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Little’s chance went begging

by Whaleoil on December 1, 2011

You have to laugh at Andrew Little. He stood as a carpet bagger in New Plymouth and managed to perform so poorly he turned the country’s most margin seat in 2008 into a safe National seat by 2011.

On Saturday night Mr Little failed in his bid to wrest the New Plymouth seat from National’s Jonathan Young and Labour suffered its worst defeat since the 1920s.

“It was certainly a sense of great privilege to be coming in on the list but it wasn’t the sense of elation that I might have thought of years ago when I thought ‘Yes, I want to commit to becoming an MP’.”

You’ve got to love the entitlement mentality that thinks scraping in on the list is a “great privilege”.

Any designs Andrew Little had on the leadership of Labour pretty much ended with his woeful showing in New Plymouth.

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  • sthnjeff

    I bet the lobbying for Rongatai has already started inearnest by Mr Little.

    • Auto_immune

      Annette King gets a lot of respect from the people of Rongotai; I seriously doubt Andrew Little would get the same.

  • Gazzaw

    Depends on how you read “great privilege”. It is a massive privilege when that place rightfully belongs to Kelvin Davies or Stu Nash. Don’t get me going on how thick the labour membership is to have these union pricks dominate their party. Can you believe that Beaumont is the next on the list if a labour list MP falls over?

    I wouldn’t be too sure about Little putting his hand up for Rongatai. The CTU and the sisterhood might determine that it’s time for Helen Kelly to have a go.  

  • Peter Wilson

    Andrew Little – and how possibly apt his name – is in danger of becoming the Don Brash of the left. All the charm, interllect and breeding to be a leader, it’s just that he can’t get anyone to vote for him.

  • Topps

    What chance did he have against Jonathan Young and the help off the lord.. in a deeply rooted conservative God fearing town… Harry before him had most of that vote .. until the Minister came to town.. Little will I believe go for a safe Labour seat like Rongatai and re-stake his claim towards the leadership… much the same way Shearer is now as the new face of Labour, not tainted by the old guard. The battle between Shearer and Little… Shearer will win.. As Little carries too much union baggage.

  • Timbo

    A piece on RNZ this morning started “Labour says the Government too slow to get mine inspectors” and then Andrew Little comes on and says the Government lack of activity in getting new inspectors means that the Dept of Labour has’nt got the resources to investigate the Huntly incident and also says that “he has heard…” that they can’t get people to apply. Then the Department spokesperson comes on and says that two inspectors have already been hired and they are in the process of hiring the supervisor. So what he said was a lie and a beat up based on  something he made up. Of course RNZ did not get back to him and ask him why he lied….