Labour definitely couldn’t afford to poll any lower – without risking key senior MPs. So the departure of Andrew Little probably couldn’t damage the party any more than if he were to stay. Even though it’s extraordinary (but not unprecedented) for a leader to resign so close to an election, desperate times call for desperate measures.
The lies and fear mongering that the right wing are trying to spin right now as the enormity of public support rushing towards Jacinda builds with astonishing speed is becoming ridiculous now.
LABOUR CAN NOW WIN the 2017 General Election. Thanks to Andrew Little’s noble self-sacrifice and Jacinda Ardern’s spectacular political talent, the fortunes of the centre-left have undergone a sudden and dramatic transformation. Victory is not, however, certain. As always in electoral politics, there are a number of important “ifs” that must be factored into any winning equation.
Gutting one of NZs biggest suicide counselling lines at a time of spiking suicide to give the contract to Bill English’s wife isn’t just ‘bad optics’ it’s a lack of perspective that screams arrogance at such a frequency that it shatters the eyeballs in their sockets.
…if it’s a rockstar economy, it’s an acoustic performance on invisible guitars.
The Media’s current ‘what if Jacinda is PM & gets pregnant’ is only a step away from ‘What happens if she has a period while PM’. Is this the fucking 21st Century or not? How can those questions lead the debate? Seeing as Bill English is an anti-abortion radical right catholic who has 6 kids, shouldn’t media be asking if he’s breeding next?
The moment Paula Bennett found out Jacinda was leader
People on Facebook have asked me to give them a really easy run down of the policies of the main parties, so here they are –
That exact ‘forced to drink a cup of cold sick’ moment when Matthew Hooton realises he’s wrong about Jacinda Ardern
Greenpeace is bringing construction of an enormous irrigation scheme to a halt this morning. Environmental activists have stopped the laying…
