Did anyone else notice that David Cunliffe had blood on his chin when speaking to the media after yesterday’s Labour Caucus where the bloody infighting began? Then again, maybe it was just some shit that had dribbled out of his mouth.
David Cunliffe needs to understand Rule Number One in Whaleoil’s Rules of Politics:
Asked about his likeability, Mr Cunliffe said he had “lots of friends around the caucus”.
“I think there might have been a little bit of spiking of the guns by someone, I’m not accusing my colleagues here, but people put tags around for their own reasons and I’m not going to responding in kind to that.
“I know that I’ve got lots of good relationships and I’ve built a really, really strong team in my own electorate, and I think that speaks for itself.”
If you have to talk about having friends the reality is you are probably Neville No-mates.
David Farrar shows up the dodgy polling of Horizon compared with all other pollsters. He concludes that Colmar Brunton and One News were the most accurate.
Colmar Brunton was asked by TVNZ to analyse all pollsters as well. Their press release posted on Throng states:
ONE News asked Colmar Brunton to crunch one more set of numbers around the election. We wanted to know how accurate the major political polls were in the lead up to the poll that really counts, Saturday’s General Election.
The final analysis showed the ONE News Colmar Brunton poll recorded the least amount of difference with the actual party vote across the parties that were returned to Parliament, compared to any of the other pollsters.
They stacked up like this:
- ONE News Colmar Brunton
- NZ Herald DigiPoll
- Roy Morgan
- 3 News Reid Research
- Fairfax Media Research International
I note they don’t even include Horizon polls in their review. That shows how seriously dodgy and out of step they were from the rest of the bunch.
The Sunday Star-Times and Radio Live, in particular, should be very very ashamed of associating their brands with Horizon.
7 O God, I beg two favors from you;
let me have them before I die.
8 First, help me never to tell a lie.
Second, give me neither poverty nor riches!
Give me just enough to satisfy my needs.
9 For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?”
And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.
Labour is having a true leadership battle with up to 5 contenders.
I’m looking forward to the first real debate…
RNZ had a half hearted crack at it this morning. (audio)
Since the TV channels still have their debate sets handy… they should host a debate on the policy differences that exist between the contenders.
Let’s have a proper contest!
I note David Cunliffe is accusing one of his colleagues of dirty tricks. Who does he think is responsible?
A message to the tipline reminded me of this gem from 2007 when David Cunliffe was Health Minister and was being monstered on a daily basis by then Opposition Health spokesman Tony Ryall.
It was during this time that David Cunliffe was running interference for Annette King’s husband and ensured that for the foreseeable future the hawkes Bay will remain a National stronghold.
Phil Goff has resigned from the Labour leadership. Let’s look at his leadership.
Todd McClay, Sam Lotu Iiga and Tim MacIndoe all won on Saturday, with increased majorities.
Unsurprisingly they were also standing against some Labour nasties. Steve Chadwick, Carol Beaumont and Sue Moroney. Only Sue Moroney remains in parliament after the blood bath of November 26.
Another Labour nasty who is now unemployed was Carmel Sepuloni. She took the fight in Waitakere to Paula Bennett but Paula showed a great deal of mongrel and proved more adept at wrestling with pigs than the Septic Tank.
There is a moral in this story. If you want to be nasty, spiteful and awful then you will lose to candidates who are likeable and real. Having a sneering smack bum face all the time doesn’t endear you to voters.
David Cunliffe is being touted as the new leader for the Labour party.
Bryce Edwards described him yesterday as “He’s kind of charismatic – I think he’s quite a competent leader.”
Hone Harawira though thinks that Cunliffe is “Silent T“:
What is the best description of David Cunliffe
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Loading ...Some in the media are talking up David Cunliffe. He is described as charismatic:
A leading political commentator says Labour leadership candidate David Cunliffe is the most appealing candidate “amongst the public”, and the party would be better off moving away from “Phil Goff clones”.
Political commentator Bryce Edwards told TV3′s Firstline today that Mr Cunliffe would be a better public choice.
“Amongst the public he’s the most appealing. He’s kind of charismatic – I think he’s quite a competent leader.”
Yep he is, and here is a good example of his charisma at work. I can’t wait watching him trying to “stop the greasy little fulla in the blue suit”.
I note too that Cunliffe says he is friends with Mana. Phil Goff of course ruled out working with Hone Harawira.
He will stop the “rich fullas, the millionaires, the bankers, that give them lots of money” from getting their “free ride”. Yep please let it be David Cunliffe leading Labour.
