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John Key should play the one card he has up his sleeve ……
John Key should play the one card he has up his sleeve ……Minister of Innovation and Science
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 11 March 2011 ) If you were John Key playing cards, you'd have to feel you're holding onto a pretty crap hand at the moment.
The economy's not that great, the earthquake's timing's really bad, and we're having to borrow a fair bit of money just to keep things ticking over.
You might say 'ah the World Cup', but the thing that undermines that is the 'can we' hope and despair lurking in the minds of those who care.
For in spite of Key's role as top dog, at the moment he doesn't really have the ability to stoke any sort of fire, put the pedal to the metal. There's very little he can actually "do", as opposed to comment on, observe.
Except now.
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