Who will be Labour leader for the election? Interesting question. They'll have to sort it out soon.
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Agree, but than - we live in a post decent society. Remember - Trump did win because he avoided any decent behaviour and his supporters just love to hear his "locker room talk".
I hope that NZ is better than this - but not so sure anymore. Maybe Jackson is exactly what the Left needs to win.
Looks like Andrew Little could be in trouble..... (Excerpt taken from Kiwiblog)
"I’ve been involved in politics for around 30 years and I can’t recall ever before an MP hiring a public relations firm to help them promote a statement attacking a decision personally made by their party leader.
If Little lets this pass without sanction, then his leadership is even weaker than we thought. Any other leader in any other party would sack or suspend an MP who hired a PR firm to attack the party leader.
I mean think about that. An MP hired a PR firm to put out a press release attacking a star candidate hand picked by their own leader. And they think they can run the country.
The trouble is Little does not have the support of his caucus. He got monstered in the caucus room on Tuesday and has had to back away from the promised high list place for Willie Jackson. He has managed to alienate the Maori wing, the youth wing, the Rainbow wing, the parliamentary wing and the women’s wing of Labour in one go. And you know what, there isn’t much of Labour not in one of those wings."
But according to eZ that's how Labour likes to run things.
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'That's not huge infighting, that's normal for Labour. They like to discuss stuff openly and argue their points of view. In the end they'll come up with the right decision, whether Jackson is a good fit for Labour, or not. At least he has the message already, he'd better watch himself and the way he behaves, if he gets high up the list, where everyone else wants to be.'
I am not a labour supporter but they could improve a lot by moving Stuart Nash into the top job. He has been considered more than once but loses out to the other contenders who scrabble around under the table snatching up the crumbs.
It's not perfect, but it's real. Apparently John Tamihere did all the talking in that radio interview, and they said at the start they would play devils' advocate, so looking at the work Willy Jackson has been doing elsewhere in the community, he looks to be a decent human being. Some politicians do seem to be very precious about their list options though.
At this stage, I don't think any Labour MPs have said anything that is rude or even incorrect, and they haven't quit their posts like John Key did, they are having a robust discussion, and all of that could have been done in caucus. Taxpayer money has not been squandered, no assets have been sold, no state house tenants have been bundled onto the streets.
The Labour leader is also secure, to the consternation of Craic and FP, who would like to see another changeover, just for the hell of it.