If Gerry Brownlee and Nikki Kaye are the answer what the hell was the question?
Nikki Kaye and Gerry Brownlee are the big winners in a Cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Bill English this afternoon.
As expected, Kaye is the new Education Minister, replacing Hekia Parata.
Brownlee has been made Foreign Affairs Minister in place of Murray McCully, who has held the portfolio for eight years.
Rodney MP Mark Mitchell has also received a significant promotion, to Defence Minister, and has been moved into the Cabinet just months after he was made a minister outside Cabinet.
The total panic that has set in within National as their internal polls show women voters leaving in droves for Jacinda is what has prompted Nikki Kaye’s sudden promotion. It’s good seeing National nervous. Kaye’s transformation into a snarling attack dog used to attack Jacinda however will go down like a cup of cold sick within the education sector.
Brownlee who is the most hated man in Christchurch becoming the Foreign Affairs Minister is an appalling choice when you consider his role in covering up and justifying the accusation of war crimes in Afghanistan.
Those words will come back to bite him in his arse when the looming court case launches.
In other moves, Nick Smith has been demoted for the fiasco that has been housing and Tim Macindoe continues his rise to power.
The most dangerous decision has been in allowing former mercenary Mark Mitchell anywhere near Defence. I don’t trust Mitchell as far as I could throw him. There is something deeply worrying about him inside Parliament.
All in all a pretty squalid and vapid revamp before the election to get Nick Smith off the telly and try to woo female voters back with Kaye.
Watch Mitchell like a hawk.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the ship of fools, hopefully to hit an ice berg at the next elections
Yes problem is the iceberg e.g. the Labour crowd are so pathetic.
We need to put a list together of the things that should they become the next government they need to be held to account for.
Apparently Little has said we need an enquiry into those who were put into state care. Let’s face it some of the people who treated these kids so badly are still around, and should be charged and go to court.
And then there is the exposure of those who were mowed down by our forces in Afghanistan. We must ensure they keep to that and have the enquiry.
They can shift their cronies around all they want.
They have nothing new to say and nobody charismatic enough to suck supporters in.
They’re doomed! Doomed! DOOMED! 😀
What an exceedingly shallow gene pool National have. All thoroughly unlikable.
And Brownlee is so beyond his used by date, it is astounding that he is even looking at another term in parliament. But at least he can bypass Airport security with impunity though.
The problem is, Xray, they allow him back into the country…
The Natz strategy is backfiring now.
Key was the polished turd presented via Crosby Textor crafting and Farrar opinion polling to the public as the shining face of National. With heavy oversell by the MSM, the too-tired to think public bought the narrative hook line and sinker.
But psychopaths are notoriously unreliable. Key ran away.
And now, the bumbling incompetent fools that were hiding behind his false visage are being rudely exposed.
No talent, and because of their devotion to neoliberalism, no policy.
A desperate rabble that has gutted the country, on it’s way out.
The question is: