David Shearer was a good guy – but like so many other leftie pollies he ain’t got the mongrel that Nat leaders have. Look at Key – that fucktard is all dog.
Inspirational Labour leaders like Norm Kirk, and to a lesser extent David Lange, worked the magic for a short time, but sure enough they were betrayed by their mates once power was obtained.
Phil Goff was no better than Bill Rowling when it came to media grunt, although Rowling was not a featherweight bullshit artist like Goff.
Rowling was “pro choice” in a time when everyone else was “no choice” when it came to abortion. This is probably his legacy and which legacy came from his time seeing teenage school girls having their lives wrecked by having to have unplanned pregnancies go to term.
Now we turn to Robert Muldoon – a man that did a lot of great things for his people but stopped short of being able to defeat the 1984 Labour Government that destroyed the lives of its supporters with up to 26% interest rates on home mortgages.
Helen Clarke and David Lange won elections for Labour but importantly in different times. Lange did it when it was first past the post, and Clarke did it under MMP.
Labour with Lange came to power when New Zealand had had enough of Muldoon’s domineering style and when Bob Jones, a narcissist selfish fucktard property developer, decided to start a party to split the vote. The result was the disaster of the David Lange Government. Of course Lange cannot be blamed for what occurred as the blame lies with the likes of lightweight lawyer and previous “replacement Prime Minister” Geoffrey “drunkcunt” Palmer – a complete scumbag, reprobate and liar.
Helen Clarke, the first lesbian Prime Minister of New Zealand and that’s about her claim to fame – except she lied about it.
Now LF turns to the main contenders for replacing David Shearer.
Other possible contenders are few and far between, but there are numerous Labour MPs that have as little talent as Robertson and Cunliffe.
David Cunliffe is well – yet another New Zealand useless cunt – a man that has become a Labour politician because he could not become a National Politician. New Zealand should watch out for this prick as LF sees another Roger Douglas.
Supposedly the other contender is Grant Robertson – fucking who? – we say.
To show how fucked up New Zealand media is we quote the following from the New Zealand Listener;
“The Wellington Central MP is famous on Lambton Quay and stretches of Willis St. In Auckland, those who have heard of him occasionally edit his name to Robinson, the way people added an “s” to Key until he was well into the premiership. So, no, Labour’s new deputy leader isn’t the next big thing yet. But he could be the next Deputy Prime Minister and he could even be, one day, our first gay Prime Minister.”
Your first gay Prime Minister – what about fucking Clark?. Oh that’s right she lied about her sexuality by hiding in a sham marriage with a gay man in order that her political career would not be smashed – dumb bitch.
Other possible contenders are few and far between, but there are numerous Labour MPs that have as little talent as Robertson and Cunliffe.
Ex Union boss Andrew Little is one such bloke, but in our opinion he is more adequate Minister material as he does not appear to seek the limelight like particularly Cunliffe does.
Another subliminal contender and yet another gay bloke is Clayton Cosgrove who holds the safe labour seat previously held by Mike Moore. Cosgrove even looks like Mike;
Some say Shane Jones could be in the mix as a Deputy if he does not decide to make a run to hold the office when the Labour Party is decimated at the Polls by the Greens;
Then theres good old Tevor Mallard – complete old school Labour tosser. Been in parliament due to a safe Labour seat. A person that is definitely not a contender but whom will have the knives out to kill the hopes of anyone that does not like him – which is most of the house.
So there you have it. LF’s opinion on who’s who, and the fact that Labour is for a rough ride now that David Shearer was pushed by the threat of another leadership challenge.
The truth of the matter is that the Green Party has more brains, more integrity, and more ideas that the Labour party. Now that Labour is more middle than left, what difference is there to National?.
Whoever wins the leadership better get their act together really quickly, and who that person appoints as spokespersons in important roles will be crucial as to whether Labour comes second to the Greens.
With MMP it would appear that New Zealanders are beginning to understand that they can elect the persons they want from any party to form a coalition. What faces Labour is whether they will get their share of the vote to be the senior party in any coalition should National not obtain a clear majority, or not be in a position to govern with the votes of say friendly parties such as possibly New Zealand First.
It is very clear that the Greens will pick up a much bigger protest vote than ever before mainly because the voters are tired of free loading Labour politicians that win seats in safe areas.
The Greens get elected on passing the 5% threshold and it appears that they are not a personality driven party, but have finally got some leadership from across the Tasman that may see the party become safe for the foreseeable future.
Given the trend in Europe and indeed all over the first world LF cannot see how the Green Party wont be more and more attractive as a viable alternative as long as they understand that New Zealand is a basically poor country and that change will have financial challenges that need to be balanced.
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