Oh, they’re mad as hell their echo chamber has lost its echo.
Also, our parliament has rules for a reason, and deliberately disrupting proceedings is a big deal for a very good reason. You break the rules, you get suspended.
Eh there’s a difference giving the usual ritual slap on the wrist for a ritual stunt, as is done when parliamentarians hold up signs, come in with t-shirts with political slogans, or whatever, and suspending parliamentarians for unprecedented amounts of time on top of that timed such that they will miss the budget vote.
As such, broken clocks being right twice a day the tankie got it right in this instance, OTOH, if you look at the actual thread the comments they mention got their deserved pushback and (depending on level of ignorance of the poster) downvotes.
Apparently previous NZ precedent includes no suspension for driving a truck into parliament? Some Kiwi send me a link I want to see that.
Someone drove a land rover part way up the steps, it wasn’t anything dramatic. I remember a similar stunt with a tractor as well.
Also, they didn’t miss the budget vote, their suspension wasn’t passed until after the budget was passed. They didn’t say anything in the debate, and couldn’t have stopped the budget from passing anyway.
The NZ Maori party favour theatrics over results, and have been like that for a long time.
Any opposition party “favours” theatrics. As in: They don’t, they’d rather rule, but in lieu of enough votes theatrics is what they can use to get shit done.
It’s when parties employ theatrics while in government that you should become suspicious.
yes, because they got defederated and cant"troll" on general lemmy instances, much like how conservatives in thier isolated echo chambers whine about the same thing.
Oh, they’re mad as hell their echo chamber has lost its echo.
Also, our parliament has rules for a reason, and deliberately disrupting proceedings is a big deal for a very good reason. You break the rules, you get suspended.
Eh there’s a difference giving the usual ritual slap on the wrist for a ritual stunt, as is done when parliamentarians hold up signs, come in with t-shirts with political slogans, or whatever, and suspending parliamentarians for unprecedented amounts of time on top of that timed such that they will miss the budget vote.
As such, broken clocks being right twice a day the tankie got it right in this instance, OTOH, if you look at the actual thread the comments they mention got their deserved pushback and (depending on level of ignorance of the poster) downvotes.
Apparently previous NZ precedent includes no suspension for driving a truck into parliament? Some Kiwi send me a link I want to see that.
Someone drove a land rover part way up the steps, it wasn’t anything dramatic. I remember a similar stunt with a tractor as well.
Also, they didn’t miss the budget vote, their suspension wasn’t passed until after the budget was passed. They didn’t say anything in the debate, and couldn’t have stopped the budget from passing anyway.
The NZ Maori party favour theatrics over results, and have been like that for a long time.
Any opposition party “favours” theatrics. As in: They don’t, they’d rather rule, but in lieu of enough votes theatrics is what they can use to get shit done.
It’s when parties employ theatrics while in government that you should become suspicious.
yes, because they got defederated and cant"troll" on general lemmy instances, much like how conservatives in thier isolated echo chambers whine about the same thing.