Posts by Keir Leslie
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Wall was a dual international - netball and union.
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The last leadership election was probably the highpoint for Labour last term. It was the rest of the ill-disciplined, off-message, poorly planned stuff that was a mess.
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It’s also hard not to hold Cunliffe responsible for the fact that Labour’s gone through so many leaders in that time period.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Yeah nah, I think I do get that Labour got thumped. That's why I'd like change that works, not half a dozen prejudices unsupported by evidence.
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So we've gone from "Labour picks bad candidates who under perform" to "Labour picks good candidates who perform as expected but tarnish their personal brand". This is not exactly convincing material.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Emma Hart,
I agree! A big problem for Labour as a party is that voters who see Ruth Dyson and like Ruth Dyson and vote for Ruth don't vote Labour, because they don't like Labour.
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Tom, I'm pointing out you're talking complete nonsense. I have lots and lots of criticisms of the NZLP, but they need to be grounded in actual facts, and you don't have the facts to back up your claims.
Rangitikei did better than expected. Deborah was an above-replacement-candidate candidate. That's just the reality of the result.
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Wait, wait, Tom. Are you telling us that Deborah Russell, well known university academic, feminist, and abortion law reform advocate, on her first foray into electoral politics, polled only 400 votes fewer than experienced hack & media commentator Josie Pagani, in a year that Labour went down all over the country? Sounds like she did quite well, actually.
(Same point on the party vote --- Rangitikei doesn't seem to have done much worse than anywhere else, to be honest.)
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Also: loud and self-assured pontifications based on ex-recto evidence is part of the problem not part of the solution. Self-doubt, humility, listening not talking, those are the kinds of attitudes the left needs now, not apocalyptic echo chambers.
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Again, that doesn't explain Port Hills, it assumes voters are co-ordinated strategic geniuses of an absurd level, it's just nonsense.