New Zealand Conservative

This interview is with Mike Hosking on NewsTalkZB last Thursday morning, in response to the fallout from the Government's stance on smacking. Sorry, it took awhile, I was finding it really hard to keep going through it, hearing the same crap over and over again. Mike Hosking was pretty good, though. MH (15:18): So, wouldn't you know it, eh? The Government spent the first part of the week trying to hose down the public's upset over the lack of response to the smacking referendum when out of the old ballot box comes John's Boscawin's private member's bill on .... smacking! The glimmer of hope from supporters that National might have a bit of a look at it is squashed when John Key says that he won't be supporting it so it is dead in the water. Why? John Key is with us, good morning. JK: Good morning, Mike! MH (15:43): Were you even slightly tempted to give this a bit of support or not? JK: Ah, do you mean in terms of the smacking, ah ... MH: Yes. JK: ...bil...

This is pass 2 of transcribing the interview with John Key on smacking derailing Parliament that I talked about yesterday. Still fixing it up. Updated 25 Aug, 2pm. MH: Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's with us, good morning! JK: Good morning MH: Are you going to ignore the 88%? JK: [Audible breath in] Ah, well, no, I think [obviously thrown before getting into the prepared speech] what I am going to do is take to Cabinet today a series of proposals I think can give parents an increased levels of confidence I've always said that if the law doesn't work then I would change it important that we make sure that we can understand clearly without bias whether the law is working or not so, you know, I think you can't ignore when such a large number of New Zealanders express their view didn't necessarily say they wanted the law changed and that they said quite clearly they thought that if they smacked a child in a minor or inconsequential way that should not be something th...