Mike Hosking

Well, I mean, is this a negotiation or does Trump just wake up one morning and decide to do something?

All right.

Well, fingers crossed on that.

Now, I wonder if it's time to ask this morning, is Chloe a bit useless?

So in the Herald's vast poll churn that we got yesterday that produces the chances of the current government being re-elected at about 88%, in there is the revelation that the Greens have been going backwards since the last election.

Now, yes, Maram is the leader as well, and I suppose you can blame her as much as you can, Chloe, but to my eye and mind, it's Chloe who's the head leader, despite their best PC intentions to spread the load of the blame.

She's also not in government, so you tend to get, if not a free ride, certainly an easier one.

Now, obviously, I'm not a Green voter, so none of this personally matters to me, but I am all about continual improvement, and the Greens are not on a path of any such thing.

See, under Swarbrick, they've drifted.

They've not grown.

They are not the environmental party they once were under Fitzsimons or Donald.

They're essentially angry socialists who campaign for the homeless and the downtrodden.

They're virtue signallers.

She came to prominence, of course, because she was young.

She was possibly seen as the future.

To give her her dues, she's run a very good ground game a couple of times over in the Auckland Central electorate.

She's won that electorate, and that may be her strength.

She's a good local MP, because I can tell you something for nothing, she's not a leader.

If the Greens are to excel,

They need to be better managed.