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September 5, 2006 12:33pm by David Farrar

New Air NZ ad

Got sent this yesterday – very funny. It also made Sideswipe today.

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david

I do feel a little for the way Hubbard is being taken to task. The reality is that he has very few powers as he just does not have the backing of the majority on the Council. He is pretty much a figurehead.Hucker and his ilk must be holding their sides laughing as Hubbard gets hammered while they stay nicely hidden. In my view its Hucker and co who have spent more than they should and caused this blowout. The irony is that the cost of their Social Housing Policies and other initiatives has pushed pensioners and other low income earners to a point where they may have to sell their own homes!
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September 5, 2006 1:20pm
Duncan Bayne

> The irony is that the cost of their Social
> Housing Policies and other initiatives has
> pushed pensioners and other low income earners
> to a point where they may have to sell their
> own homes!

Of course – that’s the socialist way: enforced equality.
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September 5, 2006 1:39pm
iwikiwi

It must be tough been an aucklander, realy tough ,i feel for you lot,, NOT ,
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September 5, 2006 4:25pm
McPhee

Remember how Banks and his council wasted $700,000 on trying to get consents to run a V8 street races. It was such a botched job they were asked to provide more information like some novice developer!

Then there was the $10 million ,( yes Million) spent on the great Eastern highway debacle. Building a causeway acroos Hobsons Bay under the noses of the wealthy. Never going to happen. But it did have a silver lining , getting rid of Aaron Bhanagar , CR and Banks in one fell swoop. Of course now AAron has left for the motorway on ramp in Hillsborough , will he be standing in Roskill next time around?
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September 5, 2006 7:07pm
Aaron Bhatnagar

How amusing McPhee. I suppose you have confused me with the A.Bhatnagar who happens to live in Hillsborough? Heh – poor fellow, he must get all the mad lefties like you ringing up wanting to abuse him. I note that you made this sort of wild mixup before regarding Matthew Hooten. And besides, isn’t it a bit creepy that you’re looking up my (incorrect!) residential details to post on this blog?

The v8 street race was hardly a waste of money – even Hubbard saw merit in the idea and tried to make it work when he first came on board. But it got killed by the new left wing council.

As for the road across Hobson Bay, yes, the road got voted down but most of the rest of the Eastern Corridor is proceeding, the scaled back AMETI in Auckland City, and Manukau City is proceeding pretty much unchanged from the original plan. So only a small part actually got ditched, meaning that the rest of the plans actually are being implemented.
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September 5, 2006 7:37pm
Rob Good

McPhee is sliding down the slippery slope of being a boarder stalker…. Maybe he wanted to come over and convince you to appreciate his leftism.
The V8 race would have been spectacular for Auckland. It would once again put it on the motor racing map and the city would have reaped the rewards for it.
Hubbard is a puppet that is strung up by all the landslide lefties and cant really do much other than plan for his retirement.

I must say that the Air New Zealand business class seats look rather comfy….
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September 6, 2006 5:07am
Craig Ranapia

And isn’t it funny how good leftists like McPhee (and Bruce Hucker) are now taking John Banks as their role model? Bizarro – and more than a little infantile (but, Mummy, Johnny did it tooooo!!!!)…
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September 6, 2006 8:25am
err..

“The v8 street race was hardly a waste of money”

Yeah, I mean, shit… We could have had the opportunity to get lots of retards into central Auckland to stand around and watch overpowered cars go in a big circle!

Oh, hang on.. isn’t that every Friday night in the city anyway?
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September 6, 2006 9:16am
Tim

Yeah “retards” who would bring income into the city and give it more of a profile, how terrible. Wonder what err would consider to be a “sufficiently powered car” as opposed to an “overpowered” one…a trabant perhaps…ah yes, the glorious triumph of socialist engineering 😉
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September 6, 2006 9:22am
thehawk

yeah retards…. just two makes of car, both of which would be hammered by a bunch of 4 cylinder Jap models…. but oooo noooo they don’t SOUND as good as our lovely V8’s…..
yeah retards.
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