If polling out today is anything to go by, the Maori Party are going to be a force at this election.

The Roy Morgan poll has the Party at 7 percent. Which is huge, it’s the highest level of support the Party has ever registered.

But that’s not the thing that’s convinced me they’ll do well. What's convinced me is the movement of the voters in the poll. You can see clearly see voters moving from the Greens to the Maori Party. Greens down 2.5 percent, Maori Party up 2.5 percent.

This is the very thing we’ve been warning about on the show for the last few weeks. The Maori Party is basically what the Green Party used to be. Radical, environmental, campaigners against poverty.

They're doing the Greens, just better than the Greens.

They’re the ones standing outside the Oranga Tamariki facility at the weekend painting the boys demanding KFC on the roof as victims, planning to introduce a ghost house tax of 2 percent, introducing a failed bill to ban seabed mining and slamming the Government for failing to deal to climate change.

The Greens can’t do this stuff anymore.

First, because they’re part of the go-slow Government.

And also because they’re deliberately trying to tone it down so they don’t freak out swing voters who know Labour comes with the Greens attached. But what it means is they’re a watered-down version of themselves.

Their wealth tax released last month was still kooky to me and you, but it was a lot less kooky than the plan they released last election to tax any wealth over $1 million- which is just a stock standard Auckland house.

Marama Davidson’s done bugger all to fix the housing crisis as the Associate Minister, James Shaw has failed to tax the farmers as Climate Change Minister and nothing is a bottom line ahead of this election.

So far, there are literally no points of principal that are important enough for the Greens to give up the chance of being in Government.

So that explains 2.5 percent of voters moving from them to their copy cats who are doing a better job of being the Greens.

Now I don’t think the Maori Party will be kingmakers at the election, but I reckon there’s a good chance they will at least double their two MPs.

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