Fran O'Sullivan provides this salutory warning to David Shearer and his Labour Party:
At NetHui he said New Zealand needed to be bold. The next government had to be reformist and prepared to make the big progressive changes needed to rebuild the economy. He warned that if this did not happen, New Zealand stood a fairly good chance of becoming a 21st century peasant economy. Problem is he could not fill in the detail.Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce wasn't much better. Neither man had the complete package.But in Shearer's case he faces competition for the political space.His real enemy is not Key, or even Joyce, but Green co-leader Russel Norman.Where Shearer and Joyce were boring and unconvincing, Norman was focused and succinct. While Labour vacillates and wastes its firepower on unfocused oppositional and short-sighted politics, the Greens are carving out a cogent message.No one is in any danger of not knowing what they stand for. Shearer take note.
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"The public may simply decide that the Labour Party has outlived its usefulness."
Really? I don't think that's much of a risk when you see which way the polls are trending. The Nats are in real danger of having the whole thing fall over though. They'll have to make sure that Joyce's mates have enriched themselves sufficiently by 2014. At least then the Nats will have achieved something for their core constituency.
Come back on Monday Judge; you're still in the sin-bin!
2014 is 2 long years away - plenty of time for Labour to implode completely.
It matters not how focussed Norman may or may not be: His message is demonstrably untrue!
Cadwallader
Can you nit take a hint Judge? You can have another week to think about things; see you on the 23rd.
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