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An arrogant PM

Written By: - Date published: 2:36 pm, April 26th, 2012 - 41 comments

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Ignoring public opposition, attacking the media, “advising himself” to do whatever he wants, it doesn’t add up tp a very pretty picture.

Meanwhile the economy…

Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, March 23rd, 2012 - 15 comments

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Plenty of high-profile bad news headlines for the Nats. At least it takes the focus of the boring old economy.

Postcards from the “brighter” future

Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, March 10th, 2012 - 24 comments

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Hey John – where’s our “Brighter Future”? Hey National voters – was this what you voted for?

False economy

Written By: - Date published: 11:13 am, March 6th, 2012 - 16 comments

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Nationals bungling on the economy continues to damage NZ. Even their misguided state sector job cuts have failed to make significant savings…

How we got where we are

Written By: - Date published: 7:35 am, November 24th, 2011 - 39 comments

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Last election we had a choice between competent economic management and a bunch of hollow promises. We made a poor choice then, and the record shows that we have wasted three years as a result.  Coming up to this election we don’t need more tired Nat excuses, we need solutions. Bring back Labour!

$22 Billion minutiae

Written By: - Date published: 10:00 pm, July 6th, 2011 - 131 comments

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There can’t be many Kiwis who don’t know about the severity of the leaky homes crisis.  Or can there?  Oh don’t worry, he’s only the PM after all…

lprent: pushed this up the page again now that the program has aired.

Who has the ideas?

Written By: - Date published: 7:07 am, May 26th, 2011 - 61 comments

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Last week we had National’s budget and Labour’s conference.  A chance for both parties to set out their ideas for the future.  National’s do-nothing budget went down like a lead balloon, while Labour started setting out promising new policy.  Looks like the 2011 election campaign will  be a contest between ideas and schoolboy mockery.

100% Clueless

Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, May 13th, 2011 - 86 comments

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When confronted with the scientific evidence on the hollowness of our “100% Pure” slogan John Key, as usual, tried to attack the credibility of the source.  Key said “He’s one academic and, like lawyers, I could provide you others who would give a counter view”.   Now the source (Dr Mike Joy) has called the PM on his clueless claim.

Friday photo op

Written By: - Date published: 3:27 pm, November 5th, 2010 - 41 comments

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Labour Party leader and PM of  Japan John Key talks to visiting US President Hillary Clinton.

A noose around students’ necks

Written By: - Date published: 9:35 am, October 22nd, 2010 - 21 comments

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Every time I think John Key can’t get any more cynical and hypocritical in his messaging, he manages to take it to a new level.  Apparently spending money on the education system will create “a noose around the neck of young New Zealanders”…

Key’s economic bravado now reduced to whining

Written By: - Date published: 7:04 am, October 21st, 2010 - 24 comments

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In three short years John Key and National have gone from economic bravado, to failure, to lies, excuses and whining.  As the economy languishes they will have nothing to offer except more lies and excuses.

This is a time for fresh thinking, both globally and locally.  But we won’t get it from National.

For the economic record

Written By: - Date published: 6:03 am, August 3rd, 2010 - 119 comments

John Key The Rapture Election night 2008

John Key trotted out a huge lie in Parliament last week: “It took 9 years for Labour to make a complete and utter mess of the economy; it might take a bit longer than that for us to sort it out”. Let’s compare National and Labour’s economic records shall we.

Labour 12% ahead in the polls!

Written By: - Date published: 10:14 am, August 2nd, 2010 - 30 comments

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I’m very pleased to report that Labour has leapt to a dramatic 12% lead in the opinion polls over National! It’s looking good for 2011! Bravo Phil Goff and the rest of the Labour team.

Key a dim bulb

Written By: - Date published: 3:22 pm, May 17th, 2010 - 40 comments

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Our PM is now an international laughing stock, having been nominated by the San Francisco Examiner as “Dim bulb of the week” for his cannibal joke. Nor are Key’s most recent comments on the Tuhoe deal likely to help matters…

Clueless forgot to pay the bill?

Written By: - Date published: 2:05 pm, March 22nd, 2010 - 15 comments

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I regret to inform the world that John Keys domain has run out of money and is in the process of expiring (much like this government will eventually do). This is a pity as http://johnkey.co.nz has probably has the highest hit rate of any of the National party websites.This is because there has been a …

John Key discovers new word. Country celebrates.

Written By: - Date published: 12:09 pm, February 23rd, 2010 - 17 comments

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This morning the DomPost ran an article by Tracy Watkins about several ministers misusing their ministerial credit cards for personal entertainment. They obtained the information by doing OIAs (Official Information Act requests). Now I’ve come to expect that NACT ministers will do (in John Keys words) “stupid” things in office. But what I found significant was that John Key appears to have discovered the use of a new word “disappointment”. This is a major advance for the NACT political vocabulary.

John Key’s “step change”

Written By: - Date published: 9:27 am, February 10th, 2010 - 14 comments

Any questions?

Light at the end of the tunnel

Written By: - Date published: 6:56 am, November 16th, 2009 - 21 comments

We’ve been in the tunnel of love too long. (You youngsters can go look it up.) The media’s affair with our personable but apparently useless PM has been a trying time for we lefties. But I think there are glimmers of light at the end of the tunnel. Those glimmers come in the form of several …

Clueless on ACE

Written By: - Date published: 4:21 pm, October 21st, 2009 - 32 comments

Night classes Adult and Community Education (ACE). An incredibly cost effective and valuable part of the NZ education sector for decades. The ACE budget has been eviscerated by National, cut from $16m to $3m. Effectively a death blow, most of the infrastructure and expertise will go. These are stupid hypocritical cuts, and there is huge …

Stick to Acting

Written By: - Date published: 3:47 pm, August 7th, 2009 - 20 comments

John explains how what he said was taken out of context, and he outlines his views on climate change.

Caption Competition

Written By: - Date published: 3:25 pm, August 7th, 2009 - 35 comments

Who’s clueless?

Written By: - Date published: 8:48 am, September 12th, 2008 - 47 comments

Visit google.co.nz search for the word “clueless” then hit “I’m feeling lucky”. I wonder where you’ll end up… Update: Make sure you select “pages from New Zealand”

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