The lead article in the Weekend Herald should have taken nobody by surprise. ‘PERFECT STORM’, it blared. ‘PUBLIC TRANSPORT ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE’. Auckland Transport is running out of money to operate its buses, ferries and trains. Who would have thought? The answer is anyone driving around Auckland in a
This Labour Government, right from the outset, has shown itself to be pig-ignorant when it comes to private enterprise. Their members are union-friendly (beholden) and business-antagonistic. Nothing illustrates their attitude better than Covid. They effectively left the tourism and hospitality industries to bleed to death. Their complete
It’s coming up to three weeks since I last put my finger to the keyboard as family circumstances have led me to be somewhat busier than usual. I have however managed to keep tabs on most of the political machinations. The last two words of my headline succinctly cover
I am writing in support of the writer of the Letter to the Editor published on the BFD headed “Why You Shouldn’t Dismiss National and ACT”. The basic tenet of the letter I agree with. The writer is making the point that stating that you cannot give National or
The 120 individuals who occupy their expensive leather seats in what they like to call “this place” have only themselves to blame for the mayhem, chaos and violence that brought the Wellington protest to an end. These are 120 individuals who decided to put themselves above the people they were
This past Tuesday we saw yet another PR stunt from Jacinda Ardern. She held a stand-up about some idiots who are using the protest for other than peaceful means. Like Ardern, they have their own agenda. Both their agenda and Ardern’s are doing nothing to resolve the situation.
We have a Government resembling a cheap set of cutlery. Bought from the Warehouse the set contains spoons, knives and forks. The spoon is to feed, via the experts, misinformation to a compliant Government-run media. The knife is to knife us in the back for what I consider to
First, let me say I am excluding The BFD and Newstalk ZB from this article. My reason why is that these two media outlets have given a true assessment of the happenings at Parliament since the Convoy arrived. Barry Soper has been there daily, even under the threat of consequences
This Government, through its own, incompetence, stupidity, mandates, obsession with control, fixation with fear and dictatorial rule has all but run out of public goodwill. They are showing, as are other political parties, that they cannot read the room. They seem to have trouble connecting with where public opinion is
Information Opinion You’ve got to hand it to this Government. Since gaining the Treasury Benches every idea they’ve had to improve any given situation has had the opposite effect i.e made it worse. Think welfare, housing, education, health, transport, RATs, you name it they’ve made it
When it comes to newspapers my weekly routine is to buy the Weekend Herald. The variety of content makes it a better buy than its weekly counterpart. On the whole, the Herald is a shadow of its former self. On Tuesday, while at the Superette, in a moment of stupidity
Every three years we elect 120 people to become Members of Parliament. Their job is to run the country to the best of their ability. Their pay packets, by most workers standards, reflects the importance of the tasks they have been elected to undertake. For example, Jacinda Ardern receives a
Trevor Mallard has single-handedly made a right duck of himself. People with his type of personality rarely get any given situation correct. They are unable to think in a measured way. Their first instinct is to go for the jugular to, metaphorically speaking, beat your opponent up. Although, if
It is becoming more and more obvious that those increasingly strange human beings in our Parliament, known to us as Members of Parliament, are now the Cowards of the Country. Who would have thought that those we elected to provide leadership could have failed so miserably to do just that?
There are 120 Members of Parliament that make up the House. That is way too many for a start. On the basis of a population of around five million that works out to around one MP per 42,000 people. To illustrate the absurdity of the numbers let’s draw
I have just read Mike Munro’s article in the Weekend Herald. The thrust of the piece is about the hard yakka that’s about to hit Chris Luxon with the opening of Parliament this week. The big problem for Luxon, according to Mike, is that he’s going to
