Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Perchance, I’ve just discovered there’s such a thing as a British Toilet Association. I’m not taking the piss. Google it. Its logo is “For Your Convenience,” it has an Honorary President, a Managing Director, a Chairman and five committee members on its
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently there was a Federal by-election in Australia in the Labour-held marginal seat of Eden-Monaro. In a tight race Labour scraped back, thanks to the Greens preferential votes going their way. But note this. The Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt remarked afterwards, “the result sent
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com For the last half dozen years Wellington property developer Ian Cassels has engaged in a heavily publicised war of attrition over his proposed 400 apartment development in Shelly Bay. The site is a former military base covered with ugly old wooden buildings. Ian purchased it
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Herald’s weekly columnist Matt Heath wrote on Monday, “…me and a local mate pumped a lot into the local economy.” Me nearly had a heart attack reading that. It’s unbelievable. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When the Nats chose Todd Muller as leader I was stunned. There’s no precedent in our two Party history for electing someone so obscure. After six years in Parliament he’d made no mark while his pre-Parliament history was to say the least ordinary,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Being that rarity, namely a politician (former) who’d actually started and managed a business, I was disappointed to read Stephen Joyce’s criticism of the government for not trying to save the Tiwai Smelter. First, he accused them of “conveniently hiding behind the skirts
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week ago, in the office at day’s end over drinks, Sam, one of our key chaps, mentioned he’d not renewed his Dominion Post subscription. I expressed alarm saying he needed to be au fait with what’s happening in a city we
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A household leaflet for a new political party called “New Conservative” turned up in my letterbox. It’s leader, a Leighton Baker, would have done himself a favour dressed in a suit and tie, and a bigger one still had he used an editor. In
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’m pleased to see the appeal by the Mainzeal directors has a fixture next month. The guts of their prosecution was for trading while insolvent, for which they were fined a total of $36million. The conviction reflected the Court’s total failure to understand
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Ngapuhi leader David Rankin gets angry about the mainstream media’s soft-soaping with Maori hypocrisy. He issued the statement below in response to the contrived fashion-following Maori furore over statues such as Captain Cook. Needless to say the mainstream media all ignored it. That said,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was shocked as both a substantial Auckland ratepayer and central government taxpayer, to read that the Auckland City Council and the government have contributed over $250 million of our money to the staging of the America’s Cup. The justification for this largesse is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has written to our political parties urging them to lay off racism in the coming election campaign. His letter has been joyfully spread by its recipients around the capital and for all I know, elsewhere. Inexplicably half of it
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve waited a week for an announcement of a Police appeal against the extraordinary judgment by Auckland District Court judge Claire Bennett, but to date, nothing. That was her discharge without penalty, plus name suppression, of a bloke who put a camera in a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Even the right-wing media have now seemingly written off Trump’s prospects of re-election, so overwhelming are the polls. Furthermore, they continually worsen. Trump’s Presidency has been disastrous, not just for America but the world. It’s hugely desirable it ends. But I don’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Today’s Dominion-Post, delivered, thank God – it’s raining – in a plastic wrapper, includes a double-page feature on the evils of plastic. DOUBLE STANDARDS (2) Saturday’s New Zealand Herald website was headed by a lengthy item titled, “Where’s the kindness?” This regaled how
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a reshuffle the National leader has awarded Soimon the Foreign Affairs Shadow Ministerial role, replacing Gerry Brownlee. Gerry told the media he was happy about that. Where’s the Tui billboard when we need it with such rich pickings? It’s known that Soimon
