Hide attacks Key and charges you for the pleasure
'Key doesn't do anything' – Hide
ACT leader Rodney Hide ripped into Prime Minister John Key's performance at a breakfast yesterday. Mr Hide, who is a minister outside Cabinet, said Mr Key "doesn't do anything" and was highly regarded, while "ACT did everything and we are hated", The Press reported.
Is this more codependency issues with Rodney? He can’t go anywhere without his girlfriend, now apparently he can’t pass policy without John Key holding his hand.
It is an extraordinary outburst to make, and it was in a scripted speech for crying out loud. I agree, Key seems to get away with anything People love him. His dorky, geeky, Dad routine with his blank optimism and empty aspiration is the perfect combination of visionless vision for a passionless people who don’t like them flashy educated types.
National celebrated 1 year in power in the weekend and the mainstream media threw themselves adoringly at John Key’s lap to lavish praise upon his stumblingly inept political management and wholesale dismantling of procedural democratic oversight . Some breathlessly spoke of a new type of politics, others suggested this may be the second coming. National’s polls are so high John Key could eat a kitten live on air, and NZers would blame the kitten for looking tasty.
But Rodney Hide’s outburst is a little weirder. This is the $45 rort that Hide was charging people to hear him, he’s a bloody Minister, why the hell should you have to pay to hear his opinion? This bit is my favourite, after boasting about slashing 700 jobs in the Supercity privatization rort and attacking Key…
Approached by the reporter, Mr Hide said the comments were off the record and it would be unethical to report them.…
OH! Reporting his comments would be unethical, charging people $45 to listen to a Minister of the Crown is fine?
Unbelievable.
posted by Bomber @ 9:01 AM
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8 Comments:
Rodders had just confirmed what anyone with a bit of brain thought - Key is just a puppet in Rodney's big business bosses' hands. The even more tragic truth is that the majority of voters were stupid enough to vote him into Government and just let this country go further down the toilet.
for the first and only time i would have to say Rodney was absolutely right......keys done zero!...like doing nothing about unemployment which is at its worst in 10 years!
So what do you think Key should do about it Kerry? Rustle a few jobs up somewhere, expand the public sector a bit?
Please, enlighten us with your solution.
Rodders had just confirmed what anyone with a bit of brain thought - Key is just a puppet in Rodney's big business bosses' hands
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What are you on about?
John Key and National love big business just as much as ACT does.
They just know how to play the longer game.
Rodney himself tells how it is:
Mr Hide, who is a minister outside Cabinet, said Mr Key "doesn't do anything" and was highly regarded, while "ACT did everything and we are hated", The Press reported.
Thats right.
ACT enacts laws that National agree with, but just don't want to put their name to.
Rodney gets the blame, John Key gets admiration/respect/derision whatever, the law gets passed, and National get another term.
National is playing ACT, not the other way round.
I think it's very important for the anonymous right wing mafia to crush the idea that ACT is the tail that owns the dog. While many who voted Labour in 2005 and who voted National in 2008 might have done so for this ill defined 'change' and John Key's optimistic smile, they sure as hell didn't sign up for hard right policy under ACT. Any impression ACT is ideologically dominating the agenda will spook those voters forcing National to concede the middle ground. Look for more attempts to shut down the idea that ACT is dominating the ideological relationship.
I would suggest keys speak to Helen Clark....her government got unemployment down pretty well.
You poor right wingers....never know when you backed a dud!
He was also amazed at how much he could get through Cabinet, because "you turn up with your papers" and "they are too busy with their own stuff they're not bothered".
He was amazed at how much he could get through Cabinet - doesn't sound like the way our brave anonymous poster was trying to spin it does it?
What a load of rubbish kerry. Unemployment being low had NOTHING to do with your idol Helen Clark.
The Western world was in a boom cycle. We could of had a chimpanzee running the economy and unemployment would still be low. (well we came close - we had Michael Cullen.
Not to mention that (despite being in a boom period) people going on a sickness benefit skyrocketed, so people on the unemployment benefit were just moving sideways on to another benefit where they wouldn't be forced to work.
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