Playing Politics
David Shearer gave an awfully boring and poorly delivered speech in Parliament today. He showed that he didn't just need Brian Edwards but he also needed a crack committee assisting of Judy Callingham, Bill Ralston, Janet Wilson, Michelle Boag, Matthew Hooton, Sean Plunket, Greg Ward, Mark Unsworth, Barrie Saunders, Roger Sowry and Deborah Pead.
John Key then slowly got up and destroyed him.
In a performance that showed confidence, style, humour and wit, Key was showing that not only he was the Master of Ceremonies, he was Langesque in delivery, timing and draw.
Straight away the Labour Party spin machine was on high.
They had no choice than to forget Key had already outlined his government's direction, ideas and mandate. They focused on the tagline that Key was being mean to Shearer and this was unfair. Words of the pathetic playing for the sympathy vote. Key, a politician, was apparently politicking instead of discussing the important issues of the day. Forgetting he already had in his lengthy speech humiliated David Shearer and Labour's campaign in the process.
And how did Labour MP's communicate in unison their disgust in John Key demoralising David Shearer with this alleged "abuse"?
Their boo boys and girls all jumped on twitter and started abusing John Key.
Pot Kettle Red?
David Shearer is just tits in the House. The House is now dominated by John Key, Steven Joyce, Winston Peters and Trevor Mallard with cameo's from John Banks, Gerry Brownlee with David Cunliffe to follow when he is allowed off the leash.
Continue with today's form and it will be three loooooong years for the Shearer.
Even a Backbench MP in Alfred Ngaro outshone Shearer today.
John Key then slowly got up and destroyed him.
In a performance that showed confidence, style, humour and wit, Key was showing that not only he was the Master of Ceremonies, he was Langesque in delivery, timing and draw.
Straight away the Labour Party spin machine was on high.
They had no choice than to forget Key had already outlined his government's direction, ideas and mandate. They focused on the tagline that Key was being mean to Shearer and this was unfair. Words of the pathetic playing for the sympathy vote. Key, a politician, was apparently politicking instead of discussing the important issues of the day. Forgetting he already had in his lengthy speech humiliated David Shearer and Labour's campaign in the process.
And how did Labour MP's communicate in unison their disgust in John Key demoralising David Shearer with this alleged "abuse"?
Their boo boys and girls all jumped on twitter and started abusing John Key.
Pot Kettle Red?
David Shearer is just tits in the House. The House is now dominated by John Key, Steven Joyce, Winston Peters and Trevor Mallard with cameo's from John Banks, Gerry Brownlee with David Cunliffe to follow when he is allowed off the leash.
Continue with today's form and it will be three loooooong years for the Shearer.
Even a Backbench MP in Alfred Ngaro outshone Shearer today.
posted by Cactus Kate at 3:47 AM
6 Comments:
Alfred Ngaro was very impressive - I had never heard of him before today, but I think he won a lot of new fans.
John Key (especially listing which labour MP didn't like each other) slaughtered Shearer. I am Team Shearer, but it doesn't take a genius to see that Key wiped the floor with him in that instance. Shearer has a busy summer to get some training hopefully.
Even my troll thinks Shearer sucks.
Oh dear.
New to the terminology but I am assuming troll isn't a compliment. What does it mean in this blogging world?
I don't think he sucks, I think his public speaking skills could do with an improvement.
Troll =
@pain in your neck -
Here you go - the definition of "troll" -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
Anyway, back to the speeches. I watched all of Key's speech, and he was *great*. Lots of humour and lots of jabs at the Opposition.
I watched 2 minutes of Shearer's speech. I couldn't bear to watch any more. Even the "new boy" Ngaro outshone him.
However - I am hoping that Labour stick with Shearer for the next election. I think that would be in the best interests of the Nats.
If Labour dumped Shearer and picked (say) Cunliffe, he would be a bit harder to counteract. The good news is that there seems to be a fair bit of public dislike of Cunners.
So what are the chances of Labour knifing Shearer halfway through this term? Then again, they didn't knife Goof when it was apparent he was hopeless in that job.
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