"I think Phil Goff needs to assess his own performance here," Mr Key told reporters in Auckland. "He is, from what I can see, half wallowing around in the gutter here.
"From my point of view, I have got a country to run. I have acted fairly and swiftly when it came to Richard Worth and I have acted when I have had firm information."
We agree wholeheartedly with the PM. Phil Goff needs to assess his own performance before the BBQ Brigade does that for him. And after all, food-based plotting is not unknown in the Labour Party - remember these guys?
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I think it might be Curry Munchies,girls in red saris. when Phil hosts his soiree.
Each of these "plotters" took Labour where they didn't want to be.
Each tried to move Labour to an arguably brighter future for all New Zealanders.
Each of them was a thinker, whose later utterances have been at odds with Labour dogma.
As each grew, so they gravitated towards a view of the world that is inconsistent with their old party's agenda.
Commonsense has driven a wedge between them and the common man.
Whilst Labour has largely deserted its "working man" roots, it has not be for the more enlightened solutions that these four (three these days) embrace.
Instead Labour has gone down the path of society manipulation based on envy, sexual predilection, patronage, and robbing Peter so that they can secure Paul's vote.
Goff comes across as neither a thinker, nor a traditional Labour man. He seems ill-fitted for the current rainbow, victim-industry, welfare driven economy party either. Realistically he has no appeal to anyone, although as Minister of Foreign Affairs he was credible enough before being shafted for the Peters charade.
His role is necessarily a caretaker one, thrust upon him in the wake of the electoral reality of rats leaving the sinking ship, whilst the politically ambitious have yet to show their hand, none with any credentials or loyal lieutenants who might pave the way for them.
Maybe the Mt Albert by-election will demonstrate that Labour's street fighters are more than a match for National's Board-driven PR team, regardless of whom Labour has as their Parliamentary leader.
So no immediate need for Goff to go, despite his ineptitude over the Worth shenanigans.
kurt
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