Sky City Convention Centre Scam – dirty deeds done relatively expensively

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You would think Sky City being able to muscle TVNZ and buy public land was outrageous.

You might have thought Sky City’s rampant consumption and monopolisation of public space like Federal Street was too far.

You would be forgiven thinking our Prime Minister pimping for a Casino to rewrite gambling laws was sickening.

Well, the crony capitalism mates rates deal for legislation re-writes has just gone up in price. That’s right, Sky City’s convention centre just got more expensive…

SkyCity ‘holds the cards’ in Govt negotiations – Labour
SkyCity is holding all the cards in the latest round of negotiations with the Government over its increasingly expensive convention centre, Labour’s Economic Development spokesman David Clark says.

Design improvements, a new five-star hotel and inflation have rocketed up the SkyCity convention centre’s pricetag by as much as $130 million.

And while additional gambling concessions are off the table to meet any shortfall for the building, taxpayer funding is under discussion.

…$130million dollars more for this horrible gambling den with all the architectural charm of East German Stasi headquarters.

Not one single tax dollar should be wasted on this abomination but with Sky City and the Key Government the best of mates, and with National having full spectrum political domination in Parliament, expect a bail out of some description.

This is how the next 3 years will play out over and over again. Corporate welfare over actual welfare.

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    • Look on the bright side.

      If enough children and beneficiaries starve to death over the course of the new year, most of the building can be constructed from the skeletal remains of the deceased. Environmentally friendly AND cost effective!

      And people say National are bad economic managers.

      *sobs quietly to himself*

  1. Yet National Finance Minister said we cant afford rail and road services but we can afford to bankroll an Australian private company with a gambling casino?

    National has completely lost the plot and Bill English should be grilled over this.

    Merry Xmas to you Martyn, you deserve a medal for your efforts to bring us the truth.

  2. You always knew this abomination was never going to meet the original budget – because it was DESIGNED to. The Government is completely obligated to finish it now that they’ve signed the dotted line, and Sky City know it. If $130m is all that happens we should count ourselves very lucky – 100% over budget is “normal” for these type of private + Govt “partnership” projects. Once they start pouring concrete the Government will be even more captured than they are now. I expect another $100m more on top at least.

  3. The law is the law no more. Sherrif John Key, with Deputy Bill English, there’s your law. Then you’ve got Troopers Tim Groser, Simon Bridges, Gerry Brownlee, Nick Smith, Hekia Parata, and the list goes on.

  4. Anyone genuinely surprised by this? Expect the same stale clichéd justification: jobs, economic growth, blah, blah, blah…

    Public teat dry, rely on squander-lust borrowing on the public tab; this Government’s enduring legacy.

    Brighter future, sticking to the team that works, on the cusp of something special, blah, blah, blah…

    Casinos are usually associated with sleaze, perhaps why this matter is so precious to this Government.

    • Wouldn’t be surprised if most of government people have shares in Sky City. Easy money just like bonuses etc. The whole lot of them are getting as much out of the public as they can ,before they leave the country (hopefully).This country is subject to a massive scam led by the biggest Ponsi scam artist Key,

    • No, Darren, it is not a “win” for the taxpayer.

      It would be another case of the taxpayer subsidising a private business. (Remember SMPs for farmers when National was governing in the 1970s?)

      It would be another case of taxpayers having to pay to clean up the social mess caused by problem gambling.

      If you want a convention centre, feel free to dip into your own pocket and invest in it. Isn’t that what you right wingers kept whinging on about? That the “dead hand of the State” shouldn’t be interfering in business?

      • @ Frank . Normally , I like to be agreeable to your erudite writings .
        SMP’s however are a complex wee beastie . Sure the National party welded Farmer brains to those National Party fists that now grip farmers by the balls but that was a clever tactic . A full – blown logical fallacy doing it’s devious thing . And by that ? I mean ? Do you know what I mean ? You don’t ? Ok . Here goes …

        The SMP’s ( Supplementary Minimum Prices ) you say were paid by tax payers to farmers ? Do you know where that tax payer money came from ? From farmers . Yep , that’s right folks . The same money that brought you one of the highest standards of living in the known universe to NZ and built up the infrastructure that those same National Party swine sells off to this day also brought the same money that National paid farmers as SMP’s . It was their own money . Stupid fucking farmers huh ? And do you know what’s changed ? Nothing . The world class new Zealand Farmer is still as fucking stupid as they were then . Perhaps more so , given how shitty they pay their workers / family members who once tiring of being exploited bugger off to Universities or off-shore with their hard earned experience . So lets just leave it up to Chinese money to make better use of our farm lands then aye ?
        The Great New Zealand Institutionalised Lie @ Frank . SMP’s are just one aspect of that swindle of biblical proportions .

        Post script .

        Do you know why farmers are renown for paying low wages ? It’s because they never knew , from one day to the next , just how much money they were going to be left with after the tax department and a grotesquely manipulated export customer / financial system would leave them with . That’s why farmers would traditionally rely on family members to work … for nothing . Like I did . But who cared ? We loved what we did . And the money we made was kind of irrelevant . I know , I know . Hard to swallow .

        SMP’s were a clever way of making sure farmers would always feed finances into the primary-industry marketing boards to be swindled and misappropriated by Big , Fancy Industrialists and Banks back into the private money lending sector . Cheap and plentiful money for the taking . Seriously . Ask any old , white , rich , mostely Auckland based creep . They’ll tell you .

    • @ Darren fucking rickard ? Are you serious ? You horrible little crony criminal . You like seeing people getting ripped off , swindled and lied to ? What kind of special ape arse hole do you hang from ? ‘ A win – win for the tax payer ? How ? Tell us exactly how that is ?
      jonky-stien begets a monstrosity by mating with a poky machine which will only target the very most at – risk which are again , a jonky creation , and you dribble out a feeble argument in favour of that like mouse diarrhoea . How , in Gods name do you get by ? What amazing and complex lies do you tell yourself ? Where do you get your information from ? The other head you have growing out of your chest ? Does your arse speak to you in tongues ? Don’t listen to your arse , It’s lying to you . I’m so fucking tempted to go on .
      When will the blathering Right just shut the fuck up and let humans run this ragged circus ? Have they not done enough raping and pillaging ? When will they suffocate on their own gasses ? Their shallow , callous observations are as interesting as the labels in toilet cleaner , just less useful . The Right are doomed to search fruitlessly for their intelligence while in the mean time they rely on that most basic animal cunning equally afforded dung beetles to function and by function I mean eat , sleep , fuck , shit , piss and run for cover when things heat up while constantly telling themselves they’re wonderful and amazing . Unfortunately , unlike dung beetles The Right have no grace , class or style . Have you been inside a Casino recently ? I rest my case . Shut up and fuck off won’t you . Stick to admiring paul henry for his dress sense , paula bennett for her centre fold potential and mike hosking for his journalistic skills .

      • Oh so hard on Darren Rickard hes just parroting Key and English, as hes been brainwashed to do. Righties cant think for themselves they believe everything that comes out of Keys mouth,has no one told Rickards that Key lies and cheats , but if he does know ,then that’s the way he thinks. Follow your Liar,he will lead you up the garden path.

      • L00L !!!! Countryboy is poetry in motion today !!!!

        As for that diminutive ineffectual and pathetic excuse for a neo liberal trougher pig ,…..Good Lord you’d think they would send someone along here with some more advanced debating acumen than that !!!

        I’m dismayed !!!!

        Maybe they are all off on their tax payer funded trougher pig holidays in exotic overseas resorts or something ….?

        HAWAII ….perhaps? Doing a few more rounds of golf while we work through the holidays on minimum wages away from our families???

        But isn’t it hilarious that the neo liberal trougher pig’s ideology is based upon ‘healthy ‘ competition and that if a business fails it should receive NO govt handouts on a level ‘ playing field ‘ ?

        And yet what do we behold here??!!??

        Another sterling example of the duplicity , hypocrisy and perfect proof of the neo liberal trougher thugs in all their parasitical tapeworm glory !!!!

        CORPORATE WELFARE IN ACTION , FOLKS!!!

        ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF ‘ TOO BIG TO FAIL ‘ WHEN IT SUITS US TO CHANGE THE GAME PLAN .

        CORPORATE BLUDGERS IN ACTION !!!!

        And while these neo liberal parasites are busy creaming fat profits off the poor/ addicts to gambling /public purse and redistributing the wealth into offshore accounts and receiving nice dividends for themselves,…..the political rearguard action is always to ‘throw’ a convenient press release about a report into problem gambling,

        WHY ?

        Because it further bolsters their argument that its the poor’s own fault , that BIG BROTHER GOVT cares and will soon flick a few hundred thousand bucks to look into the problem , – while THEY siphon off MILLIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!

        That gives an air of respectability to their piracy when reports are released saying ” oh look, – we have such a social problem here”

        Never mind the fact that these neo liberal troughers give veiled threats to any govt dept that threatens not to tow the ‘ party ‘ line in the form of funding cuts.

        The enemy within . Neo liberal thugs and their trougher pig hypocrisy.

  5. Mind boggling interviews on Nat Rad this morning with Lord Haw Haw aka Joyce and an extremely arrogant Australian ‘Pie in the Sky’ pillock, both with SAARS (Self Absorbing Anal Retention Syndrome), on how the NZ taxpayer can fork out another $80 million plus to line a multi national corporation’s pockets. Lord Haw Haw even pulled out CER (Closet Economic Ripoffs) which only showed how even construction profits could flow offshore to benefit Australian shareholders. When will the sleepy hobbits of NZild wake up? Before everything we value as identifying us as a nation has gone? Three years time? Yeah right!

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