Key gets booed on boot camps

Key gets booed on boot camps
John Key got his first taste of what lies ahead on the campaign trail yesterday when he received a resounding "booing" over his plans for boot camps. Mr Key was speaking to an initially polite audience at the Every Child Counts annual conference, until he mentioned his policy for "Army-style correction" camps for "wayward youth who are going off the rails". He was interrupted by a chorus of booing and jeering, which reignited when he tried to claim "they actually do work". It continued until the Mc, Pio Terei, intervened and asked the audience to listen to his explanation. The ECC is an umbrella lobby group, generally viewed as sympathetic to Labour, and made up of about 380 organisations involved with children, including Plunket, Unicef, Barnardos and Save the Children. Mr Key stuck to his guns and defended his policy with vigour. "Let's say we don't do that. What's option b? We've got an issue with about 1000 young New Zealanders, if we do nothing about them they're going to go into those, in my opinion, those youth gangs that we see and they're eventually going to go on to a life of crime. "That is the probability of where they are going. I'm not going to sit back and let them hang around on the streets of New Zealand until they eventually go out and kill someone. Sorry, I'm going to stand up and do something about it."

And well might they boo, boot camps don’t work and Key played this note as dog whistle politics to energise his conservative base as much as his pointless call to force Solo Mothers into work did but apparently he’s spent too much time in his echo chambers because according to some there John was genuinely surprised that he was booed. Get used to it John, get used to it, while the media are myopic with Winston lying over doing what is the everyday in National to launder $1.7million into anonymous donations, the media focus has gone off the policy that will determine the election but the people effected by that policy haven’t forgotten and while John Key has yet to face a set press conference in over a year he has been lulled into thinking there won’t be much resistance to the crazier parts of his dog whistle agenda.