Mallardrome MkII

Today an agreement for eden Park has been signed and a new board set up.

Still no funding in place, but they still have great big expensive plans on the drawing board.

Apparently the board is responsible for funding, with a government underwrite and future changes in governance laws, but this gem sets the warning bells going;

there is already a high level of confidence that significant contributions will be coming from sources other than the government," Trevor Mallard said.

This can only mean one of two sources - either the 10c/litre regional petrol tax announced is going to be used to fund the stadium under the guise of electrickering the transport system, or the the long suffering ratepayers on all councils in Auckland are about to be stiffed, by a new taxation law, to pay for a private enterprise stadium.

I would guarantee that whatever Trev and this corrupt government does, it will cost Aucklanders dearly for not previously supporting Mallardrome MkI. I also strongly suspect that Labour sycophants like Bob Harvey have sold their respective ratepayers souls (and wallets) to get the toy electric trains.