As part of its strategy to make stuff.co.nz a platform for many of Fairfax media activities the site has launched several new blogs including one by Political Editor of the Christchurch Press, Colin Espiner.
Following the National Party Convention this weekend and the official countdown to the next election, Labour is launching a new series of attack on Key:
"Labour’s policy of quietly ignoring National’s bushy-tailed leader John Key and hoping he would go away came to a spectacular end in Parliament today, with no less than three senior ministers having a piece of him over three seperate issues.
Defence Minister Phil Goff reckons Key’s told porkies over his stance on the war in Iraq, and produced transcripts of media interviews to back his claims. And certainly if the reported comments he gave to the Rodney Times back in 2003 are correct, Key has shifted his position on the war a long way.
He told the Rodney Times: “Blood is thicker than water and we should stick with the family which has supported us in the past and will support us in the future.” In other words, where America goes, we go.
If there were any doubt, Key followed up by saying: “I know it might not be a popular decision, but at the end of the day we have to look to the future and that isn’t with some Franco-German coalition.”
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