“…So it’s goodbye Mr Smile and Wave – and hello Mr Grumpy.
Or so the Prime Minister’s critics would have you believe.
They claim a rather unhappy and generally out-of-sorts John Key has returned to New Zealand from his summer holiday in Hawaii.
The new version is said to be more defensive, more circumspect and less willing to indulge the media’s insatiable appetite for prime ministerial comment on anything and everything.
Seemingly gone is the happy-go-lucky chappie who cruised through his first term in such upbeat, and at times, frivolous mood.
Naturally, this picture of Key is rubbished as Labour-perpetrated nonsense and mischief by those close to the Prime Minister.
However, there have been similar murmurings around the parliamentary Press Gallery and other political traps that something has changed in the persona Key presents to the world – and that his demeanour suggests someone now less than enthralled with some aspects of his job.
This is all grist to a lingering suspicion that Key – despite his repeated assurances to the contrary – will not see out the current term as Prime Minister -
- and will bow out some time before the 2014 election…”
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John Armstrong: Grim reality has taken its toll on cheerful Key – Politics – NZ Herald News.
