Posts Tagged ‘john key’

Working Class Hero

Written By: Tane - Date published: 12:57 pm, October 5th, 2007 - 3 comments

(Via Concerned of Linwood)

Political suicide on bFM

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 6:02 pm, October 4th, 2007 - Comments Off on Political suicide on bFM

What is it with National Party leaders and their apparent desire to commit political suicide on bFM? First Don Brash’s sensational harakiri moment when, after a week of teeth pulling torment as he wiggled and squirmed away from the truth, he finally admitted that he knew that it was the Exclusive Brethren behind anti-government pamphlets […]

John Key’s global humiliation

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:51 pm, October 4th, 2007 - 1 comment

Too late – John’s humiliation is now global. Here’s the UK Guardian’s blog. “New Zealand’s opposition leader, John Key, the head of the centre right National Party, has an interesting take on the Iraq war, one perhaps not seen since George Bush stood on the USS Abraham Lincoln with a Mission Accomplished banner behind him. […]

John Key to address UN General Assembly

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 10:21 am, October 4th, 2007 - Comments Off on John Key to address UN General Assembly

But seriously. Can you imagine it? Clark and Key are chalk and cheese & and hardly anywhere more so than on their grasp of foreign policy. While Clark has spent the last week or so furthering our country’s interests abroad, Key’s had his foot firmly in his mouth. I only hope that the international media […]

Paul Henry finally gets some balls

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 3:31 pm, October 3rd, 2007 - 3 comments

The media is clearly tiring of John Key’s vacuousness. You know the tide is turning when even Paul Henry turns on the Nats. I’ve embedded a two minute clip to show the tone of the interview. Here’s the link to the full piece.

Wishing won’t make it so, John

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 2:26 pm, October 3rd, 2007 - 2 comments

My surprise has given way to anger. How dare John Key belittle the ongoing death and suffering in Iraq by dismissively claiming the war is over? Evidently he’s of much the same mind he was to begin with: Iraq is “too far away” to have an opinion on (Media ‘standup’, 2007).

Back to the future (again)

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 9:51 am, October 1st, 2007 - 4 comments

So John Key wants to sell our schools. The National caucus must be a strange place to be right now. Feeling kind of good to be ahead in the polls but knowing that every time you release any real policy you’re going to take a hit. What this latest admission shows is that National hasn’t […]

John Key’s Porirua market adventure

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 11:08 pm, September 24th, 2007 - 9 comments

Presumably the Nats are packing themselves about the proposed extension of the campaign spending period and are trying to jam their costs into this year. Evidently, someone at National Party HQ (David Farrar?) thought it might be a good idea to send John Key to visit Porirua market recently with a TV production crew. Perhaps […]

Is the world voting for.nothing?

Written By: Z K Muggletonspofin - Date published: 10:23 pm, September 16th, 2007 - 1 comment

In a perceptive potshot at the perennial broadcasting gnome, Paul Holmes, Jane Bowron in her Dominion Post ‘Televiews’ piece of 13 September described the aforementioned wee fella’s return to TV One with Whatever happen to.? in unflattering terms. It seems that Bowron is unimpressed by Holmes parading a level of opportunism and shallowness, having returned […]

A sudden end to the Schadenfreude

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 9:55 pm, August 31st, 2007 - 1 comment

From bFM yesterday – Mickey Havoc interviews John Key… Mickey Havoc: “But you wouldn’t compare her to Muldoon? That’s what I’m asking…” John Key: “No” Mickey Havoc: “Alright” powered by ODEO

John, I am your father

Written By: Tane - Date published: 1:54 am, August 30th, 2007 - 3 comments

There’s been a bit of excitement round the traps today over this picture from Stuff.co.nz, which tries to merge Helen Clark’s face into Rob Muldoon’s. Naturally, National Party blogger David Farrar has been wallowing like a pig in shit over Mike Moore’s comments in the Herald comparing the two, and he seems to think the […]

If you can’t take the heat…

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 4:45 pm, August 27th, 2007 - 5 comments

The National Party have been complaining about the increasing scrutiny on John Key’s business dealings. First, his association with the “Earl of Auckland” property development firm that’s attempting to go into liquidation to avoid leaky building costs and second the nature of his involvement at Elders during the Equiticorp scandal of the 1980s – both […]

Key’s missing compass

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 12:56 pm, August 26th, 2007 - 3 comments

In the Weekend Herald today, Fran O’Sullivan opines: “By drawing out his opponents before they even noticed Key was using the type of classic defensive move that would be natural to a high stakes foreign exchange trader”. If she’s right she may have identified a superficial strength gleaned from his many years in the money […]

The Earl of Auckland’s a drip

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 3:58 pm, August 23rd, 2007 - Comments Off on The Earl of Auckland’s a drip

Cheney shoots himself in the face

Written By: Tane - Date published: 6:15 pm, August 22nd, 2007 - Comments Off on Cheney shoots himself in the face

Seems John Key’s not the only politician who’s had his previous statements on Iraq come back to bite him recently. Here’s Dick Cheney in 1994 explaining why the invasion and occupation of Iraq would not be the smartest course of action and would quickly become, in his own words, “a quagmire”. Interestingly, even in 2000 […]