Posts Tagged ‘john key’

Trotter on Key’s conference speech

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 4:12 pm, August 22nd, 2007 - 1 comment

Further to ZKM’s post below it really was a great article last week from Chris Trotter on John Key’s weak National Party conference speech that asserts: A disastrous speech to the National Party conference puts an end to John Key’s honeymoon with the voters. I normally just link to the complete article but the online […]

John Key is sick, just sick of eating pies

Written By: Z K Muggletonspofin - Date published: 6:48 pm, August 20th, 2007 - Comments Off on John Key is sick, just sick of eating pies

Don’t ever underestimate a wounded National leader. John Key is smarting over his National Party Conference Speech. What’s his problem? To begin, he’s not happy that few people, even the party faithful at conference, didn’t buy into his rewriting of New Zealand’s political history. Here’s a sample: “Back in 1936, when Labour was concerned with […]

Trotter on the Key man

Written By: Z K Muggletonspofin - Date published: 11:18 pm, August 19th, 2007 - Comments Off on Trotter on the Key man

Chris Trotter’s article last week in the Independent is worth a read & when I find a link I’ll provide it. Trotter says that John Key’s disastrous speech to the National Party Conference puts an end to Key’s honeymoon with the voters. It’s worse than that. The National Party strategy is based on keeping Key […]

More golf with John

Written By: Z K Muggletonspofin - Date published: 5:48 pm, August 17th, 2007 - 1 comment

John Key is not a good golfer, at least not in my imaginings. Lovely practice swings, but very, very, poor execution. “Just a big showpony” muttered one of the playing party after just a short time on the course. Bill English, on the other hand is a good golfer, in an agricultural sort of way. […]

Key plays a Big Bertha off a par 3

Written By: Z K Muggletonspofin - Date published: 5:17 pm, August 16th, 2007 - 3 comments

Use your imagination for a moment; John Key playing a round of golf with some new mates. Well, the first time we did this was on the lush fairways of the Helensville Golf Club. He introduced himself with a firm handshake and impressed everyone with his telegenic good-looks and eye-contact. The conversation quickly moved to […]

Get your story straight John

Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 3:04 pm, August 15th, 2007 - 8 comments

“New Zealand troops should be alongside their British and United States allies as they continue their invasion of Iraq” … “Blood is thicker than water… we have to look to the future, and that isn’t with some Franco-German coalition” (Rodney Times, 2003) But then the flip-flop… Iraq is “too far away” to have an opinion […]