Politics

My policy on Affordable Housing

by Whaleoil September 7, 2010

Given yesterday’s meet­ing was about social pol­icy and plenty of peo­ple had ideas about how to spend ratepay­ers money on things such as “afford­able hous­ing” it is timely then to issue my pol­icy. All social hous­ing (usu­ally described by weasel words as “Afford­able Housing”) should be built in the imme­di­ate vicin­ity of social hous­ing advo­cate Grant […]

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Candidate Meeting Today — The Whale fronted and Williams wilted

by Whaleoil September 6, 2010

Today was the first can­di­dates meet­ing I attended, hosted by the nice peo­ple of the North Shore Com­mu­nity & Social Ser­vices Inc. Here were their four ques­tions that you had 3 min­utes to answer. What do you see is the role of the new Coun­cil in Social Pol­icy? Can you give us two spe­cific exam­ples of […]

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Those Clever Labour fellows helping Len Brown

by Whaleoil September 5, 2010

Clever: Leav­ing your cam­paign van parked near an Auck­land nightspot as free adver­tis­ing. Not clever: Leav­ing printed polit­i­cal emails on the dash­board of that van. Now we known with­out a shadow of a doubt the paid Labour staffers are help­ing Len Brown’s cam­paign and that they think that the left wing cam­paign on the North Shore […]

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Utter irrelevance

by Whaleoil September 4, 2010

A pic­ture paints a thou­sand words. I’ve gotta ask…is the mega­phone to get the mes­sage those at the back of the hordes of fans? Related Posts:Trust me, Trust my Heart – Len BrownDirty Len Brown solic­it­ing using coun­cil emailsThere’s two clowns now in Auck­land­Se­crecy con­tin­ues for ClownLen Brown breaks the law on day one

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I’d say that Brown’s campaign is over

by Whaleoil September 3, 2010

This week has prob­a­bly been a real tough week for John Banks after TVNZ and Mark Cry­sell spent three weeks of muck rak­ing work at the behest of Len Brown’s Labour flunkies. Bernard Orsman’s arti­cle isn’t much bet­ter and does him­self a dis-service shop­ping tawdry tales Labour has been try­ing to get in the media […]

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First it was Len and Now it is The Clown

by Whaleoil September 3, 2010

Len Brown used coun­cil emails to solicit sup­port and funds and now Andrew Williams is using his coun­cil resources as a bully pul­pit to assail polit­i­cal oppo­nents. He has just sent out an email and press release that breaks almost every rule as set out by the Auditor-General.He has tried to be clever by disguising […]

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Proposed Changes to Child Support

by Blondie September 2, 2010

I’ve been read­ing the dis­cus­sion doc­u­ment for the pro­posed changes to the child sup­port regime.   It took me for­ever to find the thing – god knows I spend far too much time on the IRD web­site as it is, so I hon­estly thought I knew my way around the site.   Appar­ently not.  Any­how, I found […]

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Distortions that might work

by Whaleoil September 2, 2010

So Peter Dunne wants to change the Child Sup­port Sys­tem because more than $2 bil­lion remains unpaid by dead­beat par­ents. I know of one dead beat dad who doesn’t even so much as call his daugh­ter let alone pay any­thing towards her upkeep. There are plenty of oth­ers out there. At the same time we […]

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Need a reason to Vote Slater? I’ll give you 12 million reasons

by Whaleoil September 1, 2010

I’ll give you 12 mil­lion rea­sons why vot­ing for Slater in Albany Ward is a bet­ter option than giv­ing your vote to Andrew Williams or Julia Parfitt. North­ern Aquatic Cen­tre deba­cle – Andrew Williams and Julia Parfitt fought tooth and nail to have the pool located 200 metres from where it will even­tu­ally be built. […]

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Would you vote for someone who.…

by Whaleoil September 1, 2010

…couldn’t even spell the name of the city he is cur­rently the Mayor of prop­erly? Once is bad but twice on the same page is just sloppy cut and paste, even DPF can do bet­ter than that. next thing he will be spelling Auck­land like “Aucklen“…..oh wait! Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Whaleoil Policy on Motorway Bus Lanes

by Whaleoil September 1, 2010

Wha­le­oil Pol­icy on Motor­way Bus Lanes Motor­way bus lanes are cur­rently under-utilised, and the cost of this is con­ges­tion. The prob­lem is buses in Auck­land are such a ter­ri­ble way of get­ting around that they are always some­thing other peo­ple should use. I have been dri­ving up and down the North­ern Motor­way for the past week […]

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Why Peter Dunne’s Income Splitting Bill should be dumped

by Whaleoil August 31, 2010

I don’t like Peter Dunne. I haven’t liked him since he was still in Labour. I think he is a self-absorbed pompous twat with a silly hair cut. That how­ever is per­sonal and some­what silly on my part. What I really don’t like about Peter Dunne is that he has squat­ted in the Rev­enue Minister’s […]

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Whaleoil policy on Michael Cullen

by Whaleoil August 31, 2010

As part of my series releas­ing pol­icy plat­forms I would like to announce my pol­icy on Michael Cullen. Rather than putting him in jail for fis­cal crimes against New Zelaand includ­ing PREFU lies, the Kiwirail pur­chase and the Retail Deposits Guar­an­tee, he is to be sen­tenced to chair Kiwirail for the rest of his natural […]

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Caption Contest

by Whaleoil August 31, 2010

Related Posts:ChristchurchPlease Explain Mr Hub­bard, you too Bill Eng­lish­Na­tional have mis-judged the pub­lic sentimentUngrate­ful Pricks­Sell the South Island

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What a waste of money

by Whaleoil August 31, 2010

This is the sort of waste coun­cils and gov­ern­ment  need to guard against. Auckland’s his­toric Bird­cage pub is on the move – 1.8 metres at a time. All 740 tonnes of the 19th Cen­tury pub and hotel are being moved 40 metres in a painstak­ing process today to make way for the Vic­to­ria Park tun­nel project. […]

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