Labour have been knocked back a bit in the latest Roy Morgan Poll, down 4.5% to 29%. Much of that decline is probably due to David Shearer’s GCSB attack fiasco.
But Shearer also keeps failing to impress in his routine work. He has been emailing a weekly so-called newsletter. Here is his latest (as posted at The Standard):
The bad news they expected to hear.
The Greymouth community got the news it had been dreading yesterday.
Solid Energy has decided to mothball the Spring Creek mine, making around 220 workers redundant. This is devastating news for the miners and their families. It also has a serious flow-on effect for local businesses, including up to 130 contractors, and the community as a whole.
The decision is directly connected to John Key’s obsession with selling our assets. He’s focusing only on the bottom line and making sure that Solid Energy’s in good shape to sell off to private investors.
That’s the wrong path for New Zealand. National is simply managing the decline rather than building a future of opportunity.
Selling assets won’t grow our economy. The Government needs to get off the side-line and into the game to back businesses and communities. Under my leadership, Labour will take a hands-on approach to harnessing innovation and creating jobs. You can read more about our ideas in my recent speech.
We must not resign ourselves to a future of constant struggle. Labour is proud of our country and we’ll take NZ on a path to a new high-wage, high-skill economy.
Kiwis want to work. They’re crying out for jobs. We need to make sure the opportunities are there so we don’t lose more of our workers to Australia.
That’s where many of the Greymouth miners are headed. And that’s a sad loss to our country.
Warm regards,David Shearer
Leader of the Labour PartyPS – As I mentioned last week, along with the Greens and NZ First we have launched a Parliamentary Inquiry into the Manufacturing Crisis. You can read more about the situation at the Manufacturing Inquiry website - www.manufacturinginquiry.org.nz
No wonder Labour support is struggling and Labour suporters are despairing. This is repetitive bland politicals at it’s worst, plus a manufactered political ‘crisis’.
Darryl
/ October 27, 2012David Shearer, a nice guy, but no way is he a Leader. Labour need to learn from the past mistakes. STOP ATTACKING, there like the boy who kept on crying wolf, in the end no one listens to them. I have watched them in Parliament, same every day from Labour/Greens/NZF. They need to grow up.