Helen Clark

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The NZ Herald editorial shows that perhaps David Shearer gat least got something right:

Mr Shearer’s speech suggested many of the lessons of Labour’s humiliating defeat last year have been learned. There will be a concerted attempt to regain the central territory once occupied so adroitly by Helen Clark. In that context, what was not in Mr Shearer’s address was as important as its focus.

Not once, for example, were the words “trade union” uttered. Neither did the National Party rate a mention.

Trade Unions cost Labour a lot of votes. They put up dud candidates who can’t win votes, often whom let National MPs increase their majority. They manipulate the list so good MPs like Stuart Nash and Kelvin Davis are out of parliament while proven vote losers and people who help brand Labour the Nasty Party like Fenton and Moroney stay in.

Shearer needs to get rid of the union dominance of Labour if he wants to be Prime Minister. His not mentioning unions in his first speech of the year was a great start.

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But not where the protesters are.

Instead he’s chillin’ with a series of sea creatures, ironically including a spineless jellyfish.

Like Shrek the Sheep and Helen Clark, Len Brown would rather have a photo op with assorted animal characters than address actual people, though he was quite close to them – a four minute drive in the black Mayoral Holden.

Now that’s a relationship that’s irrevocably broken down…

David Shearer is going to be very, very nervous after last night:

As for new Labour leader David Shearer, Ms Clark says he would have had to look deep in to his heart.

“Is this what you really want to do? Are you going to walk over burning coals to get there?”

She’s back and hogging the headlines.

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Clare Curran, Labour, and Winston Peters have been making a big play about what they say are politically motivated decisions being made by NZ On Air.

The problem for these opportunists cashing in on the Whanau Ora and Poverty doco non-scandals, is that NZ On Air Funds a huge range of projects at arm’s length from the Government.

That’s just the way it should be.

For instance, in October last year, just a month before the election – this same agency (supposedly highly political and controlled by the ever powerful Chair of John Key’s electorate) made the decision to fund a two hour documentary on Helen Clark.

The Helen Clark Story, has received nearly $300,000 of taxpayer funding, and it shatters the opportunists’ arguments that NZ On Air is somehow controlled by National.