Personally, I’m quite keen to see what portfolio Richard Prosser gets.

We are in the grip of a coalition of socialists in parliament and they are, because of their own vapid cowardice, in turn in the grip of a legion of faceless publicly funded bureaucrats.

Not one in this socially destructive coalition will do what needs to be done (stop spending money they don’t have) because of the old adage that turkey’s don’t vote for thanksgiving.

They won’t stop the over spending because if they do, there’s no way they can make a living. So they keep thieving from us, and they keep us on a headlong course to destruction and social disintegration (a la Greece) because they can, and because they are all selfish self interested swine who would rather the country go to ruin entirely than that they actually get off their arses and produce something.

We can bitch and moan about it on here, but nothing is going to change until we actually rebel and refuse to fund their banditry any longer (unlikely) or the country goes broke.

Parliament is full of cowards and our bureaucracy is full of thieves.

Such is the state of affairs the Progressives have brought upon us.

Where are the 170,000 jobs he promised?

They must have gone the same way as Sanpaku.

David Garrett: just read this post, and at 11.53am you refer to “Mickey Savage” aka Greg Presland having some “difficulties”. Would it be impolite of me to ask you to clarify what you mean by “difficulties”?

How about we just deal with Micky’s arguments (such as they are), and leave DG’s snide and cowardly leftist style personal references out of it?

You’ve done much better than our resident politico’s PG and Penny Dull!

Two out of three times and I am painfully aware about what happened the third time.

1. 2001 for Waitakere City Council
2. 2004 for Waitakere City Council
3. 2010 for Waitakere Ranges Local Board

I am pretty sure that I have claimed nothing for mileage this term.

Your claim about me standing for 5 positions last time is interesting. What positions were they?

Just think of all those mileage claims and committee fees you will rake in, of course all that is just something that comes along as small recompense when you are out there doing all that good in the community!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now that would be fun!

And I agree – National needs to run an advertisement as soon as they hit the hustings, compiling a four shot / box sequence of Shearer, Winston, Hone and Turei rabbiting on about whatever and then replace that with Key speaking clearly on his own. And repeat.

That might get through. If they do stand aside for a Grand Coalition of that lot, then it would be six months before the whole thing implodes, and we might learn something.

Cue another three terms in Government with no need for coalition partners

However it’ll never happen. I think National will do whatever it takes to stop the madness that will surely be a Labour / Green etc coalition even if it means having to deal with the boozer. The left right battle is always only about stopping the other getting the treasury benches. Everything they have worked for over the two terms will be gone and they will simply have to start all over again when the cheque book has been exhausted by the left. It’s called responsibility. God it must get boring.

Having said that I wish National had been more proactive. Personally I expected them to stop this bat shit crazy habit of flushing money down the toilet but I guess all governments are reactive not proactive. If they’d done what needed to be done many would have gone to the wall. Didn’t stop Lange & Douglas though