And he’s gone.
The real reasons Key has stepped down are unlikely now to see the light of day, because anyone bringing them to the surface would be sued into hell.
So all we are left with to sum up Key’s legacy is with what is already in the public domain.
And that is enough.
Key was in it for Key. He didn’t give a damn about the country, he only cared about being loved by the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind, and Christ did they love him.
His laid back anti-intellectualism allowed NZers with property to not care about those who didn’t. He made it okay to not care about the poor, the homeless, the vulnerable. He made it ok to not have to ask hard or deeper questions.
He made it ok to not give a fuck and be as selfish as he was.
His legacy is the 200 000 kids living on poverty, the 41 000 homeless, entire generations locked out of home ownership and trapped in debt for life, 10 000 prison population, privatisation of social services, colluding with the SIS to attack Phil Goff before the 2011 election, running a dirty politics team out of his office, using far right hate speech bloggers to attack his political opponents, touching a young waitress repeatedly at her place of work and then having one of his stooges pretend to be a PR person when they were really a journalist, lying about mass surveillance, ramming through mass surveillance. And the debt, let’s not forget the legacy of debt Key has left NZ with, billions borrowed for tax cuts, bugger all for the poor…
…Oh and a war crime.
Let’s not forget his war crime.
The blood drenched knighthood this selfish prick will ultimately be given despite ordering a SAS revenge attack that killed and maimed 21 civilians sums up the banality of NZ culture better than any other symbol.
NZ deserved this arsehole, and that’s the saddest most distressing part of his 8 years in power.
Couldn’t agree more.
The relentless vacuous supercilious sneering one eyed bovver boy commentary from the likes of Hosking , Garner, Gower, Hyde, Smith and Williams etc are a by product of that era and are an example of why things have gone so badly wrong for N.Z.
The ignoramuses out there don’t realize, or choose to ignore that N.Z is at the wrong end of the OECD rankings in nearly all the crucial statistics that make for a better society.
The one dimensional thinking out there is breath taking!!
“The real reasons Key has stepped down are unlikely now to see the light of day, because anyone bringing them to the surface would be sued into hell.”
I really want there to be something there which will surface, but really we can be judgmental enough to say that this is all it came down to:
“Key was in it for Key. He didn’t give a damn about the country, he only cared about being loved by the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind, and Christ did they love him.”
That’s all we’ll find, and it should really be enough for any of us who expects duty to motivate politicians. He didn’t bow out because he felt he could no longer do his duty. He bowed out because he wanted to be remembered as that ‘relaxed, chilled out entertainer’ who was loved for being our David Brent in-chief.
According to the Key fanboy insiders I know, the reason wasn’t wasn’t political but closer to home. “Hell hath no fury” and all that.
I hear from people who know people Johnny wouldn’t keep it zipped and the wife put her foot down, quite understandably.
Despite the nauseating crap he said in parliament, he quit because he wanted the glory and the plaudits, and the effort required to work hard for all New Zealanders didn’t have enough glory for his own ego.
No doubt his name will be on the Queens Birthday honours list for a knighthood.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Agree wholeheartedly but the MSM is more worried about “How Hamilton teen Teagan scored a mid-concert selfie with Adele” so there will be no questioning of his legacy. Except by you.. Good work!
Regarding your war crime comment:
It is often said, that one lie leads to another lie. I wonder if that was the case. That thought grows stronger when one considers that Key resigned around the same time as Mataparae was appointed as High Commissioner to London.
Maybe it was just a lucky break for good old tough guy Jerry Mataparae boss of the SAS and simply he was innocently moved around by the then PM to suit his strategic goals…who knows but it has a ring to it. If true it has a very disturbing echo to it. It stinks of rewarding unbecoming behaviour, manipulation of the worst kind. I hope it’s not true. Honour is not simply a word, it’s an behaviour.
The Americans once had a President who said, “I’m not a Crook”, the American didn’t believe him and threw him on the scrap heap of history.Key may have resigned rather than been sacked, maybe thats why he did…it is said that rats leave a sinking ship…could that be true in this case.
If you really want to see the true character of John Key, go into the link below and read his very brief statement, when questioned a few days ago about the botched raids. While Wayne Mapp now concedes there were civilian deaths, Key says he’s proud of the work the SAS has done in Afghanistan!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11824691
With the knowledge he’s had on board for the past seven years of the deaths of innocent civilians, inflicted by NZ military, he comes out now and says he’s proud of the work the SAS has done in Afghanistan! Words only an uncaring callous bastard could possibly say, given recent revelations.
Surely to Christ with this heinous issue, hanging over NZ’s head under his watch as PM, there is no way Key can be given a knighthood! Is there?
NZ deserved this arsehole – nope we didn’t!
+100 SAVE NZ
IT IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT TRUE THAT …”NZ deserved this arsehole, and that’s the saddest most distressing part of his 8 years in power.”
New Zealanders were tricked by a cunning international corporate neolib operator.
Just as well we didnt change our flag to the corporate designed RED PEAK flag ! …as John Key wanted
…and just as well Key was not successful in subverting our democracy and changing New Zealand forever into a corporate subsidiary of TPPA.
New Zealanders have been dumbed down by a derelict and servile and corrupted mainstream media …the mainstream media’s duty should be to inform and act for New Zealanders and their democracy and culture and living standards.
Well it’s hard to argue with any of that. He’s far too narcissistic to have to have stepped down for no real reason. I still hope we find out what the crime was (let’s be honest, it was probably a crime), but perhaps, as you say, we’ll never know.
Marketing can be a very powerful thing – and Key was marketed ‘very well’, that and a compliant media had half of NZ swooning.
For the damage he has done to this country ( and now others it seems) I’m really hoping Keys karma comes round sooner rather than later.
A knighthood for this man is a joke.
PLEASE EXPLAIN!!!
What the F..#%^! does this prick deserve a knighthood for?
Knights were the warlords of the old feudal system. The ones that sacked, pillaged and burnt villages, murdered or enslaved the inhabitants and installed themselves the unwanted, unloved and feared despots. Slew the ancient endangered animal species for trophies, reaped spoils and gold and lorded it over the needy. Then had sycophantic songs composed about their supposed valour and might.
Sounds right to me.
Thanks, I’m sold!
Come on Bert, Knighthoods are for friends of the National Party who are usually crooks in one form or another anyway.
The “Sir” title helps us identify them so much easier and as a result I think it suits the little prick just fine!
Let us hope that when they go to place the sword on Keys shoulder, the sword drops by 6 inches.
Whether or not he DESERVES one is irrelevant on Planet Key.
On Planet Key, a knighthood is his entitlement, and there are a few more lining up after him. It’s a shame the false-toothed Kiwi Mata Hari isn’t the one around to do the dubbing.
@ BERT … one doesn’t have to “deserve” a knighthood or the title of Dame either. All one has to be is a deceitful, corrupt loyal member of the brotherhood and sisterhood, which Key definitely is.
Apart from giving honours to his scurrilous cronies, Key brought back the archaic British honours system so that at the end of his toxic reign, he will be given the title “sir.” Remember the past eight years have been all about him and what he can get from raping and pillaging NZ!
If he’s given a knighthood before the election, nothing will give me more pleasure than to see him stripped of it, after he is held accountable for war crimes in Afghanistan and has to face trial at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, concluding in a guilty verdict, followed by a very long jail sentence. That should strip his face of the smug smirk!
Yep thanks Mary, that would be a huge, ignominious fall for Key and all his loyalists. Disgracefully, it has taken innocent lives for this to happen.
Actually this man did one piece of good.
He made me appreciate our current flag that I never did before.
Because when I saw that souvenir shop tea towel the National Party had thrown together for us, ours never looked better.
That it took $26 plus million to reach that conclusion, not so good!
I heard from a good source that the figure was closer to $40million by the time it all washed up ; but either way, you could have built a lot of State Houses for that kind of money.
But to go down in the history books as the Prime Minister who changed the flag was where his priorities lay……massive massive ego….self interested and huge sense of entitlement….classic money trader profile !!
Same here XRAY.
I always considered the flag to be a piece of rag flying up a flagpole and nothing else. I could not understand for the life of me why people got all excited or emotional about the flag.
But last year, that changed for me, when I came to the realisation we could lose it for some irrelevant tack, reminiscent of John Key’s tenure.
I voted to keep the NZ flag and I’m pleased I did. Because now, every time I see it flying on a pole, I say to myself, it’s us, it’s NZ, it’s our sovereignty and we might have lost it for good.
+1
It’s interesting to see what the crown can do with constant borrowing
” The blood drenched knighthood this selfish prick will ultimately be given despite ordering a SAS revenge attack that killed and maimed 21 civilians sums up the banality of NZ culture better than any other symbol.”
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” NZ deserved this arsehole, and that’s the saddest most distressing part of his 8 years in power.”
Martyn ,… you are right.
And sadly ?… the statement above is the absolute truth.
So if the government does not act and start an independent inquiry, will they take NZ Inc to the international courts?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/90798790/afghan-villagers-engage-nz-lawyer-over-hit-and-run-sas-raid
At least some decent top lawyers have spoken and are about to take action!
John Key: I am NZ’s most popular thief and criminal, hey I got away with it, better than Ned Kelly in Australia. People “love” me as I smile while I can “kill”.
Hah, I am “legal”, he was NOT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly
Oh, you really hate him, don’t you, Martyn?!
He was much easier, a smooth operator, a cunning operator, who knew how to manipulate and exploit the feeble minds, the lack of intellect of most NZers, yes an opportunist, but it was like a “charm” of the devil that befell many in the populace, a true “charm of the devil”, I reckon.
Every one who supported and voted for him, or at least gave him the benefit of the doubt, they are all part of the problem, but as minds have been changed and manipulated, and as most have become serfs and mental prostitutes of sorts, they are even pushing La bour and Greens into making bizarre announcements, trying to “calm” the addicted populace, that they will NOT do anything too “radical” here, it will be steady as, a bit like a softer Key et al.
I cannot believe the idiocy, the feebleness, the cowardice of people in NZ, to fall for such SHIT, damned to hell, do you want a soft landing in HELL, FFS, or do you want a real, functioning, better alternative.
It is time for a real revolution, but with an populace at ransom and otherwise endless mercenaries and cowards, there will NOT be a revolution, what a bunch of hopeless sell out souls this country has become.
Revolution
For what? By whom? The tiny group of socialist losers who whine endlessly and command an audience lower than KDC?
Hahahahahahahahahha
Key was the best PM of a generation. We won, you lost.
You “won”? Are you a speculator in property or shares, or an exploiting employer who only pays the minimum wage? In any case, I would not want your support at any time.
And your “win” may be somewhat short lived, just wait and see what the course of history will bring over the coming years.
A country where major challenges have been left unresolved, where no preparations have been made to deal with climate change, finite resources, an increasingly polluted environment and social divisions, where the havenots will eventually outnumber the property owners and self serving lot.
I suppose that is all that was “won” on lost time, and the ship is about to sink for your kind of voter.
Aaron Gilmore never”won” and I doubt Todd Barclay will “win”
I suppose that will be Key’s legacy “arrogance breeds arrogance”
Key’s final words will be
“Don’t you know who I am, I said more wine”
“McFly” – You won so much you haven’t the balls to use your real name? Some “victory”.
The extremists celebrate this crap, and more, and sadly the UK attack is further proof that the western propaganda is not working, the closing of the ranks may get some support, but having become “multi cultural” beyond recognition, we have endless DIVISION and No UNITY, welcome to the modern immigrant welcoming society, neither LABOUR OR GREENS have the answer either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TCdmy-7-Xw
What stands out for me about John Key is that he did not act alone, he had help and that the National party kept supporting his leadership as long as it was politically expedient for them to do so.
I have no doubt his resignation was forced as he had no respect for the law and had compromised his position but he seemed oblivious to the consequences and only a few months ago was looking at a fourth term something he desperately wanted for a personal legacy.
A lot of people are culpable in allowing Key to have got away with his actions and they are still in a position of power and influence and a lot are sitting in parliament and supported his leadership through a right wing blog attack site and big donations.
And many in the media who have committed the ultimate crime in never holding Key and the others to account knowing that they were being lied to but never pursued and exposed the truth for New Zealanders
He has killed the lives hopes and dreams of thousands of New Zealanders and has turned his back and very easily walked away.
His accomplices are still here and aren’t going away.
Right @Mosa. And that’s the ultimate tragic outcome of the whole performance by Key. A very bad actor his motives were always glaringly apparent to me before he got the job. He’s a puppet an American plant in our political system and he has poisoned us.
And like Mike in AK I too, long ago despaired of the New Zealand people. We are FUCKED!
p.s. awesome rant Bomber quite improved my Friday , cheers!
John Lennon – Working Class Hero Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2SDRQJrawU
Bomber’s right. Serves us right. We Kiwis? Too stupid to inform ourselves, then question and evaluate. Too cowardly to act.
Shame on us. Serves us right. There will be another jonky and we’ll just shuffle and mumble angrily while looking down at our feet.
And I’m just as guilty. I have a nice stack of bricks and I never threw one of them.
Mcfly you’re an idiot, typical rip off rightie statement, call everyone a socialist, yet when a failing corporation gets a tax payer hand out to save its worthless arse, where are you to make your socialist comments then? Oh thats right, getting a ponytail tugging from Johnnie Boy.
Taking pride in ignorance or indifference is not something New Zealanders would have considered possible 30 years ago.
Remember when our governments used to tell us that knowledge was strength and this went hand-in-hand with Kiwi ingenuity?
The beginnings of the change started with Roger Douglas and has continued virtually unabated. Even the previous Labour government was guilty of it.
However, John Key is the first PM of NZ to make it cool to be an ignorant, politically indifferent drone. A New Zealander of the 21st century.
What an achievement.
Of course he couldn’t have done it without a conniving press and media eager to praise his goofy grins, Fush’n Chups character and his fake man of the people veneer. They promoted it because Key was their dream come true. They seldom stopped to consider that this man was not a TV personality, he was supposed to be our Prime Minister. A PM is supposed to act like a leader, not a class clown but seldom did the MSM ever mention this. They wanted a person who could sell papers, a bit of a lad and good for a larf.
In the end we get what we deserve, in our ignorance we asked for it in 2008 and with our wilful indifference we got it again twice.
What we never get mentioned by the MSM is the REAL Key legacy – health, education and police woefully underfunded, and our environment at the mercy of the farming lobby.
Thanks for nothing Mr Key.
One of the most loved and popular PM’s NZ has experienced, adored by the General Public and fawned over by the NZ Media, dragged NZ out of the GFC to become a Rockstar Economy, just like he performed in the business world from very humble beginnings, set a great example to the average New Zealander that anyone can make it today, from a humble background, with application and hard work.
Would be interesting to see how “loved and popular” he really is, without the diplomatic protection squad surrounding him.
Psychopaths frequently exhibit another condition – paranoia.
But in his case, I suspect it’s well founded.
The Crosby-Textor crafted face to sell the ongoing failure of the Rogernomics experiment, he exhibited that rare ability to stare down the barrel of a camera and lie without batting an eyelid.
Aided and abetted by power hungry hangers-on and a corporate run 4th Estate intent on selling the neoliberal lie to the unthinking, unfeeling zombie populace of dear ol’ NZ.
Now he’s run off laughing into the sunset, the bumbling incompetents that hid behind the Key charade have been exposed for all to see.
The Brighter Future – it was only ever meant for him and his masters.
To me John Key enjoyed being the centre of attention that goes with the role of being prime minister of NZ. And that is probably the extent of his interest in New Zilland and New Zillanders. He would avoid talking about more pressing issues eg homelessness; and yet happily told the world that he regularly pee-ed in the shower. And that showed the calibre of John Key. A very shallow and self-obsessed man who sold NZ to whomever had the money and especially enough money to donate to the NZ National Party.
We heard him on the tv and on the radio. We were bombarded at every angle by the John Key Mutual Admiration Society in the form of the NZ Herald with biased towards the National government pro-Key jouranlists writing glowing articles about Key.
But the reality is Key didn’t love New Zilland. He hated New Zilland and New Zillanders. He gained the moniker “Washington’s Man in Wellington”.
Last year one of the stupid Womens magazines wrote an article about Key giving up the top job for love. I read perhaps a couple of sentences of the article but found it a load of bullocks. Key doesn’t love anything or anyone more than money and himself.
Key deserves a knighthood like roger Douglas did for wrecking this country’s social fabric. I know where I’d put that knighting-sword.
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