A King/Mallard leadership?
August 9th, 2011 at 10:00 am by David FarrarDanyl McL at Dim-Post quotes IrishBill from The Standard:
I’ve heard rumours that there will be a Mallard/King deputy/leader ticket bid shortly after the election. If that’s true then god help the Labour party.
Danyl comments:
See, I have this optimistic view of the medium-term future, in which Labour is defeated in November, there’s a leadership coup and a new post-Clark leader, and the majority of their front bench announces their collective retirement to make way for the next generation of MPs, and that this rejuvenated party is voted into power in 2014.
But there’s an equally plausible alternative in which Labour spends the next ten to twelve years shuffling different combinations of Clark-era former Ministers around in various leadership teams (‘Mallard-King didn’t work? Let’s try Mallard-Street! No? Then how about Dyson-Cosgrove!’) while National sleep-walks through one election after another, campaigning on and then implementing a steadily more right-wing policy agenda.
It could only get better if they bring Benson-Pope back out of retirement!
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August 9th, 2011 at 10:05 am
No, no. Mallard would be a great leader so long as they can find the correct deputy. Just take a little time to get it right and Labour will be unbeatable.
Please.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 10:09 am
Please , the shrieking king and the agro duck.
Prefer Goff over both of these clowns.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 10:11 am
It’ll be a bit of a problem for Labour after the election. Goff is obviously mortally wounded, but will they persist with him till a fresher face emerges (Little, Cunliffe) with broad support? It’s hard to see them switching from Goff soon after the election to a team of the old hands. Wishful thinking from Danyl, in the same category as speculation that John Key will stand down sometime next term.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 10:13 am
IMO Helen Clark will return to NZ to regain Labour’s leadership in time for the 2014 election.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 10:27 am
One would think his little piece is a thing called “satire”.
But maybe not.
Goff may be a liar, have a bad memory, brought Labour down in the polls to where they deserve to be and have brown hair but at least he is a little bit likeable even if he sometimes walks like he’s been screwing a horse all night.
Mallard is nothing more than a piece of shit in the public eye (who paid for him to come to Auckland last weekend?) and although King maybe liked she ain’t to us common folk.
Cunnilife has slity eyes and can’t be trusted and Little Andrew will drag them so far to the left they will fall off the edge of the world.
Arden has been touted but I think the neighs will have it for now.
Lets face it, there is no leader in the Labour Party.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 10:32 am
peterwn –
You don’t really think Clark will leave her golden tax free nest egg to return to New Zealand, perhaps only to buy an 8th house or more. BanKee has just been apponited again for his next 4 year term so Clark and co (Labour NY Head Office) will have to wait another term. Her appointment comes for review next year. Perhaps somebody else will covet her job with more influence within the corrupt UN.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 11:00 am
I for one support the lying thug for leadership of labour.
Yes, I really do despise chardonay socialists that much.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 11:06 am
…. and the new song for the Labour Party will then become “Send in the clowns”
The most appropriate version would be this one by Krusty from ‘The Simpsons’
Vote:
August 9th, 2011 at 11:39 am
Well at least he would be able to whip them back into line.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Oh, so that’s why Phil Goff has been in charge for so long, to try and make these two look competent!
Who’s in charge of this, the adidas marketing department?
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Oh come on you’re pulling our tits. Be like having the inmates running a criminal asylum.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
What do you mean “like”?
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Sorry Murray, quite true.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
I would like to see Annette King as leader. She is completely invisible as deputy, what would she be like as leader? It could be quite entertaining. I see on Facebook she has 21 people who admit to liking her.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
It’s a damning indictment of the mental health system Hollyfield.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Of course no Labour supporter would need to have such nightmares if s/he and his / her fellows had democratic control over the party’s preselections. Simply ditch the Clark-era Klingons and promote some new talent.
But MMP allows the elite within parties to protect and promote one another at the expense of new blood and new ideas. Of all its failings that is surely the worst… it bequeaths us a moribund and uninspiring line up, recycling things that haven’t worked before in the insane expectation they’ll work this time, if only… something.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
bloody hell, helen clark is in town (tauranga).
Maybe she has a hand in this.
uggg!!
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
“Arden has been touted but I think the neighs will have it for now”
What are you sayin? Jacinda looks like a horse?
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
……..he sometimes walks like he’s been screwing a horse all night.
Looks to me more like he’s been screwed BY a horse!!!
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
I am in favour of a Labour Party lead by a Mallard/King ticket
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Stop trying to cause trouble starboard.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
..just sayin Michaels..twas not I who said ” neigh”
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
surely I meant it as in “no”
Vote:you know….. the “neighs” have it
August 9th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Yes I know, but I just couldnt help myself…nay..neigh..carrot..arden..
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
how rude.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Shane Jones for PM
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
I voting for a Mallard – King leadership.
Vote:Probably will lead to a four term national government.
August 9th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Lord Burns for leader. Neigh Neigh for Deputy. that will ensure many terms for National.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Helen Clark is back in town (on a quiet visit to Mum & Dad at Waihi beach) & will not be doing interviews…could this be why Paddy Gower got thrown out of a labour meeting today????
Is the BBQ being fired as we speak.
Is roasted Goff on the menu?
Are we about to be served peeking duck with a side of king prawns?
Oooh the tension is delicious.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Puleeeeze make my day. Those old volcanoes from the 1980s are really finding it hard to move on. Annette King should put on her leathers go on a loooong motor bike holiday with her husband after the election and then go gently into the good night.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
Well see her husband in now selling his brand of aged care to the Chinese. Maybe she will go with him.
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
If Labour continue the way they are going Trev won’t be there as an MP unless he gets a list place.
Vote:even the Wainui people won’t put up with much more of his incompetent behavoir.
Johnboy is already getting the KFC dept. ready to drive them to the tory polling booths.. 8)
August 9th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
How can anyone lead Labour when they don’t know what they stand for?
Vote:August 9th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
For old Trev to be upset in Hutt South there would need to be somebody standing against him.
Vote:August 10th, 2011 at 7:41 am
Helen Clark is back in town….. So that’s what caused the icy blast to sweep up the country. Quick.. Lock up your children and hang garlic around your neck.
Vote:August 10th, 2011 at 8:02 am
kk
Vote:You have summed it up in a nutshell. They have no idea where they are going and therefore have no ideal how to get there. Solution — pick a leader who goes in all directions, usually at the same time.