The Spring of discontent has it's water pooped in by more discontented poopers.

"Oh" people will be saying "that New Zild is a stand-up-for-truth-justice-and-the-Macaroon-way sort of place". And so we are except in an actually doing that sort of way as opposed to a saying that sort of way.
Our Pry Mincer (Hoban 1982) leads the way, of course, in the being transparent and accountable and such like, going on about it at the drop of a hat or the suggestion of the possibility of hat dropping occurring

Mr. Key about to drop a hat

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      He is currently embroiled in a brouhaha, yes a brouhaha, about his texting with reptilian blogger Cameron Slater.

Artists Impression of Mr Slater

 Mr Key has variously claimed to not know Mr. Slater, to know Mr.Slater, to be Mr. Slaters godparent and finally, after several glasses of Old Rasmussens Gold Fire Rum to have had 3 children by Mr. Slater. All of this has been denied, repeated and then announced on radio after inhaling Helium.
This has all been overshadowed by the affair of Mr Slater texting Mr Key and revealing that the opposition Labour party had tried to have Mr. Slater killed.

What gun has he been smoking?

All of this is to say that politics in New Zild has taken a very healthy Watusi out towards the fruitbat section of popular democracies and certain unkind persons, who usually go by the name Old Entomologists Zoonotic Disease Appreciation Group, are positing that this may be a diversion created by the Pry Mincer for the express purpose of taking the populace's minds (thems that  may have one) off the Tyrell Corporation endorsed changes to the Security and Citizen Harrasment Laws being rammed down our throats this very week. No longer will swarthy types be able to launch themselves upon an unsuspecting world from the very centrally placed New Zild. No longer will carnage rain down upon the world from lovingly restored Beehcraft SD 17S Staggerwing Floatplanes. And there will be no watching of "Get Smart" re-runs either because it is disrespectful to security services.

Vote Tyrell, people and semi-peoples

Beechcraft SD17S Staggerwing floatplane being used for peaceful purposes,  just flying around, what's your problem, man?

Which brings us, in a masterful example of randomised writing, to the latest outrage (furrows brow, looks up inrage, only finds enrage and picture of Sarah Palin wearing Stars and Stripes bikini and firing AR15) which again takes the human form of a government minister, Mr Chris Finlayson. In a twist of fate more twistier than a very twisty thing, Finlayson has very recently been made the Minister of the very folks whose arms the new laws  are made to strengthen.
He was asked a question while he was in Parliament doing that thing called "Question Time" when the opposition gets to ask questions of the government out loud, where everyone can see and hear. Which is how, unfortunately, they did actually hear Mr Finlayson call the asker of the question "A filthy creature". Oops, not really a stellar start to ones new job an hour into it, and all.
One could hope for an early dissolution of Parliament but as Smut Cyde vouchsafed to me the other night at Radiolabeling of DNA with 3' terminal transferase and button soccer night "It's a funny old game".