Andrew Dickens Afternoons

The Greens conference was over the weekend and it highlighted a party for whom confusion is always their middle name.The Greens: two leaders, two strands.  A party is split between the social justice side of things and the environmental side of things, with the two leaders standing for the different halves of the party.So moderate James Shaw used his Saturday address to get stuck into Simon Bridges and National. He called Mr Bridges a climate change denier.  He said calling climate change an emergency or a crisis is not an exaggeration but an accurate description about the situation. And then he announced the climate change policy for the Government which is to adopt 43 of the Productivity Commission’s recommendations which include reforming the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme rather than replace it with a carbon tax.So far, so green.Then Social Justice Warrior Marama Davidson spoke on Sunday and announced a proposal for a state run rent to own scheme.  Which is a lovely idea if the state owned enough ho