John Key has got his mojo back - happy about that, not just for political purposes but for his own wellbeing. I thought the dreadful stuff about his daughter might have affected him last debate. Barry Soper and (I think) Rachel Smalley said the same today.
Some notes so far:
Sub-standard state houses - Key names his boyhood home address in Christchurch. "We had no mould
because my mother looked after it fastidiously and I mowed the lawns. There is some personal responsibility here."
Key, on Labour's five new taxes: "Kiwis work hard for their money and they can spend it better than we can."
Pre-empting borrowing accusation, Key: "We borrowed $50 million and spent $15 of that standing behind the people of Christchurch." Then fired it back at Cunliffe, "What would you have done?"
Key on spending promises: "Labour and the Greens are the Usain Bolt of spending money."
On dirty politics: Key reminds people how Mike Willimas went looking for dirt on him in Australia. Searching through his tax records. Then he asks Cunliffe directly about bloggers in his own office... "And I will name them if you want me too..." Cunliffe rejoinders there is no equivalent on the
Left like Whale Oil. (No. None have anywhere near his readership.)
(Unfortunately the second half transmission is too patchy to blog on).
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On its face, a clear victory for Key - but the MSM forcing the leader of NZ's only major party to debate the biggest of the "seven dwarf" minor parties is the biggest leftist bias in the campaign so far, even bigger than the illegal left smear operation of Hagers.
Key should have answered a Q & A - alone - and then Cunliffe taken his place with the rest of the minor party leaders - Green, Winston, ACT, Colin Craig, Mana, Maori, and why not, ALCP as well.
was it his daughter posing with an octopuss over her vagina?John Key made his fortune as a forex gambler with Merrill Lynch...thats a fact.Part of his bonus came fro an attack against the kiwi$.Merrill were fined 100's of millions for their behaviour under Keys boss Stanley O'Neal.He was not called the smiling assasin for nothing...and still he sells our country out..unbelievable!
It was a much better performance all round by John Key.
He pressed the five new taxes under labour long and often enough for people to grasp it. Cunliffe I thought was condescending and at times appeared bombastic when compared to the self assured performance he gave in the first debate.
Camera angles and the debate’s production make a huge subliminal difference to perceptions, and in the first debate, even when John Key was speaking, the camera would often pan over to Cunliffe looking self assured and prime ministerial. That didn’t happen this time round.
It’s mostly political junkies that watch and analyze these things and we have already made up our minds. I think. ☺
Cunliffe rejoinders there is no equivalent on the Left like Whale Oil. (No. None have anywhere near his readership.)
It is now well established fact that Whale Oil *is* mainstream NZ - and mainstream NZ is right, not left. Perhaps we were left once, in the 50s and 60s. But not any more.
That's why I'm very much looking forwards to a Nat+ACT+Con government that reflects NZ's mainstream far far more than the Key government has to date.
was it his daughter posing with an octopuss over her vagina?
Really? And that is relevant how? Does this mean she "deserved it"?
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