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Shane Jones: now pimping for Sealords

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:34 am, October 3rd, 2012 - 26 comments

As Shane Jones makes a complete dick of himself in public yet again in a traditional display of Labour party backbench egotism. I’m left shaking my head at the apparent complete inability of the Labour caucus to settle down to the task of being an effective opposition.

Roofpainter II: Son of the bride of the monster roof painter

Written By: QoT - Date published: 7:00 pm, September 30th, 2012 - 126 comments

David Shearer still doesn’t get why judging beneficiaries from across the road isn’t compatible with leading the Labour Party.  QoT perseveres in trying to explain it to him, using short words.

Why the Left still needs feminism

Written By: QoT - Date published: 7:25 am, September 29th, 2012 - 280 comments

QoT has a shiny new author login and she’s not afraid to use it!  And Labour?  You definitely still need feminism.

ImperatorFish: Blame Labour

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:30 pm, September 25th, 2012 - 11 comments

National has a plan to deal with their crisis of job losses, GCSB illegality and bad polls. Tomorrow will probably see another welfare crackdown, although with the number of groups left to target rapidly diminishing, could it be the turn of one-legged Dutchmen to feel Paula’s wrath?
But if that plan doesn’t work, National has another up its sleeve: blame Labour. Go on, sing along.

Shearer – excellent education speech

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 2:46 pm, September 9th, 2012 - 115 comments

David Shearer’s education speech today was excellent in every way. Core Labour values, a sound understanding of the issues, significant concrete policy, and the promise of more to come. “Under Labour, the world’s best education will be available at your local school”.

ImperatorFish: On “The Issues That Matter”

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:43 pm, September 5th, 2012 - 36 comments

Scott writes in response to Stuart Nash and Jordan Carter‘s differing views on “strategy” for Labour around marriage equality.

Cone of Silence?

Written By: Bill - Date published: 1:09 pm, September 3rd, 2012 - 101 comments

A couple of weeks back I wrote a post offering Shearer, Robertson or Pagani an opportunity to justify their (more or less) blanket attack on beneficiaries. At the time, I didn’t realise Pagani had been banned from ‘the standard’ for (from memory) being an idiot . So, okay – he’s not able to respond via […]

Good work by Parker

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:34 am, August 25th, 2012 - 25 comments

David Parker got stuck in to the Nats last week, with a 30 page report that laid bare National’s appalling economic record, and presented an outline of Labour’s alternatives.  Good work from Parker – everyone should read it.

David Shearer’s second e-newsletter

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:30 pm, August 18th, 2012 - 47 comments

Last week David Shearer announced he would be writing a weekly newsletter to members and supporters.

It’s a good idea and a step toward letting people get to know where Labour is coming from. Here’s the second edition.

We’re also happy to publish any similar e-letters from other opposition leaders. Just send them to our email address (see our contact page)

Labour’s plan a real alternative to Nats’ failure

Written By: James Henderson - Date published: 10:15 am, August 17th, 2012 - 33 comments

Labour’s hands on approach to economic management focused on boosting manufacturing stands in stark contrast to National’s failed record of big promises and no delivery. Manufacturing is our largest employer. It has lost 25,500 jobs under National. National has been pushing mining for four years. It employs 6,000 people, up just 600 under National.

Two little Pagis squeal and squeak

Written By: the sprout - Date published: 9:25 pm, August 16th, 2012 - 179 comments

It seems the Standard is off the Paganis’ Christmas list. John Pagani tells the Listener that he much prefers Kiwiblog because it “has a more reasonable tone than, say, the left blog the Standard, whose idea of political is embittered and angry and it’s therefore hard to read.” Now that’s tragic and moronic, but hardly surprising. […]

The wrong conversation

Written By: Jimmy Reid - Date published: 9:57 am, August 15th, 2012 - 78 comments

There has been a lot of discussion on the direction Labour  is heading and the direction it should go. There have been some very valuable contributions by Mike Smith, Rob Salmond, Jordan Carter and Josie Pagani. I don’t have much to add to this other than, I think, they are having the wrong conversation. There […]

Let’s debate political strategy

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 8:12 pm, August 13th, 2012 - 79 comments

Jordan Carter and Josie Pagani agree – there is a legitimate debate that needs to be had about whether Labour aims for the left or the centre vote. That may be where agreement stops, judging from Josie Pagani’s contribution to the debate on Nine to Noon this morning. The political strategy she expounds is however worth unpicking.

Put away the knives, the polls are up!

Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 9:59 pm, August 10th, 2012 - 144 comments

I suspect that the knives that were out for a couple days this week will be quietly slipped back into their sheaths now. Labour’s up in the latest Roy Morgan. So are the Greens. The Left’s at 46% vs the Banks Key Government’s 44.5%. We won’t see more hamfisted attempts to undermine Shearer and attack Cunliffe clearing the path for someone else. Well, not until the next bad poll.

Labour, WTF? – a collection of posts

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:18 am, August 9th, 2012 - 101 comments

We’ve received a set of guest posts arising from the Stab In the Back comments that Duncan Garner reported on Tuesday and Su’a William Sio. We’ll compile the best here. As always, we exercise judgement in not publishing truly nutty stuff but there’s no editorial line, no endorsement of guest posts we publish – they just have to pass the test of being informative, lucid, and left.