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July 9, 2013 1:39pm by David Farrar

Watch the train hit the building at high speed!

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David Shearer
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Colville

Captian Mumblefuck leading the troops to victory!
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July 9, 2013 1:56pm
Manolo

The stuttering, hesitant, inarticulate and unconvincing poor guy is out of his depth.
Some have mercy and ask Captain Mumblefuck to resign.
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July 9, 2013 1:59pm
bhudson

DS: “The fact is we’re a democratic party and we don’t just walk in and shut things down.”

Reporter: “But that’s exactly what you’ve just done”

@ 7:40ish

That is the segment that should air on the news
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July 9, 2013 2:03pm
Shunda barunda

Seriously, the person using the DSLR? turn your focus confirmation beep off!!
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July 9, 2013 2:04pm
Shunda barunda

“High quality women” David, Daaavid, DAAAVVVIID!!, come on mate! 🙂
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July 9, 2013 2:10pm
KiwiGreg

oh so that’s David Shearer
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July 9, 2013 2:19pm
labrator

Man alive. I don’t know what he did in his last job/s but it’s obvious he was never put under any pressure or challenged strongly by anyone. Makes me think all the meetings at the UN must be big hug fest’s.
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July 9, 2013 2:26pm
Andrei

“We should have a Parliament that reflects New Zealand society”

Parliament looks nothing like New Zealand society thank goodness. If New Zealand society looked like that bunch of parasites, most of whom have done nothing real in their useless troughing lives (particularly true of Labour MPs) – we’d all be starving
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July 9, 2013 2:29pm
In Vino Veritas

Quite possibly one of the worst interviews given by a political party leader in NZ for the last 40 years. In fact, its absolutely laughable. Shearer has been set up by Roberston (who was at the original meeting) and hung out to dry.
Shearer also needs to figure that most people don’t actually think that power prices are a major issue. I’m surprised that he didnt mention the exchange rate crisis as well. That’d probably be because its corrected itself by dint of the USA economic numbers getting slightly better, as predicted by most people with half a brain.
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July 9, 2013 2:32pm
Redbaiter

“Parliament looks nothing like New Zealand society thank goodness.”

And neither does that collection of other parasites, the so called journalists surrounding Shearer.

Whereas I have little sympathy for Shearer, I just cannot agree that the citizens interests are addressed by having him account for his ideas and actions by reporting to that clusterfuck of ignorant progressive cretins. Who are they to be asking questions on behalf of the public? Where is their mandate to represent the public? I do not like journalists, I like their politics even less, and I think they are mostly liars and charlatans.

I am not comfortable that these losers assume that they have the standing to question our senior politicians. I do not think most journalists are sufficiently qualified and I do not agree that they represent the public. In most surveys that I have seen, journalists are always far more liberal than the man in the street. How therefore can they ask the questions the man in the street would ask?
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July 9, 2013 2:48pm
Prince

This weeks focus is on Sky City legislation, Solid Energy funding, and Electricity prices. … Let me repeat, our focus is, umm, Power prices, jobs, and umm, affordable houses…
Huh ?
We must keep this guy as Labour leader at all cost. Give him a couple of wins.
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July 9, 2013 3:13pm
Keeping Stock

He doesn’t do too badly for the first 90 seconds or so, whilst he is simply parroting the party line. But once the questions start, Shearer is once again out of his depth, and the slogans etc simply don’t cut it. All the media training in the world isn’t going to sort this weakness out.
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July 9, 2013 3:37pm
BeaB

Talk about digging a hole – and keeping on digging even when the water is up to your ears. What a ninny.
It’s hard even to say he’s a nice guy (damning with faint praise) when he is such a dope.
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July 9, 2013 3:49pm
Auberon

Yeah Prince, wasn’t that classic – he comes out all charged up with his three focus issues and within five minutes he’s forgotten what two of them are and says “we want to focus on affordable housing.” Hey Labour, please let him take you to the next election. PLEASE!!!
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July 9, 2013 3:58pm
Alan Johnstone

If he was a dog, you’d take him round the back and shoot him and call it a mercy.

For a couple of years I thought people were being harsh on him, and he could possibly grow into the job. The anti-politics background was an interesting thing.

I realise I was wrong, he’s beyond redemption and needs to go, he’s not going to come good, what we see now is all that’s there.

The Labour party needs to swallow it’s pride and get in Cunners, at least them we’ll have a meaningful competition and debate next year. What we have now is a farce.

I note in Australia the ALP has reached parity in the polls after taking similar action.
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July 9, 2013 4:07pm
Alan Johnstone

Who’s the lady behind him with the black top and the red thing round her neck ?
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July 9, 2013 4:12pm
Black with a Vengeance

^^^oh that’s Melisandre, the Red Witch, guiding the Lord of Light and willing him not to spontaneously combust…

err yeah…good luck with that!
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July 9, 2013 4:23pm
Alan Johnstone

Shearer isn’t Azor Ahai;

This is known

/EndGameOfThronesReferences.
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July 9, 2013 4:26pm
Black with a Vengeance

What…he doesn’t remind you of Stannis Baratheon ?
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July 9, 2013 4:39pm
bhudson

@Alan,

Assuming your question was genuine, that person looks very much like Andrea Vance.
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July 9, 2013 4:58pm
chuk

Now they’ve got a man ban ban but I hope they do a U turn and ban the man ban ban. That will be much more fun.
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July 9, 2013 5:14pm
tristanb

Related video:
http://youtu.be/YEOczHD1yoY

Sounds most like Shearer at 1:00
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July 9, 2013 5:59pm
hj

National have sorted themselves out: the Houston Chamber of Commerce is the role model.
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July 9, 2013 6:00pm
hj

Shearer needs to say that working people don’t want a lot of hairy legged women running the show. He ought to turn it around and say “well let’s have a show of hands here; what do you people think. Should Labour have 50% women candidates?” [pause] numerous hands rise….
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July 9, 2013 6:13pm
nickb

I listened to a debate between Sue Moroney and David Bennett in the leadup to the 2008 election.

If quotas mean more of narcissistic ignorant political dropkicks like her then god help the Labour Party (and us).
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July 9, 2013 6:35pm
David Garrett

God, I feel for the guy…as perhaps the only commenter here (I may be wrong; some poli may be here hiding behind a pseud) who knows what it is like to be in these bastards’ sights…every single word analysed to death; every phrase dissected for weakness or inconsistency…the poor man just doesn’t have it…it is literally like watching an old bear, with one eye taken out, being baited for the amusement of the crowd…FFS Shearer…pack it in, and regain some fucking autonomy over your own life…
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July 9, 2013 6:39pm
davidp

My question is… Does Labour already select candidates on merit? If they currently do, then why are they going to drop this practice and start selecting less qualified candidates on the basis of gender? If they currently don’t, then why are Labour a bunch of sexist pigs who need the party leader and president to force them to start treating women fairly?

Someone needs to identify those people in the Labour Party who aren’t giving women a fair go. Name them. Shame them. And if they’re MPs, sack them.
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July 9, 2013 7:09pm
big bruv

Who else noticed that the shadow of the evil bitch Clark still hangs over that fucked up political party?

Shearer is too bloody scared to say “I don’t care what Helen Clark thinks about anything, I am the leader”.

The man is a joke, long may he lead the Labour party.
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July 9, 2013 7:10pm
Pete George

@davidp: “My question is… Does Labour already select candidates on merit?”

Not going by that interview, it’s hard to see anyone selecting Shearer on merit. If he was female we could say he was a token quota filler. But he’s not.
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July 9, 2013 7:34pm
Warren Murray

Wow.

I watched it all. Sooo painful, yet I did it.

Interesting that despite ordering a halt to consideration of the man ban as a party conference remit, he is proud the party is implementing it anyway. So rather than have a democratic process to check whether the party supports positive discrimination, they will cancel that process but implement its application. Full steam ahead to irrelevancy. Loved the irony when he argued the issue was dropped because it wasn’t relevant to most peoples lives, but seems to believe the problem was their process, not their selection criteria.

He made Labour’s position on the GCSB legislation very clear – lol!

Does he honestly think he can be PM?
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July 9, 2013 8:01pm
tristanb

DG:

FFS Shearer…pack it in, and regain some fucking autonomy over your own life…

That’s what I don’t understand. What’s in it for Shearer? Why does he just take it? He’s obviously not a very good politician. Doesn’t he feel the strain of appearing like such a spineless idiot all the time? If he doesn’t agree with something he needs to spit it out, rather than trying to please all sides, but he doesn’t. He’s a man not in control of himself.

He could have come back to NZ from his highly paid job of photocopying/emailing in a secure Afghanistan office. Then won the easy seat of Mount Albert and retired with his ever increasing hidden stash in the US, the money he gets paid by the UN, and his NZ MP salary and perks. His life would have been sweet.

Now he will be forever remembered as a fuck up.
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July 9, 2013 8:11pm
Keeping Stock

@tristanb – I suspect that Shearer would find negotiating with Somali war-lords on a daily basis a damned sight easier than trying to manage the misfits, ego-maniacs, power-trippers and time-servers who comprise Labour’s caucus; not to mention the gaggle and the self-servers 😀
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July 9, 2013 8:47pm
KevinH

This fiasco that Shearer has become embroiled in looks suspiciously like a set up from within the Labour Party. It is like watching somebody dying from a thousand cuts and is evidence that the factions within the Labour Party are at war with each other.
Shearer is struggling to face them down, he is a man alone. To preserve his dignity and self esteem Shearer should go now before it gets really nasty. Let’s see who is hiding in the shadows.
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July 9, 2013 8:54pm
Pete George

Duncan Garner ‏@Garner_Live

Good source. Coup on in Labour. Letter of no confidence being circulated. It’s over for Shearer. Watch for his resignation.
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July 9, 2013 9:38pm
OneTrack

Herald – “However, he said the party still hoped to move toward ensuring at least 45 per cent of its caucus was female after 2014, and 50 per cent after 2017.”

Surely this means the man ban is actually still on. They just want to get it out of the news.
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July 9, 2013 10:46pm
Nostalgia-NZ

Shearer doesn’t apparently think on his feet, repeating the argument over and over again about the public wanting particular issues dealt with was a poor effort. Particularly when he had the opportunity to point out that Labour has been the only party to have a woman Prime Minister over successive, full terms. Getting to the point of a particular matter is not necessarily only an exercise of intellect or reasoning, but also one of ‘on the feet’ instinct.
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July 9, 2013 11:06pm
Honeybadger

Nostalgia, I dont think David Shearer thinks at all, not really, he seems to have ‘tunnel vision’ in his thought process, but if asked anything which deviates slightly from his thoughts, he appears totally thrown. I feel pity for the man, but he needs to go, before he is totally thrown to the wolves, he is no politician at all.
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