Homosexuals and Unionists

Labour Party Consuming Itself

Damien O'Connor, Labour Party MP has publicly stated what has been unspoken common knowledge for some time. The NZ Labour Party is now a fringe political grouping. It is broke. Its membership is non-existent. Tired and demoralised would be an apt description.

But how does it rejuvenate? After all, National languished for nine years in the wilderness whilst Helen Clark suffocated the nation with a real-life imitation of Mrs Doubtfire. Then National eventually came back and, as they say, captured the middle ground.

One can understand the miasma. The Left believes that all good things begin and end with Government action, which loosely translates as spending tax payers money, or debt-funded electoral bribery. Unfortunately, their former Finance Minister "spent it all" as he so crudely boasted in the House. Now, the cupboard is bare. National is acting like traditional New Zealand governments do--which is to practise socialism without doctrines, albeit in a more mild form than Labour. Labour's only plank is to criticise the current government for not spending more. Since National's spending is debt funded, Labour apparently wants even more national debt--which is a clanger in the ears of reasonable and thinking folk, now leery of debt.

So Labour is served by a cluster of parliamentary hacks incapable of thinking their way out of a wet paper bag, locked in to the mindless mantra of "more spending" as the only way to proceed, which, for once, lacks political traction. If ever there was a time to introduce new blood into the ranks it would be now--but of the right ilk. We mean by this "ordinary New Zealanders". But Labour is so far gone that it is reduced to seeking rejuvenation amongst unionists and homosexuals.

Damien O'Connor has stated publicly what the electorate has known for some time:

Labour MP Damien O'Connor has hit out at his party organisation, saying its candidates list was drawn up by "a gaggle of gays and self-serving unionists" who gave "straight shooters" little chance of success. Labour yesterday released its party list, which includes at least seven new names who could enter Parliament this year.

Mr O'Connor, the electorate candidate for the marginal West Coast-Tasman seat, said he withdrew from the party-list process before the final meeting. "I wouldn't trust them. Between a gaggle of gays and some self-serving unionists, I'm not sure that a straight shooter such as myself would be given a fair deal."

Labour needs to appeal again to "straight shooters". But its fascination with sexual perversity and class warfare remains too strong, overriding all else.It continues to seek out "our kind of people" which speaks volumes about just how tangential a political party it has become.