Relitigating Labour shibboleths?

It’s a thankless job being Opposition leader, but David Shearer might just survive it.

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19th May, 2012

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming you, and you’re an Opposition leader, then… you probably don’t read the papers much. Barely six months in the job, David Shearer is keeping his head, despite a set of portents that suggest the only rational reaction would be to clutch one’s head and scream for mother. The polls have only once lifted for Labour, the media have almost universally branded the new leader lacklustre, and Shearer’s chief rival, David Cunliffe, is still blatantly campaigning for his job. Worse, Labour’s fraternal socialist party ...

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