Really?
Kennedy Graham put himself ahead of the change of government. Kind of a difficult one to explain credibly to me.
The polls are due to the Ardern factor.
Gordon Campbell on Graham "Sportingly, on RNZ this morning, Greens co-leader James Shaw praised Graham as being a world class expert on climate change and a leader on cross party co-operation on the subject. Hmmm. Lets just say that this high assessment is a minority view around Parliament that’s quite possibly held only by Shaw, and by Graham himself."
http://werewolf.co.nz/2017/08/gordon-campbell-on-t...
I don't know what your respect for him is based on, but for the first time in a decade I saw someone standing up for beneficiaries and the poor and he joined the queue to stick the knife in. And help the braying mob including Kiwiblog, Mike Hosking, Patrick Gower et al...
Also:
"Green Party general manager and campaign director Sarah Helm revealed this evening that both MPs were asked by the party to stand down at the general election but refused to.
As a result, they were demoted in the list rankings, she said, and had been disgruntled ever since. “I think they were looking for a reason to resign or withdraw.” Helm also revealed that the two MPs had been “underperforming” in the election campaign so far. Clendon had made just one phone call, and Graham had done three to four hours’ campaigning work, she said."
But, hey, you know...it was principle and that...
And you'd think that getting Hayley Holt (did you noooo she went out with Raichie McCaaw?) into parliament would help get them positive mentions on the news...
Ardern factor was definitely a part of it, but I don't believe the Greens would have lost one third of their vote to Labour without an issue pushing them out the door as well.
Again, I find it sad that you feel the need to attack Graham, while at the same time using the term 'braying mob' (which, for some you mentioned I do agree with). The Twitterati has definitely been out in a mob like manner at Graham and Clendon, discounting there service to the Party and the country. Despite what the campaign director has said, surely if he was asked to resign or wasn't valued as they are mentioning he wouldn't have been placed at 11 on initial list by the party, and then pushed up to 8 in the final list by the party members vote, ahead of rising stars like Chloe Swarbrick and Golriz Ghahraman, who i'm sure the party would love to have in Parliament.
Finally, not sure what Hayley Holt has to do with anything, but it was the members vote that pushed her up 13 places into what was (before this all blew up and potentially really hurt the vote), an electable position.
Edit: Also, does noted right wing journalist John Campbell fit into the 'braying mob' as it sounds like it was his teams investigation that turned out to be the final straw?