So the left wing raw meat smear about John Banks’ son seems to have back-fired. Talkback is running hot about what a fine parent John Banks is and how responsible as a parent he has been. Plus you just know that his son got a clip behind the ears for being a dick.
Meanwhile the media is studiously ignoring that “their guy” – Len Brown – has been spamming Manukau City Council employees on the beg for cash because his developer mates in South Auckland have pulled the pin on the cash. i find it strange that the day the spam story comes out the media are fed some raw meat at the expense of some other parents/children in order to “get” John Banks.
On another note I was at a mall today talking with some staff in a Pharmacy, the talk was all about South Canterbury Finance, and why should we in Auckland be subsidising idiot investors in South Canterbury. The nice lady behind the counter quietly, with heads nodding from other staff in ear shot, said to me that National had so much promise but they have been utterly disappointing, their only current saving grace being that they aren’t Labour.
If staff in middle New Zealand working in a mall at a pharmacy hold such views then National’s support, especially in the blue ribbon north of Auckland is brittle. The fact that people are now openly talking about their disappointment and that the catalyst has been the effective subsidisation of South Island investors.
To matters worse for National, you really have to wonder at the brain capacity of Bill English and his propensity for screwing things up, it now appears that SCF could be up for sale….gee I wonder if the Chinese might just see that as a back door way of gaining control of more farms than the Crafar deal. Kind of makes those donations that Peter Goodfellow raked in from chinese interests interesting, doesn’t it?
I really think John key, though he managed the process very well indeed, has mis-read the public attitude on this and been swayed by his wet South Island cabinet colleagues who blinked and shat their pants.
I wonder too, now, whether there will be calls from South Canterbury farmers to save a 100 jobs in Auckland with a bail out? ……waiting……still waiting…..no didn’t so.
Speaking of local body politics, look who has been whispering to herself again. Pork Chop should get out more instead of parking herself at the nearest buffet. A whole article that appears to be fact free.
Isn’t the Bill Wilson case just really interesting. It gives us an indication just how shallow our talent pool is when it comes to jurisprudence and how utterly connected everybody is to each other. This is surely a case for the re-instatement of the Privy Council. Frankly that fact that a senior judge in the twilight of his legal career has to borrow anything at all strikes me as just…well…pathetic. Perhaps he is just another dumb investor.
