David’s Coalition lacks a bit of judgment IMHO; too many student politics-type tactics have almost certainly burned off the more sensible potential support who’ll not want to be associated with silly name calling.

Tane said “Absolute fucking filth. You should be ashamed of yourself David.”

you judge !

I think it say more that Tane is a rather disingenuous partisan hack, and perhaps its time we all stopped rewarding his trolling with attention. (I know, should take my own advice more often.)

the problems they ‘try to resolve’ are always problems other people supposedly have. They never have these problems themselves.

They are truly a nosey, bossy, brainless bunch.

Go away and leave everyone alone. Go boss yourselves around.

$7000 for billboards space, plus
$3000 for production and installation, plus
$4800 of wasted money on Getty images copyright

…still only adds up to $15,000, if you’re telling the truth about all your expenses.

I mean, I don’t care how much of your front group’s money you spend on billboards, I’m just interested to see whether it adds up.

Pascal, it’s not a “thumbsuck number”, it’s all linked to the actual market rates of billboards. DPF’s got himself a 40% discount. Irish Bill’s never managed to get a 40% discount on a billboard campaign. It just doesn’t add up.

On the other hand we have Tane, who takes a thumbsuck number that some joker called Irishbill thinks it should cost and he believes that is the correct sum.

Do these people actually ever engage their brains?

Now Mr Tane Wilton is trying to nail the ‘BRT-backed’ Free Speech Coalition for the crime of spending too little.

You just can’t win.

Just had an idea, why don’t we take this to the UN? There must be some committee on some rights inquiry body to appeal to. As they don’t play fair why should we give them any quarter. Their stupidity speaks for their intelligence so outsmarting them should be a good sport.

You of all people should also know about copyright. Getty Images charges $1,600 for using a photo for a month on a billboard for example.

So you’re telling me it cost $11,000 to design, produce and install these billboards? That’s simply not credible David.

It’s pretty clear that Whale designed them for free, and market rates for the production and installation of three billboards would not be more than about $3,000-3,500.

Something doesn’t add up Dave.

This bill was the worst and most fatal mistake ever made by the Clarkists. Say “uncle”, Roger Nome, Tane, et al.

I’m really hoping Phillip John has a restful festive season.

Things are looking up for him as Christmas Day doesn’t fall on a Sunday this year. Otherwise Phillip John might wake up freaking out about the fact that we are on the cusp of global recession yet no one in New Zealand’s blogsphere seems to have a clue about it.

So the most important and urgent economic issue that this country, and indeed the world, currently faces can wait until 2008 at least.