My father has parts of his farm fenced off and left in natives, he also takes care not to pollute the the three creeks that flow year round through the farm. But he will never vote green. They do not cater for the interests of the ag community.

I've pondered this too but I don't think I could actually do this. I've been consistently impressed by their leaders. I'd call them responsibly left, and in a manner I could be happy with.

The reality is I'll vote National. I do like to romantically imagine that I might vote Maori though.

Man, those 5 douchebags who voted Labour, fracturing the power of the left.

Wouldn't it be great if this poll was an actual representation of what happens of voting day.

Instead, it's a sad commentary on the state of NZG.

I would be the happy. Mostly because it pleases me when Baal gets all pissy, with the red face and vein twitch in the forehead.

Which begs the question - why is The Liz Shaw Party not in the list?

When will we have our bridge from NZ to Aus without her steering the country in the right direction!?

That foolish woman. A tunnel would be the better option.

_b to your father :)

You could nominate her by write-in if you want. She doesn't even need to know that she's a candidate for whatever seat.

I'm quite certain that she'd be flattered by this.

Adonis: If you posted your real name and contact details we could nominate you as a write-in candidate.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean there's a shit-show in hell of it actually happening.

No party is perfect and although the Greens have some stupid ideas, they also have some good ones and I want them to have an influence on policy. I'd never want them to actually govern with a majority - hells no.

BTW, fuck FPP. Fuck it in the arse. MMP fo' lyfe.

Holy shit didn't expect the Greens to have the most votes.

National's in a tough spot here. There's a possibility that it could win an outright majority and govern alone, but that's a hell of a gamble. It's conceivable that National could win the most votes but Labour, Green, Mana, and United Future combined could have a greater total and patch together a coalition.

National has to get 60+ seats to govern alone and on current polling it would get 66, but anything can happen in politics. If Banks wins in Epsom and gets another ACT MP on party vote, and Sharples wins Tamaki Makaurau and gets another 2 Maori MPs on party vote, National + ACT + Maori is more likely. But will Banks win Epsom? The National faithful will probably vote for whomever Key tells them to, and a win for Banks gets the centre-right TWO more seats while a win for the National candidate only gains them one more seat.

yep, this

For the right amount of cash I could make that happen...

Speaking strictly hypothetically, what sort of sum might tickle your fancy?

Drew, if you do this, you're going down with me.

More Greenies here than in your average hippie commune.

could you even get a government with the above votes?

I'm going to vote NZFirst now, because John Key has said not to.

Peter Dunne will make a surprise comback, just wait

Rain for next Saturday in Auckland :)

saw this on stuff just now
www.onthefence.co.nz

it told me how to vote, so i'm just gonna go with that :)

can't really muster up the will to vote at all this year tbh

I'm very far to the left but labour are a bunch of clowns and the greens despite having economic policy I like are anti-science and full of the sort of munters who believe in homeopathy

Just vote National. It's the best way to keep Labour/Green out of parliament. Come on, you'll be able to live with yourself.

I take back my abstentation and will be voting National.

This is why I didn't vote for them until 2008. I'm still not entirely happy with their views here, but TBH I think I was overstating just how anti-science they are compared to other parties. On the one hand you have support for "alternative medicines"*, nutty ideas about restricting EM radiation and cellphone tower scaremongering.

Then you have their anti-GM stance, which is presented in a decidedly anti-science way but actually if you look at their policies regarding GM they're not that bad. New Zealand's ecosystem is unique in the world and we already have loads of problems with foreign organisms of all types destroying our indigenous life, it makes sense to restrict the introduction of new types of plants/organisms, regardless of whether they're GM or not. At least until the science around GM has been matured to the point where we can accurately judge how they will interact with our environment. I think GM/GE could be the most important scientific field mankind has ever researched, but I'm fine with confining it to a lab for now, at least in NZ.

The thing is, all these points are small fries compared to the big kahuna, Climate Change. Bottom line is governments have dragged their feet over this issue for far too long. As far as judging parties based on the impact their understanding of science will have on society, the biggest anti-science party out there is ACT, not the Greens, and National have shown that they're mainly interested in slowing down progress in this area.

EVEN IF you don't think the Greens policies are the best way to combat it, the fact is that National and even Labour are not doing enough, and the more support the Greens get the more resources and effort the larger parties will put into actually solving the problem.

Overall, despite what anti-science positions the Green party has, they're still the best pro-science choice available, because of their positions on climate change and sustainable living.

*Tim Minchin on "alternative medicine" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuX...eature=related

fail

Says the mungbean eating green voter.

And in this election, it's "Vote Green and Help Winston".

Well I surprised myself and voted Green/Green.

Uh sorry I came straight here, didn't see the post in the main forum and by the time I did I couldn't edit my post. Feel free to delete the above.

It's cool to post about election stuff in this subforum, just not OD

I voted for Bluegrass. Country music ftw.

Doesn't surprise me. I suggested you were a green voter a few weeks ago if you recall?

Well I guess The Greens won the NZGAMES election.

NZGAMES, my favourite left-leaning forum ;)

Spooky! :eek: