The Daily Blog Open Mic – 21st December 2024

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15 COMMENTS

  1. Well done, Wellington Civic Trust, on achieving a hopefully permanent halt to the Wellington City Council’s attempted destruction of the iconic city to seafront bridge. If the Civic Trust can impede the barbarians on the WCC in their hunger to destroy Wellington’s heritage, culture, and simple practicality, then they will be doing the populace a greater service than any WCC-sponsored rainbow crossings, bike lanes, and suburban geysers do.

    • …destroy ..[NZ/AO].. heritage, culture, and simple practicality…
      This is a telling phrase which applies to many Councils’ planning employees who seem to have great arrogance and little understanding of common humanity; they are not serving such though ratepayers are mostly such, so who are they serving with their grand/expensive schemes that set up costly imposts on ratepayers and seeming
      eternal debt?

      • Greywarbler Good question, that. There’s more to this than meets the eye, and their consultation process makes Machiavelli look like Simple Simon, IMO.

        But this is just one of their dastardly attempts at demolishing our heritage and culture, i.e. the interesting tapestry of our European culture. The WCC Greens really are green, and proposing demolishing architectural gems and historic dwellings to provide shoe box apartments for the young and unencumbered, is worse than brutish, and I’m not sure I have the vocabulary to describe it.

    • Absolutely. And be very careful at the next election. It’s a shame we can’t vote for the administration’s ‘officials’ although IF we get a decent council that does its job, we can make sure a CEO does the right (correct) thing

  2. Imagination is funny, it makes a cloudy day sunny. (Just to brighten us up as we near Christmas and, hopefully for most, holidays with some money to spend and enough to take a holiday!)
    Ella Fitzgerald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4S1kl8uYq4

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/537274/country-life-christmas-tree-farmer-makes-massive-maize-maze
    Using imagination might stop us pining. Hah. Thinking of those wilding pines being eliminated. Could this be done near Christmas and then sold expensively (so as not to undercut good businesses) and the cost be met by donations going to local groups and poorer people. Just an idea. Something coming from nothing for a change.

  3. Feb 24 Bus prices going up for young people.
    Bus fare jump for youth ‘will burden families’
    Stuff
    https://www.stuff.co.nz
    20 Feb 2024 — Bus fares are to double for 13 to 25 year olds and 5 to 12 year olds will have to pay between $1 and $3 for trips that were previously free from May 1.

    What swingeing price – service news for 2025 from Gnatact?

    • Greywarbler. It will burden poor families. The others get dropped off at school in SUVs, and get to drive mothers’ cars as soon as they’re able.

      • Aunt Daisy a venerable Kiwi name. Good wisdom. About bus fares, it shows how distant the planners and movers are from the actual people who haven’t climbed to the same step of the ladder they are on.

  5. GOP – Grumpy Old Person.
    Go to Metservice and among the bits of weather reports there are adverts and Harvey Mornone has got the kiddish thing about how many sleeps to Christmas numbered on each day. We are to be turned into cute biddable trivialised nowts as they say/said in North England. I am an adult and don’t want this creeping sugariness, – just the facts man (and woman) FGS.

  6. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/537293/nzta-closes-passing-lanes-to-help-holiday-traffic-flow
    This makes perfect sense to somebodies. For me. I would be pleased to get this git off my back bumper, or get past someone having busy conversations with children in the back and someone sitting up front speeding up, slowing down, and braking at the slightest curve – on the road, and puffing out black exhaust from this vehicle in front on steroids with tailpipe at eye level.

    But these admins have shocking visions in the night and write them down on their partner’s forehead so they can’t lose them, or their tenacious hold on their so-called credentials which they present to the credulous and so form a fruit loop.

    • Now that is an oxymoron.

      Closing passing lanes to help traffic flow.

      The frustration that will create will lead to dangerous overtaking

  7. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/537337/government-quietly-scraps-waste-minimisation-policies
    Does everyone notice how councils and government are asking and getting, demanding more money but doing less, contracting out on a limited basis, finding ways to make life more difficult as they send out virtue signals about less rubbish, fewer cars, etc?

    Some thoughts. If we really were running like a business we could bankrupt the failing, slack firm/gummint or take major legal claims for failure which they could not countermand with appeals. But business is dishonest in how it operates and government has decided to act similarly, give up its role of reining in bad behaviour, but not do much themselves. And as well gummint won’t get in the way of business by demanding it gives efficient service and goods that match the touted slogans of better all round.

    We will have to stand in for government ourselves to keep the nation going, to regain a better standard, while we attempt to exert citizen power in a rational way. Those who care may need to go to new-type work camps to help others out, say with crops seasonally,at least once a year to help other NZAO people.. The infirm can do things from their wheelchairs, everyone has their own talents and together we could pull through. It’s time for the retired to be really honoured as the backbone of society and leisured retirement and self-centredness on family matters can no longer be afforded. We actually at all ages should be supportive Kiwis with some sort of volunteer work for at least a few hours each week to hold the country together.

    The pollies can have an income that follows a bell curve, lower at first, rising for two elections, then dropping by 5% a year thereafter. This with no inflation adjustment. So they are not encouraged to find a nest for life. Now that is a waste-of-money minimisation policy for modernity. Also GST is unhelpful at 15% – that was a Key idea when he was in his dreamlike Swiss model era.

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