Well I guess it's what the majority of voters want.
So now all that remains is for the Greens to decide that, rather than remain out in the cold, they will go into government with the Nats.
Job done.
This notion that the Greens need to open themselves up to dealing with the right is rubbish...
They can’t.... the base of that party has come from the Labour Party. When Labour were at their lowest the Greens had taken the majority of those votes.
When Labour started to come back it was the Greens who suffered the most.
If the Greens announce that they are willing to go to the right before an election then they potentially risk not even getting to the 5% threshold.
A new environmental based party can be formed on the right... which could take those Green voters who were happy to go with the right...
But people need to realise that the Green Party base is just as much if not more about social policy as it is environmental policy. And it’s that social justice aspect of that base which will find it almost impossible to work with national.
So if they split that base.... neither of them might make the 5% threshold.
