Where’s John Key?

Dec 16, 2007 at 4:50 PM
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Former prime minister Mike Moore mounted an attack on Helen Clark today in the media over campaign finance. As I heard this broadcast on the radio, I asked myself, ‘Where’s John Key?’
   A guy who is not even in Parliament is doing more work than the Opposition.
   National. Silent during the anti-satire rules being passed in Parliament.
   National. Silent during the visit by HH the Dalai Lama.
   National. Silent while Parliament passed an ex post facto law to legalize formerly illegal election campaign spending.
   If you want a change in 2008, National is not going to give it to you.

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An ex post facto law is as diabolical as can be conceived in the human mind; only a totalitarian government would propose let alone pass such a law. Article 1 section 9 of the U S Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws.

Precisely. I remember this when studying the US Constitution. Sadly, we have no constitution. And, in its absence, we do not have lawmakers who have a basic, fundamental sense of right and wrong, or of nationhood itself. It is fundamental, yet, 120 politicians do not seem to get it.

oh how things have changed since the 90s. National spent years ruining my late teens, student and working life.

I think putting the corpse of Sir Robert Muldoon in the National Caucus would be more effective than its present leadership.

I remember he visited our school in his post-PM days and we learned his favourite song 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'! Stirring stuff. I don't know who this John Keys is.

Don’t worry. No one in New Zealand knows who John Key (singular) is, other than a political half-wit who keeps putting his foot in it. He can do the financial stuff, which is where his roots lie, but as for leading—well, he has yet to prove it with me.

He has the charisma of a wet tea-bag. What is it about NZ politicians that makes them smarmy instead of charming?

I don’t know, but you are so right about that. Lange probably came closest to having charm, in my opinion, and Geoffrey Palmer was a genuine nice guy.

Where’s John Key?

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