Mike and Matthew covered this off this morning on the Nine to Noon. Little wants to be spend less time in Parliament over the next 12 months so he can do the work required outside of Parliament, drumming up support, connecting etc. With that in mind King ...
Enjoyed it too - the interesting one was what Mike said about Parker - that having done a lot of the heavy lifting over the past 3 years he wanted to step back, but still got the portfolios he wanted. Expect him to return to the front bench in 12 months ...
In case you missed it there was a large amount of support for Robertson in the caucus and membership - more than there was for Little. So there is a lot of support out there in Labour for Robertson and who seem him, along with others, as part of the ...
Disagree somewhat with you re the Press Conference (though not that your unhappy with the way it went rather than the need for it). The Press Conference has become he MO de jour for public figures wanting to rehabilitate their public image from the Aaron ...
Ardern for Deputy?
It's going to be hard to make headway against National on Finance without someone who's previously been a cabinet minister and that leaves a very narrow selection.
That ones really astounded me this morning - normally with stories like these there is some kind of dept x is speaking to person y....but nothing on this one - what cnut. Business owner wants to own the capital then he owns all the risks to profit. If he ...
I understand perfectly well. And I understand that he may well have been trying to say that because of institutional racism in New Zealand's patriarchal society etc, but he didn't. A pocket of a matriarch? The Playcentre I attend with my child is ...
If it helps they're my initials fused with Liverpool Football Club. As unidentifiable to you as yours is to me - do you like 5 day old sushi or am I reading that wrong - I don't care. Don't worry about my feelings - they're fine and always were - thanks ...
A matriarchy stretching across all of New Zealand might not exist, however matriarchs in small demographics may well and matriarchs as individuals certainly do therefore like patriarchs they can be racist unless you believe that only patriarchs (and whites...
Parker didn't back-stabbed - Cunliffe belittled him in front of the media. I've got no problem with people doing the numbers, it's to be expected. The leader does not have the right for their mandate to go unchallenged and being elected the caucus have the...
Exempt from his vitriolic criticisms. I don't need to because I wasn't the one making grand proclamations identifying the demographics of racism. He either is not concerned with matriarchal, non-white racists, patriarchal non-white racists, matriarchal ...
Are matriarchal, non-whites racists exempt?
"Picking winners on the basis of popularity with white, racist patriarchal NZ is the politics of fear." I heard him talking about white people along with all the other name calling of fuckers, sexist etc.
I've done this earlier today on The Standard. The first public moves to test the leadership was David Cunliffe on election night in speech and then the letter that he sent out. It's not unreasonable to expect Caucus members to respond with their own moves....
I read to the last and it didn't impress me. I felt like I was being called a racist, bigot because I'm white, am a father and was brought up middle-class. How not to win friends and influence people is how I'd categorise that thinking.
Let alone having called them all racists. Tough guy to have round for a bbq this one; think I recognise him from Don's Party. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074422/
The 2013 leadership choice of the broader membership and unions screwed over himself with his absurd election night and post election behavior. Cunliffe cooked himself.
No because it would show that he can bank the votes that are available. There's been no headway in New Plymouth.
Recall watching Billy Bragg (on 10 O'Clock Live - really a comedy show), discussing the Etonian nature of Westminster and that it needed to be representative. Sub-topic to this was opposition to the pastie tax. Obvious conclusion for me was that if ...
I draw a different conclusion to me re the Gran'ts comments and while your commentary is impressive it just points to Cunliffe being unable to manage the debate and being bested by Key. I have no reason to take Shearer at anything other than his word when ...
What was it he said about Helen Clark's government? A great opportunity missed or something to that effect? Taken to mean that she missed the opportunity to be truly social democrat government?
Well I'm pleased. Happily it doesn't for me either but I do think it's a substantial anchor come 2017 both in terms of reaching across the electorate and whether he has what it takes to win an election. It's not that he hasn't won but that he's fail to ...
The funny thing about your name is I recall in 1989 a Radio piece where they adopted popular songs to represent different people in the Labour Government re their crisis. Can't recall who Don't Worry, Be Happy was...might've been Geoffrey Palmer. Not meant...
I don't understand why Caucus should have to get the message. They are elected and have a mandate of their own and a leaders does not have the right for his mandate to be free of challenge.
I dispute that but am happy to be corrected. I would say though that if he did it was that he would stand if there was a leadership contest and that came after Cunliffe had made it clear he wanted there to be a contest (or at least for his leadership to be...
I don't want Caucus muzzled, I want to hear what people have to say because I want to see that they're engaged and working towards it. Flip it around, if Shearer was the leader would you want to hear what Cunliffe had to say after the loss (or anyone). And...
How much of a concern is it for you that Little can't make headway in New Plymouth. Not having a crack I'm interested in people's view. To me it make it a non-starter because it will be too easy picking come 2017 but obviously not for some.
I think you're making a lot more of those than what they actually are while ignoring the fact that they all started with mistakes from Cunliffe. Why is Grant not allowed to describe his own situ re donations and where he lives. It's not unreasonable to ...
Sorry to hear about you individual situation, that sounds unsettling. However re your point on Cunliffe that sounds like an argument for firing the missiles first because you believe the other lot are about to fire theirs and saying, well I was forced to ...
Many believe that it was Cunliffe's unbridled aspirations to be leader at all costs that is the factor in the party being consistently undermined. Have to acknowledge that parties have ways of knowing what's going on in other parties so when National is ...
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