy, tinged with a little blue-paranoia, and wrote this silly post. I only link to it here because he mentions me, assigning far more credit than I deserve (not the pedestal, KS, please!). I don't recommend you bother reading his post but if you must, do leave a comment there - I'm banned from making comment on his blog, because of my ill-manners, I'm informed.

Timms on the Greens

Southland Regional Council chairman, Ali Timms recently flew to Auckland to attend the Bluegreen forum. The Bluegreens are a splinter of the National Party log, that would, if it could, attract some 'green' vote from the New Zealand public. They failed, at the last election, to do so, according to Ms Timms' report  published in the agenda for the up-coming Ordinary Meeting of Council. In the report, our chairman states that "there was widespread acknowledgement that the Green Party has captured most of NZ's green vote." This is no great surprise to a Green like myself and the reasons for National's failure to appeal to the green thinker are obvious - pimping mining, drilling and fracking, the strangulation on the Department of Conservation, the opening up of our marine areas for aquaculture etc, etc are not behaviors that appeal to the environmentally-aware New Zealander, looking to use their vote to protect our country's natural beauty.
I wish I'd been at the conference myself - I'd happily have put them straight on where they are going wrong.
Ms Timms closed her report with a rather odd statement, saying,
"Quote of the day, was about someone "who  has voted for the Greens even though their social manifesto was rubbish".
I wonder why she wrote that?
I'll ask at Wednesday's meeting.