Let them eat cake, and there was plenty of that being cut around the country yesterday as Labour celebrated its 100th birthday.
For Andrew Little it was a more sombre occasion, and rightly so for the leader of the party that brought our first state house.
He was lending a sympathetic ear to the sort of people that a former conservative, drunken Prime Minister Gordon Coates once told to eat grass.
Little couldn't have chosen a better venue to unveil his proposal to spend sixty million bucks on putting a roof over the heads of the homeless, 42 thousand of them, according to recent Otago University research.
It was 14 years ago when Helen Clark posed for the cameras and unveiled a plaque at Monte Cecilia House which sits on a street surrounded by former and current state houses in Mangere.