Who speaks for the Greens?

The Herald Political Diary notes:

Nothing's simple in Green-land. Witness the divvying up of caucus portfolios following the departure from Parliament of Jeanette Fitzsimons. The party now has no fewer than four spokespeople on environmental matters – Norman, , Catherine Delahunty and Dave Clendon. Their responsibilities respectively cover water; toxics; mining, toxics; and the Resource Management Act and waste. Three MPs – Norman, Kennedy Graham and new MP – look after the different aspects of climate change. No fewer than five MPs have some kind of responsibility for transport matters. Keith Locke and Clendon handle transport in Auckland, Kedgley covers what is going on in the capital. Kevin Hague handles “cycling and active transport”, while Hughes is just plain “transport”. And, for good measure, the caucus has two spokespeople on the Treaty – Delahunty and Clendon, the latter being responsible for presenting the Maori viewpoint.

They should take this principle further.

How about two Finance spokepersons – one for taxpayers and one for receipients?

And two Defence spokespersons – one for allies and one for enemies.

Also two spokespersons – one for the and one for the

Every Green MP can then be a spokesperson on everything 🙂

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