"Now why would you do that?" we can hear you say. Here's why; we've just read this on the Herald's website:
Labour could work with New Zealand First if it needed the numbers to form a government, leader Phil Goff says.
Recently, Prime Minister John Key wouldn't rule out working with NZ First - which failed to win a seat in Parliament at the 2008 election - but said it was a decision for closer to the election.
Speaking on TV3 political show The Nation this morning, Mr Goff said Labour had worked with New Zealand First leader Winston Peters in the past and could again. Mr Peters was Foreign Minister in the last years of the Helen Clark-led government.
"I think if you've got an MMP Parliament and you need to get a majority, you've got to consider all options."
Mr Goff said Mr Peters had good support among elderly people.
"I wouldn't rule Winston out...I think if he ramps up his campaign there's every chance he'll be back in Parliament."
Now the reason we're being so helpful towards The Standard's many and varied correspondents is because they may have gone into hiding, or they may not want to believe what we've just posted above. Indeed some might be lying on their beds with their eyes closed tightly, and their fingers in their ears, hoping it will all go away.
But it won't, of course. Phil Goff has today confirmed that it's business as usual, and power at whatever cost. Labour will open its arms to New Zealand First if that is what it takes. We can now officially confirm that a vote for Phil Goff is a vote for Winston Peters, and possibly for Michael Laws and Andrew Williams as well.
That's why we're being so helpful, you see. The Standard probably wouldn't tell you that last bit! Oh; and by the way, has Winston paid back the $158,000 yet?
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Also on the Standard, a commenter named Anne had this to say about the Herald article:
Anne
15 August 2010 at 12:03 pm
"I think this is a smart move on Phil Goff’s part. We constantly hear about Key being an… ordinary bloke who understands us ordinary blokes and blokesses. The absurdity of the line is laughable. When did Key build a shed, chop wood, milk the cows, fix the car, mend the fence, scrub the patio, paint the house, mow the lawns, unblock the drain etc.etc. etc.? My pick is, he’s probably never done any of them except mow a lawn once or twice and that would have been many years ago. Yet we have a Labour leader in Phil Goff who leads by example and clearly has done them all."
Of course Goff has only had the farm in relatively recent times, so John Key has about ten years before needing to boast about such "spare Sunday afternoon" activity.
Anne could usefully supply a list of all the other Labour MPs with such important pastime skills in case they are the yardstick for future Labour leaders.
David
Why bother with The Standard? Currently they seem to want all prisons abolished, and the convicted crims to run free (or more so than they already are) and create chaos here in NZ. They're a strange lot at the Standard, such hand-wringers.
The Standard reminds us that there are people right across the spectrum trying to influence other's views. Without witnessing the extent to which differing opinions are expressed, sensible Governments will sleepwalk to defeat. Reading comments on the Standard shows quite a few people are committed to this stuff, regardless of how absurd it seems to you and me.
David
No what "The Standard" reminds us is that communism in its various forms (Unionism, Labourism, Greenism, terrorism) is still alive and well in NZ.
And second it reminds us that there are no possible arguments, reasoning, debates, discussions that will ever change these "people's" minds.
And third - most important - is that it reminds us that in spite of having a nominally National/ACT government has not rooted communism out of NZ and that is the most urgent job for the government - or for right-thinking Kiwis everywhere. Since this cannot be done by discussion - one way or another, leftists must be removed from the body politic.
@ David - that's one of the funniest things I've read all day! Cheers mate!
@ Anon 20.54 - I'm prepared to admit that my post might have been just a wee, wee bit sarcastic, especially where it alluded to any influence The Standard holds ...
anon (David) that will be the same Anne that frequents Red Alert.
I don't visit the Standard as I have enough trouble at Red Alert - having just been put in moderation for telling the truth about Peters and the $158,000.
Mallard said what I posted was defamatory - yet it was on his post about Bill English claiming allowances which were legit at the time.
Hypocrite Mallard.
A friend of mine was one of the first New Zealanders to trade with China. His opinion was that it was easier to deal with Communists than with Socialists. With Communists he knew exactly where he stood, and what their intentions were in any dealings. With Socialists, they would say things to try and win his confidence before shafting him as per plan.
David
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