Public Address | Cafe | Polity: Key: Peering between the lines https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356570#post356570 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356570#post356570 Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:34:49 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356543#post356543 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356543#post356543 your dream you’re being sold, it can take an entire lifetime to realise that you’ve just been sold, and that it can’t ever be your reality. ]]> Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:38:16 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356532#post356532 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356532#post356532 Tue, 23 Feb 2016 13:48:41 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356463#post356463 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356463#post356463 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:02:43 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356452#post356452 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356452#post356452 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:40:33 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356450#post356450 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356450#post356450 But Trump? He may ring the death knell for the TPP but the collateral damage would be horrendous.

Trump is more or less picking up where the infamous palaeo-con Pat Buchanan left off.

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:17:04 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356446#post356446 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356446#post356446 I could go with Saunders, I think…
But Trump? He may ring the death knell for the TPP but the collateral damage would be horrendous.
Bernie Saunders, on the other hand, in my opinion, has a fly in the ointments chance of taking the biscuit, to mix a misplaced metaphor…

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:47:33 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356443#post356443 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356443#post356443 As for "headline grabbing crisis abroad." all I have to say here is one word... Trump.

If Trump or Sanders take the White House, we know what that could mean for the TPPA. And if there's one opponent that Key can't fight, it's the housing bubble if it bursts. Right…

]]> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:14:18 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356413#post356413 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356413#post356413 The theory only relies on a majority of journalists, and certain high-profile bloggers, being too lazy and/or overworked and/or partisan not to report Key's every spontaneous emission without pausing to do fact-checking.
On past record, that seems a safe bet.

]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:30:35 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356411#post356411 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356411#post356411 HUH? So Key isnt trying to bluff everyone, he's secretly gloating?
Sheez do you not realise how 'off' that sounds?
I'd take that clothspeg off my nose if I were you

]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2016 10:05:11 +1300 Matthew Hooton https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356407#post356407 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356407#post356407 Rob, how would it be possible for Key to bluff the media into thinking they were not writing about a policy if in fact they were?

Your theory relies on (1) journalists outside the gallery apparently writing meaningful amounts about a policy but (2) the journos in the gallery not…

]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:04:10 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356386#post356386 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356386#post356386 I’d expect Key’s strategy now, if he still has any savvy left, will be to try to divert attention to the Green Party/The Far Left. And pray for some headline grabbing crisis abroad.

I think his next move will be to get some kind of deal over the children in…

]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:59:39 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356380#post356380 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356380#post356380 Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:21:29 +1300 sandra https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356379#post356379 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356379#post356379 Sorry to be a pedant, but ...

Rob, your second paragraph has typos in it, presumably it should read:

We've seen plenty of that from him in Parliament already.

And 4 paragraphs up from the bottom, you've spelled behaviour incorrectly.

Please feel free to delete this comment when (if) you…

]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2016 09:02:06 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356374#post356374 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356374#post356374 hey I had never thought of that approach.
more informative than parliament.
The comments were rather bizarre, like you can’t buy fans anymore and “just fit a heat-pump” .
The kind of depth of understanding and analytical approach that leads to following the the ideas of a charlatan.
But seriously,…

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:31:57 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356370#post356370 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356370#post356370 how to use a fan to keep cool

hey I had never thought of that approach.
more informative that parliament.

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:40:58 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356364#post356364 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356364#post356364 John Key’s a political poker player, and in poker there’s an old maxim about projection. When people are stuck in weak position, they go out of their way to project strength. It’s how you try to get out of a tricky position.
Can't quite agree there. Poker face is more…

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:56:18 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356363#post356363 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356363#post356363 I put this on another thread but I think it belongs here.

Question Time 17 Feb 2016
Question 11, Denise Roche…

Denise Roche (to the Prime Minister) “Is it humane for babies and children to be detained in offshore detention centers?”
John Key “That would depend on the circumstances they…

]]> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:43:04 +1300 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356355#post356355 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356355#post356355 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:44:46 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356354#post356354 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/polity-key-peering-between-the-lines/?p=356354#post356354 Discussion from blog post.

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