Notice served on union members

Union members and other Labour drones from Mayors downward, who think they are safely ensconced in their little fiefdoms, around the JafaLand isthmus would do well to pay attention.

Notice is served that your cushy number will be non-existent in three years time when a new super-city arrives. You will have to actually work for a living in a real workforce or join the soon to be terminated Labour MPs in the queues at WINZ.

The commission on governance opened for business yesterday and already the usual suspects are covering off on their 'indispensable' jobs. As an aside, I was once told that graveyards are full of 'indispensables'...

As expected, Mr eco-Taliban himself, Harvey wants more cities, not less, to futher the employ of more unionised Labour voting drones. By the way Bob, can I budget for my 12.5% rates rebate, you so eagerly bribed ratepayers with, in the upcoming rates cycle?

Mr Lee of the Auckland Robbery Company only will allow change if cost benefits can be proven. I feel current costs rising sharply, the shredder warming up and pencils being sharpened to hide any real figures.

New broom, Banks, continues sweeping through the region, suggesting that other incumbents would do well to consider their long term options elsewhere. He has the right persona to knock some heads together. Good move to the Town Hall.

New kid on the block, Mr Williams, north of the buckling bus lanes, is digging in for a fight - he is opposed to any merger that might cut North Shore grass, having only just got his patch.

Mr Ball, of the fringe in Franklin down south, is peeved at his pet funding sources possibly being forced in the future to pay for things northward.

Mr Brown of Manuakau, Mr Penrose of Papakura and Mrs Webster of Rodney are fence sitting, saying hello to the commissioners, but bugger all else.

One city, one office, one set of bylaws, properly funded from Central government. Take a big knife to the bureaucracy. Auckland is one city, just ask any person outside of the region or internationally.

Bring it on.

100% Pure NZ of the near future?

The Swedes over here have tourism sussed, even monitoring their tourists for any untoward after effects.

Coming to NZ sooner rather than later, just what we need to forever keep the lights on the 100% Pure NZ brand.

Orewa III Taupo I

At last, a direct pollie who is upfront confronting issues around the haters and wreckers seen around in the last few weeks. Winnie at his best, taking over from where Don was kneecapped, looking for votes, striking the right chords.

accused Labour and National of not having the courage to confront separatism

We once marched against apartheid, now they are marching for it

We have been warning them for more than 20 years and yet they still can't accept the blight of separatism - because they do not want to cause offence

gangs were flourishing because National and Labour lacked the courage to confront separatism

New Zealand had groups calling for separate nations within a nation, and which were prepared to use guns and violence

Militant separatists were also taxpayer-sponsored, "rejecting all our values excepting collecting the dole each fortnight"

Summed up perfectly with

New Zealanders were sick of being called racists "by those who are clearly the most militant racists in the country".

Another gem right on target is

Migrants to New Zealand, he said, "must understand our values, not expect us to adopt theirs"

Winnie would never get my vote, although he is entertaining when he becomes desparate for votes. He is only a vote taker from National who currently does not have the cojones to stand up to the blatant separatism. The sooner NZ gets shot of seats based purely on race, the better for this country.

Everyone has their price

The separatist bastion of unflinching anti-colonialism, is finally finding it too has a price.

Seems they are willing to horse-trade on their founding issue.

Probably have also found they can read the writing on the wall. Who will play with us come this time next year, with our separatist policies?

NZ - The Ultimate Soft Touch

Our international reputation as a soft touch for all criminals and refugees riff-raff confirmed yet again.

Cars going past...

Must off and shut the gate - the Targa is going past our place for the next 4 hours...

The joys of living in the country - the road show is brought to your front door. Could you get such free entertainment in the 'burbs up there in JafaLand?

Hell no! Time to find the deckchair, if it did not blow away a few days ago, too early for a Tui...

And here is a pix of an 'angle box' for you from a previous year. Stop drooling, tax slaves get back to work! That reminds me, the cows need some new grass too.

Clark harbours criminal

After shoving the $14M campaign for anti-biffo with our kids down our throat for the last month, telling us it is not OK, her indoors is now harbouring a recidivist criminal within her ranks.

Assault is a criminal matter, any other employee in this country would be immediately taken to task by the Police.

At the campaign opening the other day, she loudly proclaimed

That is not loyalty. It is harbouring criminality... people who lashed out should not be protected...

I await her taking positive remedial action on this matter today, not awaiting the public reaction or giving favourable spin. Turning in her own criminal, who has freely admitted the assault and has a history of offering violence, might address the current position and stop any mixed messages.

We believe you...

Another contagion blooms

Just like the plague, another so called Christian party has sprung into existence. I wonder if this one will get any more votes than the last. Anther Destiny re-incarnation by the looks of it.

Somehow God-botherers of a political nature touting for my vote do not do it for me. Politics and religion just do not gel properly. Public office and soul saving are mutually exclusive. Would be pollies have to sell their souls to get votes. Similarly, the Watchtower hawkers turning up on your doorstep of a weekend, all glowing and full of promise, when you least expect wanting you to buy your way in, do not get a look in.

Now, this person, should she ever form her own party of believers and if I was of a believing type, could bet on my vote. She has rock solid doggedness of sticking to her view of moral principles. Some regard her as a nutter, other quite make vicious comments, I admire her for sticking to her guns. She certainly would beat any so-called Christian party hands down.

"I won't be having any bilaterals"

If her best mate, little wallaby Johnny hasn't turned up to talk to her and she won't be having bi-laterals, WTF is she doing there wasting my taxes?

She certainly will not be talking to the ring in, Downer, having burnt that bridge a while ago when her chief bauble holder failed to advise her of those troop flights.

She (and Alex, no doubt) won't be talking to the black sheep, who was so warmly welcomed by all counts today, so why the hell is she bothering. Must be very a lonely forum over there if you are not doing any talking. Still a tax-paid short holiday under the palms and on the white beaches must be good. By the look of the Te News item tonight, another parade rained on yet again.

Te Qaeda in play?

After watching Close-Up this evening, it would seem that there are some real weirdos out there involved in this mularkey. Some interviewees suggested that the actions today maybe a means of amping the support for the upcoming anti-terrorist bill to pass.

Seems that if a long term surveillance of the alleged operations had been so successful, there would have not been any need to charge under the Firearms Act, but progress straight to charges under the Terrorist Suppression Act (TSA). Maybe there are valid reasons to progress slowly and look carefully at elevating levels of criminality.

On first look, it does certainly does smack of a hidden political agenda, any MP only has to suggest possible threat and the TSA is in force. Specifics of the threat will never be revealed. Could be a wind up for political gain, bet Broad does not surrender his career over this matter whilst her indoors at the helm.

Is this where the EFB will be going next year? Make the slightest anti-guvmint comment and Mr Broads goon squad will visit you, quoting the TSA. Goodbye democracy? Kill the Bill!

HT: Kiwiblog comment by SeaMonkey Madness here for Te Qaeda

'Major police operation' in Whakatane

Off for a spot of digging?

Update:
Not this time it would seem, but some definitely suspicious activity, country wide, has emerged and been nipped in the bud.

Yet again the 'we have our own laws' brigade is out in force.

Rotorua lawyer Annette Sykes said this morning's raids were "overkill" and likened them to "the invasions last century".

"A lot of people had their homes entered this morning," she said.

Ms Sykes said she could not understand why police were using the Suppression of Terrorism Act to conduct the raids.

"They've screwed the people everywhere," she said.

Seems that the participants were various groups, each with their own agendas for change by force, but possibly acting with co-ordination to cause maximum disruption.

The Police Commissioner even got in with a live nation-wide statement after keeping H1 in touch with the state of play.

Mr Broad said that police were acting on information that over 2006/2007 a number of people had been conducting and participating in training camps in the eastern Bay of Plenty involving the use of firearms and other weapons.

"Based on the information and the activity known to have taken place, I decided it was prudent that action should be taken in the interests of public safety."

Maybe Ms Sykes, that is possibly why your clients are about to be screwed under the Terrorism Suppression Act. Could I suggest that this is a whole new game of sinister proportions?

Government threats over festering sore

The Minister responsible for Auckland has waded into the fight over Mt Eden being funded by ratepayers with threats. Obviously under direction from higher up, she has broken the ice and suggested Lancaster Park or whatever it is called these days is a viable option.

JB has called her bluff and said that for H1 to host the final in a stadium elsewhere than her own electorate is political suicide.

I'm telling you she won't do that. Auckland City is committed to the 2011 World Cup. We're committed to putting in a big chunk of money. We just want some fairness around this.

The minister further suggests there might be an out,

may also be counting on a change of heart by Auckland Regional Council about putting money toward the project, in the event that its chairmanship changes as a result of the weekend's local body elections.

Is she suggesting that the ARC should get a new chair that is more of a compliant pink hue? I thought the Auckland Robbery Company was elected on and of the same opinion, no money from ratepayers for the stadium. Covernment could only hope for this festering sore to be so easily fixed. Government, stay out of local body politics!

Bring the fight on! What with the bleating from a very lonely red dinosaur in the wilderness out west no longer going to be 'Lord Mare' and the government looking to get stuck in over matters local, the forthcoming days will be extremely entertaining.

Very surprised Judith is doing Trev's dirty work. Hello! Trev? Are you there?

Compulsory voting coming soon?

The Minister of Election Rigging is slightly miffed with the yet again apathetic turnout in these elections at 41%. Even worse, the left has not done well, even in its' flagship electorate of Mangere. He says,

voter apathy was not acceptable

However, your apathy will be fixed and he has the solution coming to your mailbox soon - compulsory voting for the masses. He also says,

ways needed to be found to encourage people to participate, because it seemed many people did not understand the issues

Seems the masses are in dire need of 'instruction' in issues and civic duties. I can see a whole new department of new unionists looming large, ever ready to promote the word according to Helen.

Why bother voting at all, what with her indoors form down south being so psychic on matters electoral and in tune with the great unwashed. Hell, she and her cohorts could tick all the boxes and vote for us, saving us licking the envelope and finding a postbox. They would get the results they long for and we would not have to waste time thinking about pollies.

Without being overly cynical, one could suspect that the red camp is very perturbed by the definite right shift. I suspect the masses know exactly what they are doing and the continuing rise in apathy reflects that voters are heartily sick of being dictated to by the state. Why bother with councils at all? The whole lot are a front for the current government, ever looking for new ways to strip-mine your wallet.

Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Newly elected mayor Wayne Brown in the Far North has some very radical thoughts for the incoming council along the lines of

First on his to-do list: "Fix the phones and tell the [council] staff they've got to bloody appreciate the ratepayer.

What a novel idea - a council that might be there to serve the ratepayer, not themselves. Furthermore he states

in the council I'm going to focus on the ratepayers, not the staff.

Pity the other 80 odd councils will not be following suit. Too busy, I suppose, looking after their unionised perks and their engorged pay packets to worry about why they actually have nuisances called customers otherwise known as ratepayers...