McAnulty doesn't deliver the script with much conviction. What interesting though is that he sounded much less like a talking-point-chanting zombie when he said this, just before the bit I quoted;

"If we had to have a coalition partner I'd pick the Greens."

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/8pm-live-tonight-the-bradbury-group-with-kieran-mcanulty-on-labours-state-of-the-nation-matthew-hooton-david-cunliffe-and-quilae-wong-political-panel/

As with Tama Potaka, I suspect we're hearing a loyal party man, who is nevertheless deeply unsatisfied with the current direction of his party, and thus it's current leadership.

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#NZPolitics #NZLabour

Not just Hipkins, the whole cabal of self-serving, centrist carpetbaggers who refuse to let Labour act like a left-wing party, in case they lose their seat. Or whatever table scraps the 1% are offering them to keep Labour hamstrung and useless.

Maybe one day the party membership will get back control of their party from these careerists. But I'm not holding my breath. Just as Hipkins is taking a lead from his UK counterpart, I think the NZ Greens could learn a thing or 2 from theirs.

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