Here's the mistake: the Greens didn't negotiate properly. The Greens just said, "OK, we'll let that one go through to the keeper.", and then they found themselves on the floor of the Parliament very quickly, in 2018, having to vote for something that successive Green leaders had made repeated invocations to Parliament to not pass. But the Greens had to vote for it anyway. Wasn't it deliciously sweet when David Carter's bill got pulled from the ballot at the tail end of the last Parliament, and it was pretty clear that the tide was running out on New Zealand First and Winston Peters, and the Greens voted to send it to a committee? 