The Boomer King Wayne Brown has beaten the Gen X voice of a new political generation Efeso Collins in a rigged casino of an election in the last gasp of the boomer generation to hold onto their priviledge and power.
Born with a cradel to the grave subsidisation of their entire lives, Boomers once again fuck over the first user pays generation, Gen X and deny us our rightful leadership of local government!
I say rigged casino because it is.
Right wing pundits claim suggesting that the election process is rigged is just sour grapes – that is bullshit!
Most journalists and political commentators were not even aware that a private company runs our local elections. In the end there were barely 10 polls where people could cast special votes for a city of over 1.2million!
The land lord class get to vote for every property they own in different electorates, the poor who are marginalised and bounced from rental to rental and who haven’t updated their home address become more and more marginalised.
We are such a bullshit cheap arsed nation we sub contracted our democratic obligations out to the lowest cost operator!
How very Wellington Professional Managerial Class of us!
The postal vote is the cheapest method that robs the poor of access and the paltry 35% turn out proves that.
The Boomer King is already threatening a slash and burn campaign on Auckland that will have those who voted for him scream, ‘we didn’t vote for this’, except of course the huge Chinese-Auckland electorate of 200 000 who were so quietly instrumental in the Boomer Kings win.
Wayne Brown may be the Mayor of Auckland, but he’s also Beijing’s man about town!
To my dear Gen Xers and Millennials watching the boomers destory our cities again, I say this.
Remember Comrades, next year for the first time in NZs history, Gen Xers plus millennials will be a numerically larger number than the boomers, and then, and only then, do we get our revenge on the vested interests of a generation who had their existence subsidised while we had to pay for everything!
Don’t let you rage dissipate Comrades.
Now here’s Tom with the weather.
Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.
If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media
Yes voting system is broken. Has been for decades. But it only became an issue our missing in action government and Prime Minister cared about once their picks got whipped.
Was it unfair when Labour backed candidates won? Repeatedly? Didn’t seem to matter then! Actually, it suited them!
And it may astound you that plenty of boomers voted Efeso and plenty non boomers voted Brown. Not because he is the best or because of his movie star looks but because he read the room and saw how pissed off people were with the likes of Auckland Transport. Recall a couple of months back how they were just cancelling road side parking, everywhere? The sheer arrogance of AT who didn’t give a flying shit who paid their wages or who it affected, they were doing it because no one would stop them! That kind of ideological shit was by then several bridges too far. That’s the kind of mindless dictatorial garbage from ideological bureaucrats that causes political change.
That is why those who bothered voting voted Brown.
And it was therapeutic reading the outrage on Greater Auckland, who pretty much are the voice of the madness that took over AT. All that scheming and behind the scenes manipulation, dead in the water. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind!
100%
Salt.
A lot more to come after the general election.
Harking back to the old days when only landowners could vote aye Robs mob and yet Maori owned most of the land but hey! we will create the natives four seats so they can ONLY vote for their own. And women aren’t allowed to own land so they can’t vote. Now we have newly minted Indian and Chinese immigrants running amok and it’s all about themselves, money and their dairies, something really stinks.
As a progressive boomer, I know I’m increasingly in a minority in my own age cohort. I’m also old enough to remember the nightmare of Muldoon, of whom I’m reminded each time Brown opens his angry, crinkled old mouth
Yes David, Martyn might be a tad general in his conclusions as to who voted for Brown ( apologies in advance if he has seen demographics around the voting). To me this is part of the problem. Everyone has to be put in a box, left, right, gen x, boomer. It’s lazy and potentially dangerous all at the same time. It’s all about tribes it seems.
Common denominators in local council elections, you can stay in power till you are way past 65 years of age in fact till you almost have one foot in the grave as long as you can stand your fine. And this is especially true if you are white it doesn’t matter. Aucklands’ new mayor looks like Oscar who just jumped out of the rubbish bin, and he could easily be mistaken for a homeless unkept gummy man (whose teeth look like they are going to fall out every time he opens his trap) but it seems to be alright when you are a rich old white man cause NZers don’t judge you by your clothes, body shape or hairdo like they do to many women. Talk about double standards my how the hypocrisy grows in our country.
‘The land lord class get to vote for every property they own in different electorates, ‘-am I understanding this right=landlords exercise more than one vote?
“Renters do not get rates bills so do not pay rates. People who work and live with their parents do not pay rates”
Thus they have no direct incentive to vote, fail to vote and fail to get representation.
“Browny” has a terrible history of insider trading, unauthorised personal spending, sacking council staff that dared to be UNION members, etc. He set up a sister city in China to try and get mining happening in the Far North.
So, Auckland–enjoy!
Comments are closed.