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A week to prepare and…

by Whaleoil on December 20, 2011

David Shearer has had a week to prepare for this big outing, announcing his new line up…. quick someone get Brian and Judy on the phone pronto, all is forgiven.

I mean, he bombs his new tag line for Labour inside 30 seconds. He was a shocker with notes and appalling without. No wonder Grant Robertson was smiling so much. I’ll give him 18 months then the knives will be out.

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  • David

    Good timing that the summer break could be intensive media/speech training time for Shearer – I am a supporter, but it is clear that he needs it. 

  • JK

    So Labour again has a Husband / Wife team of sorts “leading” the party… And this couple seems to be pretty much at odds with each other from the start… Interesting.
    The rest of the line-up of the front bench is not very reassuring either. A man with too much interest in porn, a brainwashed Hellenite without skills… And a man who has a huge ax to grind with the great leader, hoping that  this leader will soon follow the North Korean leader…. And then there is what’s-his-face….  We live in interesting times!

  • Lesley

    “I’ll give him 18 months then the knives will be out.” Yep – isn’t that the plan? Pretty sure it is common knowledge and that David Shearer knew this from the beginning. The Labour Party are just trying to get us used to the idea of having a PM who has a certain sexual orientation.
    What is new about this new Labour line up?
    Maybe David Cunliffe is now just too conservative for the “new look” Labour Party.

  • Gazzaw

    Shearer is definitely caretaker material only BUT I still maintain that provincial NZ is not ready for a rear gunner PM so Robertson will not cut the mustard if that is ground that they are seeking to recapture. The same argument applies to the deeply Christian Polynesian community where labour would suffer considerable leakage. Robertson is an unnecessary liability, I would have thought that H1 & H2 would have been more astute.    

    • Anonymous

      Agreed. A manhole-inspector PM wouldn’t go down at all well in South Auckland.

    • Alex

      I’m not too sure that NZ’der’s generally would care if the PM candidate were gay/lesbian so long as two prerequisites were met: (1) that he or she comes across as well adjusted and likeable; and (2) he or she was not, or was not perceived, to have been selected because of his/her sexuality.  Robertson fails on both counts.

      If the Scottish Tories have no problem with a lesbian leader, why should we?

      • David

        I think you are naive on this one.  I think as forward-thinking and liberal as we may come across at times as a country,  I think a lot of people would have a problem with it – not saying they should, but they would.  

      • Gazzaw

        In one way I agree with you Alex but its not the MP or Minister that people have a problem with – its when they see the gay partner living it up on taxpayer’s money.
        Carter would probably have gotten away with his horrendously expensive tastes if he had been travelling on his own but the taxpayers were not prepared to fork out for his mate. No way will the average Kiwi have a bar of a gay couple in Vogel House.

  • Gazzaw

    You can’t help but wonder where Dazza would have fitted into this scenario if he hadn’t let his dick override commonsense.