Feb 17, 2008

Trotter Wanting To Get Back In Helen's Good Books?

In today's Sunday Star Times Chris Trotter tells an amusing story about Green co-leader Russel Norman's discomfort at a media conference (further evidence that the Greens see Labour as their gateway to power in 2008) and then suggests that the PM's tagging policy is designed to reconnect the Labour Party with its core voters. The piece ends with

You could almost hear the sound of 120,000 pairs of hands clapping; of 120,000 delighted working-class voters saying: "Good on ya, Helen!" (Because it's mostly the fences of the poor, the shop-fronts of the small retailer, and the mailboxes of the elderly that get defaced.)

I keep forgetting that the prime minister's a farmer's daughter and how bloody good she is at rounding up stray lambs.

We think that Trotter is intending this to be a compliment, but given recent articles we are suspicious. Might it suit Phil Goff and the fellow conspirators to have the public reminded of her farming background? Or that she regards Labour's core voters as "stray lambs"??