People asked me this week if I thought Key’s sudden intrusion into the public debate by poking the smug hermit kingdom was an indication that he was wanting back into Politics.
I laughed.
Key is making way more money in the private sector and he likes being liked.
While there is nothing stopping him from making a return, I just doubt a rich man who likes being rich is prepared to pretend he’s only worth $50million to re-enter public politics.
No, this wasn’t Key standing in for National (although it was meant as a kick in the arse to Judith to show her how to do it), this was Key channeling the anger and fears being felt at the top table of NZ CEOs.
In the rarified airs Key and Luxon inhabit is a shock wave of fear that the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind have woken in the middle of a pandemic and in their rush towards the State for protection have wholesale abandoned the neoliberal mythology of small Government and individualism Über alles for a State that is active and protecting.
Key’s ridiculously hollow 5 point plan was all a joke when put under any scrutiny, but his main attack was pretending the Government are using fear as a weapon and that Jacinda is somehow a Communist.
Red baiting and insinuations that your freedom is at risk are the very bedrock ideology of the neoliberal Nazgûl Key represents.
It’s nice seeing the ultra rich so frightened that their free market mantras mean nothing.
Look at 3 Waters, new public health, new RMA, new supermarket competition and universal unionism THIS is the monolith of the active State rising that Key and his chums recoil in horror from.
In a world beset by the external shocks of climate change, people want the protection of the State. The only response by the right is to label that a smug hermit kingdom while forgetting the reason we are so smug.
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I’m not a shrink, but Key’s hermit analogy may come from his subconscious level ( vast), because traditionally hermits live alone because they reject society, and in particular women – they’ve always been celibate – and underneath Key probably realises he’s not that attractive without his dosh, and his attitude towards women as exemplified by his hair fetish, is a bit odd- and a shocking example to young Nats and other thickos, about how to treat women. It’s bad enough for women in New Zealand without creeps like him behaving untowardly.
As said before, he won’t go back into politics overtly – he’s too petty and vain anyway, and he got what he wanted, apart from his ego-pandering flag change, which was very impudent indeed. If he wants to get out, then let him go, but bolt the door after he leaves. Nth Korea might suit his wee imaginings.
He won’t get back into politics because Bronagh won’t let him.
” He won’t get back into politics because Bronagh won’t let him ”.. If you believe that, then I have a contact in the Philippines that can get you a genuine rolex for $200… Anyone who still thinks that the “Bronagh gave me the choice of being PM, or staying married to her” excuse was anything but total bullshit hasn’t been taking any notice of the trail of lies that Keys utterances amounted to after a decade of being the point man for American imperialism, and Chinese rapacity… How many Prime ministers, in any country one could name, have given a weeks notice, and quit, unless they had either been caught red handed doing bad things, or were worried that they were about to be outed for being the traitor they were to their own people? None, that’s how many…
John Key is a Has-been. He is so ego-ridden that he thinks everything he says is correct and the WORLD MUST listen to him.
He must have been missing being the centre of attention and hence hunting out a compliant NZ media to publish his rants.
For him to use the analogy of a space ship containing 3 people to a country of now 5 million(NZ)was weird in my opinion. But then that spaceship was an American one and we all know Key loves America more than any other country on the planet NZ included.
After seeing his articles scattered through-out the various media outlets around NZ a week ago I came to the conclusion that Key may be wanting to be leader of National again. Whilst he was prime minister of New Zilland he used NZ taxpayers money to fund HIS ego-quests etc. He wasted $26million on a vanity project to massage his ego. He has no hesitation on lying to NZers whenever he could And in recognition of sexual harassment in the workplace he received a knighthood.
Just me “ Whilst he was Prime Minister of New Zilland” is the weirdest thing of all. Key comes from an English speaking immigrant family, but he never managed to pronounce the name of the country which took them in. Not doing so as PM let us down badly, which mightn’t bother him, but some UK media laughed at him. It’s
unbelievable that he tried to change the flag of a country whose name he can’t even pronounce properly.
Yeah Key’s a has-been, but at least he didn’t fork out $55m to pay for compliant journalism like Jacinda in a cash-for-comment bribe. Now all we can look forward to is warm and fuzzy YES articles from woke journalists all agreeing with Aunty Jacinda and her PC policies.
Don’t believe for minute Key didn’t have Soper,Armstrong, Young et al not paid for and in his back pocket. Key had a very easy ride with pro right wing media.
Bert – “ Key had a very easy ride with pro right wing media.” True. He might still be on that bike. Future historians may ponder how a boor and a bore who did nothing for New Zealand pulled it all off. The Nats did have better potential leaders than that one.
While the politics of greed prevail the mass of the people who live from hand to mouth will envy the conspicuously wealthy who don’t give a f…. for others.
I think the analogy with North Korea is to infer that members of Five Eyes/Quad/AUKUS are in an alliance against socialism – and are thus “not allowed” to practice socialism without consequences.
There being a long American tradition of sanctions against any socialist nation in the world – China, North Korea, Cuba, Iraq, Venezuela, Libya etc associated with regime change …
The fact you are all talking about him suggests he won and you all lost. In politics explaining is losing – team left have been explaining for a week while Key smiles from the shadows. Expect more grenades lobbed over the next 12 months given the reaction to this one.
All the more reason for pointing out what a dick is and always has been.
John Will probably agree (smarmily) with you too, Garibaldi.
He is the most subtle of the trolls who have recently started up their trade here.
Starting to become less subtle, actually a lot like Key, throws in the odd lie here and there.
In Vino. Thanks for that. I’ve always said that Key is smarmy and I don’t know why people keep saying that he’s smug – he’s smarmy.
And with due respect to Garibaldi he’s also more of a hick than a dick, but definitely smarmy – I think that’s why he always made my skin crawl – his smarm – like some seamy Dickensian creep – even in pix which I’d prefer not to see.
Come on Frwankie, pull the other ponytail. Fwrankie the fact that you and John have to defend and explain Key’s Pfitzer lies is losing.
Fortunately it is out in the open now and gives conclusive evidence of what lengths the right will go too.
Countryboy put John in his place and just to remind him…
“@ ‘John’.
You only get an ‘impression’ that SIR jonk-E is intensely disliked here? It’s because those of us who loath the verminous little rat haven’t figured out how to bring pikes and noosed roped to the comments section.
“Most of it reads like the politics of envy.”
Does it? So you say, and by you saying ( writing) should dispel any reason to take you seriously.
I think most of [it] reads like people hate the bastard. And for good reason. Hair-tugger bully? The wanker wasted millions on flag-change chicanery, dopy hobbit pay-off to warner bros millions lies and bull shittery and all the while powerless people fell further into poverty on a rich few islands thanks to that useless fucker and his deep state bully boy money fetishist mates. And lets not, nor ever, forget that he’s enabled four foreign bankster scum to take record NET profits off-shore from us. ( $6 Billion for ’19/’20. )
Trust me? When I see The Jonk, It’s not envy that courses through my veins and makes my heart beat faster.
One last wee thing on jonky and the pony tail that belonged to the woman who sported her hair in that fashion which, I’m sure, was never intended to be a toy for the jonk.
This is a list of women who’ve been killed by men IN THE LAST 28 WEEKS!
The Guardian
“The 81 women killed in 28 weeks”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/02/the-81-women-killed-in-28-weeks
Bertie – this will be your longest week. This week the elimination sandcastle comes cracking down and with it the PM’s bullet proof vest. The more venial in the media will smell blood in the water.
When you have been anointed a modern day Joan-of-Ark the comedown will be quite spectacular.
Get your hands out of Keykimyongs pants Frwankie . Seymourbutts and Orivida Collins are crap, but you keep the good minority work up as the right keep trading votes.
Ahhh the old Chicken Little syndrome Frwankie.
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