Yesterday I blogged about Clark ministry retreads and staffers now ascending to the leadership of Labour. Cactus Kate has a name for them.
Labour threw out their Leader, ran a Primary for a new one and aren’t finished yet chucking the baby out with the bath water by biffing out all the oldies and simply replacing them with less talented and remarkable new Helengnomes. I mean really who can say Ardern (dropped 9.4% party vote and lost seat despite Greens helping her) Hipkins (least he won his seat) and Robertson (complete focus on winning seat and came 3rd in party vote) are the new Goff, Mallard and King? And this is somehow evolution for the Party? At least King, Goff and Mallard had jobs and some life experience outside Parliament before super gluing their backsides to the institution.
The Helengnomes are humorless, talentless generalists, privileged and lacking in life experience party hacks to the outside world. And that’s before they even got selected in safe seats or in on the favored positions on the list.
In the meantime those who should be there as Labour’s future to appeal to middle progressive working New Zealand like Davis and Nash, are sitting at home on their backsides contemplating what they did wrong.
Not signing up to be a Helengnome pretty much sums it up.
