Here's a few of the more interesting and insightful tweets about the idea of a National-Greens coalition or governing deal. The most recent tweets are first. More to be added.
I fully support a National-Greens suicide pact
Michael Field @MichaelFieldNZ
This is a sinful pleasure: taunting old Labour with tales of Greens sleeping with National. More fun than removing wings from butterflies
National Greens coalition has capacity to destroy Greens. Many policies at odds. Green voters would feel betrayed a la libdems in UK.
Matthew Hooton @MatthewHootonNZ
Hi @_chloeswarbrick is a ban on coal mining & oil drilling all you want?? Nats would agree before morning tea.
Whanganui River @WhanganuiRvr
Yeah why don't the Greens join the Nats? Oh, and why we're at it, now he has some time, let's make Gareth Morgan the CEO of the SPCA?
National eats its junior partners. It's just what they do. And the Greens have already lost more than half their voters. Now is not the time
What could the Greens get if they go with National, I hear you ask? Fucked. They could get fucked. That is all.
Matthew Hooton @MatthewHootonNZ
The @NZGreens wouldn’t need to make any changes - just tell @NZNationalParty what they want and it’ll happen. Nats totally unprincipled.
Matthew Hooton @MatthewHootonNZ
Hi @NZGreens, you get that, if necessary, @NZNationalParty will agree to save the planet if that’s the price of 3 more years in power?
A National-Greens coalition would mean both selling out their principles, but for the Nats it's par for the course.
Greens should tell Nats they'll only go with them if James Shaw can be Finance Minister Why yes, I am trying 2 making NatSupporters explode
Enemies of the Greens on both left and right agree that them getting totally destroyed for ever is their best option.
Matthew Hooton @MatthewHootonNZ
The point of @nzgreens forming coalition with @NZNationalParty is not to endorse Nats but to change them.
"Greens going with National is what middle NZ wants" Yeah well "middle NZ" didn't fucking vote for the Greens did it.
PrinceBishop of Chur @GinoMe_
National voters pre-election: Greens are welfare frauds National voters post-election: We literally beg you to save us Greens
Cassandra Mudgway @LegallyFeminist
I see you talking about Greens/National and I raise you a Labour/National. Oh, THAT's stupid you say? Ok.
"I voted Greens so a National-Greens coalition could possibly be on the table" - No Greens voter ever.
Wrote this before the election. Still applies. If Greens go into coalition with National, they're dead in 3 years
"Getting NZ First and the Greens to work together would be like mixing mercury and kombucha" is the most bourgeois analogy I've ever heard.
James why cut off your nose to spite your face? Reducing your options to 50% (L only) is irrational & consigns Greens to bit players.
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