With the victory of Matthew Hooton’s contender for the Labour leadership the bile is beginning to flow.
The 3rd rate flea lawyer from West Auckland, aka Greg Presland, aka Mickey Savage, is contemplating joining the Greens. Greg Presland is one of Labour’s senior office holders in Auckland.
Matthew Hooton’s Manchurian candidate has been successful with the right wing take over of the Labour party under David Shearer.
The new leader of the Labour Party is David Shearer.
The Labour caucus has just held a secret ballot to determine the party’s new leader, a post vacated by Phil Goff after the election.
The two contenders, David Cunliffe and David Shearer, had arrived early at Parliament today, as did deputy contenders Nanaia Mahuta and Grant Robertson.
The deputy’s race has been won by Grant Robertson.
This will be the first Labour leader to have made the decision to run while drinking Ata Rangi Pinot Noir 2004 at Matthew Hooton’s house the day after the election.
The VRWC are victorious. David Shearer now has to preside over a bitterly divided caucus. Expect fireworks.
Now I’ll settle down to watch the toy chucking.
Tapu Misa wasn’t at Matthew Hooton’s BBQ but it looks like several of those who were have had a quiet word in her ear because she delivers up this drivel:
As I’m sure will be heard many, many times in the coming weeks and months – especially if Shearer is truly the anointed David – he was dodging bullets to deliver aid to starving millions in the world’s most dangerous hotspots while Key was making his cushy millions from foreign exchange.
Really? I mean really?
David Shearer certainly isn’t some impoverished do-gooder who helped people out of the goodness of his heart. His mast job for UN saw him safely esconced in mansion with guards in Amman Jordan and was reportedly earning, by his own words, nice tax free US Dollars.
Certainly his property portfolio in Auckland resembles that of another property millionaire and the former leader of Labour, Helen Clark. He certainly isn’t a broken-arse on struggle street. Not to mention a couple of nice trusts there plus the not inconsequential gilt-edged UN pension scheme.
David Shearer hasn’t been in politics long. Perhaps that is why he makes silly statements like this:
Mr Shearer says he’ll be spending his Christmas break “talking over barbecues, having a few beers and actually listening to what people said” about what needs to change in Labour.
I would have thought he’d had enough of BBQs after spending the day after the election at the home of corporate whore and political svengali Matthew Hooton planning his leadership bid.
If Shearer is talking over a BBQ at Christmas it will because he lost to David Cunliffe this coming week.
David Cunliffe and David Shearer were on Q+A for the second Labour Leadership debate of the weekend.
The gloves are clearly coming off. Even leftwing lickspittles are cottoning on to the fact that David Shearer may well be Matthew Hooton’s Manchurian Candidate.
Highlights include:
Highlights below:
Well what do we have here?
I have already outlined the backing of Shearer by the VRWC members who attended Matthew Hooton’s BBQ. To a man they are all backing Shearer and now we see the other attendees of the BBQ coming out of the woodwork.
We have already seen Chris Trotter supporting Shearer obtusely but supporting nonetheless, he was at the BBQ.
John Pagani supports David Shearer, John Pagani was at Hooton’s BBQ.
This morning we have Matt McCarten, disingenously suggest that he and John Tamihere, Willie Jackson, and Matthew Hooton all came to the same conlcusion “independently” that David Shearer was the man for Labour. Matt McCarten and Willie Jackson were also at the BBQ. I am yet to confirm whether John Tamihere was there but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to join the dots here.
Here is a random impertinent question for the media to ask: Was there anyone at the BBQ who doesn’t support David Shearer?
All these people, all in attendance at corporate whore and political svengali Matthew Hooton’s BBQ, all come out supporting David Shearer.
Is David Shearer Matthew Hooton’s Manchurian Candidate?
Matthew Hooton’s house really was a den of iniquity on the Sunday after the election. Not only was the VRWC plotting to install David Shearer as their Manchurian Candidate into the leadership of the Labour party but it appears that a senior Green strategist, Andrew Campbell, was there too sharing how the Greens plan all along was to shaft the Labour party.
Their plan is simple…rat-fuck Labour, and based on the election result they are well on the way to doing it. If Shearer is installed as leader of Labour then they will lurch to the right and allow the Greens to hoover up even more support.
If it wasn’t for the one big mouth with a top rating radio show then none of this would have been revealed.
The day after the election there was a BBQ at Matthew Hooton’s house. Sean Plunket was in attendance, he talks about it in his radio show with David Farrar, Felix Marwick and Josie Pagani.
The VRWC is backing Shearer by whaleoil
In attendance at what Sean Plunket calls a “National party operative’s” house along with Plunket were Cameron Brewer, Lockwood Smith, Tim Groser, the blogger Busted Blonde and Cactus Kate. All were quaffing Veuve Cliquot and all sharing the company of David Shearer. David Farrar and I were invited but refused to attend.
To cap it all off the champagne they were drinking was provided by NBR. I know the champagne was meant for charity, but saving the Labour party really takes the cake.
A key Young Nat was busted by Cactus Kate at this same event, she commented in her NBR column:
When I saw the ridiculous sight of a Young Nat loudly giving advice to a worthy Labour leadership contender, I had just about had enough. As I am sure had he after months of such sideline commentary.
As Plunket states in his radio show prior to this event David Shearer had expressed no interest in the leadership of the Labour party and the very next day he launches his bid.
BBQ’s are famous in the political lexicon of New Zealand and here we have a real one at the house of a corporate whore and political svengali, with plenty of right wing advisors and thinkers in close proximity to David Shearer and a leadership bid comes from nowhere.
Coincidence is a fine thing, but I do believe there may be some explaining to do.
David Parker abandoned, later yesterday afternoon, the race to be leader of the Labour party. This morning we find out that the person who was to be his deputy in the race, Grant Robertson, was one of those who cut and run along with Labour’s enforcer Trevor Mallard.
To be brutally honest Parker’s tilt was always tenuous. He fell for Matthew Hooton’s kite flying about his leadership chances before the election and didn;t really have that many with him. Perhaps a small faction of people who hate David Cunliffe. His place in Labour must be even more tenuous than we suspected if his colleagues dropped him for someone who hasn’t even seen out a full term in Parliament.
Now the murk, and there is plenty flowing, will focus on Shearer and Cunliffe.
Cactus Kate has picked up whisperings and so had NBR, such is the nastiness in Labour. I had previously thought that Shearer wouldn’t play those games, but with Trevor Mallard now firmly ensconced in Team Shearer anything is possible. It would be interesting to know when the murk started flowing about Parker’s private life tot he media, before or after Mallard swapped sides.
Labour has flung this murk before, when Hooton was flying the kite of Parker’s pending challenge of Goff for for the leadership. Trevor Mallard was firmly supporting Goff back then.
I find it fascinating that Labour would be prepared to throw one of their icons (he wrote their campaign song once) under a bus in order to put a hit on a challenger for the leadership. Even more fascinating when that icon can;t even defend himself or his family from the muck-throwing. The people doing this don’t deserve Labour’s leadership and neither does the Team they are supporting.
I predict that David Cunliffe will die in a ditch for the job he covets. Then the murk will really fly.
John Tamihere certainly thinks so:
If Labour lose the election then Phil Goff will be forced down and David Shearer could emerge as his replacement amid the factional carnage, former Labour Minister John Tamihere said today.
Speaking on the iPredict Election 2011 programme broadcast on Stratos television, Tamihere said Goff would not get a chance to fight another election.
Those factions that put him into power inside Labour would remove him.
“It is just a matter of timing… Is it the first caucus (after the election) or is it February?’’ Tamihere said.
Many have tipped Labour’s finance spokesman David Cunliffe as Goff’s successor, but Tamihere and fellow panelist Matthew Hooton were dismissive.
Cunliffe was only in the frame because Labour had failed to inject new talent and had a “very poor list’’, Tamihere said.
“They need a clean out.’’
