Given yesterday’s meeting was about social policy and plenty of people had ideas about how to spend ratepayers money on things such as “affordable housing” it is timely then to issue my policy.
All social housing (usually described by weasel words as “Affordable Housing”) should be built in the immediate vicinity of social housing advocate Grant Gillon’s property.
As usual do gooders are running with some cause that involves them feeling good about imposing a social cost on other people. The Whaleoil Election Platform is about clearly identifying other people, in this case Grant Gillon, who is definitely other people, and making sure that he gets the full impact of the policy he is advocating.
Grant Gillon also qualifies as “Other People” when it comes to public transport. He strongly advocates for public transport but deliberately shuns using it himself. If elected I will ensure that a council by-law is passed than compels advocates of these sorts of policies to eat their own dog food so to speak.
So Grant Gillon will have to live amongst “affordable housing” and move about only on  ”public transport”.
The easiest way to make housing more affordable is to have more of it. In order to do that we must remove firstly, the silly Metropolitan Urban Limit, imposed on Auckland. In fact I would make that the first priority to getting Auckland moving forward.
Vote Slater – Albany Ward
Keeping the Buggers Honest
Vote Slater - Albany - Auckland - Keeping the Buggers Honest
