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On Breakfast just now, Tourism Minister Key tried out his line on the international debacle arising from his insulting a prominent visitor to our country who was forbearing enough to spend time talking to Key’s kid. His plan is to try to stymie the story by saying ‘I’m not going to engage with what some reporter think they heard’. No denial. No owning his behaviour. Just pathetic.
Come on John. You said something fuckwit-ish – totally inappropriate for a Prime Minister and a Tourism, and churlish for a father who used his pull to get his kid to meet a star. Just be a man, own up, and apologise.
It’s going to be awkward in Parliament when Trevor Mallard jumps up and asks “Does he remember a conversation he had at a high school in Dunedin last week in which he described David Beckham as ‘thick as batshit’ or words to those effect; if so, does he agree that such language towards a guest to our country is completely inappropriate from the Prime Minister – who is also Minister of Tourism – and he ought to apologise for it?”
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Key is a dick who should concentrate on his job not his 3rd rate comedic talents
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Beckham along with many a premier league player, All Black, League player etc is in all likelihood as thick as batshit…. so what their job is sport not nuclear physics or philosophy.
It’s not as if Becks’ job was betting against New Zealand and slashing jobs for some global merchant bank. He’s a footballer. And by Tory logic, using your talent and wits to amass $300m should make him a hero, right?
Right Wingers are inherently the most jealous/envious, status conscious types around. They’ll actually note that someone’s brand new Porsche Cayman is the S spec as opposed to “just” the (cheaper) standard spec, for instance.
hs – you have a very limited concept of what intelligence is.
cv – you have a very limited concept
hs – intelligence takes many forms. Here’s a clip showing mental ability needed by footballers. Becks may not be ronaldo, but he’s far from stupid.
Yep, fair call.
Great video..Thanks
I’m sure he does – selling out NZ to his rich foreign mates.
Lower standard you are past your used by date and are as thick as batshit as well as a dick !
When you look at the Allblacks over the past twenty years you would find most of them have got tertiary degrees!
Then you will find that exercise increases ones ability to think!
Exercise also stops the decline in memory loss!
Maybe shonkey should shut his diarrhoea diatribe and play some football!
Plenty of idiots with tertiary degrees mike more so these days compared to older times when a university degree was at least indicative that one could at least string a sentence together and count on your fingers
Judging by your incoherent rant I’d wager you’ve probably got an MBA or a PhD quite recently.
No standard So you are trying to give me the 3rd degree!
David Kirk! to you you jerk!
Chris Laidlaw!
Richie McCaw!
The list would be to long for you to read!
One has to agree that the first two on your list are real graduates.
McCaw, on the other hand, although he did attend University, did not I believe actually graduate. I do not regard an honorary Doctorate as qualifying.
That’s two out of about 1100 All Blacks. Surely you can come up with some more real graduates?
Very quickly off the top of my head: Anton Olliver and Conrad Smith
Alwyn Richie McCaw has a degree in agricultural science and is rated highly intelligent by his lecturers
Isn’t it funny watching batshit thick righties try and engage in intellectual one-upsmanship.
If you are correct then I fear that Richie may have taken a few to many blows to the head as he doesn’t appear to remember getting the degree.
In the TVNZ story about him getting an honorary degree he said “Having not quite graduated…”
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/richie-mccaw-honorary-doctorate-pretty-awesome-4843480
Chris Laidlaw got his degree years ago, before even an old git like myself, and Kirk’s would’ve been a good thirty years ago, McCaw is no doubt a good bloke but i’m sure he’d be the first to admit that he’s no genius outside of the sporting arena.
aahhh, String Theory.
-lowerstandard (Rogue)
🙂
Exactly – if he hadn’t said this he would be denying it vehemently and demanding the evidence be produced.
Is John Key claiming the reporter heard him wrong or that the reporter is lying? Do we hope there is a recording of John Key thus insulting a visitor to our country?
“Is John Key claiming the reporter heard him wrong or that the reporter is lying?”
Well, he’s not claiming that. Because he’s not actually denying what he said. He’s trying to claim it was somehow a private conversation …. with a bunch of school kids… on an official visit…. in front of a reporter.
This isn’t the first time that Key has said something bad in front of a journalist and responded by trying to attack the journo…. we all remember “we would love to see wages drop”, don’t we? http://thestandard.org.nz/did-key-try-to-get-wage-drop-journalist-sacked/
I understand David Shearer has a tape of the conversation.
Can’t wait to hear what The PM says about our next British visitor and his ‘wife’.
Bet he won’t risk his night hood, sorry knighthood, with words like ‘gay’ or ‘batshit’.
Oh go on John….do it..”say something funny like a young person…ask your kids what is clever these days.
It’s just another revelation of the way Key goes about his daily toils … i.e. just jokes without thinking, speaks without understanding, fires off bullshit as quick as a firecracker and carries on completely oblivious to others around him…. he has no comprehension, or rather care, of the reactions of those around him. Their sensibilities are of no concern to him.
that is the revelation
++1
That’s no revelation, we always knew this since before he became PM.
he got…..
http://megaballsup.com/
Quite revealing, on that page:
“The PM’s Life in Pictures”
– “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, my lifetime desire achieved
… time to piss off now”
I shudder to think the furore in the Nat party and the media if our former PM had said something like this… except she never would because from the beginning she accepted that the job was important and required dignity.
Remember our current PM cut short an international conference because he had tickets to Fleetwood Mac… This is not a leadership position for him it’s a things he’s trying… it’s a game a lark something he’s a having a go at. People who don’t get that it doesn’t actually matter alot to him either way whether has the job or not are deluding themselves. He sees it as his ticket tot he celebrity circuit to be as excited as a little boy meeting celebrities and sports people… which is fine, unless you are leader of a country trying to find its way to transparency, accountability, more jobs and a fairer society.
To have seen batshit wouldn’t he have had to get dirty??? Can’t see it myself, that’s what Bill English is for.
Which former PM are you talking about?
Is it by any chance the one who insulted the then President of the US and ended up having to apologise to him for her comments on the Iraq war?
Did she tell a bunch of schoolkids that she thought Bush was thick as batshit?
Im really puzzled John Key seems to have a lot of private and secret conversations that he either cant remember having or dosent want others to hear and yet he is continuously heard by others to have had.
Some one should tell him to talk more quietly then so others dont hear!!!!!!!!!!!
Groan. Another story about nothing that nobody cares about except people who already hate John Key. Yes, I do expect Mallard will get up and waste the parliaments (and the countries) time with such a stupid question. I am sure he will think he is a very smart boy when he does too. Since he can’t seem to come up with any real way of holding the government to account (you know, what opposition parties are supposed to do) he will fall back on this side show stuff. Why do they get called the “nasty party”? Beats me.
Who, honestly, cares what JK might or might not have said about Beckham? What ….. difference does it make?
He makes us all look bad because as the elected leader of our country he represents the majority of voters at the time of the previous election. This means that his actions reflect poorly on our available choices… when Key is the lesser of two evils to the majority of the population, what does this say about us?
And, tbh, David Shearer is causing me to become incredibly disillusioned about the prospects of a 2 term National government and depressed about the ramifications of such a situation… >_<
Hey Zorr
Re “incredibly disillusioned about the prospects of a 2 term National government and depressed about the ramifications”
– do you mean to say: the prospects of a 3 (THREE) term National government?
Sorry – had been pretty much meaning disillusioned with my hopes that National would only last 2 terms…
Brain fade Monday…
Yea who cares if the PM and minister of Tourism is reported in a major English paper insulting one of their favourite stars. That is totally the how we expect someone in his position to act isn’t it.
You say people who only hate Key will care. I disagree. Yes people who hate Key will jump all over it. Just like all his fan boys such as your self will claim it’s not important. However these are the things that make those who actually shift their position and truly decide elections wonder if this guy actually has the professionalism to do the job. I know I voted for Key in 2008. It was his performance on Letterman that made me realise that he wasn’t a PM but more of an attention seeking embarrassing family member. Except it is the whole of NZ that he is embarrassing.
“Why do they get called the “nasty party”?”
because a bunch of hollow tory spin doctors sold that line to you, thats why
and no – im not a labour voter
Abso-lutely . I really hope that Labour waste a question or on this in QT. That would just be another own goal. No wonder National is at 45%. The amazing aspect is why they are not polling even higher. National are fully focused on getting the economy back in shape and growing employment whilst the opposition flounder on such inanities. Watch for a further fall in Labour polling .
🙄
You’re absolutely hilarious Fisiani.
“National are fully focused on getting the economy back in shape and growing employment……..”
Life on Planet Key is obviously agreeing with you
It’s amazing that a PM of our country would insult and run down a prominent British citizen and sporting hero.
Key needs to understand that it is not cool showing off to teenage school girls and he sets a very bad example as an ungrateful gossip.
Oh Please – stop clutching your pearls. The British haven’t given much of a crap about Becks since he blew them off for the LA Galaxy, and those self-same tabloids take great glee in referring to Becks and Bosh as Thick and Thin. Given some of the nasty names you’ve called various Nats on her, your righteous indignation rings somewhat hollow.
But that was the MEDIA. Not the fucking PRIME MINISTER of New Zealand. Jesus it’s all about how it looked on the world stage.
Now David Beckham is a football star made his millions with his talent which was kicking a ball, (Unlike Key who made his millions Preying on the weak and poor.) And he made a lot, Six times Keys pile. And to have kept them and made more, is probably down to his missus, because everyone KNOWS he is as thick as pig shit They just don’t say it out loud. Along comes Shonky saying “duh David Beckhams as thick as batshit” What a dipstick.
A few column inches in the yellow press of the UK hardly counts as the “world stage”. It’s a piddle in the sea and no one cares. Get a sense of proportion.
We’ve got a dickhead for a Prime Minister. Seems quite important, surely.
Popuganda The BBC and the Guardian are read and watched world wide ie the world stage!
Key is just going to answer “I cannot recall a conversation that never happened”.
TSM key is thick as bat shit and homophobic probably trying to emulate a more successful celebrity
Who has captained England ! probably more demanding than Shonkeys photo opportunism.
At least I bet you Beckham is not suffering early onset Alzheimers!
Key is from the party that promotes personal responsibility.
Yet sets an opposite example of lying virtually all the time!
His leadership of the country is the joke!
Has anyone checked if David Beckham is alright?
Has anyone checked if our reputation as a sovereign nation has been flushed down the toilet, again?
Enhanced I would imagine.
What reputation would that be, its always been a mirage.
Imagine if the really juicy details about politicans, who have their arms up their back were ever leaked into the real world…
People would still call it BS, and keep wondering why the country continues to be represented by types who want to trash the place!
Why is Helen so high up at the UN again..
Primitive Primate he’s to posh to get involved in countries that barely have a turn over equivalent to his wealth!
Has he changed his story? I’m sure as I was skimming stories on this that he was claiming it was someone (ie, not a reporter) who had thought they heard him say…
Thing is ‘someone’ is you or I in terms of perception…an ordinary person… whereas ‘a reporter’ is some ‘other’ in terms of perception and identification. I’d be interested now, to hear from the actual people who ‘thought’ they heard him say something. And I hope it’s a bunch of 14 year old kids he’s dismissing and accusing of lying.
It is an insult to the intelligence of many avian species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=batshit
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bat-shit+crazy
http://flyingrodentfecalmatter.blogspot.co.nz/
http://us.myspace.com/flyingrodentfecalmatter
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38354/where-did-the-phrase-batsht-crazy-come-from
http://www.psmueller.com/batshit.htm
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23batshit
http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/the-internaut/keys-thick-as-batshit-beckham-comments-win-international-headlines/
http://www.wvhighlands.org/Birds/MountaineerFinalAvianRpt-%203-15-04PKJK.pdf
http://www.csu.edu/cerc/researchreports/documents/HomeownersGuidetoNortheasternBats.pdf
http://www.batcon.org/pdfs/grants/ScholarshipInfoWEB12.pdf
http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_(goddess)
Key believes that being a smart-arse is to be funny. Moreover he mistakes sarcastic put-downs for humour.
As Shakespeare says, “O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
Tennyson, “Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
Abraham Lincoln, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Perversely, one could argue that with things being dire for many after the Chch quake, the volcanic ‘burb’, and the economy – a clowning PM is a welcome distraction from unpleasant realities.
Quick, enrol Shearer in a clowning improv course somewhere !
Seems that Key for taking the piss out of Beckham for his intelligence or lack thereof.
From the article:
It appears that the ad would have been tapping into a public perception that Beckham isn’t the brightest candle in the cathederal. So, what Key has said probably wouldn’t surprise many.
TSM key is thick as bat shit and homophobic probably trying to emulate a more successful celebrity
Who has captained England ! probably more demanding than Shonkeys photo opportunism.
At least I bet you Beckham is not suffering early onset Alzheimers!
tsmithfield,
Key’s vulgar remark to the schoolgirls was not so much “things-the-pm-shouldn’t-say-because-they-might-not-be-true”, although he seems to have enough trouble with those.
No, this is more in the category of “things-that-are-not-particularly-controversial-but-still-shouldn’t-really-be-said-to-a-bunch-of-schoolgirls-in-a-sweary-way-by-the-head-of-govt-in-case-it-makes-us-look-like-a-nation-of-cunts.”
It’s quite a broad ranging category, but the lines around it are pretty clear and only a true fuckwit would cross them deliberately.
Do we have confirmation he was actually addressing a group of school girls?
Like I said – for all we know at the moment he could have been in the fucking carpark and was overheard by an adult
The most recent reports are saying it was inresponse to a question from the school girls as to what Beck s was like. He said “good looking but stupid as batshit” or something along those lines.you are right though. Until Key fronts up on it at the moment it’s all speculation.
That’s your speculation.
Way to miss the point…
Apparently, Key was having a “personal conversation” with the schoolkids at the photo-op. Should be charged with grooming (to be young nats).
Anyway, Key’s desperate attempts to fit in with plebs by using what he believes is their language is shown up in the same article: on a rural radio show he thought the word “gay” way an insult.
So, the world on planet Key: yoofs swear all the time, farmers are homophobic rednecks, and “whatever it takes” has a small budget and a short expiry date.
I wonder how much his salary would be worth if we deducted all the time he seems to spend on personal conversations, personal meetings, private cups of tea, celebrity rounds of golf and general joking around.
Not much I reckon. Probably just the hour or two in question time every couple of weeks.
Private huh. Plenty of journalists around as usual, but any tea pots this time?
Damned journalists, always eavesdropping when he invites them to media events…
Beckham is proof that you don’t need a Phd to earn several million dollars, charm, good looks and a common touch has made David Beckham the international star he is today. David gives hope to all those non academic types out there , proving that with the right amount of talent and timing you can achieve at the highest level.
John Key owes David Beckham an apology for his insulting and ignorant remark.
So it’s ok to be thick so long as you’re good at sports and/or pretty.
Wow, what a smart ass elitist remark.
Says the bourgeois parasite whose every second utterance is a pontification on what the working classes really need and how awful things like reality television are, and how stupid most New Zealanders are etc etc…
By the way, is that use of “ass” instead of “arse” an admission that you work for the CIA – you used to apply that logic to me all the time.
Oh P1, you’re such a effette snob!
Look out. He has done it again!
Key jokingly criticised a red top worn by presenter Jamie Mackay throughout an interview on The Farming Show last week. …
“You’re munted mate you’re never going to make it. You’ve got that gay red top on.”
An expression used by kids to put down other kids? But for a PM????
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10845253
It would seem Key didn’t actually say it too children but that he was overheard by someone else. And if he was talking to a friend or colleague then he is allowed to express his view.
Hell, imagine some of the shit MP’s say about each in private
It would seem that Key was trying to show off to teenage girls that he knew David Beckham, and on an official visit as PM and Parliamentarian he shouldn’t be talking in front of kids as if he were at the pub.
Totally inappropriate.
“It would seem that Key was trying to show off to teenage girls that he knew David Beckham, and on an official visit as PM and Parliamentarian he shouldn’t be talking in front of kids as if he were at the pub.”
Well considering we don’t know if he was in fact talking in front of kids (hell, it could have been in the fucking carpark for all you know) or if any kids heard him don’t think you’re being a little presumptuous? Don’t think the news and teachers would be complaining about John key swearing in front of children if that were the case.
If he’s on the job it’s not private.
Well, since we don’t know the situation, who heard it and in what capacity then it is all speculation.
Was he visiting the school on his day off? Or was he visiting as PM?
If it was as PM then he was on the job.
I don’t care in what capacity he was visiting as.
If he swore in front of school children that is one thing but if it was a comment to a friend or co-worker and was overheard then who gives a shit?
“John Key swears in front of schoolchildren” is a headline.
“John Key tells a friend he thinks Beckham is thick” is not much of a story
Contrarian on one hand you say the capacity / situation is relevant and on the other you say the capacity / situation is irrelevant.
Better watch out you don’t lose all your relevants
It’s all internal, this contrarianism.
Yeah it is, because he’s the P fucking M, and while he’s doing his P fucking M job he’s supposed to be conducting himself with a bit of dignity, decorum, and diplomacy.
If he wants to be a BBQ dickhead all day every day he can fuck off back to Hawaii and do it on his own time.
Why do mad today Felix? Your period?
I’m ok. Why do you ask?
You seem tense
[lprent: Are you talking to yourself? This appears to be a reply to yourself. ]
A classic Key-esque Comment!
While talking to students. At one of the more conservative girls’ schools in town. Much lolz.
Tell me, cont, are you living up to your self-professed apolitical status by arguing on KB that he should apologise for speaking like that to kids while working as our PM?
They are complaining mate, Keys lost a shit load of votes, but doesn’t care. As for the news, Key could set his farts on fire and the NZ Herald would run a story on the PM supporting alternative fuels.
meh, personally if he was addressing student specifically when he said i can see how that is a problem but if he was discussing something with a friend or colleague then he is entitled to an opinion and it is pretty pale in comparison to what MP’s scream at other in the house.
He wanted to show off to the young girls that he and his son had met David Beckham. Sorta lame and juvenile.
“He wanted to show off to the young girls that he and his son had met David Beckham. ”
What unsubstantiated crap
It makes sense, Key wanting to be the cool guy in front of some teenage girls, dissing some famous sports star by talking some trash.
Why would Key be trying to impress some young girls?
No it doesn’t – it doesn’t make any sense that a married man in his 50’s would be trying to impress teenage girls unless you are insinuating Key has tendancies towards you girls
Yawn.
Yes, Key has tendencies toward young girls. The abnormal bit is thinking it’s ok to get sweary with them.
Really, Key likes young girls? Wanna back up that particular piece of slander?
I don’t need to, it’s entirely uncontroversial.
So saying the PM has a liking towards teenage girls is uncontroversial?
I don’t think so, no. Why would it be?
edit: controversial, I mean.
Tendencies towards you girls… Who are you calling a girl?
Besides the fun of watching you guys trying to imply meanings to ambiguous euphemisms, the easy non-controversial answer to “why was key trying to impress schoolgirls” is simple: he’s a vacuous jerk who likes being treated like a big man: new limos, DPS entourage, Letterman, name-dropping, and the synthetic bonding with an audience by implying closeness and trust through the use of naughty words.
Spoilsport :p
lol
To be fair, it’s possible that Key prefers animals to schoolgirls.
Celebrity over substance how the young view the world but the substance (lack of)got in the way!
terrible stuff bat shit!
Never mind. David Shearer will have a tape recording of what he actually said. Oh, wait…
Very pithy.
Why do I get the feeling the Labour party is involved in this beat up.
Boringly Mundane Doh because Key is handing them all the ammunition they need!
I reckon Clare Curran may have something to do with this.
I reckon she didn’t. So where are we now?
Wait a week and see what comes out.
Doesn’t this strike you as another Labour driven attempt to slag of the PM also that Shearer refuses to comment on it , does he know something?
Yea what in the hell are the opposition doing pointing out when the PM is doing things wrong? What the hell has this world come too?
But this is a RNZ reprot based on what the reporter heard. What’s that got to do with Labour?
And why would Labour make up a story that Key talked incoherent smack about David Beckham to some private school girls in Dunedin? No-one would ever believe them.
Why do we demand that people who are good at sport also be smart?
No-one says: that Enrico Fermi may be sharp as a tack, but he is shit at rugger.
Stephen Hawking is brilliant but he is fucking hopeless at water-polo
More an underwater hockey guy
I don’t know Ole, but I think the real question is “Why do we demand that people who are representing us as a nation behave in a diplomatic and dignified manner in public rather than being dickheads 24/7?”
I don’t know, Felix. I think I would prefer that people representing us said what they think, rather than considering their primary responsibility not to offend people. I think the modern fashion for avoiding causing offence is a little tiresome.
Yeah, fuck it. What makes the job so bloody important anyway?
Yeah except when you’re leader of a country, wars happen.
I didn’t realise Posh and Becks were preparing to invade us.
Heard of custard pie wars? Key is a sitter for one ………………….
Be quite cool though. King Becks and Queen Posh. Armani for everyone.
Eh? Are they not royals?
It seems to me the only thing Key is guilty of is insulting bat shit. 🙂
Yeah, you already tried that.
Like I said, it’s nothing to do with the accuracy of the remark, just the appropriateness.
Yes I remember how angry you got when Helen Clark called all residents of the West Coast “feral inbreds”.
Keys comments are probably not as offensive but he still deserves your wrath.
Except she didn’t.
Yes she did. I overheard it. She was speaking privately to a group of intellectually handicap preteens who had all been the victims of incest.
Absolutely disgraceful. I remember at the time how the indignant, but made up anger, came flowing out of me like a volcano. “She’s the P fucking M” I howled.
Joke all you like, you’re still lying.
If I’m wrong, prove it with a source, a reference, a link, anything you can find that shows that Helen Clark “called all residents of the West Coast feral inbreds”.
Hint: we’ve done this all before, and there isn’t one, because she didn’t say it.
How about Clark calling New Zealanders “deeply racist”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/3751531/Acting-giant-reflects-on-NZ-society
Or calling John Campbell a “sanctimonious little creep”
Well, at a guess there are a few hundred thousand NZers out there who ARE deeply racist. Mostly against Maori and Pasifika in my experience.
Ah, but is it (a) any less true than Becks not being the brightest crayon in the box, and (b) any less likely to hurt people’s feelings?
The PM’s a dick, his dickhead statements prove it, what does that make you, running irrelevancies as cover for his poor representation of NZ?
She didn’t say that either.
Here’s the quote, from Sir Ian McKellan, from your own frickin link: “She said to me that New Zealand was really a very racist country, and she was determined to do everything she could as prime minister to change that.”
The way you phrased it you made it look like you were quoting Helen Clark saying “New Zealanders are deeply racist” when you have no record whatsoever of such words being used. It may well be Sir Ian’s summary of an hour-long conversation ffs.
Bit deceptive, mate.
Feeling a bit irony deficient, felix? Key was presented as if he was being quoted directly, although we have no idea of the circumstances.
Interesting that no one has bothered to contradict the John Campbell incident. Predictable.
I refer you to McFlock’s earlier pointing-out-of-the-obvious-to-idiots here: http://thestandard.org.nz/clear-as-batshit/comment-page-1/#comment-543231
According to the reporter present, Key made the comments “while talking to students at Dunedin’s St Hilda’s Collegiate on Friday”.
Seems a pretty clear description of the circumstances. What’s confusing you?
ps I note that you didn’t dispute that you made up the Clark quote.
And to absolutely explicit, the RNZ report here actually states that “Key joked with a group of pupils” when he used the phrase. 10sec in, within even a tory’s attention span.
Apparently, when Key is taking reporters on a photo-op with schoolkids, anything he says during that photo-op is an off the record “personal conversation”.
But keep polishing that turd.
Are you calling Sir Ian a liar?
Nope. Either Key or RadioNZ.
Based on past form, my money’s on Key being a lying prick to cover his arse.
And your gandalf-line was a bit loose with strict reality yourself.
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He’s hedging his bets becasue he thinks maybe Radio NZ’s reporter actually has the recording of him saying it …but is choosing to hold onto that tape …
Always a risk-taker. Taking a long time to learn that you can’t wing it ALL the time when you are PM
GG
Anything this bl—y nact govt touches turns to ‘batshit’
Change regulations,turns to ‘batshit’
Changes to policy, turns to ‘batshit’
The ‘batshit’ leader and his ‘batshit’ ministers should all
resign,to save NZ from any more ‘batshit’ madness.