The fight is on

The Labour dinosaur over at Waitakere has been re-elected for a sixth term and was given a good run for a short campaign against him. There are obviously just too many with their snouts in the ratepayers trough to dislodge him yet. Of the better than 46,000 votes cast, 61% did not want him, yet he remains. The 39% mare.

As previously blogged, at least 18,000 ratepayers will look forward to their 12.5% discount when GST is removed, promoted as a bribe to his getting re-elected. Just hope he has the personal readies to idemnify all ratepayers when the IRD comes looking for its missing slice of the cake. As previously mentioned, a tax on a tax is just not cricket.

Seems the dinosaur also knows best and has already refused to work with the new incumbent over the Whau in Jafa Central. Seems he could not work with him last time round and he has already drawn swords, declared war, less than 24 hours after re-election. Red-Blue emnity to the fore, no doubt.

Harvey said he did not see a unified Auckland under Banks.

"Most of our plans, light rail, regional growth, were all thwarted by Banks. If Auckland wants to put Auckland back 20 years, they're doing a good job. Because for three years, believe me, we never worked with John, we worked around John. It shows the shallowness of Auckland, if they fail to understand what that man is capable of doing or not doing. But that doesn't mean you can't work with someone. I mean you could work with Maggie Thatcher for Christ's sake. But you wouldn't like her."

Wants to keep wasting ratepayers monies on monuments to bureaucracy, social engineering directed from the ninth floor down south and light rail that will never solve transport woes. (Seems retreaded JB in Jafa Central has already bought a fight with government over wasting ratepayers monies on professional sporting facilities just down the road from H1's place, but that is another story.)

Full of self import, he has also bought into a fight with the new man over the bridge, who was rightly elected on a no second airport ticket. Now, that gets right up his nose, the second airport has always been his pet project, at great expense to the ratepayer. Always attempts to wipe opponents off the face of the earth with his arrogant stance on these matters.

The sooner Dick's only saving grace

his legacy would be the inquiry into the governance of Auckland that could change it politically forever

comes to fruition and prises this spin doctor from ratepayer wallets, without him, in a single super city, the better for Auckland and NZ.

Update:
And what was wrong with Maggie?