"We're just one big happy family!" "Bull shit!" 11 April, 2008

Shows several key MPs standing outside the Beehive for a photograph session. Michael Cullen, Finance Minister, is mother and says that they are just one big happy family. Prime Minister, Helen Clark, as father, holds a folder named 'Trade Deal' and looks as though s/he would like to throttle schoolboy, Phil Goff, Minister of Trade, who responds to his mother's statement by saying 'bullshit'. Leader of United Future, Peter Dunne, is a daughter looking as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and carrying a piggy bank under her arm and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, who is an out of control teenager, comes rushing towards them from behind with a dagger in each hand. John Key plays football alone on the grass in the background. Refers to the free trade deal with China which is considered a very big deal and which was signed 7th April, 2008. Winston Peters is not in favour of the deal as Leader of New Zealand First but has to go along with it as Foreign Minister. Cartoon suggests that opinion about the free trade agreement is not as harmonious as it might seem.

Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).