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Labour were broke, had to beg off Anderton

by Whaleoil on December 1, 2011

via the tipline

Andrew Little was so ineffective as President of the party that he failed to raise a single dollar for the party. He left Moira Coatsworth with an impossible task of finding nearly a million dollars to fund their campaign.

The unions snapped their wallets shut and it was only the last minute intervention of Jim Anderton that raised the cash to fund the campaign.

The last thing Labour wants right now is a couple of by-elections. They got spanked comprehensively in the election, they have no cash and Anderton has retired.

The leadership has already fallen on its sword, now the campaign team and strategists need to atone for their sins. Grant Robertson can probably escape as he is a relatively new MP, but Trevor Mallard has death stalking him for his inept handling of everything.

If Mallard had any decency he would resign from parliament immediately.

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  • Anonymous

    You must stop emailing to yourself Whale. Makes you look stupid.

    • Joel Latimer

      Trevor. Stop, look and listen to your parties support base!

    • starboard

      you couldnt organise ya way out of a wet paper bag mallard . Time to do the honourable thing and fuck off. Dont let the door hit ya arse on the way out.

    • michaels

      I prefered you far more when you weren’t here for the last few months.

    • http://www.whaleoil.co.nz Whaleoil

      I think you are the one who looks stupid Trevor. How’d that vaunted social media campaign go for you huh?

      You should resign, your campaign was a fucking disgrace.

    • Elaycee

      Jeez Trevor – your ‘tactically brilliant’ campaign was singularly responsible for Labour ‘gaining’ the lowest levels of support for around 80 years. 

      What a legend. What a legacy. What an embarrassment. What a shambles….

      Priceless! 

       

    • abjv

      Trev – 75% of the voting public thought your party would do a tits job of being Government.  Up from the 66% it was at for most of the last term. 

      About 10% of those also thought the Greens or Winston would make a better opposition. It wasn’;t their tax, economy or asset sale policies as these were all pretty much the same as yours.  Gotta be the people.

      I suggest your party starts thinking about why it didn’t connect with the voters at any stage over the last 3 years, why it went backwards during the campaign, why 75% thought your lot weren’t particularly relevant, and if the fact your new set of MPs looks a lot like the last set, and the set before, has anything to do with it.

    • http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/ Inventory2

      Trevor Mallard demostrates Labour’s willingness to learn from the mistakes of the past and move forward; neh; couldn’t fit that on a Tui billboard.

      Your time has passed Trevor.

  • middleagedwhiteguy

    Would that $1million appear as a donation in the legally required returns?  Or was that partly funded out of the Progressives Party Leaders budget?

  • Guest

    Trevor is the greatest campaign manager in Labour Party history. His performance was exceptional. His tactical brilliance unique in NZ, his media skills unparalleled, his ability to stay on message at all times a lesson to us all.

    Well done Trevor, and lucky lucky Labour for having him run their campaign.

    • starboard

      Wow ! You can say all that even with Trevs cod piece in ya mouth..good effort.

      • diabolos

        Well whats in your mouth mate – or do you amuse yourself…

      • Guest

        @starboard – No cod piece in my mouth. Just a cynic at heart. There wouldn’t be a Labour supporter who read my comment above and knew it was bullshit.

    • Anonymous

      Indeed. The cheque from National is in the mail.

      • diabolos

        Most of Nationals campaign WAS funded by the taxpayer and GOD, with a little sideline assistance from Wall Street as well.

        SCF / Earthquakes / Coal mine Disasters / Global Financial Crisis / Rugby World Cup / Mediaworks-Steven Joyce / Tax Cuts to the Top Earners and the list goes on.

        You’d be short on resources too – up against a lineup like that.

        Cynicism just isnt an answer.

        As we are soon about to all find out to our cost.

    • Anonymous

      @ diabolos I don’t think you get my joke. I’m saying that Labour’s campaign was so awful that it could have been conducted on behalf of National. Geddit?

    • Anonymous

      Exactly, Trevor has done a bang up job, I’m hoping like buggery that they keep him on to run the 2014 campaign a well.   He’ s got three years to organise it and perhaps he will have time to physically assault another member of the house as well.

      Truly one of the most disgusting reptiles ever to cross Parliaments threshold

  • diabolos

    Labour lost – yet for some very strange reason the media and commentators seem to be wanting to hold them accountable and under scrutiny?  To use the vernacular it all seems arse about face.  Labour arent in Government – why isnt the focus on the incoming Government?

    Like i said – maybe its evidence of a pyrrhic victory and a fear of what might possibly erupt out of a very new and different leftist movement?  Who knows – but everyone else seems to be speculating so why not me.

    Meantime – a Government is already exercising its “mandate” – and breaking promises.  Lets hope it doesnt escalate.

    • starboard

      Smoke screen. Of course Liarbor should be under scrutiny. They have had their arses handed to them on a plate. They are ineffectual now. They should be under the microscope. Better still , Liarbor should call it a day, they are nothing like the Labour of old. Once Klarkula got her hands on it and the pinkos, weirdos, corrupt took hold, it died.
      Sure go ahead and replace your leader but a turds a turd no matter how much lipstick you apply.

      • diabolos

        You miss the point completely but thats ok – its not the first time in the last 24 hours that faecal matter has been used for analogous purposes.  

        So you want the loser under a microscope – but the Government with the brighter future gets left to do its “mandate”.  That makes sense.

        The key tenets of the labour movement remain intact – and they were presented in the very short election campaign timing.  Most people just dont know their history though.

        I note how the hangers on are now repeating the buzzwords – Liarbor / Oxygen / Klarkula / clarkbeast / Pinkos / and of course the free and easy use of the word corrupt etc etc etc

        Original thought used to be the glory of this country.  Now it seems (SEEMS) to just be a slavish repetition of other peoples biased thinking including the slogans.

      • Super Guest

        The comments won’t let me go under diabolos or whatever he’s called but this is directed at him:

        “Liarbor / Oxygen / Klarkula / clarkbeast / Pinkos / and of course the free and easy use of the word corrupt

        Original thought used to be the glory of this country.  Now it seems
        (SEEMS) to just be a slavish repetition of other peoples biased
        thinking including the slogans”.

        A) Thanks to Taito Philip Field, Labour is the most corrupt political party in NZ history. By default, but still corrupt.

        B) Have you not heard the just as “hilarious” left buzzwords? shonkey/donkey/jonkey/Nact/etc. You make you like the right are the only ones using those things, then take some sort of intellectual high-ground despite the fact you support a party who’s main base is dole bludgers and union hacks.

    • http://twitter.com/Jazr0d Jazr0d

      because its business as usual for the government – even the lefty herald can’t find anything sensational in that after the eelction fuss has died down

      the cluster fuck that is labour/was their campaign is much more pushable to the nefuddled masses

      the poor old media can’t believe what happened after they did the utmost to help them

      they want blood

    • Alsh

      Labour is currently the best comedy in town, why shouldn’t they be put under scrutiny by the media. National will have the next three years under the microscope. Labour needs to make restitution for its sins and if it does not, well they will even more down the craper after next ellection.

  • http://www.nsanz.org.nz/ Spiker

    Brilliant campaign, he should be nominated campaign manager for life.

    • Guest

      Hear hear. Trevor is the greatest ever.

      • Coventry

        Trevor for Pope !

  • Anonymous

    I agree with Guest. Punchy should make all Labour supporters proud. Just need Cunliffe as leader now and they are really on their way. When it is ‘us’ and ‘them’ and Labour is the ‘us’ who needs money.

  • Anonymous

    I want to see the Duck as Labour leader. It’d be fun….

  • Ben

    What the Unions thought they could write Labours employment relations policy without paying for it what a bunch of freeloading oh wait…

  • monique

    gee Mallard, shouldn’t your party be spring cleaning the shite out of your group instead of stalking Whale, I know who would be the first one to go (aye Slugger!) you are just a loudmouth thug, hang on, stay right where you are! Labour needs you

  • JJ

    On Yer bike Trev

    • starboard

      yeah twev…and put ya seat back on…

  • PP

    Trevor did an excellent job – an exceptional job indeed.  The hours he put in to ensure a National victory was totally a self-less act.  I appreciated his tireless effort and hope he will be there for 2014 and beyond.

  • Vegas

    You know Labour were supported not only by the unions but by mainstream press and TV.

    John Campbell was an absolute disgrace and Duncan Garner sitting alongside him was no better.
    And to suggest that the government doesn’t have a mandate is laughable.

    The NZ Herald, Herald on Sunday et al worked their butts off to put Labour back into power. Were they not listeneing to the mood of the people or did they choose not to hear thinking they could sway the vote?

    Even the cartoonists were showing their hammer and syckles and they have continued after the event.

  • bruno32

    Did anderton provide cash,security for a loan or perhaps  have power of attorney for some rich prik in gaga land ? Any more detail whale ?

  • bruno32

    Did anderton provide cash,security for a loan or perhaps  have power of attorney for some rich prik in gaga land ? Any more detail whale ?