#BHN van de Molen out | Can the Greens be #1? | Will the minor parties have power post election?

Special Beardie Host tonight Shane Te Pou How much power will the minority parties wield post election 2023? Luxon is continuously warning voters about how the Greens and TPM will drag Labour to the left, but no journalist anywhere seems to challenge him on if ACT and NZF will drag National to the right. Also, 2 months ago Simon Wilson floated the idea that ACT could "be well placed to become the dominant party on the right in 2026" depending on their result this election. Can we say the same about the Greens? Could they be the dominant party on the left in 2026 as they are polling very closely to ACT and their 'left' partner in Labour is polling worse than National. National MP Tim van de Molen has been stripped of his portfolios as a select committee has just found his actions at a Transport and Infrastructure Committee were "aggressive in the sense of being hostile, unprofessional and with an element that was objectively threatening, but not in the sense of physical violence". Luxon is using a very different tone about this than he offered Kiri Allan and Christopher one month ago today. Name suppression. Should the public know everything there is to know about political and ancillary figures leading up to an election or should information that may impact an election be suppressed? +++++++++++++++ Come support the work we're doing by becoming a Patron of ⁠#BHN⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews⁠ Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/BigHairyNews Follow us on Twitter. @patbrittenden @Chewie_NZ