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According to early reports (Twitter) David Parker is interim leader of the Labour Party, with Annette King as deputy. In my opinion a safe set of hands. Their first task should be to make sure that the leadership contest is positive and constructive, as the…
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Reposted from yesterdays No Right Turn. National signed its confidence and supply agreement with ACT today. The headline news is that David Seymour get more patronage from National, in the form of being appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to the Minister of Education and Parliamentary Under…
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In a significant development Cameron Slater has brought his application for an injunction and for return of his personal information from various media outlets to and end and has opened himself up to a potentially significant order of costs against him. From Radio New Zealand:…
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Labour's leadership process involves the members - democracy in all its participatory, messy glory. The Nats prefer to do things the old fashioned way - smoke filled rooms, their members content to be dictated to. Speaking of leadership, Key is clearly grooming Bennett for succession:…
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Labour's leadership rules state that if you want to have a vote in this leadership election you need to be a paid-up member by Wednesday 1 October, 11.59pm. https://www.labourparty.org.nz/join If you want to have your say in who we hope to be the next PM…
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Trevor Mallard is known for frequent intervention with points of order in Parliament at Question Time. Mind you, I have sometimes felt when watching that he has derailed one of his colleagues who is in the process of asking a carefully constructed forensic set of…
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Helen Kelly made a point on the Nation the other day when asked what went wrong with Labour this election. She pointed out that whereas in the 1930s the labour campaign spoke directly to people and their immediate concerns, this campaign was too abstract. She…
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Following Labour's disastrous electoral defeat, most journalists are having a fine old time putting the boot in. The party is tearing itself apart, the leadership contest reveals deep divisions, the various camps are plotting against each other, and so on and so on. If Labour…
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