The Media Party seem to have their hooks into Auckland’s Mayor Wayne Brown over the Noah-type deluge that hit Auckland recently when three months of rain fell in one day.
Captain Hook was the pirate character who menaced Peter Pan and the Lost Boys on the Island of Neverland in a play featured in the West End, London in 1906 called “Peter Pan The Boy who never Grew Up.”
This play written by Scottish playwright and Novelist J.M.Barrie was thought to have been inspired by his brother David who died at the age of 14 years in an ice-skating accident and therefore would never grow up.
A comment was made about Chris Hipkins’s likeness to Peter Pan as he flew into Whenuapai Airbase and flew out immediately after the Stand Up the day after the deluge.
Peter Pan was given the ability to fly if he kept on having ‘wondrous thoughts’ and was ‘sprinkled with fairy dust’ usually administered by Tinker Bell the fairy.
Hipkins must not have liked the Peter Pan comparison because he was back in Auckland pronto helping with the clean up bringing one of the lost boys with him, Robertson, who is giving up his Wellington Central seat at the next election to go on the List. Another lost boy Shaw of the Greens has declined to stand in Wellington Central, which may leave the way open for a good National candidate.
Meanwhile, the ‘Wayne Wayne go away’ brigade had organized a petition asking Captain Hook to resign because of ‘Radio Silence’ from the council after the flooding.
Mayor Brown retorted that he had no intention of resigning and had been elected by 180,000 thousand people in Auckland, pointing out that the National candidate for parliament Tama Potaka in West Hamilton got only 6,000 votes and was now an M.P. whereas Brown had got thirty times that number.
Then Mayor Brown’s Private WhatsApp communication to his mates the ‘Grumpies’ at Westmere Tennis Club was released saying that he was cancelling tennis because he had to meet up with the Media ‘Drongos’ over the Auckland floods.
This certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons or should I say ‘Drongos’.
The follow-up to this was that Mayor Brown was invited to talk to the Drongos on the A.M. show. This interview was supposed to show up Captain Hook at his worst. A disabled woman was shown to be stuck in a high-rise building because of the flooding of lifts. The blame was squarely to be laid at Mayor Brown’s feet who pointed out the obvious that the lift companies were working on restoring the lifts.
Michael Wood M.P. infamous for referring to protestors outside parliament last February as ‘rivers of filth’ has now been called in to help alleviate Auckland rivers of filth in his role as Minister for Auckland. He will work alongside Mayor Brown to develop a joined-up Transport system.
Mayor Brown was always going to be on the back foot with the Ponsonby and Grey Lynn champagne socialists because the Labour candidate did not win Auckland in the last Mayoral Election, so someone has to suffer and that is Captain Hook or his equivalent. The Left are poor losers.
