What a disgusting man. They ought to rename themselves "The Harsher Sentences for Poor People Trust".

How about the BOPE Fan Club?

Sounds like a Garth McVicar cure for violent crime; catapault the guilty into the sea with a giant slingshot. That'll teach 'em.

Typical leftie – soft on crime. Catapaultin's too good for them.

They should be forced to walk out into the cold, unforgiving ocean using their own energy. Whatever…

Horizontal Cook strait bungy!

Sounds like a Garth McVicar cure for violent crime; catapault the guilty into the sea with a giant slingshot. That'll teach 'em.

Now where talking. I have a humble proposition, here

With the right people wielding the whips we could probably get people to pay for the privilege.

Why don't we sponsor some NZ enterprise to develop a line of exercise machines that capture all that energy and feed it back into the national grid.

You could go one step further and require all those receiving the unemployment benefit to spend 30 minutes a day generating power.

A…

I've always wondered just how much energy is wasted in Gyms.

Why don't we sponsor some NZ enterprise to develop a line of exercise machines that capture all that energy and feed it back into the national grid.

You could go one step further…

and

NZ home of bungy

Oh it's so obvious

Horizontal Cook strait bungy!

That bright idea is sitting in the mad scientist box next to the power generator on White Island, which is powered by liquid hot magma.

One step better: generate Auckland's electricity from its own volcanic field. Geothermal-powered subways!

When we recently crossed Cook Strait on the ferry, my son asked "Why don't they build a bridge ?".

Why not, indeed.

So that's why my stats went apeshit... Cheers, Brent :-)

One thing of great import I didn't mention about a Cook Strait bridge. The power companies would definitely…

3. No more cheap cars
We will ban second hand imports. Car owners will be compelled to spend money on cars the way they used to: on maintenance. Running good cars for longer will provide work for more tradespeople, and as if that's not reason enough, consider also that this…

Bill Ralston will be obliged to write his columns in the presence of a witness who will ensure that he spends at least fifteen uninterrupted minutes at the task.

But will he still get a dollar a word? Or should we get Obama to cap his pay like the bankers?

houses that are disintegrating from the inside out

and well as those that are disassembling from the outside in won't those whose houses haven't been tipped over complain theirs are off their peak..?

Move the capital from Wellington to Blenheim

(or tipped over until it no longer leaks?…

Why not, indeed.

It would cost lot's of money and be way cool. Of course you'd have to make the Waitamata a marine reserve to…

Working in the government should be hard and unpleasant and Blenheim already has plenty of development.

What you need to do is move the capital to Stewart island! It would be a much bigger jump in the local economy for the third island than it would…

Just one proviso: Tom Beard has to be Minister in charge of moving the capital. We don't want to end up with a Milton Keynes or Brasilia.

What the dairy industry needs is widespread adoption of Denitrification Walls along water courses affected by runoff.

And creating artificial cattail (Raupo) swamps around effluent ponds to clean the groundwater and, as a bonus money-spinning enterprise, produce…

There will be a massive dairy cleanup project to make our agri-business genuinely clean and green. Jobs. Exports. Rivers you can swim in.

That's the one I would go for. Did you get a reply from Federated Farmers?