The Laboured Party
is about to implode again. It looks like after this weekend the Shearer will
have been shorn of his leadership and the party’s search will continue anew for
the Golden Fleece.
I feel the ovine
analogy is appropriate given the brainless ‘follow-the-leader” down the road of
already failed policies behaviour of the current incumbents.
While I feel the
Natzis will struggle to hold on for a third term, I think it is important for
the opposition parties that the Laboured ones raise the level of their game and
also their leadership. Party leaders need to have some ‘nads’. They need to be in
control and appear to be so. They need to be able to deliver a crushing blow to
the other side in the house on a regular basis without sacrificing credibility
to do so.
The Shearer is a
career diplomat; a man whose job is to keep everyone sweet and not rock the
boat too much. His training is all about finding ‘nice’ and ‘non-confrontational’
ways to put his point across or to challenge those being made by others. I have
always believed this method to be ineffective when applied to things that
REALLY matter. As the old saying goes; You
have to stand for something or you will fall for everything. Although
perhaps in this case it might be Leaders
have to stand for something or they will soon fall from favour.
I always felt
the Shearer was the wrong sheep (er man) for the job and all the more so when
facing that smarmy little twat that goes by the title of Prime Minister. Jianqi
is such a superficial little gnome that it needs a REAL person to counter him.
Unfortunately the Shearer is cut from the same bolt of superficiality as Jianqi
with the only difference being that he is probably a somewhat nicer fellow.
What is needed
is somebody who is bright, quick, and when it comes to showing that the bright
new future is really just a nasty little laser that will burn your eyes out.
For that reason the Shearer must be shorn at the very least and probably sent
to the works. Under his leadership the Laboured profile has not been that
sharp. Instead of being the lead opposition party as they should have been
given they had the second highest number of seats, we have seen them reduced to
third rank at best. Russel Norman is the opposition party leader who has most
looked like a leader. He has been leading the charge ever since the election in
no minor way. Laboured have looked like also-rans when you compare their
performance with that of the Greens and New Zealand First, neither of whom have
allowed the Natzis any wriggle room.
So what will the
Laboured supporters do this weekend? Anybody’s guess, really as that party,
like the Natzis is controlled by other interests (different to those of the
Natzis – but vested interests nonetheless). The rank and file (or the smelly
and abrasive if you like) are liable to do as they are told by the all-knowing
all seeing ones and will shuffle into whichever pen their shepherds drive them
into, but hopefully they will eventually elect somebody who can actually do the
job that needs to be done.
For my money
they should choose current deputy leader Grant Robertson. In fact they should
have anointed him in the first place instead of messing about with the
so-called Shearer experiment. That was merely an attempt to do what the Natzis
did when they elevated Jianqi to the throne with indecent haste in order to
have a smiling baby-kisser up-front who won’t scare off the voters by being
coarse or outspoken.
Well bollocks to
that. If they want to win the next election (with considerable help from the
other oppos) they need a guy like Robertson who isn’t afraid to upset people to
get an important job done. Hopefully for the sake of both Laboured and the
other opposition parties they will see sense and elevate the only one they
appear to have who could do the job.
But then this is
politics in which it has been said a week is a long time. I think I have just
fully comprehended that saying now. I think it means no bugger (especially
among the voters) remembers anything a week hence!
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