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Bomber v. Trotter

by Whaleoil on February 21, 2011

There is a war of words going on in the left wing blogosphere. Chris Trotter thinks a new left wing party is a dog’s dinner and bomber thinks it is the bee’s knees. One of them is wrong. So far I’d lay my money on Trotter being the one who is right.

Bomber thinks he nails it as to why a new left party should already be in existance…damn them!

And Chris Trotter pours Bomber back into his bottle with a cold hard dose of reality. He concludes:

Expect to work 18-hour days. Expect to lose friends. Expect to lose partners. Expect to see your ideals trampled-on; your hopes dashed; and the dirtiest of dirty deals done dirt-cheap.

But most of all, Bomber, and hardest of all to bear:

Expect to fail.

Chris Trotter speaks from bitter experience, he knows just what it takes to set up and run a party. Bomber does not. If iPredict was taking bets I would go with Trotter’s assessment.

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  • thor42

    You’re right WO. Anyway, for the sake of the Nats, I would **love** to see a new left-wing party! It’d be **great**, because it would split the left-wing vote nicely. Nothing entertains like a whole lot of division on the left.
    Oh, and it would also be entertaining to see Sue “lips-like-a-draught-horse” Bradford in this party (if it were created).

  • axeman

    The new left-wing party to be part of the so-called ‘Coalition of Losers’ where the Nightwatchman Goof wants to assemble a government from the following

    Liarbore
    The party who says they are green but are too YELLOW to admit that they are RED
    Winston First and his Dementia United Party
    The John Hatfield Family Party (ft. S Bradford and Bumber, the Village Idiot of the left)

  • gaskranken

    Did anyone else notice in yesterday’s slowly sinking tabloid on the page that featured some old fart from the Nats dusty old back locker, Sharkey and Hone all taking a position on the maritime postal bill how the dottery old red neck was going on about the sky falling in if the bill is passed, Hone saying it will cost a fortune to fight the bill and Sharkey once again the voice of reason? Sinking his teeth into the middle ground?
    Meanwhile anyone expecting to run into Hone anytime soon should carry some little slips of paper with them and if you happen upon Hone give him the little bits of paper and when he asks why you are giving them to him explain that you are simply handing him back the names he dropped.

  • jimmie

    I think it would be great – Call it the new Red party. New red gets 4.5% vote come November having taken 3% off the greens and 1.5% off Labour. Greens get 4.5% and outta Parliament – Labour goes sub 30% and the New reds still aren’t in the House – Equals a great scenario I reckon. Nats cruise through with 53+%

  • http://www.blairmulholland.co.nz BlairM

    I’m a little more optimistic (pessimistic?) than Chris Trotter – MMP makes it pretty easy to have parliamentary representation without a party – ACT, the Progressives, United Future all run with very few activist, and I think a new Left party will have plenty of people on board. The key is Hone Harawira – once he is booted would he sign up and be the ark on which this party gets floated in? That’s the crucial question.