Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Triangulated by Fools, in reply to Keir Leslie,
I'm talking strategy, not policy
[post above changed as I was replying]
added second sentence in case that was the last thing I wrote until tomorrow eve.
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Hard News: Triangulated by Fools, in reply to Keir Leslie,
who's in charge of strategy? ask them for the rest of us
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Hard News: Triangulated by Fools, in reply to slarty,
Fine points. Yet because we tolerate incompetent self-serving fools in NZ politics, those are unlikely to be coherently argued any time soon. Joyce wins.
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Thanks Amberleigh. As a lego kid, maybe I missed my calling.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to simon g,
The Greens somehow manage this every week
Here's what a real leader sounds like - Metiria Turei discussing this matter coherently and compassionately on Morning Report, and managing to mention party policy too (3 mins, listening options).
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Danyl offers a concise post about the situation.
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That’s why the media jump all over alleged coup attempts and rumours of war. And it’s why politicians bend over backwards to give the illusion that there is no factionalism within their party. So when a senior caucus member refuses to rule out a coup, it’s a big deal. It’s Doing Something Wrong. It’s kind of like your wife or husband asking you if you plan to cheat on them in three months time. You can give all sorts of cute answers like: ‘I haven’t made a decision on that matter yet,’ or ‘That is not the current subject under discussion.’ But really, any answer other than ‘No’ is unacceptable.
So Shearer had no choice but to demote Cunliffe. The press gallery love it when politicians fight in public and sack each other, so we’ll probably hear lots of giddy squealing about how Shearer is ‘tough’, and that he’s finally showing his leadership qualities. But being forced to sack your top-performing MP from your under-performing front-bench is not a great development for an opposition leader. Shearer isn’t being tough, he took the only option available to him because he’s spent the last year making poor choices, which provoked this coup. He’s cauterised a self-inflicted wound.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Paul Williams,
There's some clever saying about not fighting tomorrow's battles based on historical defeats I'd like to quote but can't recall.
Plenty of head-shaking about lack of basic nous here, I assure you.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Unlike the ideological split between Lange & Douglas in the late 1980s
That Trotter post traces the current factionalism back to the party's Rogernomic rogering. Like most of this stuff, I have no idea how true that is.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Barnard,
Labour can't win at that game
Totally agree. Root strategic failure.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Paul Williams,
Too many people are accessing the interwebz to publish their minute by minute conspiracy theories.
You'll enjoy the Clifton article. :)