Just as I don't read Kiwiblog to find out what's happening in National, I'm reading Red Alert less and less at the moment as it sets up its pre-election carapace. What is found in Red Alert has increasingly less to do with the many serious issues within the Labour Party, and lots more to do with simple political positioning. From where I sit, there is in the Party serious uncertainty. Will the poll gap narrow? What will the electorate be thinking in three months or so? Is there a bloodbath on the horizon? Will my career in Politics suffer an irreversible blow? Should we have moved on the leadership last year? And so on. At the grassroots, people are leafletting and getting on with the business. MPs are out campaigning. The life of Politics continues. Yet those nagging questions remain, but must be subsumed under a veneer of hope and expectation. Red Alert cannot be expected to front those questions publicly, hence the more querulous commentaries that we're seeing at the moment.
Perhaps we need a complex discourse analysis to provide a "reading" of Red Alert?
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Trevor Mallard is too agressive on RA, and often arrogant and rude as well.
ReplyDeleteThe commenters are often the same old, people are staying away in droves.
Clare Curran too, comes across as a big know it all, they just have know social media decorum.
MP's, big in the head, no manners.