"... the Greens are setting the direction for the entire opposition bloc, by virtue of being the ones providing the ideas. And this isn't just a question of Labour's current policy-silence, but of their long-term ideological emptiness ..."

@norightturnnz, 2025

Labour haven't been effective in opposition since the early 1980s. NZ could have been a one-party state since then (with 2 official factions; NatLabs and LabNats). Luckily folks keen on keeping multi-party representation won us #MMP.