Hard News: The Base
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Labour slowly but surely reaping the full price- and more- of making the wrong choice. Tho Edwards may be a tad peeved he hides it pretty well!
And yes: Labour appear to be trying hard not to get elected again (and to make it clear they believe in nothing much that distinguishes them from teh Nats.) What's remarkable is that they are doing it so early in the election cycle. -
Who'd have guessed, after you make a speech that looks suspiciously like a leadership speech, coupled with some rather weird blogging, it's a hardly a surprise people tell you to pull your head in.
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Rob Stowell, in reply to
you make a speech that looks suspiciously like a leadership speech,
someone has to :)
but really: it was welcomed by many Labour supporters as a fairly clear expression of values we share. if that’s too much for the ‘top team’ they need to take a long hard look at their own values.
cos we're sick of trying to guess what they stand for. -
I can understand the internal 'logic' in pulling Cunliffe but why not at least send Parker along? Empty chair just before a Budget is unbelievably stupid.
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Sacha, in reply to
someone has to
Still true.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
cos we're sick of trying to guess what they stand for.
It seems a Catch-22 either way. Either they pander to "Waitakere Man" and risk selling out, or they swing left and potentially put off floating voters. Politically we've caught up with Dubya's America and Howard's Australia, and not in a good way. In any case, Third Wayism is so 1990s.
Yet, is the whole Waitakere Man/Essex Man/Reagan Democrat phenomenon overblown?
I can understand the internal 'logic' in pulling Cunliffe but why not at least send Parker along? Empty chair just before a Budget is unbelievably stupid.
Somehow this isn't Lange vs Douglas in 1988. What appears to be happening now is a petty hubbub over far less.
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