NZPA on Labour’s tactics

NZPA Political Editor Peter Wilson has done his weekly column (not online) on how the lessons of the past are lost on Labour.  Some extracts:

Day after day, cabinet ministers have been standing up in Parliament and making fools of themselves.

They should cut their losses and give it up, because it isn’t working.

None of the vague allegations have been substantiated and Key, for a relatively inexperienced politician, is showing a remarkable survival instinct.

Labour is giving National the opportunity to say the Government should pay some attention to running the country.

It has taken its eye off the ball, English told Parliament last week. People are worried about mortgage rates, not about where John Key lived in 2002, he said.

English is probably right too. Ministers have allowed real issues to appear to be eclipsed by their obsession with Key.

They are also looking desperate, even though that is the last thing they want people to think.

Labour has reason to be worried but they need to go to plan B, if there is one, to get out of the plight they are in.

I’m not sure there is much of a Plan A.