Yep, I'll be staying in bed more, too.
Except for when I'm gardening, walking to get library books, see friends at non-profit events, help organise film nights or fundraisers, and generally conducting my life the same way I did under the past 12 months of Labour Government.

Key is nuts if he thinks he can change anything quickly - he's got a lot of upskilling politically to do, and I expect he'll walk right into that at APEC tomorrow, being the newest new-boy in a bunch of complete, hard-out right-wingers, he'll probably get his head flushed down the bogs in the boys' toilets pretty smartly!

The rest of us had better just work out how to support ourselves, 'cos I see a re-run of 1992 coming around, and we should all know how that screwed up a generation of young people, without education, job-security or safetynets in health or welfare.

The student-loan diaspora will not come back if 'tax cuts and mortgage assistance for the medium wealthy' are the only 'recession-proofing' welfare on offer; improvemnts to youth wages & salaries need to be put to employers as the only way out; 'cos the lowest paid put all their income into day-to-day consumption, and that's the churn that pulls an economy out of recession, not fixing it so that big corporations continue to make mega-bucks on the servicing of debt they shouldn't have sold to unwary punters.

I helped campaign for the Greens, I came out to events to support activist friends campaigning for RAM and WP; this was the most busy campaign in Wellington Central that I've ever seen, but we can't stop rednecks in Gore from voting back in their incumbent MP, and it is no reflection on those who campaigned that their best efforts were not enough to fight the swing against Labour.

Now we start the struggle as Government's opposition; which is where some of us have been for along while, anyway, trying to get traction on policies unpopular with the centre-left; whether they remain unpopular with a centre-right government will be yet to be seen, as the recession bites.