“Shearer has to ask someone what he should do next.”

That is why Robertson selected him. And Shearer asks Trevor and Annette and Phil. The Old World, the ones who lost 2011.

He does not ask Jacinda, Andrew or Parker. He bullies them. Shearer, frustrated by his lack of knowledge of the organisation’s complexity and history has taken to shouting and threatening. Thus compliant MPs are beginning to see Grant Robertson as the nice guy!!!!!!

I saw Cunliffe coming through Auckland Airport last night and he was exhausted. He told someone beside him that it was the hardest day of his life and that he is over it. Cunliffe will be back at Boston Consuting in no time. He will make three times what Parliament pays.

He has young kids. Why fly to Wellington every to be insulted by a r*nt like Hipkins?

Everyone voted for David Shearer, yesterday. They would of been to scared to not vote for him, in case he sacked them. How is that a democracy.

Remember you are dealing with the species homopolitician, a bred not known for having anything resembling a spine, a species particuarly adept at realising that they depend on a gravey train. A species able to breath and survive while having there mouth and nose planted firmly up someone elses arse, where even the males of the species have nothing resembling a pair of nuts. Scum- first foremost and last.

There is not one person in that labour rabble excepting O’Connor who remotely appears as likeable, they just look like and appear to be fucking horrible human beings

‘If Shearer hadn’t acted, they would be running the same story, basically.’

I get that impression as well, something along the lines of striking while the iron is hot.

The editorials and many of the commentators such as Brian Edwards and co are just p….d off because they got it horribly wrong with their “predictions” and have been shown up as not being in the know as much as they would like to think are.

If a vote is triggered in February, then I’d say it would be Cunliffe vs Robertson.

Hence why Cunliffe’s supporters are laying it on so thick that the anti-democratic behaviour by Camp Shearer has been driven by Mallard, Robertson, Goff and King. They want the the 60% of the weighted vote outside of caucus thinking that Robertson has been trying to subvert the democratic shift that party members voted for on the weekend.

I think it loves the narrative of ‘nice’ Shearer and ‘machiavellian’ Cunliffe, and nothing either of them do will dislodge that view.

If Shearer hadn’t acted, they would be running the same story, basically.

Can you imagine John Key prostrating himself like this?
Not in a thousand years. He sees them off quickly and cleanly.

History could well judge him as one of the best PMs that Labour never had much like Jim McClay for the Nats.

Meanwhile it’s full steam ahead as Cunliffe and his little helpers head off down the branch line going left leving middle New Zeland with only one choice and wondering who the hell dreamed up that clusterfuck of a housing policy …

OK but Cunliffe also knows they have to be paid for. Which means for his personal ambition he’s promising things he knows will damage the country. What a Silent-T.

According to Hootten on RadioNZ Monday Politics, Cunliffe’s has had that nickname all his life, not just when he entered politics. I wonder if that will ever be a question in the Stuff politics quiz? Let’s hope so.