Ummmmm, did everyone see that Coster interview? Are you now really worried about Parliament Protest now?

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Ummmmm, did everyone see that Coster interview yesterday?

He thundered something must be done and he would do it!

He’s set up a National Command Center with a focus on removing the cars. Now this is smart. The blocked cars are causing enormous stress to people who live there and it allows these protestors a constant supply chain, so removing the cars is the first thing that needs to happen.

But what did Coster do right after announcing that something must be done?

He begged tow truck drivers to call him and help him.

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WTF?

Why is he proclaiming something will be done and then begs for people to help the doing?

He just told everyone he’s got no muscle to do the thing he’s claiming to do!

THEN, THEN, THEN he just opines that he’s been in contact with the NZDF to see if they can tow the cars.

Hilariously he then tells us that the NZDF haven’t gotten back to him!

WHICH OF COURSE THEY WOULDN’T!

The myriad of issues of using military assets in civilian policing matters has more minefields than mud on Parliament’s lawn right now!

His puzzlement that the NZDF want nothing to do with this would be satire script hilarity if it wasn’t so disturbing.

So we have a Police Commissioner who is terrified of being stained with Mallard’s provocation and be known as the Cop who turned the dogs and batons on protestors WHILE being thick as shit!

Begging tow truck drivers shows how weak he is, and contacting the NZDF, admitting it and then being confused why they won’t get back to him suggests a terrifying lack of appreciation for martial law.

Are you now really worried about the Parliament Protest now?

Now?

Send in the clowns. There ought to be clowns!

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51 COMMENTS

    • Everyday Martyn’s articles are getting better and better. It’s good to see a principled man sticking with his values, despite which side is doing the damage.
      I get accused of being a right winger, but i hated Key as much as i hate Ardern. There is no difference between the 2 parties.

  2. LOL. You are seeing just how useless Wokecoster is. Working in a related trade to tow trucks I’d hazard to guess they are either on the side of the protesters or can’t be fucked with the sideshow developing. I don’t blame them.

    The hilarity of the whole situation is that Wokeington has had 1 and a half weeks of slight inconvenience whereas Auckland was Solibor with picnics for months on end. So Wellington bureaucrats cry me a river because you can’t get to your favorite pub without being called names.

    Cry me the fucking river Nile.

  6. Tune in tomorrow when the government pays 2.8 million more to their favorite essential service- the mob -to man checkpoints and clear the lawn with only minor fatalities.

  8. The danger now is that this might be used as a justification for increasing Police capability (military style) by the authoritarians.
    There is limited capability – for example tow trucks used for broken down buses, and there is an entire vacant wharf that could be used for storage/impounding vehicles.

    What I find remarkable is that as the world becomes more dynamic and the pace of change faster, our politicians and public service senior ranks get slower and slower.
    It’s probably got something to do with what Damien Grant wrote in that Stuff piece the other day:’
    “At the peak of an economic cycle, there is high demand for middle managers, marketing executives and diversity officers”
    The trouble is, with the political class and senior public service master-of-the-Universe ranks, they hang around for ever like a bad smell.
    PR spinmesiters and message marketers seem to think ‘say it, and it shall be so’ except in many cases, they’ve lost all credibility.
    Pretty sure Coster will be able to make slow progress though – “in the fullness of time”

    • Coster’s living in a world where a naked woman is grabbed by cops at a protest.
      For some reason out of hundreds, police made a decision to engage with her.

      So it becomes crime of the century. They dragged he by her hair. It’s police brutality. Video from one angle, of extremely limited resolution and quality, is blown up. There’s a covering thrown over the woman, but look, there’s a knee on the neck, definitely police brutality.
      And later the woman says she oiled herself up.

      Coster’s in a no win situation. Batons, tear gas, rubber bullets would clear the people out? A nice little cup of tea and chat with the Freedom and Rights segment would see them happy and packing up and going home?

      Or maybe that group won’t be happy until Brian Tamaki is running the country or whoever is, is doing it down lines he approves of. In some senses Coster is irrelevant.

      But then Coster is an agent for most people, the buffer between ordinary folk and self-centred fuckwits, dickheads and wannabes.

      • We should be grateful for small incremental improvements i suppose. Coster’s a definite improvement on many of his predecessors.
        People may see him as ‘woke’ – or whatever the current label in vogue is, but at least he’s doing his best not to be provocative.
        He’s working within the constraints of a cistern that’s been built up over nearly 4 decades by the political class and Sir Humphrey’s on ideological speed.
        We probably get what we deserve.
        As I write – there are muppets trying to disrupt a Save the Children petition handover.

        Look at moi look at moi

    • What would your party (National) do? All love and cuddles to the protesters? Negotiated? Leave them be?
      The Law and Order party – National.

      Come on all you Righties – lets have it.
      Describe National/Act measures to resolve this mess.

      • I am neither right or left wing so I can’t answer your question but I will tell you this: politicians are paid to represent the people so a good start would be for the politicians to come out of their hidey holes and talk to the protesters

        • Opposition parties are forever coming out to talk to protesters, to make it look like they care and criticise Govt. So where are they?

      • Righties don’t have to explain diddly squat. They are not in govt, where it can be easy to look good when things are going to plan but when the tide turns – not so much. Labour are in govt and this is their mess! Lefties are in charge and they are solely responsible for describing/showing the way out. You wanted the power, you got it ….pass the popcorn.

    • Towies by and large have been maggots and opportunists for ever. I remember them from South Auckland Towing joking about chucking the odd severed limb into the truck tray, and Active Towing dicks at the final ’81 Tour test outside Eden Park throwing trays of eggs at the cops in skip bins just because they could get away with it–and they were pro tour.

      They are more subsumed into the system these days with their automatic payments for towing beneficiaries cars and wheel clamping rorts in league with lot owners.

  10. This collective dithering, indecisive, risk adverse, I don’t know what I’m doing – look, is fairly emblematic of his tenure so far in the top job. Mirrors the very people who picked him, Labour, oddly enough.

    Expect more begging and “aww come on guys, can you just go home, please, pretty please with sprinkles on top” but decisive action… not so much.

    I don’t know what is worse, Barry Manilow, the protest or the police hierarchy looking completely impotent and incompetent.

  12. Waikato police have been redeployed to Wellington as of this morning . Things will soon start to warm up for these land occupiers.

    • What can they do – go in there with their batons Bertie? Tow their vehicles away with imaginary tow trucks?

      Let’s face it Wokeington has fucked up by going in Russell Crowe Romper Stomper style.

      And the response most Aucklanders who had to experience Sobibor with picnics for months on end have:

      Zero fucks given

      Small mercies make the world go around

  13. Andy Coster is not thick, and therein may lie the problem. I was surprised when he said that the NZDF had not responded, for it could have appeared to be buck-passing. At best the commissioner may been trying to give the protestors time to withdraw peacefully now that their potpourri of complaints has been widely broadcast and heard.

    If Coster is trying to avoid further confrontations between the diverse group of protestors and the front- line police officers out there doing the government’s dirty work for them, then surely that’s an acceptable and commendable stance. I think it’s fair to say that many Wellingtonians know that some protestors are keen to execute a cop and have said so, and that if anything terrible like that did happen, then that disgraceful little scrapper Mallard who exacerbated this whole situation should be retired from public life pronto.

  14. He is another one of them that has swallowed the ‘Woke’ doctrine good and propper.

    Overpromise and under-deliver! Again! And Again! And Again!

    Then they’ll come up with a newly devised more complicated plan! Even though they haven’t even initiated their first plan!

    4 years of seeing their indoctrination play out in public for the public to buy into has finally failed? Do they know or even realise this? Arrrh? Probably not. – “Fake it till yah Make!” Mantra kicks in.

    So, where to from here? March was indicated when they’d get rid of all the ‘Mandates’.

    So I guess, until then, Coster & Costello and his merry men/women/he/she/her/them/they’s, will all fuck about pretending to clean out the protesters in Wellywood!

    Like they did at Ihumatao! 9 months later!

  15. Having lived with people who did Repo for a living i can tell you what they think of someone like Coster. Maybe you will get a few mercenaries in it for the money but the government is going to have to pay them alot more than the standard towing fee to deal with the heat that will come their way.

  16. It was hilarious and kiwi as…. “Right, we’re going to tow the vehicles! Anybody know where we can get a tow-truck?”

  17. Well you could always go to the protest, self ID as a cop and/or a towie and get the job done. It surely can’t be worse then the Left self ID’ing as ‘competent’ and ‘kind’ and ‘fixing it’.

  18. The world has to change. Coster may be onto it. Give him a break will all you chest-thumping jerks and
    know-alls. He is trying, and all politics is trying, and reading people who want change and magic endings without trying are very trying to see constantly. They say that way lies madness!

    Harry Potter would be good reading for you; he had all sorts of unpleasant things happening, and had to learn who to trust, learn about his own and others backgrounds and personal gifts and skills. He realised how to use his magic. Perhaps some of you out there have that facility but just haven’t found it yet or learned to use it for the greater good.

  19. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/461618/police-concede-tow-truck-operators-unwilling-to-help-with-clearing-roads-near-parliament
    So towtruck operators are slow to come forward. It wasn’t too many years ago that they were taking the law into their own hands and hooking up then wanting good money to release – sounded like blackmail to me.

    The police could call on Wellington citizens for assistance, to emphasise that this is not just a police harassment of good citizens requesting their rights. It has gone far beyond that. They are affecting other people’s lives detrimentally, now it’s just selfishness on their part, personal vindictiveness or wankery.

  20. What a lot of right wing negative comment. I did hope that on this lively blog there would be leftish people trying for an adjustment to get a decent society back with commitment to firmness for commitment to good behaviour in a universal and fairly tolerant way, but not authoritarianism. But the nastiness and constant pickiness at everything seen means for every step forward about the same back or sideways.

    It’s sad and NZ seems full of people who know what they don’t like but have no thoughts how to change for better in a positive practical way. It seems that all are looking at what might have been done last century – but wasn’t. It’s too late now and if we go on as present we will build towards the years before World War 2, but this time with drones and mind control. Shit it’s scary.

    • I’m trying greywarbler, but it’s hard to swim in the riptide of right wing propaganda that seems to be flooding these comments.

      Good people are hard to find these days – in the age of the cult of individual we are seeing our democracy undermined in real time.

      Shame on them all tbh. Lame ass point scoring here won’t prove anything

    • Grey Warbler. Agree with all your sweet songs.

      Three cheers for Andy Coster acting in a measured sort of way… fools rush in where angels fear to tread… and they’re rushing in all directions now and achieving nothing more than mindless gnats – pun intended.

  21. Good to know we can all set up camp in a public area..Botanical Gardens would be nice. As long as we fly a banner and say we are protesting something we get a free camping trip..will even throw in a free Car park, we will never have to pay for a campground again.

    • Jules. And if you’re happy to pad around in bare feet on big fat legs the size of buses and think you’re important for being a buffoon and using young children for nefarious purposes, then go for it.

  22. – Cost of living skyrocketing.
    – Cost of renting skyrocketing.
    – People feel as if the government has an unacceptable level of control over their lives, I don’t think this is purely due to vaccination mandate, and is influenced by the general authoritarianism employed by our democratic institutions (victimless crimes, excessive regulations).
    -Some Groups are Maori seperatists, sovereign citizens (some are aligned to maori seperatists, some aren’t, some maori seperatist are associated with the sovereign citizens), the disinfranchised, hippies and the working class. One of those groups I will not mention should be listened to all, if they advocate racial supremacy and totalitarianism – but 99% of protestors do not share this view at all.
    – The government’s approach to Covid (Mandate) goes against the advice given by MBIE, because MBIE were smart enough to realise how such actions could be constroversial, and constitutionally confusing.
    – There is a lot of bullshit misinformation amongst the dissident opinions, creating disinformation. Getting through to these people in dispelling the misinformation doens’t help when the government is exerting control over them for rejecting the governments control over them.
    – Climate anxiety is real.

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