Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Just thinking,
Here's organisers Peter Lynch and Mike Coleman at today's event.
More pics here.I don’t want to see Gary Moore back as Mayor.
Me neither, though he answered his emails. I know cos I tried him once. Parker threatened protest organiser Peter Lynch with legal action just for emailing him.
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On behalf of Gudrun Gisela, Ohau Waterfall, Kaikoura, earlier today. No seal pups to be seen, will try again in April.
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Tony Marryatt addresses CC Council in a rare public appearance. For all Bob Parker's prattling kia kahas, the vessel on display behind Marryatt might as well be the Charlotte Jane for all the difference such trappings have made to the well-being of ordinary people in this town.
Marryatt on Campbell Live tonight did a great impression of a dodgy car dealer run to ground by the Fair Go team.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Seriously, Parker made me feel ill on the news the other night ...
His Botoxship's appearance utterly & conspicuously ignored by the Press.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to 3410,
Yeah - anyone know anything about Council Watch? While their interest certainly appears welcome, you do kind of wonder where they've been until now.
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
My Gran and her Triumph Herald Vitesse. :)
Gran must have been a bit of a goer, those Vitesses were mean machines, sort of. Do you have a front shot, with the crazy diagonally mounted twin headlights?
Basically a Triumph Herald with a stonking great Vanguard Six motor, the Vitesse had oomph to spare, though its lacklustre swing axle rear suspension rather undermined its sportiness.
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Chch local Govt. democracy shows encouraging signs of life.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Because it’s very difficult to be neutral on an issue like Marryatt’s wallet. Not quite the 1981 Tour, but it’s getting there.
Utterly unlike 1981 in that the Springbok tour was a deliberate attempt by central Government to create division, but there are real echoes of that time in the way that people have been politicised outside of regular class and party allegiances. I'd never have expected my late Mum to go on a protest march, but until the day she died she bore a grudge against "that horrible Grizz Wyllie and his boozy mates" who'd emerged from their watering hole to abuse the passing marchers. It also left her with a lifelong distrust of the police, and that won't be an issue this time as we're dealing with a pathologically risk-averse bunch of event-managers.
As happened in May 2010 with the anti-mining turnout, Brownlee and his enablers have been blindsided by something they don't know how to politicise. The myth of Christchurch "going blue" has made them complacent, Labour have been a pushover on quake issues, with the mere suggestion that they're politicising events being enough to silence all but Lianne Dalziel, and even she's largely been forced to keep her head down.
The standard strategy has been to portray protesters as dupes of a shadowy cabal of "big business", with Parker as the people's white knight. Councillor Aaron Keown obliges by playing a one-man working class, happily confirming all the stereotypes about proletarian stupidity. It's Keown who has been most vocal in flogging the myth of nameless figures with deep pockets bankrolling opposition to the Marryatt camp. Like his rejection of evolution and his belief that Princess Diana was murdered, lack of evidence is no impediment to faith.
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The Press may have fallen out of love with Mayor Bob, but there still appears to be a convoluted web of loyalties. PR flack Felicity Price has a guest opinion piece where she 'explains' how everything's hunky-dory with her $80,000 Council 'communications' review. Unlike every other guest piece they've run, Price's puffery has been spared from reader comments, so we're denied the opportunity to ask her why, if part of her brief is to groom CEO Marryatt to 'be out and about in the community in order to listen, learn and act on what people are thinking and feeling about their Council', he's been sulking in his bunker (bad golf pun) since his disastrous encounter with the media on his return from holiday, and shows no sign of emerging.
Meanwhile, His Worship does the designer media-op in a neck of the woods that's seen practically nothing of him until now.
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Don't believe everything you read, especially Council-approved chicklit.
