Let’s cut the crap here. Lester wants to become Mayor so utters the words the uncritical want to hear. The reality is that he is a below living wage employer with his personal business, so hardly one to be vested in addressing poverty. In his Councillor/...
Haven't been around much eh Weizguy? Instead of accepting the political PR, try joining a few dots.
Just when you thought Labour couldn't do much worse, it is now proving its dysfunctional nature in its support of a neo-liberal Wellington mayoral candidate. Their man - Justin Lester, is a less than living wage paying employer, a supporter of secretive ...
Good one Dale - you could leave you employment, live on the $200 a week, then someone else with an equally low IQ could take your place in the workforce.
"Also: I call bullshit on the 'pays living wage claim'. 'By all accounts Lester is a bloody good employer' is (sic) weasel words of the highest order." That was after choking on the coffee with the other implied leg-pull line. It wasn't, "... leaves ...
Hang on Mike - not so fast on singing Justin Lester's praises! Yes, he has small business experience, but from various reports Kapai doesn't pay a living wage. It has even been suggested that the chain could be sad about the demise of zero hour contracts. ...
alwyn - yes backdating the proposal would be unreasonable but the comment was meant in the hypothetical. The reference to Catherine Isaac was in a different realm though. It is galling that people are shoulder tapped for roles on a 'political' and/or ...
Good point at the beginning of your comment alwyn. Guess it reflects how pissed off some, self included, where when we felt obliged to vote for the city damaging faux-Green Wade-Brown to block Morrison last time round. There is obviously some trepidation ...
Rosie - Martin Luckie Park in Berhampore. The man has no qualms about this well used public space and the kids league team being shunted by the sound of it. It is a widely held belief that the thought of John Illott Green being retained as open space is ...
Wellington's Labour mayoral aspirant Justin Lester is at it again! This time, he is advocating that a community park should be fenced off, furnished with 'all-weather' turf and given to a private professional football club (Phoenix) AT RATEPAYER EXPENSE!!!...
Rosie - a number of people have been around the traps a bit but so far, the Council/developer cabal have been fortunate in that they have only had to deal with small isolated individuals and inadequately financed community groups. That said, the Council ...
Rosie - while it is true that the WCC has done a good job of refurbishing some of its social housing stock, the reason may have been lost in some of the mists of recent history. The investor sharks were circling until the government put the kaibosh on the ...
Key obviously has his sychophants skulking around in at least Khandallah. There has been a bulk leaflet drop supporting the tea towel design - without any indication of who acknowledgement who financed, distributed or authorised the naively simplistic ...
The capital is far from left wing Sacha. Don't you know that Wade-Brown was responsible for employing the most extreme neo-liberal CEO in the country and that she and Justin Lester are very adept at funneling rates and ratepayer assets to the private ...
Even more worrying RedBaronCV is that a mammoth proportion the Wellington City Council's privatisation of public funds is being directed at the events/tourism scene. The city already has the most highly qualified service sector employees in the country (...
Good luck on the DCC Labour ticket front Pasupial. Trust you won't have the quandary that Wellington ratepayers face. The current Deputy Mayor who is standing as a Labour candidate is a consummate neo-liberal. His socialist instincts only run as far as ...
Satire never died, it just became reality in the neo-liberal world.
Hi Rosie - sounds like par for the course. The subdivision concerns and compliance problems you are experiencing exist in pockets throughout the Wellington City. The Council planners and compliance staff maintain very unhealthy relationships with some ...
Odious? Oh yeah, the more appropriate adjectives are unprintable!
If you are correct Lanthanide - Yahoooooo! How many supermarket chains would risk stocking the slave-trader's wares knowing the risk of it being a serious loss-maker. Admittedly it would be hard on the workers, that is until an ethical fair wage paying ...
alwyn, perhaps you might like to invent an explanation as to why the failed K. & S. CEO has also managed to lose half the members of the Chamber of Commerce since taking over there. It is about time he was relegated to the persona non grata status that his...
Labour have lost the plot if they support Justin Lester as a ‘left-wing’ mayoral candidate. His background and the issues he has advanced or supported as Deputy Mayor demonstrate that he is the epitome of a crony capitalist. He is in good company with the ...
Isn't a rack-renting property speculator who no doubt receives taxpayer subsidised rent payments and aspires to play games all day instead of productively working for a living the epitome of a scrounger?
For heaven's sake acrophobic, you clearly don't have any context for the quote you commenced with, the link at the end does nothing to support your thesis and you haven't provided any credible evidence to support your assertion that the Morgan Foundation ...
If Lester is still on the executive of the Property Council, how often has he declared a conflict of interest and not voted for the likes of Site 10, SHA's, District Plan Changes etc.? Do you have any idea Rosie?
Here it is Rosie: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/justin-lester-ab613623. He was on the Wellington Executive.
The only thing that was green about Celia Wade-Brown were the suckers that thought she was. Anyone who thinks Lester is red will see red when they analyse what he stands for. How can a dyed in the wool neo-liberal who readily advocates the privatisation of...
Some would kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Mme Guillotine is the deserved response!
This one (http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/74225464/heated-debate-at-khandallah-housing-meeting) didn't last a day on the Dominion Post website - what a surprise. It is about time the WCC planning department employed some competent staff who ...
The only thing that is green about Celia Wade-Brown are those that think she subscribes to Green values. In reality, she is the tame pup of the Business Round Table and the property speculator class. One might say 'corrupt' but as yet, no-one seems to have...
Australia doesn't look to flash in this report on human rights: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/wr2014_web_0.pdf
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