Fools' Paradise

Some excellent additional awards suggested in response to the previous post. One of the most pertinent must surely be:

Best example of why the entire council should be thrown out in October:

The appalling decision to chop flood protection works from the long term plan and put Wanganui at risk (and the Chron for doing such a good coverup). Still who needs stopbanks when you've got aging rockers at Cooks and water slides.

10:43 AM, January 02, 2007

Indeed. And who needs constituents, when they don't measure up to Mickey's whitebread well-off view of the world, as his latest ill-tempered bout of thinly disguised racism in the Chron this morning demonstrates.

How dare poor unemployed people live in, or even near, Mickey's idealised world, especially if they happen to be cheeky darkies. One would have thought that their willingness to live together well outside the city limits would have met with his approval. After all, leaders of Mickey's mindset have always favoured those "g" word solutions - ghettoisation, gulags and, if all else fails, genocide. Perhaps it's just the fact that the government-imposed works programme which will see the resealing of River Road means more tourists might accidentally stumble upon some brown people. What Mickey needs to realise is that not every white skinned person reacts to that prospect with the same level of distaste as does he. Heck, some tourists have even been known to come to New Zealand for the specific purpose of seeing brown folk, strange as that may seem.

Of course as anon above points out, by the time the drains are buggered and the stormwater is washing away the underfill not only in River Road but probably in Victoria Ave as well, Mickey will be long gone. Or perhaps sitting on the DHB, finding ways to blame Maori for their own appalling health statistics.

The award for best award (we think we've just won an award ourselves, for worst tortuosity of 2007) however, goes to this comment. We couldn't have said it better ourselves, anon:

The Real Heroes of 2006:

Those Council staff who managed to survive at Guyton St without licking the mayor’s arse (ie most definitely NOT his old school chum Kevvie) and got up every day and went to work amid the perilous dysfunction and low staff numbers, and did their best for the ratepayers of Wanganui despite Mickey’s madness and abuse, and the toxic terror of the vile and incompetent Dr Warbum. Thanks, guys, you’re the real heroes.

5:17 PM, December 31, 2006

P.S.: Don't forget, the well-deserved Cheeky Darkie Award, and footage of the Kahui "joke", can still be seen by clicking here.

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An idea born of desperation

Fresh from failing to turn up to berate other Councils for not following his lead and turning everything over to populist volkpolitik, Mickey decides to regain some precious column centimetres in the Chron by talking about something which isn't the province of Councils at all. Still, no one ever fell afoul of the voters by calling for more doctors, nurses, firemen or policemen.

But while in other countries the provision of some level of health infrastructure is the business of local councils, here in New Zealand it's none of Mickey's business at all. But that's never stopped him before, Watchers, and certainly won't stop him now.

While we're all for more midwives we can't help wondering just what on earth Nicki Higgie's Community Development Committee will do with their Mayoral mandate to tackle the problem.

Of course there's nothing to prevent a local Council from setting a precedent and contributing towards local healthcare. Except that Wanganui's Council is simultaneously cash-strapped and spendthrift.

But then we figured it out, Watchers. Yes, it's a brilliant plan, even by Michael Laws' standards. Clearly Nicki's job is to organise the new signage.

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