Posts by Sacha
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I hope I've made clear I think the problem is broader than Goff. However, Standard poster 'Pascal's Bookie' on another of their threads this morning is convincingly pragmatic about dumping him:
If Goff isn’t rolled within the next few days, the narrative will dictate that the sole reason is that any would be challengers were too scared. That they didn’t want a loss in Nov to damage their longer term career hopes. This is, again, absolutely toxic.
Some bugger needs to step up. The only way to draw a line under this is to replace the leadership.
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Changing the leadership will dynamite this narrative and create a new one. It’s not a gauranteed sucess by any stretch, but that way there is at least hope. All the shit so far can be slated to Goff’s poor leadership. That’s tough and unfair on Goff, but it uses the narrative to your advantage.Goff and King took a massive gamble and it didn’t pay off.
Mulligans are for losers and for friendly matches with no stakes. This is not such a match.
They need to pay the price.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to DexterX,
not sticking around long enough to help bed in successors and assist with developing the opposition mindset
Goff, King and others have been there for years.
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Even Chris Trotter is not amused.
IT'S STAGGERING, the unabashed cynicism of so many of Labour's defenders. As rumour builds on rumour and the indefatigable ferrets of the blogosphere burrow deeper into the political laundry basket, Labour's apologists dismiss the political ramifications of the Hughes Affair with a courtier's shrug.
"Goff's perfectly safe", they say with world-weary certitude, "because who the hell would want to take over the job now? Far better to let Goff lose the election and pick things up from there."
It's only when you begin to decode this statement that the true extent of these apologists' cynical indifference to the fate of Labour's supporters becomes apparent.
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Because, even in the most selfish and deeply cynical terms, allowing National to win by default is a disastrous strategy.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to JLM,
I know someone who predicts that ACT will lose Epsom, but gain Tamaki. Is this possible
Yes. Nats in Tamaki will do as they're told by their party and vote Act as long as they don't have to vote for Rodney.
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Hard News: Chasing the Trans-Pacific Express, in reply to Adzze,
My worry is that Freeview is going to die a slow death and we'll have just one major broadcast content provider
As long as it's a privately-owned monopoly, you understand
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to BenWilson,
just because something is hard is no excuse not to try at it, particularly when that is your actual job
Yes. We pay for an opposition. Let's have one.
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Meanwhile in Standardland, Mr Lprent says nothing to see here, move along. Apparently deviations from the party line are because of "astroturfing". Yes, really. Not because of abysmal performance or anything.
What I have seen is quite a lot of ‘concerned lefties’ recently who write like righties in their concerns and have suddenly appeared. They also have some very similar messsage lines that they keep pushing.
It is bloody boring really. Last election we had ‘concern trolls’. This years it looks like we’ll be getting the concerned astroturfers. If it gets to be too much of an issue in interfering in the dialogue, I’ll put some code and policy in place to eliminate the problem on this site.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Refused
And
Mr Buckingham has now said a complaint would be laid about his client being allegedly assaulted at the time of his arrest.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to nzlemming,
they used to call him that, but I don't recall anyone confirming it
Had personal confirmation from someone who used to work there - who also reminded me that the guys calling Key the smiling assassin were big-swinging-dick money traders not known for their fear. Scary chap apparently. See a taste of it when the Tranzrail eyes come on..
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Paul Williams,
I'd also rather they were now in a better position to contest the next election
Any musings about why they aren't?