We note that the parliamentary Labour Party has unsurprisingly confirmed Phil Goff and Annette King as leader and deputy respectively. Phil Goff will celebrate his re-election by feeding his caucus at his Clevedon farmlet, some distance from his Mt Roskill electorate. He has resisted the urge to BBQ; sheep on a spit is the fare.
Doubtless this will be trumpeted as a new dawn for Labour etc etc etc. Phil Goff and Annette King were last year celebrated as the "new face" of the Labour Party. The reality is, of course that they're anything but. When the House resumes on 9 February, Phil and Annette will be each commencing their FOURTH DECADE in Parliament. That's right; each was elected in the 1980's, and each has served in each of the following decades. They're joined of course by Trevor Mallard.
They are not alone. Jim Anderton and Peter Dunne are of similar vintage, as are Lockwood Smith and John Carter. We mention that fact so as not to be accused of selective reporting!
So let's forget this tosh about "new beginnings" or a "bright new dawn" for Labour. The Labour Party is led by refugees from Rogernomics - and isn't that just SO 1980's??!!
5 comments:
You gotta admit, Phil is a good looking man, a very nice face. He actually very genuine, it's the lefties of his party that let him down.
Helena.
Phil has been a good journeyman MP. He was a very good Minister of Foreign Affairs and Overseas Trade, until MMP dumped Winston Peters onto his portfolio.
Phil is an ordinary likeable bloke.
However this is our country's destiny we are talking about, and this raggle-taggle lot of socialists has all the appeal of dysentery on a cruise liner.
i see there is nothing about this at Red Alert.
Intolerent Trev must be a bit pissed off with this. Of course Jones and Cunliffe won't be happy either - when will the knives be fully drawn from their sheaths.
4 decades in parliament and you get a (small) farm.
Indeed you do Alex - a small farm, some distance from the electorate you purport to represent.
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