The superb ending sequence to Richard Attenborough’s film ‘Oh What A Lovely War

Kiwisaver account holders be warned this man is very dangerous. This policy signals that NZ is closed for business. Welcome to the past.

For example:

1 Shearer saying when Labour return to power they will reform electricity industry to make power cheaper for elderly and poor.  This from a party that cynically raised prices when in office, by some estimates 4 billion dollars in excess, to pay for electoral bribes and social engineering. In addition the anti-sales mantra has been that the power companies make good money so that they should not be sold. Now it appears Shearer and Labour propose to make companies lose money by subsidizing power to their electors. Shearer channeling Chavez now!

2 Constant carping and attacking John Key over Fletcher appointment to GCSB, when they shoulder tapped many for roles, eg Mallard and the Setchell imbroglio and blatantly placed their fellow travelers in appointments.

3 Attacking Key for what he said re North Korea, yet when US Secretary of State John Kerry says the same no comment at all

4 The constant failure by the MSM to seriously critique anything said by Labour and the Greens. indeed pronouncements from Russel Norman are treated like the tablets from the Sermon on the Mount

5 The proposition that Key should be aware of and remember everything he has ever done, witnessed, thought, read, seen or heard but it is OK for Shearer to forget a bank account with many thousands of dollars in it

The stench of hypocrisy now permeates the entire Labour Party in NZ along with their blatantly partisan supporters in the media, especially in state funded media.

2 Green MPs who in yet another demonstration of their stupidity suggested Key’s relationship with Fletcher was sinister

3 The MSM who did not label these silly suggestions as stupid and thus lent some credence to them

4 Mallard and Hipkins for staging their silly protest at Question Time and rudeness to the Speaker

5 Pita Sharples and his desire to hold the Maori Party leadership forever

7 So called leaks of data from government agencies which somehow always seem to go to those inclined to set out to embarrass the government

8 The hypocrisy of the Labour Party

9 David Shearer

10 David Cunliffe’s economic idiocy

Yet having backed the spending of a five-figure sum at a time of great financial restraint to have a last look at the alternatives, Mayor Celia Wade-Brown and Councillors Stephanie Cook, Paul Eagle, Justin Lester, Iona Pannett, Bryan Pepperell and Helene Ritchie backed a motion that the council ignore its findings by not endorsing the flyover.

Committee chairman Andy Foster voted against the no-support motion because he believed it would cause confusion as it did not mean the council actually opposed the bridge

These people need to be given the boot and very comprehensively for their attitudes and money wasting

To help them on the way, Thomas Allen’s excellent version from the Last Night of the Proms:-

The Ministry of Education should then turn its mind to addressing one of the underlying issues that has been blamed for Novopay’s woes.

The extraordinary complexity of the school payroll, with 15 separate collective agreements throwing up thousands of possible permutations, is unnecessarily cumbersome.

Surely, it can be made more simple.

The key element in the Novopay debacle? Now this was not the only cause, but given the Ministry had decided upon a package solution and not bespoke, then why did they not do what every adviser surely would have told them, that is review, simplify and amend processes and awards to fit the system. Avoid customisation like the plague should have been the mantra.

‘Unnecessarily cumbersome’ surely the understatement of the year, if not the decade in so far as NZ IT projects are concerned.

On Waitangi Day most Kiwis opt for a barbecue, go to a concert or take the chance to go to the beach like any other day off. They make a point of making the day quite ordinary, and I understand why.

They don’t see the appeal of a celebration if it’s going to be a day where the focus is on argument and protest

No not Susan Devoy, but David Shearer, the Labour Party Leader pro tem.

Clearly if Susan Devoy is being pilloried for holding similar sentiments, especially as evidence of fitness for appointment as Race Relations Commissioner, with some even suggesting such views make a racist, then Shearer shoud be hounded form the Labour Party immediately as he is clearly unsuitable to lead it holding such a view. Ah, but hypocrisy and double standards are the hallmark of the left.