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That's 90% of the seats 🤯

This is the same electoral system used in Vancouver's municipal elections.

There are too many American pops in the gas stations.

Refine your methods by lengthening your list!

Using Linux before it was cool!

The 9.6m is Alberta and Saskatchewan compromising our defences.

I think it's generally better to promote the people you want to see in rather than bash all the people who fall short of expectations.

That’s the opposite of how it works under first-past-the-post. The more mud one slings at their opponents the better they do.

People are waking up to the fact the greens are the only party serious about tacking affordability issues that everyday people are facing while everyone else is focused on pointless culture wars.

Careful now that might upset some bankers lurking here.

Thanks Cris! Cheers to you this new year 🍷

The oil industry is big there.

You gotta take it slow sometimes ;)

Some people want to deworm slowly.

This, she says, “is where organisation is still the big missing piece – organisation on the ground”. She points to Polanski’s success in boosting the British Greens’ membership, to the point where it has reportedly surpassed that of the centrist Liberal Democrats and even the “natural party of government”, the Conservatives. (On her trip, Swarbrick also met the two leading figures behind Your Party, Jeremy Corbyn and left-wing firebrand Zarah Sultana, but is unsurprisingly more guarded about those encounters, noting only that the nascent party’s internal fighting is “rough as guts”.)

In New Zealand as elsewhere, it tends to be centre-left Labour and Democratic parties that have the strongest ground game. So could the Greens really surpass them? “Over time, yes,” Swarbrick says. One central task is “building coalitions” with faith groups, community organisations and the union movement, although the latter’s historical ties to Labour means any relationship with the Greens “will look different”.

The task for politicians, as she sees it, is to “think beyond electoral cycles” and generate public trust by being less opportunistic. “People, when you talk to them on the ground, don’t just want politicians to turn up when it’s election year and times are easy and they’re cutting ribbons. They want you to turn up when they’re having a bad day and stuff is hard. That process of constant accountability – that is where you build trust.”

Garbage cruel industry needs to fall alongside fur.

Get lost petty little man.

Elect a nazi and expect the world to unite against you.

Looks like we need to buy the jets from Sweden 🇸🇪

Still is healthier than Beef.

Hopefully the next NDP leader is effective and returns to the socialist roots.

This is also happening in the most educated state in the union.