Moore has been ‘talk­ing non­sense’ for years – The Labour Party is unlikely to take any action to revoke the mem­ber­ship of long-time col­league Mike Moore, despite his pub­lic attack on Prime Min­is­ter Helen Clark this week.
Labour Party pres­i­dent Mike Williams yes­ter­day said… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Excuse me for laugh­ing at bully boy Mike Williams’ extreme hypocrisy.

Oh hardy har ha, they biffed Philip Field out of the party for say­ing less than Mike Moore did and if they have noth­ing against Free­dom of Speech then what the fuck is the Elec­toral Finance Bill.

That bill is noth­ing but an attack against free­dom of speech from begin­ning to end.

Mike Williams’ rank hypocrisy sick­ens me.

Mike Williams is also a liar when he says “the party had not thrown out a mem­ber since about 1939.” Short fuck­ing mem­ory or bla­tant lies, let’s ask Philip Field if that state­ment is true.

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John Arm­strong: Moore throws open debate on leadership’s style and con­tent – Pained as Labour must feel right now about heed­ing any advice from Mike Moore, the party should not dis­miss this week’s dia­tribe out of hand. The basic thrust of Moore’s mes­sage to Labour in his opin­ion piece in Wednesday’s Her­ald… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

John Arm­strong con­tin­ues to give the Mike Moore story legs.

To quote Daryl Ker­ri­gan, “They’re Dreamin’” 

 

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Fran O’Sullivan: Moore’s sub­text all about elec­tion win – Any­one who lays pub­lic siege to Helen­grad runs the risk they will find them­selves the sub­ject of bru­tal retal­i­a­tion. Helen Clark’s inner cir­cle will by now be cal­cu­lat­ing the exact man­ner in which they will cook for­mer Labour leader… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

The Mike Moore com­men­tary con­tin­ues to have legs and only really because Ander­ton and oth­ers jumped on the band wagon to bag Mike Morre. If they had just shut up or at the very least com­mented anout poor silly old Mike then the sotry would have died.

Now the media have just about explored all the coup angles some of them just might start on the intrigu­ing “con­sort” angle.

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Michael Ear­ley: NZHer­ald: “Your Views: Are coun­cils spend­ing too much of your money?”

Com­mend­able though it is that guys like Mike and Blair have decided to be cajoled by Crazy Chris into stand­ing for his new pulled out of his and Julie’s arse “ticket” and put their names for­ward for coun­cil there are some incon­sis­tan­cies creep­ing into their [cough] message.

First up, Mike E, has explained some of 1Auckland.com’s poli­cies and thought­fully linked to their web­site, except well it isn’t there. Also it isn’t their name, their name is 1Auckland.com, which also isn’t up. Clearly Chris thinks he will win the case against them so has reg­is­tered oneauckland.com just in case. There seems to be case of polit­i­cal schiz­o­phre­nia hap­pen­ing here.

Still it is a lit­tle bizarre that the “ticket” doesn’t have a site and nei­ther does their leader and guru Steve Crow, unless you count a photo of his bald mug as a site.

In line with Steve’s motto “Telling you as it is” here is a lit­tle story about the thought processes involved with these guys. They talk big and act small.

I had lunch one with Chris Diack who spent the entire time telling how fuck­ing mar­velous he was. He even gloated to me that if it wasn’t for him and his ticket (that was Auck­land Now back then) then the Cen­tre Right vote wouldn’t have been split. It was at this point that I realised that Chris Diack was like most Labour con­verts to ACT, slightly mad and always spoil­ing for a fight, any fight, just so long as they were fight­ing. I retorted to Chris at the time, “So you are the one respon­si­ble for Dick Hub­bard, that was a bril­liant fuck­ing plan that was, I know I’ll teach the Centre-Right a les­son, we’ll split the vote and let Hub­bard and City Vision in, just fuck­ing bril­liant”. Lunch ended shortly after that.

Once again Chris has thrown a hissy fit and stormed out of Cit­i­zens and Ratepay­ers all on the pre­tense that his friend Julie wasn’t selected. That would be the Julie who didn’t pay her mem­ber­ship, and the Julie who went run­ning to the press whin­ing about it all despite sign­ing bind­ing doc­u­ments to say she wouldn’t.

Unfor­tu­nately for Blair and Mike, earnest though they are, they will get nowhere, because essen­tially the “ticket” is hol­low and based entirely around the ego’s of Steve Crow and Chris Diack. At least Steve runs a suc­cess­ful busi­ness and doesn’t still live with his mum and dad. They have been conned into stand­ing for some­thing that has no his­tory, no plans and no ideas.

Cit­i­zens and Ratepay­ers are might­ily glad that this lit­tle band of fools who talked big but acted small have flown the coop. They won’t be wel­comed back.

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3 years of rate rises tipped to top 37 per cent – Prop­erty and water rates in Auck­land City are fore­cast to soar by 37.3 per cent and 30 per cent respec­tively over the next three years if October’s local body elec­tions do not force changes of poli­cies.
Mayor Dick Hub­bard and the… [Auck­land News]

If you actu­ally needed a rea­son to tip out Hub­bard and City Vision it is this report that despite mas­sive rates hikes more are expected.

Soon to be ex-Mayor Dick Hub­bard and the City Vision-Labour ticket must defend a term
in which rates rose by 21.4 per cent and pro­jec­tions from coun­cil
doc­u­ments that they would rise 37.3 per cent more under cur­rent pol­icy. On top of that The Dick actu­ally cam­paigned on rates relief when he weaseled his way in.

Time’s up wastrels. 

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I’m not after Clark’s job – Goff – Labour Cab­i­net Min­is­ter Phil Goff is dis­miss­ing spec­u­la­tion he is after the party’s top job.
His career aspi­ra­tions have been the sub­ject of much media spec­u­la­tion, some of it fuelled by this week’s attack by for­mer Labour leader… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Of course he doesn’t, he actu­ally wants to be leader of the Oppo­si­tion but will have wait until the Bil­ious Bitch calls an election.

Oh, and BTW Phil, you are show­ing your old maoist ways again, jour­nal­is­tists doesn’t use type­writ­ers these days they use PC’s. 

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Govt declares war on obe­sity – New Zealand, world, sport, busi­ness & enter­tain­ment news on Stuff.co.nz

Oh great so after mem­bers of golf clubs, accoun­tancy firms and the Exclu­sive Brethren, not men­tion John Key, Labour has decided to go to war with fat, lazy people.

I mean you can’t com­bat obe­sity by labelling food. Only the fat lazy shits can com­bat obe­sity by get­ting off the butts and stop shov­ing vast quan­ti­ties of food down their gobs.

War on Obe­sity, I laugh at your war on obesity.

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Overnight there have been some dra­matic u-turns, volte-faces and flip flops from Labour.

Not sur­pris­ingly Herr Rot­ten­fuhrer Carter has clearly been sev­erly cen­sured by the ninth floor over his EFB post­ing. He has flipped more than a cir­cus acro­bat. He has now bizarrely accused emi­nent blog­ger Lord Far­rar of being Mul­doon and Karl Rove in the same para­graph. The image of that is frankly fright­en­ing. Also he has the more cheek than a fat ladies bum to accuse National of steal­ing the elec­tion when we all know it was Labour and not National that over spent its allo­ca­tion by $800,000.

In other news the gov­ern­ment whis­per­ers have had a wee word in the ears of the polit­i­cal pawns at RNZ and inti­mated that they are going to make some changes to the bill. The funny thing is the whis­pered pro­posed change actu­aally opens up that which they wanted closed and that is the halt­ing of the likes of the Brethren cam­paign­ing. The fools think they have helped the unions when in fact they have opened the door to the sta­ble right open now. They have made a tragic bill worse now they may as well put it down. 

Bill Eng­lish has com­mented on the absur­dity of the whis­per­ers cam­paign.

Finally David Far­rar pours the silly lit­tle lick­spit­tle Jor­dan back into his bottle.

Oh, one last word. Well three actually.

Kill The Bill

PS an inter­ested reader emailed me this.

 

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This mes­sage is doing the rounds. My under­stand­ing is it was a mes­sage left on Cameron Brewer’s cell­phone after he made the fol­low­ing rather innocu­ous com­ment on the Herald’s web­site ask­ing for com­ment on the huge sums being spent on Queen Street upgrade.

Lis­ten to the audio.

A cou­ple of things for Dick to pon­der. Firstly in New­mar­ket the dis­tance from the Round­about at the start of Broad­way to Mor­timer Pass is 780 metres. Thus from Dick’s asser­tions Queen Street from “K’Road to the bot­tom” must be 5.46km in length, unfor­tu­nately for the Mayor the dis­tance is only 1.54kms from K’Road to Cus­toms Street, not even dou­ble the dis­tance of Broadway.

Next Dick says that Cameron Brewer has been mis­chevi­ous with the facts about the spend­ing, except Cameron Brewer got the fig­ures from an OIA request that may­oral can­di­date Lisa Prager released to the pub­lic. Cameron Brewer is clearly telling the truth and Dick Hub­bard is lying like a flat fish again.

Dick even tells another porkie when he basi­cally says on the mes­sage that the $5 mil­lion was inter­nal­con­sul­tants and engi­neers. Again if we look to his own com­ments in response to Lisa Prager we can see that Dick lies like a flat fish.

Dick, give up and stop being so sen­si­tive to crit­i­cism of your failed council.

 

 

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Pub­lic Ser­vice Message:

I am upgrad­ing to a new server with more RAM and big­ger disk space. Per­for­mance will be improved and will end those pesky MySWL crashes. 

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Cullen says NZ bank­ing is sound – Stuff.co.nz

Michael Cullen has become the King Canute of NZ Finance try­ing to hold back the tide of finance com­pany collapses.

Indus­try sources plus seri­ous monied investors that I have spo­ken to today all say, this is but the start. They pre­dict that there will be even more go to the wall and tears will be flow­ing except from them who are all cashed up and poised to make a killing.

Cullen is sim­ply fool­ish to make state­ments such as this;

that is just dumb, even sup­posed blue chip com­pa­nies can go to the wall when the cash­flow ceases and that is what will hap­pen very, very quickly when all the oldies that have trot­ted up and down the main street seek­ing an extra quar­ter of a per­cent inter­est decide the mat­tress is safer. Once the short term money trail dries up down comes the house of cards that credit built.
Deny­ing that we have a prob­lem because we sup­pos­edly son’t have a “sub-prime” mort­gage mar­ket is prov­ing what every savvy investor and financier in new Zealand has known all along, that Cullen is noth­ing but a jumped up His­tory Lec­turer well past keep­ing his tenure.

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Just Left: If I were on the Jus­tice and Elec­toral Committee

Jor­dan whilst on his sojourn to Bel­gium has decided to post a lit­tle mis­sive about the dra­con­ian Elec­toral Finance Bill.

Now one would expect Jor­dan to take up where he left of with the state­ment in his pre­vi­ous post about this anti-free speech bill, where he said “Any­one who opposes it in sub­stance is essen­tially say­ing, “I want New Zealand to retain elec­toral finance laws that mean elec­tions can be bought by the peo­ple with the biggest wal­lets”, but no Jor­dan has started the offi­cial “we wuz only jok­ing” expla­na­tion of the how to change the bill to try to make it more palatable.

If Herr Rot­ten­fuhurer Jor­dan, well known lick­spit­tle, toady and apol­o­gist of the Labour Party has decided that the bill need seri­ous changes it can only be days away from Clark decid­ing to pull the bill.

that remains my posi­tion. Kill the Bill.

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John Arm­strong: Labour doesn’t see the funny side – Asked if he was going to Sir Robert Muldoon’s funeral, a National Party Cab­i­net min­is­ter, who must remain name­less, con­fided at the time that he would be there if only to sat­isfy him­self that the lid of the cof­fin had been nailed… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Oh and humor­ous it has and con­tin­ues to be. 

 

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An anony­mous emailer sent me another photo that shows more strik­ing sim­i­lar­i­ties between Dear Leader and var­i­ous dic­ta­tors and quasi-dictators past and present.

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Sorry for that lack of post­ing, I had the kids Fathers Day break­fast at the school and then went to the Gym for a shoul­ders workout.

Now onto some post­ing, boy has the Mike Moore story got legs and then i have to fol­low up some promis­ing leads re: The Duck and then lunch with the No Min­is­ter fellas. 

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