Places
Places related to your search results. This map shows just part of our unpublished collections – there's more coming as we add location information to records. Learn how to use the map.
Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: 'I'm very pleased with the fruitcake...' 14 November 2011
Date: 2011
From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald
By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0019491
Description: Two men, Prime Minister John Key and the ACT candidate for Epsom John Banks, sit at a cafe table having afternoon tea. John Key turns to the waiter and says 'I'm very pleased with the fruitcake - surprisingly agreeable. The food's not bad either.' Context: On the eve of the November elections, as a publicity stunt, Prime Minister John Key had a cup of tea in a cafe with John Banks, the ACT candidate for Epsom; John Key wants to Banks to win the seat because he will bring more ACT MPs into the government on his coat-tails. The media were invited for filming but someone recorded the conversation which the PM refuses to allow to be made public, thus fuelling speculation about what they discussed. Film showed a small black bag lying on the table; it contained a microphone but apparently neither politician noticed it. The plot thickens... Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).