If only Ian McLean and the Greens were genuinely concerned about the environment. The reality is they're all about power, control and manipulation. Their flagship issue - global warming - has proved a false god, as dire predictions of 15 years ago are proving as fatally flawed as their climate models.
Rather than admit they know very little and can predict even less, they bury past lies under numerous new ones hoping one might eventually come true and they can claim vindication.
They promote prohibitively expensive wind farms that pollute the environment, kill wildlife, consume excessive resources to manufacture, and have a limited life span. Due to an education system stifling critical thought, they currently hoodwink about 12 per cent of the population, but the ability to be deviously successful should not be deemed desirable.
Scratch the surface, and green becomes red, one leader is a confused anarchist formerly of the McGillicuddy Serious Party and the other a communist.
Mr McLean is also of this persuasion, stating all wealth should be stripped and redistributed equally. It's the aim driving the smokescreen of climate change policies. He'd have been at home in Lenin's Russia and Mao's China. Perhaps, when younger, if he'd been given a good smacking and made to learn the story of the ‘Little Red Hen' he might understand wealth doesn't grow on trees but has to be made and worked for.
There is much selfishness and greed in the world, but it's by no means found solely in the wealthy and the politics of envy, as practised by the Greens, who are especially negative and destructive in society.
The Greens hope this proves so and intend to profit from any implosion.
In a further example of hypocrisy, they vigorously oppose the selling of assets from public ownership, but wholeheartedly support stripping these same public resources from public ownership and gifting them to wealthy tribal Maori elite.
Mike Kuipers von Lande,
Mount Maunganui