Should the Green Party have a name change , if so to what ?

[Logen Ninefingers]

From what I & others are hearing, young people are going to vote for the Greens in droves.
They're fed up with the huge inter generational inequality of wealth & the policies of both main parties & ACT to protect the wealth & privilege of the older generations.

While the older generation have enjoyed free university education & massive tax free capital gains, things like Super Gold card freebees & Superannuation, plus having stuffed the environment & climate, they've got huge student debt, locked out of the housing market, facing a climate crisis etc.

Hipkin's announcement today of ruling out any Capital Gains or Wealth tax, & National's raising the age of Superannuation & re-igniting the housing investor market & protecting landlords is only going to exacerbate this trend.

Young people voted for the Greens ‘in droves’ at the last election. The idealistic youth vote always swings Left.

[jonu]

Surely it must be ‘The Watermelon Party’.

I'd say SCOTTOTT. Socialist Committee On The Teat of TE Tiriti. Maybe just Racist, Sexist Communist Party is the facts based name. Has to have a woman co-leader and a Maori co leader. Remember Genter pushing for Shaw to go? 2 Women is just fine and dandy.

Call them what they are. Racist, sexist Marxists.

[justakiwi]

This is my fear to be honest. I think it is great that they are thinking about environmental issues, but if you take the environmental stuff out of the equation, what do the Greens have to offer them? People need to consider all the issues NZ is currently facing, not simply focus on one. Vote for the party that ticks the most boxes, and right now, that is definitely not​ the Greens.

From what I & others are hearing, young people are going to vote for the Greens in droves.
They're fed up with the huge inter generational inequality of wealth & the policies of both main parties & ACT to protect the wealth & privilege of the older generations.

While the older generation have enjoyed free university education & massive tax free capital gains, things like Super Gold card freebees & Superannuation, plus having stuffed the environment & climate, they've got huge student debt, locked out of the housing market, facing a climate crisis etc.

Hipkin's announcement today of ruling out any Capital Gains or Wealth tax, & National's raising the age of Superannuation & re-igniting the housing investor market & protecting landlords is only going to exacerbate this trend.

[Entrep]

The Radical Racist Revolution Party (RRRP)

The Red-Green But Mainly Red Revolution Party

[Logen Ninefingers]

The Green Party will never solve climate change so their existence is about as useful as a concrete parachute. Even if New Zealand disappeared beneath the ocean waves, drowning our cars and cows, the world would still have the small matter of the other 99.83% of global emissions to deal with.

Although we are lectured and brow-beaten daily by earnest idealists about how we ‘must do our part’, the big global polluters will not moderate their behaviour one iota.

[jonu]

The Radical Racist Revolution Party (RRRP)

The Red-Green But Mainly Red Revolution Party

You're onto it Entrep. Or maybe the Green-Red Mainly Red Revolution Party (GRRRP). Kinda like an after dinner belch on an acid stomach.

[ValueNZ]

Young people voted for the Greens ‘in droves’ at the last election. The idealistic youth vote always swings Left.

One reason young people could vote for Greens this upcoming election is their guaranteed income policy, with them being likely to benefit from the policy. Or at least it could in the short term, at the expense of everyone else. It's a horribly perverse policy in my opinion.

This upcoming election will be the first I'll be allowed to vote in. I'll be voting either ACT or National.

[Getty]

The Obnoxious Weeds Party.

[davflaws]

Although we are lectured and brow-beaten daily by earnest idealists about how we ‘must do our part’, the big global polluters will not moderate their behaviour one iota.

If you mean that other nations are not doing anything to mitigate AGW, you are certainly wrong.

If you mean that NZ can ignore our international obligations to mitigate AGW without consequences in terms of trading relationships you are almost certainly wrong.

If you mean that NZ can ignore our international obligations to mitigate AGW without undermining the international consensus around AGW you are probably wrong.

[Daytr]

If you mean that other nations are not doing anything to mitigate AGW, you are certainly wrong.

If you mean that NZ can ignore our international obligations to mitigate AGW without consequences in terms of trading relationships you are almost certainly wrong.

If you mean that NZ can ignore our international obligations to mitigate AGW without undermining the international consensus around AGW you are probably wrong.

Davflaws, don't dignify this thread with a response to a bunch of Rednecks.
Childish name calling. Proud of yourselves?

Meanwhile, Green's up in the latest poll to almost 9%.