KW: An interesting opinion peice on the departed. I’m not sure that I think his self annoited successor Bill English is going to enjoy the same easy road as Key appears to have driven not that I pass criticsm on English but without poster boy Key National has lost a lot of leverage I suggest. With the charlatan Winston Peters likely to retain his seat and gather around him a lot more list MP’s and the default of just one or two electorates to Labour the National government is history. This is quite conceivable even here in Hawke’s Bay.
Like another poster boy for trickle-down economics – Tony Blair – the New Zealand prime minister had the Teflon gene. Even while presiding over record levels of child poverty, his popularity remained high