"Disaffection with Shaw’s performance as co-leader and climate minister has reportedly grown over recent years and one wonders if in the face of criticism he pulled away from the membership, or parts of it. Was he close enough to the deep-flowing currents within the party to realise rapids for him were fast approaching?"

#GarethHughes, former Green MP, 2022

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/26-07-2022/the-greens-leadership-tumult-was-50-years-in-the-making

#NZPolitics #leadership #NZGreens #JamesShaw

Crying

#NZPOL #jamesshaw

Green Party live announcement -- James Shaw is standing down as co-leader.

It's being live streamed here.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350161546/live-green-party-make-major-announcement

#NZPol #Greens #JamesShaw

Good on Jack Tame for being as determined to have James Shaw answer his questions as he was with Winston Peters:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Xh4vq74_1Ys

#NZPolitics #Election2023 #Greens #JamesShaw #JackTame #Q&A

James Shaw today... quoted in the Guardian.

“I don’t think I’ve ever felt as sad or as angry about the lost decades that we spent bickering and arguing about whether climate change was real or not, whether it was caused by humans or not, whether it was bad or not, whether we should do something about it or not, because it is clearly here now, and if we do not act, it will get worse.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/new-zealand-minister-delivers-furious-speech-about-lost-decades-spent-bickering-over-climate-crisis

#NZGreens #JamesShaw #ClimateChange #CycloneGabrielle