John Key's gang: the new mafia

I trust this isn't going to trigger any security problems at the airport for our honest and inclusive John Key.

"Mafia" - that's a big call this early on in the ministry. Helengrad will always be Labour's institutional epitaph. Nation's is still opaque as they haven't had any time to demonstrate their character. I was thinking in terms of the general or generic name for the governing collectivity as NAMU-F like ZANU-PF but standing for National, Act, Maori and United-Future, or just NAMU. If Labour's minions brand themselves LPG I can't see why the other side can't be NAMU. And when it acts in concert, when they agree to support legislation and certainly on confidence and supply it can have that Patriotic Front added: NAMU-PF.

For Maori it will be Mactional, to Act it will be Nactional and to Peter Dunne, I guess, it must be Nuftional - which is what you get when you've had enough of National but don't care, or when National doesn't know what it's doing: as in "that's nuftional", "that makes nuftional sense, nuftional sense at all". Like National - Schmational; but more indecisive and compromised than outright contempt. A confused and complacent National. A bureaucrat's National.

"What're ya doing?"
- "Nuftional"

But it's early days. We're still supposed to be wishing them the best.