‘If I hadn’t heard politicians like him scapegoating migrants, I may have never cared about New Zealand politics in the same way that I do.’ My pub date with second-term MP Ricardo Menéndez March has been waylaid in the most Green Party way possible. We’ve made plans to be at Pint of Order, but right now, from the gallery of the House, I’m watching him filibuster a motion. When you’re an opposition MP facing a deluge of contentious bills , your life revolves around a stratagem of delaying the legislative process.