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1. pollywog 1

   8 July 2010 at 9:30 am

   for 175 i’d want to be pissing myself laughing for the full hour…

   as is, i’m finding very little to laugh and be happy about Key’s policies, although he does give good clown face

   but i’m reminded of Lennox Lewis comment about David Tua back in the day. “It’s gonna take more than a funny haircut and a big left hook to become world champ”
2. Bob Stanforth 2

   8 July 2010 at 10:38 am

   Yeah, what the hell was he thinking, supporting NZ industry, the man is an idiot.

   Oh…
3. ianmac 3

   8 July 2010 at 10:44 am

   Does his presence/contact actually change anything? I thought it was the graft of business interests that counted and politicians basked in reflected glory. It was the Clark Govt that set it in motion and Key claims the credit. Typical!
   • Bob Stanforth 3.1

     8 July 2010 at 10:48 am

     Well, just think, if Labour had won the election, they could have taken the glory! They didn’t, she cant, life is a bitch like that sometimes isn’t it?
     • travellerev 3.1.1

       8 July 2010 at 12:00 pm

       Funny how it is that if you think that John Key is a piece of shit it automatically means you are in favour of Labour. In time with the MMP system that will change of course. That’s when you discover that all politicians are pieces of shit except the very, very few and you become very, very careful about who you vote for.
     • Bright Red 3.1.2

       8 July 2010 at 8:43 pm

       Ah yes, the glory of opening a pizza shop.

       Unwittingly, Bob is referencing the same simpsons episode:

       ‘When I started this clown thing, I thought it would be nothing but glory. You know, the glory of being a clown’
4. Julie 4

   8 July 2010 at 10:46 am

   I was flabbergasted by this. Minister of Pizza? I wondered how the Ambassador felt having to attend and wear an “Ambassador to Pizzastan” apron. Is our PM going to now attend the opening of every NZ business overseas? Or only the ones that provide cheesy (boom boom) photo ops?
5. felix 5

   8 July 2010 at 11:26 am

   Well whaddaya expect the Minister of Pizza to do, eh?
6. the sprout 6

   8 July 2010 at 11:33 am

   i wonder if he’ll be popping over to Tokyo for a quick photo-op at Bethune’s release?
   yeah…. nah 😉
7. The Voice of Reason 7

   8 July 2010 at 12:28 pm

   Hmmm, I wonder if Key is a closet bully. A few days ago he’s threatening to tazer an All Black, now he’s putting the hard word on his own kid. Nasty.

   And how is this chinese pizza parlour any of his beezwax anyway? Presumably the only time NZ will see any of the profits is when the owners come home on holiday, so WTF is the Keyster doing there? The owners wouldn’t be mates of his, would they?
8. tc 8

   8 July 2010 at 1:04 pm

   Perspective please people……a corpratocracy got elected not an open gov’t that cares it gives value and this is the smile and wave CEO that fronts it whilst the real work’s done by the unseen and seldom heard……and I don’t mean Trolley/Crusher and other front people.

   That’s why that can’t face serious questions……they don’t carry pre scripted answers.
9. comedy 9

   8 July 2010 at 1:50 pm

   It’s outrage he should’ve died his hair ginga and run around in circles shouting “gimme back my flag, gimme back my flag, gimme back my flag.”
   • Rex Widerstrom 9.1

     8 July 2010 at 3:30 pm

     Or composed some choleric rant about white mofos… or had a few off the wrist in a hotel room… or had a go at turning the Parliamentary library into a propaganda factory… or magically stopped crime by, err, waiting for someone to commit three crimes…

     Yep, it’s not a clown we’re paying for, it is (with a handful of exceptions) a complete friggin’ circus.
     • comedy 9.1.1

       8 July 2010 at 3:39 pm

       And it’ll get no better over time scroll to picture number 4.

       http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/national/politics/3895467/Youth-MPs-experience-parliament

       I think they’ve been cloning current MPs
       • Rex Widerstrom 9.1.1.1

         8 July 2010 at 4:57 pm

         Strewth! Not just picture 4, but the whole bloody lot of ’em!

         I try not to judge a book by it’s cover, I really do… but I can’t escape the conclusion that our next generation of Parliamentarians have more than a few blank pages between their covers 😈
         • Craig Glen Eden 9.1.1.1.1

           8 July 2010 at 6:35 pm

           Just as well you didn’t get their then aye Rex.
           Come on Rex they are just kids showing a interest in politics which lets face it, if more adults had done the same when they were kids we might not have such a useless Government. We laugh about the Clown being Prime Minister but what does it say about the adult population who voted for a man that had no view/opinion on the Springbock tour.
10. Jim Nald 10

    8 July 2010 at 9:57 pm

    What’s he ambitiously trying to be? Toss pot?
11. Shazzadude 11

    11 July 2010 at 1:45 am

    Now I’m not John Key’s biggest fan, but tell the full story guys-a pizza shop in Beijing being owned and operated by a NEW ZEALANDER. Such a venture would’ve been unimaginable 20 years ago, and the opening of this store is quite symbolic of the changes Sino-Kiwi trade relations have made, and will continue to make given the FTA.
    • The Voice of Reason 11.1

      11 July 2010 at 7:53 am

      Dead right about the changes in China, Shazzadude, it’s quite remarkable how the former communists have embraced capitalism, but this business has nothing to do with the FTA. No trade involved at all. In fact, there is no economic benefit to NZ from this business at all that I can see and I’m still wondering why Key felt it was worth his time to attend. Other than it being a cutesy photo op, of course.

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