Holding the position of Leader of the Opposition for more than six months seems to have done to Andrew Little what it did to Phil Goff all those years ago.
His desire to elevate and distinguish the Labour party from rivals National, is seeing frequent displays of blind and often illogical dissention, then sometimes, in order to promote and embellish his point, outright lying…
For the record, I omitted David Cunliffe from the paragraph one example because it didn’t take six months in power, Cunfille was always a twat.
…As mentioned in past posts, regarding the youth of New Zealand, Andrew Little’s claims that he has ‘spoken to’ or ‘heard from’ and ‘understands the position of’ after ‘having a sit-down with’, can only be, patently untrue.
I make the aforementioned judgement unequivocally because I happen to know that the majority of ‘New Zealand’s younger generation’ as he affectionately calls them – as though they’re his buddies – dislike the man; the likelihood then of Mr Little ‘sitting alongside’, ‘talking out the issues’, and ‘having a heart-to-heart with’ his beloved ‘younger generation’ (implying many rather than few), ranks on a similar level to Colin Craig spending a sunny afternoon chatting about tablecloth crochet with Black Power.
Andrew Little, in the beginning, much as I wanted to dislike the man, was reasonably likeable; now though, similar to Phil Goff shortly after he came to power, he tries so very hard to condemn his rivals that he ends up coming off desperate and, heaven forbid, needy.
Little recently mocked John Key for admitting that New Zealand did in fact have a number of ‘terror suspects under 24 hour surveillance’; Mr Little maintained that our Prime Minister was ‘scaremongering’ and that this ‘must have been false’ because, regarding New Zealand’s terror alert, as far as he was aware ‘nothing has changed’…
Just quietly, because I am aware of how easily people are offended by this topic and how despite it now being a part of world history I realise that to use it in an example or any kind of comparison might be seen by those who are given to affront as disrespectful but here we go anyway, I wonder how much ‘changed’ in the US on September 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th..?
…My point, sir, being Leader of the Opposition party is all well and good and yes, you will have to act like a child with poop in your pants once in a while but come on man, surely, it is not your job to disparage everything that your rival says and does – how are you supposed to know even half the facts about National Security when you’re not in power, anyway?
Come on Andrew Little, you can’t be a piss-ant all your life.
Article by Tim Walker
Edited by Tahrea A Tuck
Photography by N E Thyme