John Robinson: Call Key out

The deceit of John Key

Former National Party leader Sir John Key has called on people to “take the temperature down a wee bit” in the debate around race issues.  What chutzpa! [1]  He knows no shame.  He has conveniently forgotten his own actions, in an effort to present himself, falsely, as a worthy elder statesman.

Kate Hawkesby: Sir John Key is on the money, but will the Government listen?

 

Sir John Key’s piece yesterday was so good it ran front-page across two rival news websites. If you haven’t read it, look it up. It’s refreshing. You can’t argue with common sense, and it was so fortifying to see someone being ambitious for our country, someone being sensible and forward-thinking and optimistic, someone not bogged down with fear and a hermit mentality.

It laid bare what we’ve been missing all this time. Grown-ups. People with proper ideas and tangible solutions.

When inexperience is at the helm, you get bogged down in the minutiae of laborious detail. The same way you get dragged into an argument with a toddler who refuses to put clothes on to go out into the cold. You find yourself pointlessly arguing at their level a thousand different ways. And I feel like that’s what’s been happening in the last few weeks with our Covid response. We’ve been getting bogged down in flawed ideology peddled by an inexperienced unambitious government, which has left us dissecting and debating stuff that isn’t even worth the effort.