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 :-)

Green rising

"This could be the year of the Greens – finally they might crack the 10% mark that has eluded them in every general election so far. And with the popular demise of Labour and the ideological confusion of Mana, the Green Party might end up being the real success story for the leftish side of the political spectrum."


Could be.


Bryce Edwards @ Liberation explores the likelihood.