Mike's Minute: What will the Greens do on Darleen Day?

I assume you are as excited as I am, for today is Decision Day.  It’s Meeting Day, Deal with Darleen Day.  Darleen is off to court, as you do, but her former party is going to have another meeting, and it is suggested they may even make a decision.  They need 75% to boot her out of the Parliament via the waka jumping law – I have no idea whether they will get that or not.  If you haven't followed this, and I don’t blame you, trying to understand the way the Greens think requires tremendous patience, and quite possibly a lot of cannabis, but they don’t like the waka jumping law.  So, to have to use it would rub a lot of them up the wrong way. But Darleen, with her actions, has already rubbed them up the wrong way, so it is just a matter perhaps of working out what feels less rubby: Tana or the law you dislike.  At some point, as I have suggested before, they might like to look at their candidate selection process. Because I assume at one of the preceding meetings someone has had the wherewithal to say something like ‘Hey guys have you noticed how many halfwits we have ended up selecting that have gone on to make fools of us?’  A couple of procedural things: you must never forget the party has never released the full report into Tana. You might want to ask why not.  Also, you might have noticed how astonishingly long it has taken them to get to this point, and that might be a warning as to what sort of approach to matters they may take, should they ever be in power in a cabinet that actually requires adults to make sharpish sort of decisions.  As for today, well they have to boot her out. 1) Because she is a reprobate, but 2) because they have made such a meal of her performance and behaviour, not to boot her out is to see her win, and to see her win would make absolute fools of the party.  That’s not to say that won't happen, because it’s the Greens, and they aren't like the rest of us.  But it might just be that one of Parliament’s bigger embarrassments is about to, and not a moment too soon, get her comeuppance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.