  Monday, November 19, 2012  BREAKING NEWS: Shearer to expel
Cunliffe? UPDATE:  Shearer's new speech  It doesn't look like
Cunliffe is about to be punished and demoted over the media's
beat up of his supposed leadership challenge at the conference
(note Cunliffe has pledged his support) - the rumors are flying
that Shearer is going to expel Cunliffe from Caucus.  The anger
the leadership felt about being forced to be more democratic is
going to be used to crucify Cunliffe and throw him out of the
Party. Labour may with this move just convince all those left
wing voters to fill in Green Party membership cards.  If only
Shearer could put this kind of energy into defeating Key.  The
ramifications of this move to expel Cunliffe will reverberate
until 2014.  The difference between a Japanese nuclear reactor
and the Labour Party is that Japanese reactors know when to stop
melting down.  UPDATE: That nasty little piece of work, Chris
Hipkins has come out defaming Cunliffe with slurs that he's been
disloyal to two le