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As Darleen Tana continues her "woe is me, I have been wronged\u201d roadshow, we might look to a bit of history for advice, or instruction.\xa0

We have been here before.\xa0

I believe it began with Alamein Kopu many years back, another woman with very similar grievances to Tana. For Alamein it wasn't fair, woe is me and I'm hard done by.\xa0

She was part of the alliance in the early days of MMP when these new list members rolled into Parliament on nothing more than a party's whim and set about causing trouble.\xa0

Isn't it remarkable to think that three decades later we still haven't learnt how to run the system properly?\xa0

It's become embarrassingly obvious that the Greens aren't up to much when it comes to candidate selection.\xa0

Tana, who got voted for by basically no one and scraped in at 12th on the list, now has the power to just hang about the place and cause who knows how much trouble. All paid for by us.\xa0

In the meantime, the party who could do something aren't, for reasons only they can try to explain.\xa0

They can't contact her, they won't release the report we paid for, and they won't tell us how much it cost.\xa0

They are twisting themselves into indigestion over the waka-jumping law that would solve their problems, except for the fact they\u2019ve banged on so loudly about it being unfair.\xa0

Here is the most important part of this - Chloe Swarbrick has aspirations.\xa0

She openly states she can take the party and overtake Labour as a majority player on the left.\xa0

But how can she even begin to do that when she can't even run the place with the size it is?\xa0

How do you appeal to 28, 29, or 30% of New Zealanders when at 12 or 13% you look a shambles?\xa0

They're a dysfunctional, indecisive, dithering shambles.\xa0

If all they aspire to be is a minor noise maker, yapping away on the sidelines of an MMP system that allows increasingly fringe operators a seat or two, then this would be just another amateurish mess.\xa0

But when you see yourself in the mainstream you've got to act like you belong there.\xa0

Small clue - this isn't it.\xa0

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