Full text of Green Party press release.
Hon James Shaw, the architect of New Zealand’s landmark climate change legislation, the Zero Carbon Act, has announced that he will be stepping down as Co-leader of the Green Party in March. He will remain in Parliament for the time being to support the Bill of Rights (Right to a Sustainable Environment) Amendment Bill.
“It has been the privilege of my lifetime to serve as New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister for the last six years and as Green Party Co-leader for nearly nine. It has been an honour to serve alongside my Co-leader, Hon Marama Davidson, her predecessor Metiria Turei, and an extraordinary Caucus of Green MPs, staff, party officials and volunteers,” says James Shaw.
“I’m very proud of what the Green Party has achieved over the last eight years. I would like to thank Green Party members and supporters for their incredible hard work and support over that time.
“In 2017, the Greens became a party of government, with ministers, for the first time. We also made political history by increasing our support at the end of each of our two terms – a feat no other government support partner had achieved.
“In Government, we passed the landmark Zero Carbon Act with unanimous support across Parliament, becoming one of the first countries in the world to place the Paris Agreement’s 1.5’C target in national legislation.
“It is especially gratifying to see the Zero Carbon Act survive its first change of government. New Zealand can be proud that it has an enduring climate change framework, with long-term targets and institutions that will guide us over several decades and changes of government.
“Returning to Opposition, the Green Party now has the largest Caucus of MPs we’ve ever had, including three electorates for the first time.
“It has taken many thousands of people, in all walks of life, to achieve what we have over the near decade I’ve been Co-leader, and I would like to thank every single one of you.
“Our historic election result in 2023 ushered in a new era for the Green Party. Now is the time for a new Co-leader to work alongside Marama to take this new Caucus into the future.
“The Green Party will continue to lead the fight to stop the climate crisis, restore and protect our wildernesses and wildlife, eliminate poverty, and honour Te Tiriti,” says James Shaw.
Notes
James Shaw has been Co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand since May 2015. He served as a government minister for two terms, holding the portfolios of Climate Change (2017-2023), Statistics (2017-2020), Associate Finance (2017-2020) and Associate Environment (2020-2023).
Nominations for the role of Co-leader of the Green Party will open tomorrow, Wednesday 31 January 2024 and close on Wednesday 14 February.
Green Party members will attend local meetings, where they will vote to elect a new co-leader.
Each branch is entitled to a certain number of votes proportionate to the number of members who live in that electorate.
The new Co-leader is expected to be announced on 10 March.
That’s right, run away now you’ve fu***d the country with you socialist bill. Go now and never show your creepy face ever again.
Zero Carbon Act… I wonder if this idiot knows that carbon is the basis of life including himself. This is not science it’s a religion.
Some say that the zero-carbon means getting rid of us? The Georgia Guide Stones (now demolished) said as much.
🎶Hit the road hack
and dont’cha come back
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And dont’cha come back no more 🎶
Some good news for a change
The three D’s of pruning
Dead
Diseased
Dying
Goodbye Greens
Green the new Reds
Did you ever hear James talk about solar panels? Offer any subsidies for people to install solar? Never not once nor did he talk about the huge amount of plastic in the supermarkets. Just another plastic greenie with no F en clue about reality
Great news. Another evil communist bites the dust.
Did he find his degree certificate yet?
No thought not.
Good riddance. James Shaw is a proven liar and fraud, and therefore a perfect fit for leading the watermelon party.
I can’t wait for the next deranged woke virtue-signalling lefty fraudster ‘leader’ to be appointed.
For laughs hopefully it will be the repugnant permanently angry fruitloop Chlöe Swarbrick.
Fingers crossed.
One clown replaces another
There is an endless supply
Please be assured
My vote is for Gorliz for cuckoo-climate-cult co-leader, she seems nice and also very honest, apart from shoplifting expensive ‘sustainable’ fashion items obviously.
But that’s ok because she’s claiming insanity, which is clearly entirely plausible.
Brilliant. Hopefully he’ll be relocating to North Korea in the near future.
I hear they’re running low on woke communist grifters.
What not
A move from leadership to the back benches will give Shaw time to do yet more damage to the country before he slithers overseas to do the bidding of his masters – if they still want him. Nine years of yapping about green nonsense and promoting the ruination of a country and he will be rewarded with a nice little pension plus all the perks an ex leader of a party gets from the tax payers. And he is still eligible to apply for the superannuation when he turns 65.
I wonder how many people felt a sense of relief when the news of this little fellow’s resignation was made public? I certainly did.
We have seven ex Prime Ministers collecting taxpayer funded parliamentary pensions right now. I am too frightened to count the ex MPs who are collecting parliamentary pensions – which I believe devolves onto the unelected partner when the benificiary dies.
Wonder what people will do when they see his green commie mug on the road.
beneficiary
Looks like we’ve got another Ben Couch too
Chloe is a very clear and present danger to the country.
Her quickie interview with Meike Sherman at Parliament said it all, along with her ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ drone attire…
And then there was the video footages of her at the FemiNazi proto-communist rallies. Frightening how women of the same generation acted & behaved when Chloe ‘stirred the pot’…!
At least she didn’t shoplift the same…??? Hmmmm…
No wonder MGTOW is gaining more members online…!
And the same force that drives these people are trying to cancel White Culture in Oz, and that has led to neo-Nazis coming out into the open…
“neo-Nazis coming out into the open…”
Pay no attention to that. Large groups of uniformed men, their faces all covered with masks or balaclavas, marching in unison, who are mysteriously never arrested by police (but rather escorted)?
Obvious government psyops are obvious.