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# Upset about the Prospect of a Deal with Winston?
- URL: https://goodoil.news/upset-about-the-prospect-of-a-deal-with-winston/
- Published: 2020-06-08T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-17T17:00:16.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

If you want an indication as to how wet National’s leadership has become, then you need go no further than having a look at what **James Shaw** has to say about it all:

> If National committed to addressing inequality and “doing more than just lip service when it comes to climate change”, the Greens might consider working with them, co-leader James Shaw says.   
>  
> **Shaw told The AM Show he has “a lot of respect” for National’s new leader Todd Muller** having worked with him on the Zero Carbon Bill, but he said National is yet to win over the Green Party membership.   
>  
> “It’s actually Green Party members that decide who we go into Government with – not the leadership,” Shaw told host Duncan Garner.   
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> “If the National Party was prepared to come up with a deal where they could beat Labour and come up with a plan on addressing inequality, on climate action, and on protecting nature – and they could outdo our current partners on that – then we’d put it to the membership and see what they said.”  
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> Shaw, who has co-led the Greens since 2015, said he would “like to see National try”.

A National party prepared to crawl into bed with the Marxists in the Green Party is not a National Party I’d ever support.

If you thought a deal with Winston Peters was unpalatable might I suggest a plateful of Greens might turn your stomach even more.

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A coalition with the Greens is guaranteed to turn most National Party supporters’ stomachs

You see there really is a scenario worse than a coalition with NZ First.

An invitation like that from James Shaw is one that should be met with a flat no.

What concerns me is that it is highly likely that **Todd Muller** and **Nikki Kaye** are probably sitting around in front of a white board working out how to seriously respond to them.

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