John Key’s abuse of a female hospitality worker has been the subject of an American talk show. John Oliver, also known for his ridicule of Key’s plans to change the NZ flag, has laid into the ‘galloping colonial clot‘ for his aberrant ways. Here’s the YouTube video… And for good measure, here’s Oliver’s earlier…
First some international Tweets about the on-going Ponytailgate scandal: The PM in trouble for pulling a waitress’s ponytail http://t.co/cJ1gw1hia0 — CNN EXCLUSIVE (@CNN_EXCLUSIVE) April 22, 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, once again doing his country proud around the world pic.twitter.com/RfbDvMRimQ — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 22, 2015 For the record, the Hip Group,…
From The Guardian… Politicians are routinely upbraided for behaviour befitting a schoolyard, but the New Zealand prime minister has now become embroiled in a controversy that centres, quite literally, on hair-pulling. On Wednesday morning John Key apologised following allegations by an Auckland waitress that he had repeatedly tugged on her ponytail, a pattern of…
Thinking of emigrating to New Zealand? Are you happy to live in a country whose government has been criticized on the world stage for being neo-liberalist in its ideologies, drifting casually toward Fascism. Robert Amsterdam, a Canadian international lawyer of the law firm Amsterdam & Partners, has written a very incisive article about Prime Minister…
After many months of softening up public opinion, and a predictable ‘capture the flag‘ diversion, the Prime Minister of New Zealand will announce on February 24 that New Zealand won’t be missing the boat on the present Iraq conflict. Without putting it to a vote, Key will tell Parliament that New Zealand will be deploying…
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