The Greens did not have a whip, a term they regarded as redolent of violence. In their case I had to work with a musterer, Ian Ewen-Street, who was a farmer. Personally, I would have taken offence at the implication I was a sheep if I had been in the Greens’ caucus. Sometimes in politics one can try a little too hard to be seen as different. The Greens were also distinguished by being the only multi-member party with no Māori MPs.
