The ABC club would have us believe that David Cunliffe has ‘openly undermined’ both David Shearer’s leadership and Phil Goff’s before him.
They appeal to the need for a ‘unified team’ and want David Cunliffe shot at dawn for supposedly threatening it.
These attempts to rewrite history are amusing but factually inaccurate. We all know who undermined Phil Goff’s leadership and it wasn’t David Cunliffe.
It was Grant Robertson and Trevor Mallard who made the decision to keep Phil Goff off the Labour billboards at the last election, openly admitting during an election campaign that they considered their leader a liability. Phil Goff’s stumble in the ‘show me the money’ debate was no one’s fault but his own – he got caught out not having done his homework on a flagship policy and only the most determined denier of reality could try to pin that one on anyone else.
We also know who has been undermining party unity during David Shearer’s leadership, and again, it isn’t David Cunliffe. It’s the ABC club who ring up Duncan Garner for a giggle about how much they hate their own colleague.
Where is their loyalty? When their co-worker is being run down in the media where are they to defend him and insist that the silly rumours are malicious untruths? Oh, that’s right – they’re the ones who pushed him under the bus in the first place.
Chris Hipkins thinks Cunliffe supporters need to ‘take a long, hard look at themselves’. I would suggest that it’s the ABC club who need to do the soul searching here. Because the rank and file are not going to be lectured to about loyalty and unity by people who know precisely nothing about either of those things.
– Blue
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