Batman and Robin

Had a fun night at the Backbencher on Thursday evening, with the official excuse being the launch of the John Key puppet. Every National leader since Muldoon is there, plus every Labour leader since Lange, plus others such as Roger, Ruth, Koro, Prebs etc.

The theming was John as Batman and Bill as Robin. The unfortunate placement of Bill’s hand provided much mirth and we debated who should tell Bill than Robin is the camp one 🙂

John gave a very short but well received speech where he mused about getting his wife to dress up in lycra as Catwoman, and pledged to not drive the Batmobile at 160 km/hr. Witty, without being nasty.

It’s been a great tradition having the puppets there. The only leader in recent times to decline their own launch was Helen with her latest puppet (she had done earlier ones) as it showed her married to Winston. Don’s last puppet was the mad surgeon, which has now been transformed into an excellent likeness of The Joker! The BB was planning to put all the National Leaders together with Muldoon as the Penguin (that would have been great) but the costs are hideously expensive and redoing five of them too costly.

My own wee wall of misdeeds is still up in the BB also, having survived there 12 years.

Welly Girl was also there and blogged it also.