//you do have to question the sanity and logic of a town which chooses a gigantic ezcma riddled castrated cock as their leader.//

under 40% of us voted in the mayoral elections. The John doesn't really have much of a mandate from Aucklanders, even though our ignorance has got us what we deserve.

//Auckland IS the new America

Fuck lets not go there, that would mean that banks is the new Bush . . . ooh fuck we are all screwed now, THANKS Auckland!

//under 40% of us voted

This is the standard everywhere in NZ, always has been always will. But lets face it, Local Body Elections are not the most exciting thing in the world. Infact if Local Body Politicians didn't come out with such contentious statements, like Master Banks', we wouldn't know they were there at all.

(also---if the Mayor is a woman, does that make her husband the Mayoress?)

Kerry Prenderghast is a Fascist dictator - She bans drinking in the street, she proposed to ban homeless people from the city, Shes scum.

Upper Hutts Mayor Wayne Guppy is the best Mayor in the country - he hasnt passed any freedom restricting by-laws as yet, and hes a regular face at the Upper Hutt RSA alongside frankie stevens.

// wrong, 'our' as in the ruling class.

See, you're being a facist again (and just to stress, I'm not meaning this as some insult, I'm meaning it as an accurate description).

Since you've got this point wrong you don't understand that this next bit...

// I want you tell me right now how having bums on the street benefits a city.

... is a nonsense. People are people. They have rights, shit like freedom of movement. They're not benefits or costs on a balance sheet of civic planning.

- I lived in Wellington for my first 26 years (and one week :) and intend to move back there. I know the blanket guy and the drunks down round that little square of Ghuznee St and all the rest. I don't like being round them. I feel uncomfortable etc. and worry for my safety from time to time. Pretty similar to the situation here in Melbourne, although I've been hassled for change (even in supermarkets) heaps more than ever in Welli.

So even though they make the majority of wellingtonians uncomfortable, we should just accept this fact? Let me tell you, they could clean up their act.

// our streets

That's why.

Jet is fortunate enough to live in a country where the bums know their place and sit very quietly on the sidewalk with a sign and a box making very sure to ovoid eye contact. Not like the good for nothing drunks that exist in wellington. And I read in the Dom today that "Blanketman" has been released from jail, whoohoo????.

Saul, i do have sympathy for homeless people - its not there fault, Blame central Govt for the economic reforms of the 1980s for creating a culture of homelessness in New Zealand...Pre 1984 very few if any people where homeless, since then thousands are without shelter, and also welfare cuts of the 1990s have fuelled this critical issue, so saul dont blame the homeless people its not there fault - Its the evils of an imperialist globalised capitalist government who should be to blame.

ahh so your one of the lucky ones who's ears haven't been poisoned by the thoughts & words of John Banks.

He is the mayor of Auckland. the article on the front page of todays Dominion Post and you'll see why he is a huge cock

John Banks is a karmic reminder for all those people who couldn't be arsed voting.

Did you see that ad Peter Dunne/United Future put in the Listener a few weeks ago calling the Civil Unions Bill 'more pink think'? And saying that there was no community mandate for it blah blah blah...anyway, made me real mad and I wrote a really sarcastic letter to Peter Dunne. It was two pages long, and you know what I got back. "Dear Miss Tessie Tutae. We have noted your support. Peter Dunne." Baaah. I dislike that man very much. I bet no one even read it.
Here ends my completely unrelated blat.

That thing with the two page letter is so wrong. Legally if you send a letter to an MP they have to reply to it - even the PM. So if they replied without reading it, which is substantially what it looks like, then that really sucks. I think Dunne is a cock too. Whats wrong with gays? Can't we all just get along?

Aramoana aftermath, ghoulish and wannabe Rambo.
No Gays in the Police Force, "no faries in fishnets will beat on my street".
Advocating Animal Rights whilst sitting on a leather chair [North&South c1999].
His maiden Paralimentry speech contained at least 5 "factual errors".
Champoning the Free Market whilst using State Funds to buy his mates a coupla moorings.
Calling the Foreshore protesters bludgers and freeloaders without the slighest awareness that those words describe him and his ilk more effectivly than any of this vitriol.
Throwing poor people out of their housing, the lessons of Jesus Christ obviously sunk in their.
Banks is an example of how these fuckers just never go away, be it Mayorility [P. Flecther, W. cooper], Advisor {David Caygill}, Ambassadorship [Bolger]. Its all further evidence, if any more was needed, that this country is a welfare state for big business and those elected representitives who pander/prostitute for them, no matter the cost to the workers/poor.

One hopes Christianity is reading this.
Opinion time, who are NZ's worst ever politicians?
Maybe should be in Top 5's, but hell it would be a hard one to nail down.
Roger Douglas, Gary Knapp, Norm Jones, Ross Meraunt, Bill Birch, Merv Wellington, Dick Prebble, Jim Sutton, Alamain Kopu, Deborah Coddington, Ruth Richardson,Sid Holland, George Gair, Mad Max Bradford.Does Banksie deserve a place in this hall of shame?

Abe Lincon the syphallitic who woulda kept slavery to keep the peace or the Abe lincon white people are taught about?Check Black panther lit for an overveiw or the "Great Emancipator".

Try Tariana Turiara, theirs a politician with the convicition to act too her electorates will.
A few more with even half her courage and presence would increase thinks markedly here.

*solution*

I was born in Lower Hutt.
Is that good or bad?