The website – Nobody Likes a Tory - has been providing amusement (and solace) to around 60,000 supporters on Facebook, including many NZers.
It’s unrelentingly anti-Tory – we’re talking the UK kind here, but didn’t John Key visit David Cameron to find out how to be an unscarey Tory? (And while you’re reading this, note the recommendation for the Penguin’s blog from the UK conservatives).
John Key said at the time :
I think there are a reasonable number of similarities – we are both centrist in our thinking, both ambitious for our respective countries to make a change and to deliver on the promise that our respective countries have.”
Oh yeah? I wonder how much John Key wants to compare himself to Cameron these days.
Have a good laugh at this – the Common People, and someone, please point me to a John Key/NZ version – because while JK didn’t go to Eton, he did grow up in a State House and that makes all the difference – or so he tells us constantly.
9 billion over three years. 3 billion a year. Basic division.
Bill and John – on the way to three strikes on the deficit.
Cullen had nine years of surpluses. Name the year he ran a deficit – you can’t coz you’re full of it.
Actually its the ghost of Bill English and John Key’s prediction that with their economic plans and financial policies, that we would emerge from the recession “reasonably aggressively”.
And of course they were full of it. The numbers don’t lie, they are presiding over a sinking ship. Listen for the gurgles out of the economy this year.
Cullen ran nine consecutive years of surpluses. But guess who announced a further unfunded, additional deficit in December after giving $9.1B back to the rich over four years?
Bill English, our National Minister of Finance.
The finance man who decided to spend up big on the country’s credit card to buy gift vouchers for the rich, and counting on chickens before they hatched to make it all OK.
Well the economy isn’t coming out of recession, and National’s last two mismanaged budgets aimed at gifting money to the rich hang like dead ducks around the country’s neck.
But thanks for defending economic incompetence, you’re going to be busy doing that all through election year mate.
So it’s $9bn and not $3bn for nats tax con?
Using your figures that’s rise from $12bn – $21bn in just a couple of years. Hardly sound running of the economy, is it?
That’s nearly doubling the debt just to pay Key and his mates $1000 pw.
Kiwis do better under Labour governments. Fact.
Coming up to 4 years now in NZ and with your 09:53am post Al, you’ve won me over.
Here is John Key satirizing the office of New Zealand’s Prime Minister and the Minister of Tourism ( oh wait – himself!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b3VzcK2xqM
He tells Letterman that we prefer to be called Kiwis whilst looking remarkably like a penguin. WARNING-it is not pretty to watch and is especially hard to listen to without wincing with actual physical pain caused by excruciating embarrassment. My Godchild ,who is studying law and international relations in the UK, squawked in disbelief and horror when she saw it, as did her many contacts! If New Zealand is mentioned, the image of this grim ‘satire’can still, unfortunately, spring to mind. Key is way ahead of Cameron in spoof.Lord of Spoof Ashcroft should be very proud of him.
A media coup some right wingers proclaimed.
Letterman was a low point for the office of NZ pm.
No wonder Warner Bros thought they could try it on with a shameless fool like that in charge.
Have you seen Burnside High School ? Its at least the equivalent to Auckland Grammar, or maybe Kings. Maybe even the NZ equivalent to Eton !!
Wasn’t WFF essentially a tax cut for those who have bred? How is it really different tot he lolly scramble from national this year? Different in the targetted group on the receiving end? Granted, so we are nto really arguing about the prudence of tax cuts just over who we wanted to see getting them?
Those saying English is having to tidy up from WFF, c’mon be fair, he’s simply given the equivalent of WFF to another group with some, minor overlap?
The effort to stimulate the economy has been primarily through the reduction of certain working consditions, some infrastructure work (roads and the gift to Telecom), $20m free bailout to those in SCF who werent covered by the guarantee, $20m increase in bottom line for Warners, in return for not doing what they had never panned anyway.
The law and order stuff is in the debit column because it all costs us more