"I'm the leader of the Labour Party, I'll be taking the Labour Party into the next election. You all know that. It's about time people stop flogging that dead horse and just accept the fact."
Not the most well chosen words in the world at the moment, we would have thought. We just hope that Phil wasn't referring to either of these ones...
Oh, hang on; they're donkeys! Phew....
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This post is something completely different from you Inv2. It's not the same old trite and predictable attack on Phil Goff we've come to expect from you. You haven't made some spurious link to something someone said somewhere about Phil Goff and blown it up to look like news. It's not a rehash of someone else's story or a mockable image or a focus on the minutiae of something Phil Goff said somewhere, at some time. Nope, this is fresh and quite franky, excellent blogging!
I take my hat off to you Inv2 - top stuff!
Careful Robert, there is no hat.
But the verification word is slain !
Donkeys? the one braying in the middle is an ass.
Oh Robert; you take yourself (and Phil Goff) too seriously. Surely even a died-on-the-wool leftie like you can see the irony in Goff going on about people flogging a dead horse when what he is doing at the momemt is flogging a dead....oh, forget it; I don't think you do irony either!
Brian Edwards has a wee think...
Is John Key such an inspirational leader that he deserves to enjoy the support of 57% of New Zealand voters? Is Phil Goff such a hopeless leader that he deserves the support of only 8% of New Zealand voters? Has the National Party’s record in office been so impressive that it deserves to enjoy the support of 56% of New Zealand voters, including one might surmise, a significant number of Labour defectors? And has the Labour opposition been so feeble that it deserves the support of only 30% of New Zealand voters?
Well, if the polls are right – and there is no great difference between one and another – then the answer to all of these questions would seem to be Yes. But are they right? The extremity of their findings – the adulation of John Key and the seeming invisibility of Phil Goff; National having twice as much support as Labour – seems curious, given the parlous state of the economy, the high level of unemployment and the near-Third-World conditions in which so many of our citizens, both adults and children, are currently living.
"Near-Third-World conditions"; do you really believe that Robert, or might the good Dr Edwards be indulging in some of the hyperbole you've accused me of in the past?
"But are they right? The extremity of their findings – the adulation of John Key and the seeming invisibility of Phil Goff; National having twice as much support as Labour – seems curious"
This bit, Inv2, is the essence of what Edwards is saying. What do you think about that?
Hey Inv2 - isn't Whaleoilbeefhooked's post on the horse Phil Goff had as a boy funny! That's real right-wing humour right there, especially the bit about the horse being dead! OMG! What a very, very amusing guy that 'Cam' is!
You'll be doing a mirror-post on Goff's dead horse Inv2??
No, I'm not Robert, although it should be noted that the photograph was supplied to the Herald by either Goff or his family for its two-week puff piece.
But tomorrow morning I might well comment on Patrick Gower's latest piece from the 3News website, which, if 3News is reporting it, suggests that it's newsworthy, and not just a beat-up by a partisan blogger.
"which, if 3News is reporting it, suggests that it's newsworthy"
Ha ha ha!
Yes Inv2 - that's the measure of newsworthy-ness these days, sadly.
I suppose it's more of your favourite expose of 'who's plotting against Goff' kind of rubbish.
You may not like the speculation around your potential coalition partner's leadership Robert, but it IS an issue because someone from within Labour's caucus is telling tales out of school. If there's disloyalty of that kind, then naturally the media is going to report it. Goff doesn't help with ill-considered remarks like "flogging a dead horse". Nor does the homophobic campaign manager (remember the "Tinkerbell" jibe that Kevin Hague took exception to?) help when he says things like “I haven't been camp for a long time darling,”.
Labour is in disarray, less than three months out from the election. You might not want to talk about it, but others do.
BTW: In what I've written above, you'll find the answer to your question about Brian Edwards' remarks; who would want to vote for a dysfunctional Labour Party?
Boring.
What would you do, Inv2, if a left wing blogger posted a story with a photo of John Key's childhood pet, reveling in its death and the opportunity provided for making puns and demeaning the PM?
No comment Inv2?
Inv2?
Inv2?
@9:18 Inv2?
Your comment?
Been out Robert; no comment. I have no control over what other bloggers say or do.
I'm not asking you to control what other bloggers say or do Inv2 but you link to and quote from Slater's blog regularly. What is it about that post that leaves you unable to comment?
You're hiding something or covering up for him.
You know what my 9:1 question asks.
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