Desperation

Labour have been trying to push for months on end some sort of smoking gun (more a damp water pistol) about where John Key lives and how it compares to his electoral residence.

They have a nerve doing this as it was a Labour MP (and Alliance MP) who some years ago was found to be claiming a living out of Wellington allowance, despite being on the Wellington Central electoral roll.

In Key's case, there is no pecuniary gain involved, but more to the point he actually went and got a written legal opinion from the clerk of the house which advised how he could register a different electoral address to a company's address.

The Herald has a story on this. John Armstrong also writes in his column that Labour risks sinking itself deeper into the electoral mire.  Also a Dom Post story on how this is going nowhere.

Of course when you have run out of ideas and policy, and you can't even provide substance to the carbon neutral rhetoric, this is the only thing left.