key may have something to bank shortly, page-20

Gosh.. we all need a settle down a bit here.

The personal stuff is silly and achieves little other than to alienate and polarise people; it does not engender good discussion and debate.

KEY has a terrific future ahead of it and we should be talking about serious things...

Here is a starter..
With what is going on in Georgia what are the chances...
- Europe realising that they are now an energy hostage to Russia.

The most logical place for Europe to be looking for alternate energy sources is East Africa (imho) as the Governments are small, malleable, have weak armies, are happy to keep out of Middle East and BRIC issues, and not likely to cause trouble for those that work with them.

I would also say they had better hurry up as China realised this a while ago. Europe is not one Nation and the competition could hot up quickly.

KEY is in a terrific strategic position here.