Shearer's earnestness, Key's glib smart-arseness

"Finally, Jane Clifton comes in to bat for beleaguered Labour leader David Shearer, making the case that he’s slowly but surely reinventing Labour against the odds. What’s more, ‘The contrast between Shearer’s measured earnestness and Key’s glib smart-arse routine in Parliament is potential election-campaign gold’ – see: Relitigating Labour shibboleths?."

(Lifted straight from Bryce Edwards' 'Liberation', to counter some of the relentlessly anti-Shearer drivel that Keeping Stock spews, Linda Blair-like, into the blogosphere :-)