We all owe Andrew our gratitude to give a fresh Leader the opportunity to step up, and what a magnificent job of stepping up did Jacindaachieve in her first press conference? Her mana shone through and she has given so many New Zealanders a new hope that Labour will win this election.
This extraordinary revelation actually highlights every fear we as activists have claimed could occur. This means everything the GCSB is spying on is completely open to the NSA to access as well.
Bill English has attempted to hide his involvement, hide his knowledge of what he knew, and hide when he knew it throughout this Barclay fiasco.
My conclusion 2 months out is that everything has changed for this election. Jacinda’s performance today was super nova, the Greens have won their mojo and for the first time in a very long time I am genuinely hopeful we could see something unique here, not just an accidental win or a calculated math trick – we could have a progressive political vision sold with passion.
Look, folks, I don’t want to sound critical – lordy no not I, but isn’t the obviousness of what’s behind dumping the Decile system really, really, really scary and could lead to such extreme surveillance of the individual that the Decile system is preferable because it won’t damage the vulnerable kids it’s aimed at?
What’s that weird, totally unfamiliar feeling I’m feeling watching Jacinda Ardern take over Labour?
Hope.
Jacinda is a product of her generation, and because most of the pundits are older than her, they judge her by their own generations combativeness and cynicism.
Which is why they don’t get her.
The abysmal polling of Labour at the weekend, barely clearing 26% of the vote, followed today by the resignation of Andrew Little as leader, shows a party in terminal decline.
Thanks, Andrew. This will be a bitter disappointment; however you did what needed to be done. You gave Labour a fighting chance of leading the country again. Now it’s up to others to deliver the knockout blow. Not just the new leadership team, but all party members, all activists, all Kiwis who want a better way.
Matthew Hooton and Patrick Gower have had their pay day with destabilising the leader of Labour once again and Andrew Little has stepped down.