Or will it? Labour have lost all but their dyed in the wool supporters already. I doubt they'll lose too many more - but anything's possible.
(Imagine if Cunliffe went instead of Jones. That's what they need to turn their fortunes around.)
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Labour would of lost some Center Left, Center & Maori votes with the departing S.J. The next poll should be interesting. Looks like Helen has competition for the top U.N job, Bob Carr believes Kevin Rudd is ideal for the top job at the United Nations. Mark this down as another couple of bad days for the loonie left.
A link is: Rudd will blow Clark away!
I think this will turn out to be a masterstroke by McCully. You now have a respected ex MP like Dover Samuels attacking Labour for having left middle NZ behind and current MP Damien O'Connor saying the party doesn't seem to understand wealth needs to be created before it is redistributed.
All first item on 6 o'clock news. It shows a party in total disarray a few months out from an election.
Cussie, Neither is likely " The UN General Assembly appoints the secretary-general on the recommendation of the Security Council.
The five permanent Security Council members – France, Britain, China, Russia and the US – have the power to veto candidates.
A spokeswoman did not deny Mr Rudd was interested in the job but said such appointments were made on a cyclical geographical basis and the next one would come from Eastern Europe.
“This is not going to happen,” she said. “There is a good reason for this.
“Appointments for the Secretary-General of the United Nations are on a cyclical, geographical basis.
“The current Secretary-General is from Asia. His predecessor was from Africa. Before that, there were Secretary-Generals from the Middle East and Latin America. And it is agreed that the next rotation will be Eastern Europe, who has never had a Secretary-General. "
Also I have visited the sites you have highlighted in previous posts. Quite a few have no link to show who is responsible for the content and are completely lacking in any credibility.
EZ is way ahead.
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Labours electoral prospects are bleak. However there is a sense of complaceny setting in with the government, although not , I believe, with John Key. One vivid example of an incumbent government becoming complacent is the Labour government in the UK in 1970, the opposition conservatives were inept, had low poll ratings, and their cause seemed lost. And what happened , the Conservatives won, stunning the media,tthe Labour Party the pollsters and probably themselves