Posts by Tom Semmens
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Nothing like kicking the shit out of the down and out to take peoples attention away from the ram raid across the road....
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And just a note to our fine friends in Wellington - if you are referred to one Fred Phillips (AKA bigotted ACT blogger "Boomtownprat") for orthapaedic surgery make a point of asking to be referred to someone else...
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Cool it, chaps. Does ACT have an armed paramilitary force breaking heads in the streets of Auckland?
If his Imperial Majesty of Kaipara Sir Allan Gibb's thought he needed one...
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Did I hear Rodney Hide on Morning Report say that Aucklanders are "sick of local government?" I think I did, and I felt a chill, and I thought of Brownshirts, so he must have said it.
Ah, the sweet sweet allure of the Freikorps.
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Damn, that second eagle has turned out to be a Slater special.
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Did anyone else hear any of the contradictory claptrap from the spokesman for the first of greedy batters up this morning on Morning Report?
Quote from the press release of the loftily self-titled "New Zealand Council For Infrastructure Development" (membership $9,000 per annum, big business only need apply):
"“Auckland wouldn‟t be in this current mess if politicians had excised greater commitment to get results when they were running the services from council departments. It hasn‟t worked, and it is time for a new approach and fresh start.”
We now have our very own Dolchstosslengende, and the volk of Auckland have no alternative but the firm hand of Rodney Hide and Mr. Selwood's fascism to save their city.
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Can someone explain how National plan to benefit from this politically?
I think what we are seeing here is some fruits of Key's amateur approach to politics and corporate approach to governace. Like all good CEO's, Key wants his senior leadership team to get on with it and just present him with the results. His amateurish approach to politics means he has allowed the deeply unpopular 3.4% Mussolini of Epsom to impose a corporate fascist's wet dream on Auckland. Over laying all this is a certain sneering right wing hauteur of Rodney's crony kleptocrats for the ability of the mere hoi polloi in a democracy to grasp or care about their legalised thieving.
Politically it is growing into a slow burning catastrophe for National. the elite criticism now is bad enough, but the constant drip-drip-drip of stories in which local politicians and ratepayers eagerly shunt any blame for any issue onto faceless, unlected and unaccountable CCO's, which will (not) respond to criticism with the nuanced contempt so honed to perfection by Auckland's ratbag business oligarchy will badly damage National's white middle class base in Auckland.
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Perhaps we can take a clue from our rural friends in Northern Hawkes Bay on how to take a more direct approach to this corporate fascism?
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People have choices. If landlords choose to hike their rents, people can choose to live with their parents, move in with flatmates, leave the country, or buy a house.
Wow. Just wow. I am glad the choice is so clear.
I sure all those people in overcrowded accomodation in South Auckland will also choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning.
Or they could choose to tell you to take your out of touch middle class bullshit and just fuck off.