Setting the Agenda

This is not good enough.  Ratepayers need to see a proper, complete, financial accounting of the Henderson saga, and of what it has cost, from first to last. There is a new Council now, a different Mayor and new policies.  I would like to see the Christchurch City Council do a public reckoning to its ratepayers of what this iniquitous and shambolic deal cost us, first and last.

Yes, I know, the decision not to increase benefits yet is terrible.  It does condemn many households to a further miserable existence in povertyland.  And it is wrong. But I am celebrating today.  Because thousands of single parent families, whose only ‘crime’ was to refuse to name the father of their child/ren, will no longer be subject to a punitive and disgusting sanction of $28 per week.