David Shearer has appeared on TVNZ’s Q&A programme to explain what went wrong with his leadership of Labour. It is clear that someone is to blame for what went wrong, but who is it? In this Imperator Fish exclusive we can finally reveal the identity of the saboteur.
Someone left a gun on David Shearer’s desk. Written a week before he chucked in the job.
Yet more advice for David Shearer There are more changes in David Shearer’s leadership team, after chief of staff Alastair Cameron resigned. Cameron held the role for about a year, and it is unclear why he departed. But Shearer is understood to be after someone who is a good political operator, rather than a mere…
Over the last few weeks there have been a number of questions raised about my leadership, and about the state of the Labour Party. This has been a huge distraction for us. People want us to be focusing on the issues that matter, not on internal politics. I agree that with hindsight we could have…
Who would want to be David Shearer? The Labour leader is under fire from almost every direction, and every pundit seems to have an opinion on where he is going wrong. I’m probably already late to this party, but I have my own list of things for Shearer to work on. I am convinced that…
6:33 am It’s dark under here. My legs are numb and I really need to pee. I’m not sure how much longer I can hold on. But then I imagine the priceless look on his face and I just let go. This story is bigger than me, and way bigger than my bursting bladder. I’ll…
Labour leader David Shearer is under pressure to apologise, after Sky Sport accidentally played a television advertisement during a live All Blacks game. The advertisement was played sixteen minutes into the first half of the match against France on Saturday night, prompting numerous complaints by angry viewers. Sky Television CEO John Fellet quickly apologised for…
Labour Party leader David Shearer has moved quickly to discipline one of his MPs for failing to declare a pecuniary interest. “I expect high standards from my MPs” said Shearer, as he announced that MP David Shearer would be stood down from all duties. The suspension arose after the MP today admitted failing to declare…
David Shearer’s many faults are clear for all to see. He is too soft and nice for politics. His treatment of David Cunliffe also shows him to be far too nasty, arrogant and power-crazed to hold office. He is too right-wing, too left-wing, too centrist, and a neoliberal to boot. His policy proposals are both too…
I spent hours and hours writing a blogpost attacking Labour’s various failings, and explaining why the February caucus vote would be a defeat for David Shearer, no matter how it went. I concluded in my post that the party was doomed under its current leader, that just about everything everyone had said on The Standard…
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