Play It Again David - Labour and ACT
Back in the dark days of ACT I made several observations about excuses for failure and mood at the time of the failure:
- constant talk of re-inventing our image and never actually doing so
- grasping at straws by saying we didn't suck so much in Auckland as the rest of the country
- blaming the media for not giving us good coverage
- constant policy over personality discussions
- a divisive primary style election of the Leader
- members allowed to have a say but a higher power over-ruling them
- tantrums by MPs when they are forced to leave
- TLDR (too long didn't read) advertisements and brochures
- a call for more women to be promoted despite there being precious few available
- infighting between factions at senior levels about things other than policy direction
- a hatred of all things National Party rather than worrying about our own game
- references back to our own David (Lange) and Douglas all the time and glory years
- 1980's key figures running the party in an old style FPP way rather than MMP
- the deepest darkest influence in Roger Douglas still hanging around like a warlord in wait
- grasping at straws by saying we didn't suck so much in Auckland as the rest of the country
- blaming the media for not giving us good coverage
- constant policy over personality discussions
- a divisive primary style election of the Leader
- members allowed to have a say but a higher power over-ruling them
- tantrums by MPs when they are forced to leave
- TLDR (too long didn't read) advertisements and brochures
- a call for more women to be promoted despite there being precious few available
- infighting between factions at senior levels about things other than policy direction
- a hatred of all things National Party rather than worrying about our own game
- references back to our own David (Lange) and Douglas all the time and glory years
- 1980's key figures running the party in an old style FPP way rather than MMP
- the deepest darkest influence in Roger Douglas still hanging around like a warlord in wait
Well low and behold one looks at The Standard (currently the best show in town in the comments section), Red Alert and the outbursts from various MP's post election and I can see the same thing has happened to Labour. Only Roger is Helen. Her influence shown with all this fresh young talent merely being puppet staffers from her regime. They aren't fresh at all.
They are Helengnomes. Indoctrinated prototypes who think working for an MP gives you enough experience to be a well- rounded one. Whaleoil profiled them here.
There's no excuse for failure in politics. You lose when more people like the other guy than like you. You have to get over that and try again next time.
Labour have a growing electorate of welfare dependent clowns who not only want welfare for themselves but their children and their grandchildren. Labour have to outbid Mana and Greens to get these clowns to vote for them but they know where they are and have to go sign them up. Cunners knew this when he was pitching to this audience off the back of the truck in Avondale.
How Labour can miss out on leading the next government in 2014 is beyond me. Even though John Key and National were at their most popular in history, Labour only missed by one seat this time on forming a government despite crashing and burning their own Party, the vote went to their junior coalition partner. National did very little to promote the anti-MMP campaign. And are now stuck with the system that is inherently bias against those paying for all the welfare promises.
Yet Labour threw out their Leader, ran a Primary for a new one and aren't finished yet chucking the baby out with the bath water by biffing out all the oldies and simply replacing them with less talented and remarkable new Helengnomes. I mean really who can say Ardern (dropped 9.4% party vote and lost seat despite Greens helping her) Hipkins (least he won his seat) and Robertson (complete focus on winning seat and came 3rd in party vote) are the new Goff, King and Mallard? And this is somehow evolution for the Party? At least King, Goff and Mallard had jobs and some life experience outside Parliament before super gluing their backsides to the institution.
The Helengnomes are humorless, talentless generalists, privileged and lacking in life experience party hacks to the outside world. And that's before they even got selected in safe seats or in on the favored positions on the list.
In the meantime those who should be there as Labour's future to appeal to middle progressive working New Zealand like Davis and Nash, are sitting at home on their backsides contemplating what they did wrong.
Not signing up to be a Helengnome pretty much sums it up.
Keep up the entertainment is all I can say.
They are Helengnomes. Indoctrinated prototypes who think working for an MP gives you enough experience to be a well- rounded one. Whaleoil profiled them here.
There's no excuse for failure in politics. You lose when more people like the other guy than like you. You have to get over that and try again next time.
Labour have a growing electorate of welfare dependent clowns who not only want welfare for themselves but their children and their grandchildren. Labour have to outbid Mana and Greens to get these clowns to vote for them but they know where they are and have to go sign them up. Cunners knew this when he was pitching to this audience off the back of the truck in Avondale.
How Labour can miss out on leading the next government in 2014 is beyond me. Even though John Key and National were at their most popular in history, Labour only missed by one seat this time on forming a government despite crashing and burning their own Party, the vote went to their junior coalition partner. National did very little to promote the anti-MMP campaign. And are now stuck with the system that is inherently bias against those paying for all the welfare promises.
Yet Labour threw out their Leader, ran a Primary for a new one and aren't finished yet chucking the baby out with the bath water by biffing out all the oldies and simply replacing them with less talented and remarkable new Helengnomes. I mean really who can say Ardern (dropped 9.4% party vote and lost seat despite Greens helping her) Hipkins (least he won his seat) and Robertson (complete focus on winning seat and came 3rd in party vote) are the new Goff, King and Mallard? And this is somehow evolution for the Party? At least King, Goff and Mallard had jobs and some life experience outside Parliament before super gluing their backsides to the institution.
The Helengnomes are humorless, talentless generalists, privileged and lacking in life experience party hacks to the outside world. And that's before they even got selected in safe seats or in on the favored positions on the list.
In the meantime those who should be there as Labour's future to appeal to middle progressive working New Zealand like Davis and Nash, are sitting at home on their backsides contemplating what they did wrong.
Not signing up to be a Helengnome pretty much sums it up.
Keep up the entertainment is all I can say.
posted by Cactus Kate at 7:19 PM
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When you put it like that Goff/Mallard and King
Or Ardern/Robertson and Hipkins
Or David and Nash
I think the ones left at home look very favorable right now
Jacinda did well in the election - might not have won the seat, but was only 700 votes behind, and everyone knows its hard to beat the incumbent. Yes the party votes wasn't that flash, but perhaps that is more a reflection of the status of the party as a whole than a reflection on Jacinda.
On another note, ever considered politics yourself Cactus Kate? Could you hack it?
You are a bit of a slow learner aren't you Grandma Ardern sticking up for the grandaughter.
Thing is Denise Roche and the Greens actively told everyone in Akl Central to vote for Jacinda and Green on party list.
And she still lost by a large margin.
As for being hard to beat the incumbent. Tell that to Carmel Sepuloni.
No I can't hack politics first and foremost the pay cut. Not an issue with most of these here, they got a large pay increase to enter politics to tell everyone what to do and how to run their lives before they've actually had one themselves.
I'm not sure about Hipkins. I walked out on his speech a a local college prize giving to look at some artwork but could still hear him. He rates some people I do - like William Wilborforce - but I suspect he doesn't see what really made Bill special. He may be a homo but I'm not sure he's a fag. If he'd had a life before politics he may have been useful (as far a lefty can be). I can't believe I'm going soft on a lefty and a gay one at that so I hope he disappoints. You only have to walk around Upper Hutt during the day to see why it votes Labour.
"The Helengnomes are humorless, talentless generalists, privileged and lacking in life experience party hacks to the outside world. And that's before they even got selected in safe seats or in on the favored positions on the list."
Couldn't agree more.
I'm surprised nobody else has picked up on the fact that super-popular national only managed a majority on one. Something truly rotten about the voting system for that to happen.
I look forward to seeing Jacinda get a promotion to the labour front bench, and prove her worth there. Yet, even when she does, I doubt you will give her any credit for it - due to your heinous and disgusting bias.
CK its pretty clear to me that until you come home and show these self serving act idiots how to create a party nothing will happen.
TransTasman think she did pretty good - "This year Ardern confirmed her place as one of Labour’s bright hopes. In command of her portfolios and probably got more air time than most of her more senior and experienced colleagues. A bright speaker was formidable on the hustings. Goff and King recognised her talent and wisely pushed her forward. Couldn’t
quite make it in Auckland Central."
Not just a pretty face.
"Shearer's deputy is Grant Robertson '...a former political adviser to Helen Clark (and a) political insider and strategist', who has on his desk '...a photo of him and Alf Kaiwai, his partner of 12 years'. (quotes from NZ Herald 15/12/11).
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Unless Alf is a girl, all I can say is: so much for "change".
7.29pm - you would be the same fool who said I would be eating my words when Ardern won after specials then? Yeah thought so. She gets promoted to the front bench for one reason and one reason alone - there isn't any other females to choose from that haven't already been tried.
Err you mean, not even a pretty face.
I look forward to her surprising you all :)
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