Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recent lengthy article in Wellington’s Post newspaper by Julie Jacobson headed “Council offers rich-lister’s support to secure tenants” left me incredulous. Julie babbled on about the Wellington City Council’s efforts to woo tenants into my company’s central Lambton Quay large retail
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The degradation of university degrees over my life-time, is tragic. Readers familiar with my novel of 20 years back, “Degrees For Everyone” will understand. Consider this. A regular contributor in the NZ Herald is a Canterbury University sociologist, (a bogus subject lacking any intellectual element) namely
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The election campaign grinds boringly on notwithstanding the ultimate outcome is not in doubt, namely a change of government. What’s puzzled me about the electioneering to date is the failure by Opposition parties to raise a problem not only unique to New Zealand but at
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I tuned in to TV One on Tuesday night for the debate, that in itself a rare event, indeed probably the first time this year that I’ve viewed TVNZ. But not for long. I lasted 10 minutes. The appalling moderator Jessica Mulch or Muck or
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The incoming government will have such a huge majority as not to need New Zealand First. I believe New Zealand First will easily crack the 5% mark as Winston, being half Maori, alone feels safe addressing the big issue upsetting New Zealanders, namely outrageous co-government propositions,
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuff reports MP Rachel Boyack saying “Fundamentally, everyone has the right to live in a safe, warm and dry home”. As always the prefix “Fundamentally”, gives away that Boyack is talking nonsense. This reality, going back to 1929 when it was first noted is always used
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Shambles is a self-employed economist, frequently quoted in the press stating what we already know. With his latest utterance headed “food prices up”, Shambles then astutely pointed out “…the same basket of food might take a bigger share of your weekly budget”. By God, who’d
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The recently reported scandal re the Ministry of Pacific Affairs living it up at taxpayers’ expense shocked me when I read this outfit has 128 staff. This is a typical example of the appalling mismanagement by the current government. Apparently its brief is to monitor the
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuff reports today a Radio NZ account that the last time business made any meaningful donations to the Labour Party since the start of 2020 was $25,000 by Mainfreight, which company name they typically mis-spelt, and $25,000 from “two companies linked to Greg Loveridge”
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The most futile job in New Zealand right now is that of a political columnist. With four weeks to go to the election, they pretend the outcome is uncertain when they know full well the election is done and dusted. That’s because this is easily
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The increasingly desperate Labour leader is making a bloody fool of himself, announcing fresh unresearched policies on the hoof almost daily. Did he learn nothing from the fruit and vegetable GST fiasco, heavily condemned by every economist and his own colleagues (when it was mooted earlier
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Few industries match mine (Commercial Property) when it comes to bullshit job titles. A recent newspaper display advert by Bayleys under the heading “Strategic Appointment” introduced an employee as, “The National Head of Occupier Strategy and Solutions”. That farcical mouthful of meaningless verbiage relates to a
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was surprised by how much generally favourable attention Mohamad AI Fayed received following his death at 94. I had an amusing exchange with him in the late 1980s. This followed a situation of my own making when I’d arrived in London on a Saturday
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The most influential person in my life was a school-teacher, Guy Bliss, who back in 1956 preached to the school’s first 6th form (about 6 of us in his history class (the rest had fled at 15, then the school leaving age, mainly for factory
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com President of the New Zealand Flat Earth Society, Sir Hugh Rennie, is off to Europe shortly to represent the country at the World Flat Earth Society’s Annual Conference in Rome. In his keynote address Hugh will produce irrefutable evidence that the globalist proposition is nothing
