Finally, a stake in the ground

In a week about exciting as extracting teeth, apart from Baygate, Key has finally drawn a line on the rampant bureaucracy.

In the first term of a National government we will not grow the size of the core bureaucracy. Enough is enough. We are going to make do with the resource we have and work to get more value out of it.

As in 1990, pity such a poisoned chalice is coming his way.