8 Labour MPs accepted corporate box tickets to the RWC from Sky City.
If they’re so evil, why did they accept?
Perhaps they could explain:
Grant Robertson?
David Shearer?
Clayton Cosgrove? Read more »
I thought Shearer’s comments were a bit rich.
Labour leader David Shearer said John Key failed to show leadership by not calling Gilmore to get an explanation.
“The prime minister has just left it alone. He’ll pick up the phone to talk to somebody to get him a job in GCSB but he won’t pick up the phone to actually talk to his own MP. I find that extraordinary,” Shearer said, referring to Key’s call to old family friend Ian Fletcher over the top job at the Government Communications Security Bureau. Read more »
What are Stuff and Labour trying to say? Hospital patients will be eating like any bloke left to his own devices by the missus for a couple of days?
Patients could be fed week-old food under Government plans for hospitals, leaked documents have revealed.
A report obtained by TV3 News yesterday showed food would be made in two hubs, in Christchurch and Auckland, and then transported to hospitals across the country, saving $10 million.
Some of the food could be chilled for up to a week before being served. Read more »
Annette King is currently calling in all her mates.
The ASMS (The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists) is in industrial negotiations; its Spokesman is Executive Director Ian Powell.
In recent times, any skim of the ASMS website reveals it has now become unashamedly pro Labour/Green, and critical of Government. It uses much of Labours favourite language; like King’s claims of “bullying”, and “brain fade”.
Labour’s link became more public last September when the ASMS reported two new appointments to their small National Office.
Mr Steve Hurring, former Labour Minister Benson-Pope’s Political Advisor, and ex-vice President of the Labour Party, husband of Helen Kelly. Read more »
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Is Shearer really that stupid?
Last week he attacked the Government for an Auditor General’s report that criticises process, and this week he appoints Shane Jones to his front bench, pending an Auditor General’s report that will inevitably criticise the process.
And before that, Shearer criticises Nick Smith’s return in the Cabinet reshuffle when he must have known ‘retread’ Annette King would be charging back.
These guys really are that dumb.
Once the scripted part of the media conference using buzzwords like “fresh”, “innovative”, “formidable” and “hands-on” came to an end, David Shearer’s retro-reshuffle turned into exactly what we’ve come to expect.
Then we have Annette King and her elevation to Health. Read more »
Labour’s campaign strategist at the last election, when he wasn’t training for a cycle race against a fat blogger, would go to meetings and tell the party that they would win in social media. The never ending SMOGs that resulted was a sight to behold.
Now he and Clare Curran have pretty much abandoned it all. Trevor Mallard is now resorting to posting pictures of cats and inane social media memes.
I thought I would take a look through various MPs and their social media footprints…many simply aren’t trying with either wrong authorisation statements or none at all. Typical of Labour to ignore the law yet again.
Take Sue Moron-ey…she apparently is still in a Labour party lead by Phil Goff and sits on the front bench and under the misapprehension that Chris Flatt is the general secretary.
Matthew Hooton writes at NBR about the continued civil war within Labour’s activist base.
For some time, blogs have ceased to merely report grass-roots political activity: they are now where much grass-roots political activity actually occurs, with hundreds of different perspectives being put forward on various topics.
A generation ago, political reporters hung around dire regional conferences to get a sense of what the grassroots were feeling.
With little happening at today’s stage-managed conferences, it makes sense that they now observe the postings and comments on blogs such as Whaleoil, Kiwiblog and The Standard to get a sense of grass-roots opinion (noting, as always, that conference delegates and blog writers tend to be further to the extremes of the parties to which they purport allegiance).
Even with that proviso, the extreme language at The Standard about Mr Shearer is unprecedented, and it is again being ramped up.
A nickname for Mr Shearer has emerged: Captain Mumblefuck. His intelligence and admittedly poor diction are derided. Read more »
Jacinda Ardern – Observation by the Owl
Last week I “Owl’d” about Steven Joyce and a possible National Party strategy leading into the 2014 election.
This week it is Jacinda Ardern
The Owl is a watcher of Parliamentary TV and yesterday Jacinda Ardern (who I would be quite happy to have a coffee with) quizzed Paula Bennett (who I would have a wine with) about social welfare expenditure.
What Jacinda doesn’t understand is that a lot of us are far more experienced and knowledgeable of previous governments to know that Labour spent more than their fair share of dubious social welfare grants on. The student loan “bribe” which saw students head off overseas on trips. It was a pathetic line of questions which she knew the answer too. Which was 5.
There is no question she looks bright, intelligent, radiant smile and a confident speaker. Even more than most of her colleagues but not as skilled as Annette King or Maggie Barry who I enjoy listening to. They are great speakers. Even Gareth Hughes gets a leap on her.
However Jacinda Ardern this week receives the Owl’s Observation
Owl’s Observation
1) Where are your policies?
What I have been struggling with is that I as a taxpayer and voter have not read, seen or heard a policy on social welfare. Can you please direct me to where I may find them?
2) What are your policies?
You will have a budget exceeding $4BN if elected. What are you going to do with it? I want nuts and bolts as a voter please.
I am starting to think you are trained in Kevin Rudd’s school of politics – very well spoken, great on rhetoric, good sound bites and probably going to be a great talk back host but severely lacking on detail.
Finally when Russell Norman gets the Finance Minister role how are you going to dove-tail a social welfare program which shows a Green Finance Policy that wants to eliminate breeding and immigration (refer Greens Population Policy) and heavily tax Starbucks, McDonolads and Facebook while sending 246,000 people on the unemployment list when they close down manufacturing and primary industries in NZ.
