slippery

Key to Homeless: You Can Stay at Mine

Written By: te reo putake
Date published: - 54 comments

Prime Minister John Key has today announced a radical plan to solve the housing crisis. The homeless are now welcome to go flatting with him in his Parnell bach. The plan includes draining the swimming pool and subdividing it into flats, putting hammocks in the palm trees and making soup in the pool cabana’s kitchen. Max Key may have to move out to make way for the homeless, but the PM described that as a painful sacrifice he was now willing to make in the light of his son’s most recent social media posting.

California lifts gay marriage ban

Written By: Dancer
Date published: - 41 comments

California’s top court has ruled that a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples is unconstitutional, accrording to a BBC report. The state’s […]

Would Key scrap GST on food?

Written By: Dancer
Date published: - 5 comments

With hints that regional fuel tax could be put on the “go slow” list, along with parts of the emissions trading scheme, it […]

Put it on the kids’ tab

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 6 comments

Some may have noted an odd series of questions in Parliament and press releases from Bill English around government borrowing over the last […]

Note to John: get a new lawyer

Written By: Andy
Date published: - 18 comments

John Key: ‘ my lawyer actually does those things clearly [he] had the wrong information.’ That’s how Slippery John explained why legal documents […]

Flip-flopping at warp speed

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 31 comments

On Monday, I wrote ‘Stay tuned for National’s next assets policy, due out sometime next week.’ It seems I miscalculated. Here’s what Key […]

Fewer on sole parenting benefit

Written By: Dancer
Date published: - 41 comments

You may have seen the announcement that there are fewer than 20,000 now getting the unemployment benefit, down from 160,000 odd when Labour […]

National’s interest rates record

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 22 comments

National’s latest line is that interest rates have doubled under Labour, with the implication that National would magically lower inflation (while simultaneously pouring […]

John Key’s DVD: Take 2

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 20 comments

Our sources tell us National is set to follow-up to last year’s DVD ‘John Key: Vacuous for New Zealand’ with its sequel ‘John […]

Which jobs would Key cut?

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 15 comments

It’s hard to get a straight answer out of John Key, so this is probably an exercise in futility, but Key’s announcement that National […]

Yawn

Written By: IrishBill
Date published: - 11 comments

Well National’s finally got their line straight on the research fund and, despite me old mate Dancer’s prediction, they are not supporting it. […]

Key unspun

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 5 comments

John Key is clearly missing Kevin Taylor, his chief spin doctor. When Taylor is around, Key is ‘Mr Teflon’ but, with Taylor on […]

Hitting a nerve

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 22 comments

In this afternoon’s debate Gerry Brownlee tried to have the word “slippery” ruled unparliamentary in relation to John Key. Proof, if any were […]