It is, what it is...
Last night was appalling for Labour, it was the second worse loss [EVER]. But that aside, in the wake of the capitulation of well, almost every party apart from The National Party, what I needed from Cunliffe was 'ownership' of the failure of his campaign; whether or not it was out of his control [i.e 'dirty politics', the Kim Dotcom sideshow].
Last night and on The Nation this morning he kept deflecting the blame. What I found interesting was how the analogy of using Richie McCaw owning a loss [if the All Blacks lose], Cunliffe gave Key credit for a great campaign and win in private, but wouldn't own his own flaws to the voting public who gave their vote to Labour.
Last night on twitter a lot of people were angry at the vote, and having silly conversations about "who will be the next labour leader will be". Look, the only sensible reason The Labour Party should not have David Cunliffe as leader, is if the party has an interim leader. Leader rotation does. not. work.
On a personal note, I'm glad Paula Bennett is still in. It's early days yet, but I'm sure she will get the MSD portfolio. Love her, or hate her, she has done an outstanding job and is a nice person to boot.
I haven't been on a campaign trail blogging and doing my own anti-campaign against the Nats like 'Bomber' (well not on that scale!) obviously this political capitulation has hurt some more than others. I can't say I wasn't expecting it not to go this way, otherwise I would be lying.
Maybe in three years the public of New Zealand will finally want change, and fingers crossed, the left [progressive] parties have got their act together and Kim Dotcom will have left the country. Russia maybe?
