Whereas austerity during a crisis and in general has got a brilliant track record? Usually you prime the pump when it is needed- which you’d imagine it is after the floods.Though maybe not for those pulling in the pension and a salary while owning Auckland...
Wait I’m confused- they have no value so we should sell them or they are too valuable for a council to have so we should sell them?
Ahh Damien ‘a man of convictions’ Grant. Personally I’d rather listen to Bernard Hickey in the Kaka: The expert is saying that Auckland is not only in a good position with a gold-standard AA credit rating, but its position is solid enough to put a stable ...
Yeh- deliver airport shares and low rate bills. Certainly if he doesn’t deliver on flood infrastructure and public transport these are something our children will be paying for over and over. CAB is something that will cause a lot of damage amongst people ...
He’s proposing to sell off Airport shares for a hit of sugar and a transfer of assets to those with disposable cash. Identical playbook to previous liars- make a crisis, sell the farm.
What damage? Not flood damage I’m assuming. That’s all your own narcissist!
Fixing public transport by cutting it immediately, setting future uptake back further? That’s quite a miraculous feat. And I tend to believe Bernard Hickey and others that the panic over finances is horse shit.
That’s news to me, but not sense! Though it is very kiwi: exclusive private country club on el cheapo rent on public land…
Golf courses I kind of don’t mind, in a hypocritical way, if they’re public courses and providing that green therapy to the drinking class…in NZ golf is a much much more democratic activity than in most of the world. The Warriors love a game on their day ...
But there are people who disagree with you, so that is considered contested. Otherwise this thread is unnecessary?
No I didn’t make anything up in my head! Everything I think is taken from elsewhere I promise. I was saying that what is considered self evident and backed by science has changed significantly in half a life time. What is considered correct and self ...
So what does a fixed Auckland look like? Fixed as in neutered? Got to remember some of us have lived through this Tory bullshit before. Make a financial crisis, hock off the family silver to your mates, leave an enormous deficit in terms of providing ...
‘If trans women were women…’ Well, it’s an issue that affects a small minority. This tends to mean that little interest or work is done as it doesn’t affect the majority and there is no money in it. Mainstream psychology and law held the unnatural deviance...
Well, I’m not saying it is disqualifying, but RNZ is leading their website with a banner headline about what JK Rowling thinks. That seems an enormous amount of cultural cringe. And a journalism deficit.
Don’t worry fam- Bad boy Brown and Mike Lee got you! Auckland’s finest at the wheel.
Someone should post on or guest Bernard Hickey’s take- it’s a load of hooey. In fact such a load of poisonous hooey he’s brought in an ex-tobacco exec to sell it to us.
Lying has a cousin in the Auckland Mayor’s office now? How much is the conservative movement beholden to the tobacco lobby? Did notice that Chris Bishop neglected to tell the Spinoff about his tobacco credentials. Is the right’s message really so difficult...
But what does climate change as an issue mean here? There’s a huge difference between will I get bailed out if trouble hits which is a massive climate change concern, to will I support expensive (but comparatively cheap) infrastructure and lifestyle ...
By that polling, not counting whatever rump is in Labour, that’s 48% of the country for doing nothing about climate change. And the current PM has just canceled parts of the successful clean car scheme and other things, so it is difficult to call Labour ...
Oh the positions seem fairly clear. ’It’s terrible, but it’s too late for us to do anything and we’re insignificant against China etc.’ Ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, rebuilding, but no holding carbon producers to account and no priority for ...
“The science is very clear.” What percentage of the Sandra Gourdie party remain that treat vaccines and climate change as the same type of leftie threat do you think? It’s also very clear that the science has been known for a long long time and PR ...
No one really seemed to pick up on what Wayne Brown said to Kin Hill before someone did a Maureen Pugh on him too: Kim: ‘Is there any doubt in your mind that this is an example of climate change?’ Mayor Brown: ‘It’s a bit early to ask that. Erm, you know ...
I mean spot on- I can always get a channel to tell me what I want. If Fox isn’t as deranged, I can get Newsmax or some other pile of hot crap…hot isn’t hot, wet isn’t wet, tobacco is a pleasant smell and it works largely as a health tonic. The harm ...
Though to be fair without a Cuban missile crisis or the Berlin Wall and without big Norm Kirk leading the way so long ago…
It makes me so angry that we’ve been forced to listen to the bullshit freedom morality of those who don’t want to get vaccinated or wear a mask out of consideration, while the water sweeping over your property full of shit and your dead neighbor, while the...
Don’t worry about the rich! They’ve got helicopter access to their lifeboat bunkers in NZ. A few local roads being out or suburbs flooded won’t worry them!
Not saying I’m guna mistrust BP’s chart, but lies, damn lies and statistics… And yeh I thinking electric cars are mostly bunk because of generation issues in most places.
We’re hitting stage four of the four stage strategy: *oh can’t embed YouTube? Or only me? Got a warning screen. https://youtu.be/nb2xFvmKWRY
I feel almost like Hipkins should say about 3 Waters- screw it, canceled ,your council will have to do everything- so either poo on the street and flooding or enormous rate rises. I’m sure you all trust Wayne Brown and Phil Mauger. I’m sure they got you. ...
Geez- I agree with Josie Pagani 100%. One of us must be a stopped clock! But it’s no secret our country has run on a lot of people being paid less than minimum wage. If your wage is crap and just covering rent, you can/could get a good cheap meal at xyz ...
I thought initially that Wayne Brown didn’t represent the city. But really he does: a bunch of 70 year olds who’d rather be playing tennis than consider something from the perspective of anyone else in the city. People who banned intensification where it ...
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