Shane Jones needs to resign now; he has already hung on for too long. But so does Phil Goff. If Labour want any chance to win the next election they need to completely rebuild the party from the ground up. This involves a dramatic restructure of their list and they need to shuffle the old pack out of parliament as fast as possible. If they don’t National are guaranteed to win the next election and the Greens will eat a large amount of the vote. Right now Labour are on the verge of being destroyed and they need to act to stop the damage, if they don’t they are gone from power for a very long time.
Loading up the Labour party website it is clearly obvious they are lacking any distinction. All they are is attack the attack National party, and this is a terrible approach to take as a National is so popular in the polls and there is no clear reason why anyone would want to vote for Labour. In fact their website seems to advertise National more than they advertise themselves, the word National is much larger than the words Labour and the only image I see is of John Key!
As part of this rebuilding they need to clear out the old guard. Some of the MPs have dug themselves such big holes they need to go now, others have just been around for far too long and have this terrible odour about them.
A much better line up of Labour would be:
David Cunliffe – Leader
David Parker – Deputy Leader
Maryan Street
Darren Hughes
Clayton Cosgrove
Ruth Dyson
Charles Chauvel
Annette King
Nanaia Mahuta
Lianne Dalziel
Winnie Laban
Moana Mackey
Steve Chadwick
Sue Moroney
Jacinda Ardern
Ross Robertson
Mita Ririnui
Lynne Pillay
Clare Curran
Kelvin Davis
Chris Hipkins
Raymond Huo
Ashraf Choudhary
Darien Fenton
Su’a William Sio
Carol Beaumont
Damien O’Connor
Brendon Burns
Iain Lees-Galloway
Stuart Nash
Dr Rajen Prasad
Grant Robertson
Carmel Sepuloni
Phil Twyford
David Shearer
Gone:
Phil Goff
Parekura Horomia
Chris Carter
Shane Jones
Trevor Mallard
Pete Hodgson
Rick Barker
George Hawkins
