Who: Labour & The Greens

What: A Memorandum of Understanding

When: Yesterday about 3:30

Where: Wellington, New Zealand

Why: Now that is the sticky point isn’t it? Why?

Two parties in opposition announcing they want to change the Government. Two parties on the same side of the fence, who have worked together in the past, who will obviously work together in the future, who have more common ground than uncommon ground, saying they are going to work together to try and change the Government at the next election.

Well of course you are?

You're in opposition, and you have a lot of mutually held beliefs. What else are you going to do? If you were doing anything else, you wouldn’t be doing what you were meant to be doing, would you? 

Add to this, they are going to campaign individually, have different manifestos, the agreement doesn’t mean 100% they will go into coalition together, and the agreement ends on Election Day. Why? Why? Why? Why?

Now if the ‘Who’ was National & the Greens - a combo countless friends of mine are waiting for, sure, make an announcement, drag Barry Soper out of his office. But Labour & the Greens? Isn’t it a given?

In saying all this, it does seem this ‘MoU' means Labour & the Greens are going to play the right at their own game, and the two parties are going to push for their constituents to vote for each others candidates based on what is beneficial to the left.

As I mentioned yesterday. in Auckland Central where last election if the Green voters had gone with Labour’s Jacinda Ardern, Nicki Kaye would’ve got rolled. Now this makes sense, but, did we need a MoU to make this happen?

I say nah. And with that out of the way, surely there is another animal incident somewhere we can now talk about…