Slippery John does it again. Asked a clear question by a reporter, he lied to her face. It was only when Fran Mold revealed to Key that she knew he had owned another packet of Tranz Rail shares (purchased and sold while he was asking questions about Tranz Rail in his position as MP) that he admitted the truth. ‘Sorry’ was he eventual position ‘I stuffed up, again’. Well, it’s one thing to stuff up when you’ve got no actual responsibilities, quite another when you’re PM. Can we trust this chump with power? Because ‘oops’ isn’t good enough when you’re leading a country. Here are our favourite posts of the week:
Hand in the till
The public needs to know what went on during that meeting with Rail America. We also need to know the full details of all Key’s holdings and an investigation needs to be held into whether he has misused his position for financial gain anywhere else….[more]
Go the drivers
we have a problem with low wages in New Zealand and tax cuts are not going to help that. What is going to help that is raising wages and it’s good to see Wellington bus drivers doing what they can to make that happen…[more]
Why National won’t win
Kiwis don’t like National – the people and the policies. The innocuous facades they’ve thrown up are losing crediblity and are failing to adequately disguise what’s behind them….[more]
Both Eyes Open shows activism alive and well
I’ve seen many Both Eyes Open posters around Wellington and I know thousands of leaflets from the Hub have been distributed. But this is just the beginning, we need to get tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of leaflets and posters out there before election day. We need more authorised designs sent in for posting on the Hub to be printed off. Bill English says it can’t be done because of the EFA. Show him how wrong he is….[more]
That meeting
…it seems to me that John Key’s meeting with Rail America needs some more explaining. For a start these kinds of meetings don’t just happen of their own accord… [more]
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