Hone, You're - unlike usual - speaking a lotta rot

To accuse your former Maori Party colleagues - in particular, Messrs & Madams Sharples, Flavell & Turia, of being National Party lapdogs is just not true, and by a rural kilometre. If anything, methinks at this point Messr Key et al are wondering just what they got into when entering into a confidence and supply arrangement with the Maori Party. Rather, they've - by their steadfast refusal to budge on certain matters of public note - caused the present govt an endless succession of headaches, and pains in both the posterior and shoulder region. And that's just for starters.