Comments on: Key’s “sloppy” excuse on uranium shares

By: Kiwipolitico » Blog Archive » Unmix these metaphors

Kiwipolitico » Blog Archive » Unmix these metaphors — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:55:28 +0000

[...] recognise the symbolic matter in play: both required abject, cringing apologies. Key’s “sloppy” uranium shares, which he was “too busy running the country” to recall owning is [...]

By: Camden Whelk

Camden Whelk — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:38:47 +0000

Forget about whether ‘sloppy’ is a poor excuse for a prime minister! We are supposed to accept ‘sloppy’ as an acceptable excuse from someone who worked as an investment banker! Not a good look! The smiling assassin is showing himself to be incompetent.

By: sk

sk — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:48:28 +0000

What he meant to say was “small technical issue, I’ve been busy running the country into the ground”

By: BLiP

BLiP — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:56:37 +0000

Its been getting a fair amount of air time – one sloppy second after the other.

By: felix

felix — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:31:19 +0000

I just wonder if anyone’s going to make him answer the awkward questions about it. The “meerkats” have been getting restless lately but are they hungry yet?

By: BLiP

BLiP — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:24:09 +0000

One also has to wonder: if he can’t run his own affairs, is he in fact capable of running the country?

By: George.com

George.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:14:46 +0000

Has Key actually mislead Parliament on this one?

When asked in Parliament why he hadn’t paid closer attention to his share portfolio, Key gave the reply that “small technical issue, I’ve been busy running the country”.

That statement must come close to misleading Parliament.

He is the PM in name, so from a position as figurehead he could argue that
‘he has been running the country’.

From a sutstantive position however, his claim in untenable. Surely photo opportunities, overseas holidays and doing little in no ways counts as ‘running the country’.

By: Armchair Critic

Armchair Critic — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:31:42 +0000

Saying “I was a bit sloppy” pales in comparison to the outright lie in the the preceding sentence in the transcript of question time today, where he says …”I have been busy running the country.” Busy? Running the country? Yeah, right.
http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Business/QOA/9/e/8/49HansQ_20100216_00000012-12-Mining-in-Conservation-Areas-Prime-Minister.htm

By: andy (the other one)

andy (the other one) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:28:50 +0000

So Helen signing the painting was ok then, in your opinion?

Key is not helping himself, this was an easy fix. Put it in the blind trust, plead ignorance. The narrative that is starting to form is that he is a little sloppy with all his arrangements personal and political, sloppy with policy execution, sloppy with support party arrangements. Basically he is sloppy on detail, unless its how much and when he bought the shares. Then his memory was fine.

Please name a big policy this govt has launched that has gone smoothly and been well executed?

Supercity = sloppy
National strandards= sloppy
tax cuts=failed
cycle way = sloppy
job summit = talk fest
Whanau ora = who knows what it will end up like
Gerry Brownlee = always sloppy (especially in running the house)
Bill English housing rort = theft as a servant

By: Fisiani

Fisiani — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:03:49 +0000

This is a serious issue and is self evidently the main talking point tonight in every house in New Zealand and at every barbie and workplace. McGehan Close is up in arms. The coaliton of the willing is collapsing. Keep up this line of attack and hope for an electoral victory in the 22nd century.

By: gitmo

gitmo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:53:17 +0000

No being PM is about being popular when the election comes around, expecting honesty from politicians is fantasy land stuff… remember that they have been voted a poor second to used car salesman by the NZ public in trustworthiness stakes for several decades now.

By: zelda

zelda — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:41:57 +0000

The lawyer excuse was used in 2008 by John Key when he previously was recorded in different documents living in different houses at the same time.

Hes never accountable for his actions and his weasel words makes Bill Clinton sound like Moses

By: Michael Foxglove

Michael Foxglove — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:41:07 +0000

Your thoughts are noted. But I think, wrong. Being PM is about honesty as much as policy.

By: gitmo

gitmo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:12:21 +0000

No I think it’s a fucking waste of time and a distraction from where you should be going after the government as per Reddy below

By: Michael Foxglove

Michael Foxglove — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:06:35 +0000

Gitmo. This is not an “attack line” as you suggest. It’s a serious issue – Key is trying to pull the wool over our eyes on an issue of personal trust. Don’t you think this is a topic worth traversing, especially in light of his deeply misleading reaction after being caught out on the Tranz Rail shares?