Posts Tagged ‘john key’
Key people
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 pm, March 29th, 2012 - 50 comments
The people named as Bronwyn Pullar’s support team seem to be the same people that helped John Key into the National Party and then into the leadership.
Like they say – it’s not what you know…
What a jerk
Written By: - Date published: 7:41 am, March 27th, 2012 - 36 comments
After months of attacking the media and bringing the weight of the state against a freelance cameraman, John Key is “turning the other cheek”.
What a jerk
John Key and POAL
Written By: - Date published: 1:26 pm, January 23rd, 2012 - 43 comments
With the house due to sit in a couple of weeks John Key’s people will be weighing up their response to the POAL dispute.
My guess is they’ll base their decision on what they can get away with politically.
Whatever they do it’ll be no good for the port workers and certainly no good for Key’s goal of closing the wage gap with Australia.
3 more years of this
Written By: - Date published: 2:08 pm, December 12th, 2011 - 37 comments
On Breakfast this morning, John Key said that losing a confidence vote “by definition, constitutionally means a snap election”. No. If a government loses the House’s support, then another one can be formed that does have Parliament’s support. Only if that cannot happen is there an election. Key has been PM for 3 years. He should know the basics.
The puppet Act
Written By: - Date published: 11:00 pm, December 5th, 2011 - 163 comments
Funny how John Banks has got so much more out of his coalition deal with National than Peter Dunne did despite Dunne having more leverage than Banksie.
It’s almost like National wanted to pack all of their hard right policy into Act’s deal so they could employ it without dirtying themselves.
Keeping the help in line
Written By: - Date published: 7:20 pm, November 24th, 2011 - 37 comments
Keeping up brand Key means keeping the help in line.
Just pity the poor buggers that have to help hold that facade up.
A police recruitment freeze?
Written By: - Date published: 9:54 pm, November 23rd, 2011 - 43 comments
Phil Goff broke news of the Nat’s plan to freeze police recruitment but keep it quiet until after the election.
That policy’s at odds with some fundamental Nat claims.
Update: A freeze on replacement cops would see hundreds fewer on the job after just one year.
Teapot fiasco becomes an international embarrassment
Written By: - Date published: 7:48 am, November 18th, 2011 - 58 comments
The teapot fiasco has become an international story.
And it’s making us look like a banana republic.
Is this what John Key means when he says he’s “ambitious for New Zealand”?
Dirty politics ironic lolz
Written By: - Date published: 8:22 pm, November 15th, 2011 - 111 comments
Well it’s been quite the day of ironic Key hypocrisy lolz.
It’s also been a day that’s shown Russel Norman’s not much better.
Key misleads the house
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, October 10th, 2011 - 51 comments
Looks like John Key has been caught in yet another lie.
You couldn’t make this sh*t up
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 pm, September 30th, 2011 - 16 comments
I missed it at the time but apparently John Key’s big plan for Christchurch was to have a yarn to Oprah.
What kind of weird fantasy world does this guy live in?
Democracy an expensive waste of time – Key
Written By: - Date published: 10:11 pm, June 26th, 2011 - 152 comments
According to our Prime Minister democracy is simply an expensive waste of time. Not surprising as democracy isn’t exactly something this bully government gives a lot of thought to.
Just like Ruth, Jim and Jenny
Written By: - Date published: 9:48 pm, May 30th, 2011 - 131 comments
Having wrecked the economy and put tens of thousands of workers on the dole queue John Key is now planning to give them another kick in the guts by cutting their benefits.
And of course that’ll help drive wages down too.
To anyone that lived through the 1990’s this bullshit should be very very familiar by now.
Your chance to ask John the hard questions
Written By: - Date published: 2:36 pm, May 26th, 2011 - 47 comments
John wouldn’t answer our readers’ questions but he’s out in New Plymouth this Tuesday.
Get along and ask him the hard questions if you can.
And if you can’t get there make sure you email your question to editor@dailynews.co.nz
The “big issues”
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 am, May 12th, 2011 - 77 comments
John Key is whinging about how labour isn’t focusing on the “big issues”
But he and his government have been avoiding the big issues for years.
That’s not surprising given how badly they do on these big issues. But it’s still pitiful to see them whinging about it.
They made this guy the minister of tourism?
Written By: - Date published: 6:12 pm, May 10th, 2011 - 102 comments
I was wondering why Key’s team weren’t trying to milk his upcoming hardtalk interview for PR like they have with his other international media appearances.
I guess now we know…
Two term John?
Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, May 8th, 2011 - 77 comments
Selwyn Manning’s sources in the National party have confirmed John Key is considering leaving parliament next term even if National wins.
That’s not surprising: Key clearly wants to leave a popular legacy and the hard right agenda National has planned if it wins will make such a legacy unlikely.
John Key’s $800,000 funnies
Written By: - Date published: 9:08 pm, May 6th, 2011 - 45 comments
Turns out John Key quite likes making jokes about his DPS entourage.
I wonder if he finds it even funnier that we’re the ones picking up the $800k bill for them.
Protocol
Written By: - Date published: 6:44 am, May 6th, 2011 - 129 comments
Judith Collins has broken protocol to defend John Key’s overuse of the DPS.
Looks to me like the threats they’re most concerned about are the threats to brand Key.
And they’ll pick and chose the rules they want to defend it.
$800,000 for PR props
Written By: - Date published: 8:34 pm, May 5th, 2011 - 103 comments
John Key’s vanity has cost us another $800k
And the nats have the gall to tell us to tighten our belts?
What a joke.
So what’s changed?
Written By: - Date published: 9:32 am, April 22nd, 2011 - 64 comments
In 2008 John Key attacked the Labour government on high prices and low wages.
In 2011 he’s telling us the government can’t help.
So what’s changed?
“Politics of envy”
Written By: - Date published: 10:03 pm, April 20th, 2011 - 77 comments
National Party blogger David Farrar is whining about the “politics of envy”.
He seems to think we shouldn’t be mean to Key because he’s rich and making us poor.
Cry me a river.
The emperor’s new clothes
Written By: - Date published: 7:38 am, April 20th, 2011 - 106 comments
Fancy suits for John.
User pays family court for us.
Plurality support quake levy
Written By: - Date published: 11:29 am, April 4th, 2011 - 4 comments
A UMR poll shows that 40% of Kiwis support paying an earthquake levy to help pay for the Christchurch rebuild. 22% prefer more borrowing, and 29% want spending cuts. Asked just whether they supported or opposed a levy – 57% supported it. Yet the Nats are choosing cuts instead.
Good company?
Written By: - Date published: 3:46 pm, February 18th, 2011 - 21 comments
Our PM in the company of his peers?
Limos for me, job cuts for youse
Written By: - Date published: 11:22 pm, February 15th, 2011 - 135 comments
Last week, Key says Kiwis “have to tighten their belts, we have to do the same”. More job cuts for public servants. This week, buying 34 $200,000 limos for him and his mates to replace 3 year old ones. How many teachers would that employ?Not the cars that need replacing after 3 years. It’s this government. Good on Goff for giving up the limos.
Key’s priorities laid-bare
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, February 7th, 2011 - 24 comments
When a millionaire director and a foreign corporate wanted millions in tax breaks, Key jumped to it. When SCF collapsed the investors got an average of $60K, no questions asked. But when it comes to helping the ordinary families of Christchurch and the West Coast, the Nats are nowhere to be seen once the cameras are gone.
Useless ministers wasting our money
Written By: - Date published: 10:40 am, February 3rd, 2011 - 5 comments
Crushless Collins’ double-bunking money saver costing $2.6m.
Shock! Paying someone else to build and operate our schools won’t save money.
Nat-appointed public service chiefs paid to air-commute. Pay cuts for frontline.
Key smiles at launch of new science ministry, waves in $3m of science funding cuts.
Hey Laydeez
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, January 30th, 2011 - 296 comments
Is it just me or is the idea of our Prime Minister joking around with Tony Vietch (a guy who threw his fiance down the stairs before kicking her in the back) about celebrities he’d like to shag just a little creepy?
Why are Turia & Sharples cuddling up to Key?
Written By: - Date published: 9:53 am, January 25th, 2011 - 22 comments
At this stage in the electoral cycle, government support parties are usually looking to try to differentiate themselves from the main governing party. They need to do this to show they still hold true to their own values and have a separate identity that is worth voting for. The Maori Party is doing to opposite.
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