Pub may have been closed for close on a year but based on tonight's patronage it doesn't mean people found a new watering hole.

The puppets are still v clever and new.  From wher we were sitting we had thought they were terribly partisan - could see 3 National Party figures, 1 Green and 1 Mana.  But as we looked behind a curtain divider we did see David Shearer and Winston Peters.

I think the John Key is the best though of course they are all clever