Labour cock-ups this week

You have to wonder how much Labour MP David Shearer knows about his electorate. His press release said Mt Albert was still a safe place to shop and do business “despite the tragic death of an intruder when he broke into Garth Gilbert’s pharmacy”. Only half an hour later, the press release was re-issued with the pharmacist’s correct name – Grant Gillard. Shearer’s electorate office is 200m or so from Gillard’s shop. Shearer would know more about downtown Amman, Jordan than he would about the darker side of Mt Albert.

Meanwhile the left is turning on the not so left of labour.

The Labour funded lickspittle, lap-bloggers are not at all happy with Plughead Clayton Cosgrove: Note to Labour: show some spine

and Cosgrove’s response: “Perhaps The Standard should have checked.

It’s really quite lovely watching pinkos scratch each others eyes out.