Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Bovva boy's stadium?

A couple of days of nothing worth getting excited about allowed me to spend my morning post prandial hour gainfully emplyed searching the web for pictures of battleships firing broadsides but today it's back to reality with a thump courtesy of Hodgson and the Bovver Boy.
What do I think of Hodgson? Nothing really. Pity maybe. Sorrow that a bloke who can be quite affable on a one to one basis (I met him last year when he gave away the prizes at my daughter's gaduation in Dunedin and had a chat about nothing in particular - reasonable enough sort of cove) can actually believe what he is required to say in Public. Maybe he doesn't believe it which makes things even worse. That Labour weren't going to pay the money back has been obvious for a while - they can't 'cos they haven't got it. Talk about 'validation' (Cullen was given that line to read) was particularly badly received by the great unwashed (quite right too) and a new idea had to be found. 'Tell the ungrateful sods that we can do what we like and we aren't going to pay whatever anybody says' is the current line and Pete, as 'Party Strategist', drew the short straw. See how all this is being put out into the public domain by 'senior' party members but never the senior party member. She must keep herself at arms length from all the day to day messy stuff.
Wish we had an election tomorrow because this mob would not survive - no argument. But we haven't and Helen will be able to pass her latest election tampering Bill - she is quite happy to do the talking on this one. Good editorial today about this blatently anti Brethren stuff. This is along the lines that their being so secret squirrel about who was putting about all the anti Green stuff was not good but if they are open and up front they have every right to participate in the electoral process. They would have a bit more credibility if they actually voted, but never mind. All this 'we can't have truckloads of cash flowing into election advertising from outside agencies' should read, of course, 'we can't have truckloads of cash flowing into election advertising from outside agencies who have opinions I don't like'. I'm not the first to point out the glaring omission of Trade Union money in all these arguments. The editorial goes onto point out that confining election input to registered political parties is only a short step away from confining input to approved registered political parties. All together now, in the key of C 'Gimn Sovetskogo Soyuza'
Bovver Boy. A new National stadium on the waterfront seating 4 squillion, costing $4.50 and ready by next Thursday. Where did all this come from? The Resource Management Act is my guess. Consider this. We got awarded the 2011 World Cup about a year ago with a six year lead time. Eden Park redevelopment was not only the prettiest girl at the party she was the only female around. Redevelopment at $350 mil was agreed by all as the way to go. Auckland needs another stadium like a fish needs a bicycle. Then Bovver Boy zooms in from left field yesterday with an idea that should have had the men in white coats round at his house with the staightjackets faster than you can say 'Barking'. I reckon that the Eden Park mob have filed some of their RMA stuff and the road ahead is looking very rocky. Thre is a bloke in Reimers Ave who thinks lager vomit on his dahlias will be an infringement of his human rights or something. The land Looney Tunes Mallard wants is owned by one or all of the 27 Councils that run Auckland so a lot of RMA problems are gone right there. And Auckland is very good at building waterfront stadiums - aren't they Bender? Bet I'm right.
Much more fun searching out maritime ordnance.

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