tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612441315352179822.post8680815192477643684..comments2024-03-28T00:33:53.397+13:00Comments on Local Bodies: Complicit, Compliant and CorruptDave Kennedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12428353657153292616noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612441315352179822.post-21799650136351695922014-09-16T16:28:37.758+12:002014-09-16T16:28:37.758+12:00I think you make some good points, Philip. Key has...I think you make some good points, Philip. Key has certainly had the royal treatment from Hollywood and Obama because he is willing to do their bidding. Warner Bros won $68 million of tax breaks and changed employment laws from Key and even if the email Dotcom produced was real they would hardly want to drop him in it. <br /><br />Key is our first celebrity chasing PM and maintaing his image has always been more important than doing the right thing.Dave Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12428353657153292616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3612441315352179822.post-64772136299880959072014-09-16T12:06:26.854+12:002014-09-16T12:06:26.854+12:00I have watched the whole thing from the start and ...I have watched the whole thing from the start and think its a case more about John Key getting swept up in the excitement and sense of importance. Its the old playground thing of needing to be on the right team. He did it with the Police once elected PM and felt ten personal policemen made him more important than Helen Clark who used four. <br />And the Police, Security services and armed forces are pushing all the time to be able to do what they think they should be doing. His job is to have the overview but his need to be popular stops him doing that in a unbiased way. Tony Blair got caught up in the same hype back in 2002 because he loved the importance as well and its not unusual. Power is an aphrodisiac for some people.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05382079326851047281noreply@blogger.com