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April 28, 2012 1:28pm by David Farrar

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Pauleastbay

Grant Robertson and back holes in the same cartoon, decency stops me from going further.

But seriously , a smug gay Wellington lawyer is going to connect how with my life long labour voting parents. ?
No fucking chance, is how.

There may seem to Wellington residents that there is a constituency for smug gay Wellington lawyers but in reality there’s not, the base labour support will be turned off in record numbers, the christian island vote for one will be gone.

Labour are toast until they get a Damien O’Connnor type- and thats not going to happen with the gaggle of gays and vile narcissists at the head of the labour party- and Little has no chance either – no common touch the elcetion showed that.
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April 28, 2012 1:41pm
Johnboy

Robertson seems to be taking on the shape of Lange I notice! 🙂

Even Chris agrees:

“Left-leaning commentator Chris Trotter wrote in yesterday’s Dominion Post that he had been wrong to back Mr Shearer. “Let’s face it, he ain’t anybody’s kind of leader.
Unlike former prime minister David Lange, Mr Shearer could “barely string 10 words together”.

Helen seems to have been purged! 🙂
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April 28, 2012 1:43pm
cows4me

Perhaps Liarbore could offer a new form of leadership. Winner of election gets 6 months in the chair, next in line gets a year and the third on the party list gets the remaining time as head arse kicker. Surely anyone silly enough to lead this three ring circus should only have to do it for part of the time. Coming in third would make the rest lift their game least they come in third in the next election.
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April 28, 2012 2:12pm
jaba

I’m sure Shearer didn’t expect to be shafted by his own .. well, not so soon anyway
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April 28, 2012 2:22pm
Johnboy

There are a lot of fellows in Labour who shaft their own kind jaba.
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April 28, 2012 2:24pm
jaba

mmm, maybe it would help Shearer to turn .. or at least go ACDC
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April 28, 2012 2:42pm
Dick Prebble

Who the fuck is Grant Robertson anyway, I mean, what do we know about him other than the fact that he is gay and that he used to be a student president (whoop dee doo). In all seriousness, what exactly are his achievements in both his personal life and political life.
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April 28, 2012 2:48pm
Johnboy

He is a mate of DPF’s ?
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April 28, 2012 2:52pm
bhudson

Dick,

He talks a lot about the Town Belt and the War Memorial. [Emphasis on talks]

And about every 18 months or so, he visits a homeless shelter. [Evidence being his website up to the commencement of the election campaign]

What more is required?
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April 28, 2012 2:57pm
David Garrett

PEB: well said Sir…and I assure you that up close (but not that close!) Robertson is no more impressive as a representative of the working man and woman…or a representative of anybody for that matter…Can you see him having a jug or two with Big Norm Kirk? Let alone some of the Labour giants of the more distant past like Fraser, Savage or Semple..

But Shearer was doomed from the start…When he got elected he had about six months more experience in parliament than I had…and although my ego is as healthy as the next (ex) polly’s, I would never have thought in 100 years I could lead a political party after two years’ experience…His appointment was simply a sign of how utterly desparate they were…and probably still are…
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April 28, 2012 3:53pm
Ricardo

Robertson reminds me of Ronnie Corbett…….nothing, without a Ronnie Barker.
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April 28, 2012 3:57pm
hmmokrightitis

PEB, and same from me, agreed. labour, IMHO, cant have an overtly gay leader, the PI’s in South Auckland wouldn’t know what to do, and their church leaders would get bloody antsy I suspect. They were happy to turn a blind eye to the labour leader who “may or may not have opened for the other side”, but overtly gay AND a lawyer?

That said, they might get a gay leader, but whether that overtly gay leader becomes PM is another story.
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April 28, 2012 3:59pm
philu

cunnliffe should be the next leader…

..he has all the skills/experience that shearer lacks..

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 28, 2012 4:06pm
Johnboy

Andrew Little could pop through the gap here. EPMU and all.

Not quite Stationary Engine Driver 2nd class like big Norm but clossssse! 🙂
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April 28, 2012 4:07pm
philu

little has all the charisma of a bus-ticket..

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 28, 2012 4:08pm
Johnboy

Silent T would of course need a professional News Agglomerator on his team Magpie! 🙂
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April 28, 2012 4:09pm
Johnboy

Pagani is for the heave I hear.

Your day may have come Phillip Ure! 🙂
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April 28, 2012 4:10pm
David Garrett

Now there’s a better opening for you than offsider at I Suk up Ltd (proudly cleaning septics in the Rodney area for 15 years) Phil ! Send in your CV!

But wait…..
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April 28, 2012 4:11pm
Johnboy

It’s been a fucking long time in the making I might add! 🙂
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April 28, 2012 4:12pm
Johnboy

Ten years of Parliamentary pay rates may almost bring Magpies balance sheet into the black.

Good news for New Zealanders everywhere! 🙂
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April 28, 2012 4:14pm
MT_Tinman

Johnboy (7,486) Says:
April 28th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Ten years of Parliamentary pay rates may almost bring Magpies balance sheet into the black.

Good news for New Zealanders everywhere!

You think the leech going from sucking on the taxpayer tit while producing nothing to sucking on the taxpayer tit while producing nothing worth while would be an improvement?
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April 28, 2012 4:42pm
Johnboy

Ah!

A flaw in my logic MT_Tinman! Bugger! 🙂

Perhaps sale of his body parts to the highest bidder (after a drugs test) would be the best outcome for the poor, long suffering taxpayer! 🙂
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April 28, 2012 4:47pm
Johnboy

Course he could change his spots and become a financial adviser to Bill.

Lets face it Bill needs all the bloody help he can get at the moment! 🙂
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April 28, 2012 4:51pm
Pete George

David Garret Says: His appointment was simply a sign of how utterly desparate they were…and probably still are…

I agree, the fact they went with Shearer was a sign of a party with few viable options. And those options have diminished since, there’s no sign of improvement in party strategy and there’s certainly no change in available candidates for leadership.
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April 28, 2012 4:55pm
Yvette

Perhaps sale of his body parts to the highest bidder (after a drugs test) would be the best outcome for the poor, long suffering taxpayer!

Probably would depend too on whether said person has been totally unemployed or not.
Ce que tout fonctionne encore?
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April 28, 2012 5:44pm
philu

i think they should taiho on rolling shearer..

..those who were giving him the bad advice..nash and pagani ..have gone…

..(pagani was just advising him to do nothing..and just wait for national to lose..

..pagani is a reactionary-incrementalist…his departure is good news..)

..i wd wait and see what happens next..

..shearer actually sounded good on the politics report on nat-rad..

..he was letting rip against banks/key..

..and he had the fire in his belly many have been calling for..

..to ditch shearer now would be premature..

..time should be given for him to front-foot it…

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 28, 2012 6:45pm
David Garrett

Go and get stoned Phil…fuck ur boring…
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April 28, 2012 7:23pm
philu

hic..!

phillip ure@whoar.co.nz
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April 28, 2012 8:28pm
UpandComer

I hope they do go with Robertson. A smug gay union loving lawyer who visited a night shelter once, and was a student union president? jeez that is exactly what they need, that will really make everyone turned off by the smug gay union loving ex student political types vote Labour.
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April 28, 2012 8:41pm
Adolf Fiinkensein

In this instance, I think Phil U is absolutely right.

Whether Labour has enough brains or backbone to see it is another thing entirely.
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April 28, 2012 10:00pm
WineOh

If the USA can elect a black president then I think we are open minded enough to be able to vote for a gay PM.
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April 29, 2012 8:53am
Ricardo

We did! Didn’t we?
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April 29, 2012 10:14am
Paulus

Robertson is well trained by two??lesbians as their number three in their office – Helen Clark and Heather Simpson.
Assume Maryan Street will be his deputy – two homos together.
Great Labour !!
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April 29, 2012 12:13pm

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