Key has been forced to u-turn after the backlash at his illegal plans to spend tax payer dollars to pay for a defamation case.
I don’t think Key’s people didn’t know it was illegal – they knew – they were just trying it on, because that’s what we have in John Key, a Prime Minister who just tries it on.
Most of the time it works. He tried it on with sending troops to Iraq, tried it on by ramming through mass surveillance powers, tried it on by running a dirty smears team out of his office, tried it on by selling 49% of our assets to prop up irrigation in the South Island.
He’s tried it on with this stupid bloody flag debate.
Key is a PM who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing – he has the political ethics of a hungry shark, no guiding principles, no central core values, just the expediency of the moment.
That such vacancy of ethics is desirable and is celebrated in NZ says a lot about those who vote National.
I/S put it nicely when he said (paraphrased):
Politicians always like to say ‘it’s within the rules’ when they have done something morally indefensible.
Why would he pay for it? The idea is completely absurd to him.
I’ve only just walked past a larger real estate company’s office’s in Papanui, Ch Ch. They must have been having meetings because all their cars were parked along the street. BMW’s, Audi,Merc’, Jaguar.
That’s a lot of expensive tin for otherwise unemployable individuals selling debt to shell shocked Kiwi’s in the guise of value in real estate when in reality it’s debt sold to us via our banking system but perhaps worse, we have no control over that. And jonky is at the helm of that corrupt system of treachery and treason. I think jonky’s a criminal and I have no doubt at all that, that could be proven if someone was able to look closely enough.
If you examine the appropriate statutes you will discover that most of what central government and local government do is in contravention of statutes.
The problem is no one in a position to do anything about is prepared to hold them to account. So the criminal behaviour continues.
WHEN will a governor general EVER GROW BALLS LIKE AUSTRALIA HAD ONCE WHEN THEY THREW GOUGH WHITLAM OUT IN 1975?
ITS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE THEN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
except his choice of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam to throw out ( who the Americans did not like and wanted out) was bad!…and that right wing stooge Governor General was vilified and came to a sorry end
…also I dont think the Queen approved of throwing Whitlam out
this is why they need to spy on New Zealanders..and why they did what they did to investigative journalist Nicky Hager
( and the Labour Party aids and abets jonkey nactional…and in fact has extended spying on New Zealanders by enabling foreign countries to legally spy on New Zealanders!…it is appalling)
I would love to know who the 88 were who were illegally spied on eg would they have been: Ranganui Walker, Nicky Hager, Russel Norman,
Winston Peters…people who ask inconvenient questions and point to inconvenient truths
Well said.
So CB now that you’ve tumbled to the fact that Key is a dodgy pr**k. Here’s a few leads. Elders IXL Key worked for them in Aussie in his first bit of employment over there. They went belly up just after he left. Bankers Trust. Check out key’s history with the dodgy sods involved here . This is where he was nicknamed the smiling assassin. Bankers Trust went on to be sued by Proctor and Gamble because of their derivatives trading in the 90’s and theri continuing destabising of companies. Next Merrill Lynch. Further back Key’s raid on the NZ currency in 1988 when he worked with the infamous Andrew Kruzenier a legendary New York currency trader.Key was one of 4 key bankers hired by the Fed to lobby for the repeal of of the Glass Steagal Act which prevented the massive derivatives trade that created the 2008 slump.This was his last job before being sent to NZ to fu** us over as our political leader.His expertise is in buying and selling short. Manipulating currencies and creating derivative markets. None of these are productive all are parasitical. But kiwis are stupid and don’t know how the world works. I have been aware of the finance markets all my adult life. I know how they work I have occasionally bought shares when I have had the money. It is all built on unreal assumptions and speculations.Rumor and innuendo. We have needed a FTT for over 35 years.
I have heard Key disparaging teachers as being out of touch with the “real world”.
An arrogant prick who who lived in that artificial, false, bullshit world.
Exactly, Pete. I’ve seen how hard teachers work. There ain’t enough money in the world to make me want to do their jobs!!
The Finns respect their teaching profession and they’re almost always at the top of the OECD PISA tables!!
Can’t argue with you there Countryboy. You got it in one.
For a man who spent considerable time claiming he was a man of the people raised in a state house, self made , Muldoon a man he idolised ,a real kiwi sucess
relaxed and charming a bloke you would want a beer with etc etc
I dont remember any real serious interest by the Campaign for Key -MSM looking into his financial work history at least publicly for a man who was campaigning to be PM
Surely this would be in the public interest after all he wanted to lead the country and surely that qualifcation would open him up to scrutiny including his employment background
After watching him for 8 years and observing him lie and being in most cases playng fast and loose with the truth and watching him try to cover up his and his colleagues corrupt practices i am in no doubt he has serious history and more than a few skeletons
The problem is would any one believe anything that was exsposed such is his complicent network of control and public fatigue about his dishonesty
If he was to face criminal charges and it could be proved that he was responsible it would prove that the great messiah was and is a crook and has pulled off one of the greatest political con jobs in NZ history
Oh FFS.
No one is forcing Kiwis to take on massive debt. They want to.
They want to “get on the property ladder” because they think prices will always go up and they don’t want to miss out.
Then when they’re in massive debt and sitting in a house they think they own, but the bank actually does, they want to see prices going up. Because they stupidly think it makes them richer. So they take out more debt on the mortgage to put in a flash new kitchen or buy a bloody jetski to keep up with the Joneses.
They’re over leveraged. In excessive debt. And it’s entirely by choice.
You don’t have to take on debt to be housed. You can rent, and if doing so can lobby for better more secure tenancies and better conditions for renters.
Nope. They don’t do that. This property market is driven by greed. And you just don’t seem to be able to see that.
If I took on massive debt to buy shares insisting that prices always go up everyone around me would tell me I’m stupid, crazy, irresponsible. But somehow doing exactly the same thing to “invest” in the property market is okay now.
It’s not.
He will only ‘keep trying it on’ until someone stops him. Where are the opposition and media ( smirk ) showing Key up for what he is? Where is our Corbyn, our Sanders, letting New Zealanders know it doesn’t have to be this corrupt, lying, treasonist future for New Zealand.
[Stuart, I realise you probably meant that in a joking sort of way, but I’m removing it because others might not see it that way. – ScarletMod]
I don’t object all – but I’m not completely joking either. I feel there is a strong public interest argument for shooting John Key, though you may not be able to publish it.
that sort of talk is counterproductive and plays into jonkey’s hands
It is one thing when a government overrules my preferences democratically and in the public interest – it is quite another when a government corruptly acts against the public interest or makes treasonous alliances with foreign states or corporate entities.
Classical writers would not state merely that citizens have the right to remove John Key, but that they have a duty to do so.
Stuart, I’m no fan of that con-man/PM either. But talking about shooting someone doesn’t help.
What I can’t understand is why Bradley Ambrose did not at least demand an apology from Key for his totally gratuitous denigration. The implication of what has been said is that Mr Key settled without admitting any fault, planning, initially at least, to do no more than get the taxpayers to make a small contribution to Ambrose’s legal costs.
Bradley Ambrose has said that he was forced to silence by the confidentiality clause of the agreement.But the confidentiality has already been waived when John Key declared that the payment had been small.
In my view, apart from renewing a demand for an apology, based on the PM breaking confidentiality, Ambrose should now declare that the payment had in fact been eye-wateringly large and leave John Key to deal with that.
I was also not too impressed with Andrew Little’s comment that Key should pay for “his mistake.” It wasn’t a mistake. Key shot his mouth off about someone he imagined to be a supporter of another party and by no means for the first time. The “mistake” was not providing him with a minder-babysitter. Or a gag.
Like trying to vote twice you mean?
Huh? Did you copy and past that reply from the ACT guid to social media trolling?
Middle new Zealand while at work, chat over morning tea, sometimes talk about politics, and, crooks or otherwise. Trolling? no.
Say what you really mean, Dave. Your cryptic little bs comments are annoying.
I think what we are seeing in Daves comments is the limitations of right wing extremists and the edges of what they are able to comprehend.
All he and his ilk seem to talk about is how the world so aggrieves them so.
You are not that stupid.
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@DAVE egg? cluckwit
Martin, sadly you are right. It is all porkies and pigtails.
when the shonkey government falls i would like see a high powered leagle probe in to the national party and the john key government era
Tried it on bullying people at their place of work pulling ponytails and passed it off as horseplay. Tried it on lying about what he knew and when he knew about Mike Sabin. Tried it on lying about his relationship with Cameron Slater. Tried it on lying about mass surveilance…………..and on and on and on. Unfortunately the sheeple keep voting for him so he gets away with it.
Come on Martyn leave the sharks alone. They are a superb example of evolution at its best, a predator magnificently adapted to their environment and a vital part of the oceans ecosystem.
Key is just a dodgy money trader
Yep, Peter H. However the sharks dd not create their own environment – they merely adapted to what was/is there.
Economic predators, on the other hand, DO create their own economic environment to ensure that they can continue to function as predators.
See Michael Hudson on Economic Theory etc:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/03/michael-hudson-on-debt-deflation-the-rentier-economy-and-the-coming-financial-cold-war.html
In this lengthy but superb article Hudson explains exactly how and why the economic predators survive so successfully while the other 99% of us go down the tubes.
Its a MUST_READ analysis – absolutely brilliant.
Nope:
His paid trolls and focus groups and polling, tell him what to think and do to offend the least number of people. Gosman and Andrew-types will troll through commentary about what can hurt the PM and report back to HQ like the good “minions” they are.
The NATZKEYS control the MSM, they use the uncontrolled media to filter feed for damaging comments about the PM and then into damage control mode.
More ducks will be put in rows, Jason’s will be Eded, nobody will ever remember whathisname Gilmore and the prominent Northlander will be “dealt with” before the end of this year so they can be quarantined out of the debate in the run-up to the 2017 election. Anything that could cause heat for the PM next year will be “handled” so that he can starve it of oxygen next year.
Any predictions on what else could cause heat for the PM anyone?
Key drives drunk ,has accident ,fails breat test ,police investigate and decide not to charge
I hear the PM is off overseas after the “fleg referendumb” results, so the public won’t see him sobbing on One News. I doubt he’ll come back if it’s less than 25% support for his new fleg?
He won’t have to answer leading questions from Gower like “Don’t you think the left-wing voters sabotaged your flag Prime Minister?”
I doubt whether Key and all the corporate money and sponsored celebrities will be gracious in defeat, arrogance rarely does have any grace or class.
The fleg change seems like it was the result of the PM having been too close to Aaron Gilmour:
http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/do-you-know-who-i-am–aaron-gilmore-2013050217#axzz43iMarnXD
The fleg change was the PM’s Hamner Heritage brainfart “You’ll know who I am by the new New Zealand fleg!”
The new fleg, Key’s Gilmour moment ….
My wife won’t let me move back to NZ because she knows I’d shoot the fucker……..
Like he tried it on when he took Crosby Textors advice and told NZers we had Jihadi brides leaving NZ to join Isis. (Recently proven false but under reported)
He knows he won’t get a grilling from the media so he can say what he likes.
Good points raised, Martyn. However, as much as I loathe Key and want him gone, reference to shooting him do The Daily Blog no favours.
+100…and plays into his hands for a police state and spying on all New Zealanders
…he has to go by the democratic process..
This is the blog that has a convicted criminal as a regular blogger. No wonder the left never win.
Dave, what about your convictions? Care to share?
Anyone keeping an eye on what is now owed for jonkey’s governance:
http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/newzealand
Why on earth “reputable” parties don’t call for a vote of no-confidence is beyond me unless they themselves have been threatened.
What a sad series of comments. This negative blog makes me feel sure that that Labour/Green will not govern any time soon.
I’ve seen almost nothing about this in MSM. Or, what passes for our MSM these days.
A PM trying to use pubic money to pay a settlement for a defamation case in which he is the defamer…. is corrupt and illegal at worst, and immoral at best.
Pretty sure if anyone from the Greens or Labour did that it’d be all over headlines for at least a week.
Did I miss it in MSM?
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