Meanwhile, Mr Shearer has confirmed he will go ahead with a reshuffle, either before or after the Christmas break, to give MPs just under two years to get to grips with their portfolios before the election.
"I did say a year ago I'd look at how the year went and fine-tuning what we're doing and that is exactly what I'll be doing."
He would not discuss details, but MPs including Andrew Little and Chris Hipkins have performed well and Mr Little could pick up the employment spokesmanship from Sua William Sio - Labour has chosen jobs as one of its main prongs of attack.
Education is also likely to change hands - Nanaia Mahuta's second child is due in December and it is possible Mr Shearer - a former teacher - could take the spokesmanship for himself at that stage or pass it on to Chris Hipkins.
Mr Hipkins has shown an interest and was recently added to the education team to spearhead Labour's attacks of the handling of schooling in Christchurch.
The comments about Nanaia Mahuta are interesting, and haven't been lost on Cactus Kate who tweeted thus:
Cactus has a point; what would happen to a private sector employer who tried to shift sideways or even backwards an expectant employee?
And as for Andrew Little having "performed well"; the jury is out on that. Mr Little has made some spectacular gaffes in his first year in the job including being unprepared for an Urgent Debate which he himself had sought, and having a very public meltdown on talkback radio. But if David Shearer wants to promote him, who are we to argue?
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Tweet of the day - Kim Dotcom
“Prime Minister meets studio bosses in Hollywood about doing business in NZ. Getting paid for the raid.”
Just goes to show you the kind of bloke Dotcom is, eh Mike. He likes rape and Holocaust jokes, he's happy to make money of other peoples' intellectual property, and he defames politicians. He's a classy guy!
And you, Keeping Stock, like to portray those you don't like in the most prejudicial light you possibly can. You're a classy guy.
He has to smear Dotcom to make Banks and Key look reasonable. Pretty disgusting given how much money Dotcom's given the right.
What of what I said is a smear Edward; Dotcom made stupid jokes on Twitter for which he got pillioried. He has implied that John Key is getting paid off by US film interests; that's defamatory. And have you read the indictment the Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Virginia? There is pretty compelling evidence of systematic breaches of copyright.
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/mega-indictment.pdf
We know Key is in the pocket of Warner brothers, keeping Stock. Why are you pretending different?
We are not stupid. Are you?
Key made inappropriate cannibal jokes about Tuhoe. Should we mention that every time we talk about Key, in the way you bring up the rape jokes when you discuss Kim Dotcom here Keeping Stock? Or maybe the mincing walk? Or the three-way handshake? There are so many negatives we could wrap around Key in every discussion we have.
Same thing eh.
Key is a joke end of story
The throat slitting thing. What about that?
Should we mention that every time we talk about John Key?
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