Two ticks for this one

will, among other measures, repeal the anti-smacking law

Anyone that offers that will get two ticks from me.  

A swift kick up the backside or clip around the ears is what's missing with our toe-rag feral youth.

One down, one to go

One murdering terrorist down, one to go.

H/T Guido via Theo Spark

A pox on all of them

I see the political whores are out in force offering their poxed version of the RMA.

United Future and the Act Party have joined forces to offer the National Party a way of breaking the long impasse on planning reforms - at the expense of the Maori Party.

The two parties restated in an open letter today that they will support the Resource Management Act (RMA) reforms if National agrees to three concessions.

They want proposed powers for the Environment Minister to override councils to be scrapped; greater recognition of property rights, and the exclusion of iwi consultation requirements.

It must an election year.

National needs two votes to get the reforms over the line.

It struck a deal with the Maori Party last year after agreeing to include provisions that would give iwi a greater role in the consenting process, known as iwi participation agreements.

However, the Maori Party then threatened to pull its vote unless the Government scrapped the ministerial override powers, which United Future and Act also oppose.

The Maori Party was especially concerned that the powers could be used to stop councils from creating their GE-free zones in their regions.

Will someone not stand up for property owners and remove the cancerous RMA from our lives?

National facing an embarrassing defeat on one of its major pieces of legislation

Labour-Lite deserves everything coming their way after 8 years of pandering to apartheid whilst the other political whores will be consigned to history this coming election.

A pox on all of them.

Repeat offenders still getting a leave pass via soft Judiciary

gang member who spent more than 370 days at large after removing his electronic bracelet was arrested on New Year's Eve

reportedly a member of the Crips gang, and had twice breached electronic bail before

WTF?  A gang member and given electronic bail for a third time?

In my view there are no mitigating circumstances at play here.  Firstly a gang member, secondly proven to be a serial absconder.

Gang member?  Forget mitigating factors, lock the bastard up and throw the key away. A holiday on the taxpayer continuing business as usual on an ankle bracelet should not be an option.

Time for the Minister responsible to sort out the Judiciary and then change the law.

Council box tickers at their best: "The planning team check .. Not our fault"

Therein lies the problem.

The planning team check any consent when it comes in ...

All plans these days will have gradients to 0.5m along with boundary and house positions accurately detailed to the nth degree on submitted plans.   As is required for any building consent these days.   Then, a simple exercise to calculate finished slope from garage door to boundary.

 I think it would be very difficult for the person that does that to check the gradient ... [but] when you're building, you've got to make sure people can drive onto it.

Council bureaucrats standing up for the paying customer, doing their overpriced jobs as bloody box tickers and dodging any responsibility.

The Nats show some spine

Te News: "a blow for democracy"

Excellent news. At last a move in the right direction on stopping the welfare state.

The Government has vetoed a Labour Party bill which would have extended paid parental leave from 18 weeks to 26 weeks

Pity the Nats do not show spine on other matters like ditching Working for Welfare.

You wonder how they stay in business...

On a new rural mail site:

it takes around two weeks for the address to be registered

Once it has been registered by our rural team it will show on the website in the next update. 

As we update our website once a month, it is most likely that your address will be update in the July update

The wait continues for full mail delivery from NZ Post.  And companies like Meridian will only send bills to the previous address till NZ Post gets off its arse and some lackey enters the data.

NZ Post, nice to know you're presenting stale data in your address finder.

Experts: "a smoking ruin"

must be persuaded to stay at TV3 at any cost as a "smoking ruin" is rebuilt

I'll have half of whatever the luvvie is smoking.  Must be goooood sh*t!

That aside, a wise person told me a long time ago that "graveyards were full of indispensable people".

And secondly having burnt a few bridges as the door hit her arse on the way out a few days ago, the legend in her lunchtime celebrity TV3 newsreader would do well to remember that second time round grovelling never ends well.

Are you worried?

MediaWorks' loss of talent worrisome

Campbell?  Barry?  Zero talent there.

There was never any talent at TV3, just jumped up news readers and reality TV merchants hawking manufactured scandal as news and current affairs.

Another show pony is hit by the door as TV3 races to oblivion.  Seems to be a trait of lefties these days.

Company 1: All care, zero responsibility Company 2: Well done

Last Saturday we picked up the unaccompanied minors ex Jafaland from the airport at Palmerston North. 

As the babysitters of choice for these school holidays, we were pleasantly surprised to receive multiple texts during the day as the airline scanned and took charge of the grandkids at various stages of the journey. Unaccompanied minors are given a wristband like a fitbit band which holds their travel details to be scanned at certain points of the trip. 

The texts are a big improvement on the previous manual process, keeping both parents and grandparents fully informed from check in to eventual handover at the destination. 

Well done Air New Zealand!

Meanwhile we have Company 1 doing their level best to lose more customers as they go out of business.  No BZ for the Naked Bus.

Labour: "We have other principles" as they whore themselves for the native vote

The Labour Party has joined the Maori Party in reconsidering its support for a law change which will establish a massive marine sanctuary in the Kermadec Islands

Unprincipled whores chasing votes whilst heading for extinction.

Granny Editor asleep at the wheel

Zero editorial control these days.

Unionised do not learn from history

the harsh reality is this factory is no longer sustainable due to the lack of scale and cost-competitiveness  

The cost of being union scum.

John Key's vanity project...

$26 million up the spout.

57% said hands off our flag.  Labour Lite's leader is told to piss off.

Now all who have the other rag can use it to wipe their backsides with it.

Racist and offensive? Really?

asks people to say whether they agree or disagree with the statement: "Maori should not receive any special treatment."

Would be offended lefties revert to to type and scream the "R" word.

Mr Davis said it was a leading question and would feed the attitude that there was special treatment for Maori. "It's out and out racist. Were there any other questions that were targeting any other ethnicity? No. Just the Maori one."

Damned right!  I feel offended that someone asks a question what most, including myself,  would feel the statement to be truthful and lefties ever looking political traction go for the default taking offence, screaming "Racist" and trying to have the survey changed, removing the supposedly "offensive" question.

It's a question that is long overdue for asking in this country. One that needs to be asked without fear or favour.

And the enablers in National who have whored themselves and their party for the Maori vote via the oft-repeated over the past century "full and final" settlements would do well to take note.