This thread has so much potential for LOLs and I've only seen one - when I mistakenly read that smithy had joined NZFirst.
What no one here seems to realise is that one summer last century Winnie was fishing on the Coromandel and ran into the ravishing young hippie called Jeannette. It was suns out guns out for Winnie and he also had a couple of organic trout. Jeanette thought that looked pretty good and she asked him back to her home in the hills to cook up a dish. Well, a bit of homegrown wacky baccy came out of Jeanette's tunnel house and one thing led to another.
Fast Fwd to 2017 and I'm predicting Winnie will team up with his illegitimate lovechild (they both studied law didn't they) to hold the balance of power. The young and the old will vote Nats and Labour out because they are both sharke and offer little hope for the country. NZ will be celebrated in chucking out the existing political order. Macron, Trudeau, Merkel and Obama will all pay state visits.
Seriously, there's actually enough policy common ground between these two parties to work together (child poverty, anti neo Lib economics). Not since Rod and Jeanette have we seen true Greens pragmatists. Is it time to grasp the nettle again with a surprise move in which they'd hold more power in alliance with Peters; and the remnants of Labour?
