Well might David Shearer be pondering the life of a political party leader; the Herald reports:
Voter support for Labour and its leader, David Shearer, has slumped in the latest Herald-DigiPoll survey.
The party has lost 5.5 percentage points since March, and Mr Shearer is down 6.1 points as preferred Prime Minister.
National's support has barely moved and it is still polling high at 48.8 per cent of decided voters.
Prime Minister John Key is preferred Prime Minister for 65.2 per cent, up 2.6 points on his last rating.
We knew this poll was due out this morning; Herald editor Tim Murphy tweeted thus last night:
What we didn't know was whose "horror story of Stephen King proportions" it was going to be. Now we know that it is Labour's horror story of a poll, and especially David Shearer's.
Surrounded by Grant Robertson loyalists, David Shearer is in a very lonely place right now. He, more than anyone else in the current Parliament must be sympathetic to Peter Dunne's lonely plight. And all the while, the wry smile remains on David Cunliffe's face...
UPDATE: Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross rubs some salt into the wound:
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