I disagree with your ideology but well done.

A: Glimpses:
“We will borrow to fund tax cuts”, “We will privatise our schools”,”The war is over”, “People can go down the road to the cheaper doctor”, “We would love to see wages drop”, “We’ll abolish the fee cap for doctors”, “We’ll give the meat companies $200mill”, “Climate change is not proven”, “We love the Maori Party but will annihilate it”

With apologies, I am moved to verse:

HMS Glimpse:

Oh what a hideous hulk we see
behind the brightly painted Quay
The grinning standard tight concealed
while Press gangs plough the owners’ fields.
The widows’ tears of past forgotten
as Slippery John bestruts the rotten
planks of woe and horror below:
simpering slut of king cargo.

But deep in ancient and caulk and teak
pernicious nature change doth wreak
and God’s great hand works soft and true
to keep His bounty from the Few
and as of yore His will prevails
through lesser creations’ travails -
as worm and rat – (so cruelly hated,
by armies of tory constipated)
fulfil their heavenly designation
(on minimum wage and paltry ration)
and scuttle the gains of others’ blood -
fingering dykes won’t stop this flood!

So watch, dear tories, as history marches on. And be reassured by the fact that those whom you now despise will prevail: for they will have more compassion for your descendants than you ever would have.

And thus,

It seems to me Key was saying that he thinks wages are too high right now, presumably as a result of minimum wage increases, and that it’s his opinion that increases in wage should come as a result of economic growth instead. So yeah, he wants wages to drop, since they’ve been “artificially” increased, then grow as a result of increases in productivity. An opinion most of the right would probably agree with.

Of course, that doesn’t cover the whole “I was talking about Australia” BS.

Is that literally all you’ve got besides the lower wages quote? Are you guys reduced to pasting quotes to win your idealogical argument?

“Yup, that’s a week of shoddy politics by National. They forgot the first rule of being Tories – don’t never tell your plans to people who might not like to hear it, save those comments for meetings with business people and the vague nice stuff for the public.”

Is that anything like the haters and wreckers or last cab of the rank remarks? Or is it only National leaders that make mistakes?

I mean, I knew you guys were fans, but you are clearly in the realm of being a sycophant. It’s quite pathetic.

captcha: newsmen right