bit of shutting people down/telling them their views are BS etc., and the last thing we want is to legitimise that through a party structure. Thank you for that kind invitation TRP. Your kind offer has given me serious pause for thought. The Labour Party has achieved truely great things in the past, maybe it could again. Unfortunately I do somewhat consider irksome and petty, the condition placed on membership, not being a member of another party. I have often considered modern party politics to be too sectarian for my taste. I wish I could belong to them all. (Though I might draw the line at ACT and U.F. and probably National as well, because they all seem to have no internal democracy at all, So what's the point?) Being a more movementist sort of girl. I like to belong to groups, like trade unions, or anti-nuclear, or anti-apartheid, or antiwar, or Occupy, or environmentalist. These movements' greatest strengths were that they were open to everyone as long as they agreed the basic kaupapa for their reason for existing. I have often found myself working alongside National Party members and Labour Party members in the same cause. To my mind the greatest danger we face and probably the greatest calamity humanity has ever faced is the threat posed by global Climate Change. Colonial Viper once said it, "It will take more than a political party to address climate change". He's right it will. What I don't want to do, is