Boomer King be going Cray, and I’m all here for it.
After Comrade Mike Lee slaughtered the bullshit justification the Boomer King has established to privatise the Airport…
It is my personal belief the present council finance ‘deficit’ crisis has been hyped to force the sale of airport shares. Though however one views the current crisis it is fair to say there are systemic spending problems within Auckland Council and its CCOs which have been evident for years. However you look at it the ‘deficit’ and how we got into this situation is deeply troubling. If the council’s recent civil defence/ emergency management response required an independent inquiry surely an independent inquiry into Auckland Council finances is well overdue. Relying on the same advice that got us into this situation to get us out of it, is not a sensible option.
…the Boomer King has hit back by threatening to burn the Arts with far greater cuts than he had agreed to if Councillors don’t vote to privatise the Airport…
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has lashed out at “Labour MPs in waiting” for not supporting the privatisation of the council’s shares in Auckland Airport on the eve of his final budget proposal.
In an exclusive interview with the Herald, Brown threatened left-wing councillors with reinstating deep cuts to arts and social services if they don’t get behind off-loading the shares when his first budget goes to the vote next week.
Last week the Herald revealed that Brown believes he has only nine votes to sell the shares with 12 votes against, although a handful of councillors are wavering on both sides.
…the level of Arsehole the Boomer King is now ascending to is so insane, and I’m all here for it!
Watching the Boomer King’s supporters scrambling to justify his tactics and privatisation agenda is a thing of beauty to behold.
Threatening to metaphorically burn the libraries so he can privatise the airport is old school rat fucker tactics, the likes of which we just haven’t seen for such a long time in local politics!
He is a malignant joy to watch our city crash and burn to.
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In my last few comments on other blogs I argued how NZDF is crucial to the Government’s ability to maintain its sovereignty and wage war and without an industrial base of our own the government couldn’t sustain any type of meaningful and sustainable action and expect to emerge with its reputation intake.
But in order for corporates and businesses or for any business idea to emerge in the fisical ealm you first need capital aka money. Equally important to ones accumulation of capital is ones ability to borrow even more capital. Capitalisms greatest strength is it’s ability to move capital around so to create new businesses or strengthen the ones we’ve already got.
That’s why having rich natural resources isn’t the only important thing to have. We also want to be in good standing both politically and economically with global institutions like the IMF. This way we can borrow money for certain projects or upgrade certain strategic assets and industries to greatly inhance the ability of poorer people to participate in the economy.
This comment isn’t an argument against privatisation and deregulation. I know it may seem like neoliberaliam is an evil offshoot of capitalism and that is very far from my intention. I believe that capitalism is the most efficient and natural economic system available to the human race and it pushes us to our best and to be our worst.
The story of the boomer king isn’t a condemnation of capitalism he’s really a warning when a system like capitalism has no checks and balances to protect us from malicious Actors.
As Margaret said “The problem with socialism is that in the end you run out of other people’s money”
So here we are! Ten years of socialist mayors and the city is in a debt crisis.
You can identify Margarete a member of parliament. Can you also identify another MP who was also mayor of London ? I’ll give you a hint. He stuck his wee wee in a pigs mouth
No one uses library anymore.
I’ve heard two sides. Those for selling the shares, presumably the right, as it allows the council to pay down debt. The argument is the interest on current debt is greater than the dividend from the shares. An analogy is made with household management. If your debt is a rock around your neck sell assests if you have them to reduce the burden.
On the other side, the Ak Airport shares should be retained because they are a ‘strategic’ investment and after years of privatization the appetite for selling off the family silver has gone. In this thinking its the start of a slippery slope we’ve seen with other sell-offs. Who knows what lies ahead. Except, the pro-sellers would counter that the current level of investment doesn’t allow a board representative and thus very little input into strategic direction.
Which is it? Sell or retain?
And how does the Council address debt? Just live with it. Probably not s realistic option. Sell off Council controlled golf courses to developers? Good luck with that (not the least because many were gifted to the Council). Ravage the arts, burn the libraries, barracde the regional parks? Nah, just media rhetoric. But no doubt, an effort to reduce spending across all areas. Sell off other ‘big’ assests. Well, that’s been tried before without success. Cap salaries? In the bigger picture, probably a drop in the ocean. User charges?Another drop in the ocean Push up rates? Now that’s a novel idea!
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t.
Not My King
C’mon Supercity Councillors–tell Boomer King to sod off! Find your spines and guts and stick it to him–on behalf of the Ratepayers.
A failed Far North Mayor elected on a tiny minority vote in a gerrymandered election along with crumbling postal infrastructure and alienated voters, is all the info required for Browny to be shafted all day every day until he is finally finished for good.
Love how the Blue Rinse Boomers at Granny Herald hide stories about Angry Grandpa behind their paywall these days….as if the senile rantings of a delusional octogenarian are going to raise their subscription base.
This morning he’s talking to Nationals other Boomer baiter little Lord Hoskings…..because we all know the head cheer leader of the John Key Appreciation Society is the only “journalist” in Nu Zelund that will stick to the Party line and ensure the befuddled old fool does not humiliate himself in public again.
It seems what Boomer Brown doesn’t understand is that annoying little irritant called democracy.
Lifting a withered fist from the Zimmer frame to shake in the air whilst shouting nonsense and irrelevant threats at the young whipper snappers for not doing what he demands is not how it works Grandpa.
Grow up, start engaging with your fellow Councillors constructively, rather than spewing idle threats and baseless accusations.
Just another example of how incompetent this buffoon actually is.
Good on him. He’s thinking of the rate payers. Where I live the Council are about to increase rates by 12.5%.
They are signing up to an extra fifty millon dollars of funding to Lets get Wellington Moving without knowing what it is to be spent on. LGWM to date have been around about 5 years and their only completed project is a crossing on Cobburn Drive (on way to airport) and no one uses it.
They have failed to do anything about our failing pipes. The stuffed the bus system about five years ago with their swanky new routes (it wasn’t broken, they should never have tried to fix it)
It is clear the Mayor, Tory Whanau is out of her depth, which isn’t surprizing. She was a woke virtue signalling candidate who failed to turn up to a meeting with other Mayors to talk about water services. There had been an unexplained death in a Council property. She wasn’t needed there and she could have been easily reached for comment should the media have sought her out. She blamed her advisors for this mistake.
At least Brown took responsibility and apolgized re the Auckland floods an commited to do better
How much are the golf courses making in profit why doesn’t he sell them instead.
Not the fees. It’s the value of the land. A developers dream! But here’s the rub. Evidently, much of the land was gifted to the Council way back and with that comes some kind of legality. Fill us in if you are able. And then there’s the privately owned golf courses which Council would need to confiscate. No, I’m not a golfer!
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