VRWC Warning

It has come to my attention that Hillary Clinton is visiting New Zealand.

Rumours have it that several VRWC members are c**t struck at the prospect at meeting this cringe making repulsive example of a she-beast. A woman so lacking in dignity that she allowed her husband to play with cigars in the openings of butt ugly interns as he claimed he did not have sexual relations with anyone outside his marriage. A woman so determined to rise to the role of polishing Obama's shoes that she has stood back and played second fiddle to yet another male glove-puppet.

I would like to be informed of every supposed centre-right and right wing politician and political groupie getting cream over the prospect of meeting Hillary.

They will be duly outed and subject to disciplinary action.

To put it in vulgar perspective, I would rather go to dinner with Helen Clark than Hillary such is my loathing for this pathetic nana of a woman.

Supporting Two Drinks Max

Granny has a campaign encouraging New Zealanders to consume two drinks maximum. I fully support this campaign.

One drink



Two drinks

Let us watch as Granny on Sunday will capitalise on this campaign slowly outing those sanctimonious twits who signed up, when they are seen over-indulging or caught drink-driving.

Tuesday Photo: 26 October

Sheppard A Fraud

"Over the last two years, I have been deliberately controversial on a number of issues to spark readers to debate. To a degree this has been successful".

Bruce Sheppard has signed off to join the establishment.

Rest assured, you won't find anything on Asian Invasion "deliberately controversial....to spark readers to debate".

I mean everything I write.

Best of luck Bruce, but we now wonder, just what the hell do you stand for if you don't mean everything you write?

Key on Negative Equity

Interesting comment here by John Key in explaining why Labour's foreign ownership of land policy is a bad one:

"There's a balance to be had here when it comes to foreign ownership of land. If we completely ban it land prices will fall. Those farmers that have a lot of debt on their property will find that they owe the bank more than their property is worth and will be forced off the land and I don't think that's healthy."

So what Key is saying is that his policy is to avoid anything that does not keep land prices as high as they are even at the moment (forgetting the peaks of two years ago) to avoid negative equity situations. Same with residential housing as well we can assume because we wouldn't want the market to move up and down would we?

Little wonder New Zealanders keep buying more land. There is absolutely no risk attached to it when the leading politician comes out with intentions such as that. Where is Key's worry about negative equity when it comes to SME's? Silence.

And dare I say it, most property developers have all fallen over in the recession, leaving a vast shortage of people to take the risk in the future to build new properties to support a growing population and the construction industry. How does John Key feel about their situation? Surely if we can't let farmers get into negative equity, the same argument could be made of bailing out property developers? But I bet that doesn't happen anytime soon. They aren't as warm and fluffy and don't have their own Union.

Placing Business Over Property Speculation

Business over Property

Bernard Hickey's latest piece has a very pertinent paragraph:

We need to be lending and investing more in businesses, particularly exporting businesses, to drive the transformation. That's not happening. The only part of the economy that is saving more and repaying debt is business.

Along with some extraordinarily, very hard to believe numbers:

A closer look at what is happening with saving and borrowing show that New Zealanders have yet to start repaying debt and saving. Bank lending to housing (property speculators) has actually risen by $8 billion to $181.3 billion in the past two years. Lending to business (weath and employment drivers) has fallen $5 billion to $72.3 billion over the same period and lending to farmers (property speculators) has risen more than $6 billion to $47.8 billion.

In Hong Kong the government here has come up with a way of counter-balancing the liquidity issues of the financial crisis and the insane property market with government guaranteed bank loans from the major trading banks. Along with 39,372 other businesses the firm I work for applied for one of these loans. Little did I know when applying for it in less than two years some HK$88,749,013,738.67 has been approved to borrowers. The budget is HK$100 million. A staggering amount in just 21 months. Even at New Zealand's current high exchange rate it works out to an injection into the economy of NZ$15,117,600,000. In real numbers $NZ15 billion. Or in other words, Hong Kong has pumped more money into small businesses in two years by way of guaranteed loans by more than the increase in lending in New Zealand on farms and residential property in the past two years. To do so it used stamp duty gains from sales of property driven by the recent boom, transferring wealth out of property into employment and wealth creating businesses.

How easy are these loans to get? Well only 306 (less than 1%) were rejected. The maximum amount of loan is HK$12 million, with a revolving credit of half that. I recall the forms took about ten minutes to complete and there were minimal accounts to collate in addition.

For those of you in New Zealand with small businesses employing many people but with recent liquidity problems, you will be going green with these stats.

The criteria follow:

Enterprises with substantive business operation (note 1) in Hong Kong and registered in Hong Kong under the Business Registration Ordinance (Chapter 310), except listed companies, lending institutions and their associates.

Other requirements

• the enterprise must have been in operation for at least one year on the date of implementation of the SpGS (i.e. 15 December 2008);
• Personal guarantee is required of the enterprise owner or, in the case of a limited company, shareholders together holding more than 50% of the equity interest of the enterprise;
• the enterprise must have no outstanding default in any authorised institution as defined in the Banking Ordinance;
• the loans should not be used for repaying, restructuring or repackaging other loans.

As a result many firms borrowed for the hell of it and used the money to do things they otherwise wouldn't to add value to their businesses. We built a server system. I've no idea how it works as it's all about computers and large bits of equipment but it was big and expensive. Government guaranteed reasonably cheap credit is probably in all likelihood responsible for many businesses not failing in the past two years and falling unemployment. In the meantime in the last two years have taxes risen? Nope, every year I have received a tax cut since arriving six years ago.

While this scheme has of course distorted the free market here it is an example of re-distributing income received in taxes from the increased wealth in the property sector into real small business who actually employ large amounts of Hong Kong people. It adds weight to Bernard Hickey's argument for land tax or a Hong Kong style stamp duty on transactions to raise funds in property boom times and redistribute it to the productive sector. The problem in New Zealand is that the very small in numbers, but powerful Farmers Union, Federated Farmers wouldn't have a bar of it. They want all their capital gains to themselves and all their tax deductions from interest on their excessive borrowing.

If however New Zealand is going to be more that a country that sells land to itself and foreigners, SME's with all the entrepreneurs and productive talent there are going to have to be either given a hand up or have obstacles to their success removed to level the playing field up against business and individuals who merely buy and sell up chunks of land.

Elephant In The Room Time

Union member journos have described Labour's conference as upbeat and positive. Reports have been about how good Andrew Little is at scripted public speaking.

Most of this positivity is due to inviting their Labour Night-Mayor Len Brown to their conference. Brown, who is about to become the most disappointing Mayor in New Zealand history as he ran up promises that he has absolutely no money for and an inability to raise rates to fund them. How sad, too bad, never mind. The Night-Mayor is in effect a National Party Cabinet Minister.

Phil Goff is hugging the life out of the Night-Mayor. In the meantime realists in the Labour Party know that for Phil there is only one thing currently that matters and it's not the Night-Mayor or Chris Carter, it is this:

Colmar Brunton Poll

September 2010

National 54%
Labour 32%

FIGJAM Gets The Finger

I had this delightful jpg. sent into my inbox. Don't know where it is from or who are the parents but I call it......

"Little Hone gives the finger to FIGJAM's proposed liquor laws".

Hooker Gets Her Fee

This little minx has just been paid out allegedly around $NZ1m to suffer terribly at the hands of the evil former CEO of David Jones, Mark McInnes.



Ms Fraser-Kirk had accused Mr McInnes of making unwanted advances towards her at two David Jones functions and that he sent inappropriate text messages to her. She has also alleged he made unwanted advances to other David Jones employees and that the company fostered a culture of sexual harassment by ignoring certain behaviour.

So dreadful was her abuse that she has now been paid more money than she would have saved in decades, perhaps even an entire career working as a low level publicist for David Jones.

Kirsty Fraser-Kirk wanted $37 million in this total publicity stunt that demeaned women who suffer real and proper abuse at the hands of men. Actual physical abuse, demeaning abuse, sexual contact making it impossible for them to look the man again in the eye, let alone walk back into work.

Ms Fraser-Kirk is a little minx who now comes firmly with a DO NOT EMPLOY warning to any HR department.

She has effectively sold her body (not that she ever appeared to have been violated in any way) for a fee. On the street there is a name for that. At least hookers are honest about their fees.

If she wanted to make a statement she would not have settled and let this case go the full distance. But she didn't have the bottle for that.

She's promised to donate the money (only "punitive damages" which would have relied on her going the full way with the case) to charity and her lawyers were working for free. If you believe in either statement then you probably believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy.

Fraser-Kirk is an opportunist and an over-reactive baby. Now completely unemployable. FAIL.

Mad as Batshit Leader 1 Audi 0

The new Wellington Mayor is as mad as batshit.

But today she showed her first signs of potentially not being hypocritical batshit.

"I'd rather bus or bike"

It's not a $70,000 Audi A3 if purchased in 2008. But still the sentiment is promising.

She said that, whenever possible in her new role, she would like to walk, but the length of the days she expected to work would not always make walking or cycling possible. "I'm not ready to commit to one mode of transport."

Hmm....try walking or cycling to work when it's not only windy, but cold or wet as Wellington's weather usually is.

Still transport is like a man. You shouldn't commit until you know the obstacles you will face in the future.

Speaking of Mad as Batshit......good to see Paula Bennett's charges doing their job and cutting off this twat from the dole. His recommendation if adhered to would see most people walking out of their jobs. Not many people actually enjoy working. Hate to burst his bubble and all but that's what adults do in order to survive.

Wells' installation, The Beneficiary's Office, urges people to abandon jobs they don't like rather than suffering eight hours of "slavery".

"We should never be forced to take a job. If you're forced to take a job it's a punishment. If a job's a punishment then society must be a prison."

FIGJAM Right On The Money

I can't see what the fuss is all about as FIGJAM (legally recognised term in NZ case law) attempts to suppress free speech in New Zealand with his somewhat vile attack based around the Whaleoil Effect=.

Government Wrestles with Law

Moderate left-wing blogger David P. Farrar came out with this comment: "Then there's nothing current or future law could do unless they want China-style internet filters," Mr Farrar said.

I welcome FIGJAM taking the laws in New Zealand to the fullest extent and closing down all New Zealand political blogs, especially Whaleoil's. Come on FIGJAM just ban them all making it illegal for any New Zealand resident to host or publish on a blog.

That would leave Asian Invasion and Clint Heine as the foremost New Zealand political authorities on the internet.

The Laws Of Bad Relationships

Blondie from Gotcha

Is turning into a decent blogger. Today she dismisses Leonie Brookhammer's slamming of her former partner, the infamous Michael Laws. I am supportive of Blondie's rationale and amazed that he never hit her back.

I will go one further. I don't believe Laws could ever hit Brookhammer so suggest it all looks pretty one-way traffic to me. Here is Brookhammer in training form



She's absolutely ripped. Apart from being as tough as nails and mad. I would give her a very wide berth as she would bury any woman in a fight who wasn't as equally mad and proportioned. That core strength alone would be amazing. Hitting her would have minimal impact.

Laws crime apparently is being helpful:

"He would say, 'I'll teach you how to do the ironing because you can't do it properly. I'll bathe the children because you're not doing it right.

I'm going to brush their teeth because I do it better."'

The correct response to such chiding is to tell him to do it.

She has at least admitted to smacking Laws over. Those of us following Laws' Facebook see him as a doting father and always supportive of their mother. I can't recall a bad comment about her at all on Facebook and all comments have been in relation to their battle with their daughter Lucy of her long illness. Even today Laws remained diplomatic. I think to all our Facebook amazement.

Laws is guilty only of having absolutely extraordinarily terrible taste in women. He perhaps needs a long period of embracing his singleness until he can identify women who are a negative influence in his life as he appears to only be influenced by women who are needy. For that he is not alone as a criminal, men like needy women. But Laws seems to be in a class all of his own for unsuitable partners.

Anything Laws says and does on the radio and to the media can be forgiven because he is one of the most devoted and loving fathers I have ever witnessed and one of the most human. He shares far too much of his private life on Facebook which only adds to his flawed but very "real" character. Michael Laws is indeed a great study in human form and never there is a dull moment.

Jami-Lee Ross - Remember This Name

Jami-Lee suffers of course from a lack of being anything other than a career politician but listen to him in the last few minutes here on Radio NZ on Morning Report. He is fabulous. After some idiot rough-neck, toe rag, "victim" called Scotty Morrison chastises Jami-Lee for not being "Maori" enough (ie. enough of a victim in society to pander to Maori who like being "victims" than independently successful and have expectations of success), Jami-Lee gave an absolutely commanding performance for even someone twenty years his senior. Remember this guy is 24 years old and it is quite amazing. More amazing as I don't rate anyone in politics that young. I rate this guy as he has at this point in his life as a politician, some real back-bone. In a one on one debate with this Snotty Morrison I am sure he would tear Snotty another one.

Jami-Lee is handicapped as co-leader of Citizens & Ratepayers with the idiotic Chris Fletcher, quite why Fletcher was named I can only put down to her threatening to cry at the meeting. Jami-Lee is the real leader and needs to be left to have a free reign in developing the political movement.

Jami-Lee is the future of Citizens & Ratepayers and I predict he will sooner rather than later become an MP. Old CnR losers need to stand aside and let this kid take over.

Wellington Elect a Green Mayor

Hahahahahaha



I've always thought Wellingtonians were bloody weird beasts, but this caps it off.

I think I prefer Len Brown to a Green! At least Len says "yes" to everyone, bless him.

Big question for the day - Sir Bob Jones, will you stay in Wellington or move to Auckland?

Tokenism Warning

I am against all racial and gender quotes full stop. As a woman in an almost completely male dominated area of my profession this of course is entirely to my detriment. I could join New Zealand Global Women and be championing quotas for women to obtain a higher position for my own benefit. But I puke at such a path.

Westpac in Australia, ironically led by a woman is now championing a quota system that would see in four years, 40% of "management" positions held by females. Ironically I say as Gail Kelly has obviously had such a bad time of it in life as a woman that she's now CEO of Westpac without such a path travelled. There is no detail as of yet how they will do this other than "encourage" women to take management positions.

Such silliness has caught on in the industry:

ANZ has recently announced a $4000 parental leave bonus. Its full-time staff are also eligible for 12 weeks' leave and will receive superannuation entitlements on the bonus. But it is Westpac's chief executive, Gail Kelly, who raised the bar this week - offering 13 weeks' paid leave and superannuation contributions for unpaid leave for an additional 39 weeks.

This policy is entirely discriminatory against single people and those who choose or cannot have children. I would like a $4,000 bonus not to have children. By now I bloody deserve it. And would happily pay that to staff members who did not exercise such options at a more senior level. In the scheme of things paying workers not to take maternity or paternity leave is actually for a company, more profitable. I would also like 13 weeks paid leave to exercise some of my life choices, like travel and alcohol consumption. But alas to benefit as your co-workers you would need to have a child. And if you choose not to go that path you are left with 13 weeks of doing at least part of their job yourself.

Welcome to the employment law minefield. Hong Kong solves all this by having one law to protect those who get pregnant. It makes it impossible once they have announced their "happy moment" for you as an employer to sack that worker or make them redundant until after the 10 weeks they have in leave. As such a small business owner frequently takes note of who is getting married (as a baby often follows shortly after), has a boyfriend or partner or any sign that the employee is planning to start a family. Especially if you don't want to keep them for the period to giving birth then 10 weeks after. In some cases this stretches some 6 months + 2 1/2 months when they are untouchable no matter how poorly your business is doing or how utterly useless they are at their job,

As contracts here can be terminated for no reason at all with just entitlement for one weeks pay, if you can grab the employee before they have babies and rid and replace, then you can save a fortune in wages by successfully playing this game of chance. New Zealand and Australian small businesses have no such luxury to spare themselves the cost financial and opportunity cost of a pregnancy in the firm.

Westpac in publicly stating this goal of promoting women over men to these positions has just done a huge dis-service to every woman in the company who is quite capable without tokenism of reaching a management position. Men who miss out on positions due to this policy quite rightly can feel aggrieved. It does very little for staff morale and even less for those capable of achieving without a "doongy" hand. How can women have the right amount of self-esteem required for management if they didn't earn their position? That there is even the smallest chance that they got the job because they are a woman?

I've never understood why high achieving women support such policies as it discredits everything they have achieved. In professions and business, there isn't a nice, hand-held way to the top. People working with you are often utter c***s, clients can be c***s, your boss may be a nasty c**t. That is just the way it is when you put highly skilled, highly driven people all in one place and ask them to work together to achieve a goal of making more profits. Business isn't meant to be a collaborative effort of peace, love and harmony. Those who come across this way are usually the slipperiest characters. If business really was all sweetness and light, every business would succeed and everyone would make money. Instantly depreciating the value of the currency.

It's competitive, business is not a place for sooks and wimps. If you are a sook and don't want to crawl over others to get what you want, then go do something easily non-competitive like milking cows. If you aren't reminding yourself in business to "harden the fuck up" at least once a day then you are probably too soft to do it properly and others are taking advantage of your kindness, usually in credit terms.

I admire people who entirely through their own efforts succeed at business and in professions. I don't admire anyone who has got to the top through the efforts of the visible hand of Mummy and Daddy's financial support, cheap loans or such favourable terms or taken a short-cut through the path of gender or racial tokenism.

In fact I would go one better and say I have no respect at all for any person who takes this route and reserve the right to single them out and mock them mercilessly at each available opportunity.

"Cook Your Own F**ing Eggs I'm Menstruating"

However, Margaret Mutu, head of Maori Studies at Auckland University, said the policy was common in Maori culture.

Women cannot go into the garden, on to the beach or in the kitchen when they are menstruating.

"It's a very serious violation of tapu for women to do those things while menstruating. Women cannot have anything to do with the preparation of food while they are menstruating."

She said the exhibition rule was quite normal. "It's just the way we are ... It's part of our culture, but it's just one that isn't well known and that Pakeha aren't aware of."

Feminists should be embracing Margaret Mutu's interpretation of traditional values. It also explains why Beth really wouldn't cook Jake's eggs - she had her period.

Think of all those days a year when a woman is having her period and men now have to cook and do the gardening.

I've always liked Margaret Mutu because she has never tried to hide the fact she is stark, raving mad. Which of course makes her extremely exciting and controversial. Her concept here is quite brilliant if we could extend the taboo not from just pregnant and menstruating women, but also to post-birth til the child turns 10. Imagine how peaceful the world would be if women with children under 10 were not allowed in public with that child. Awesome.

Feminist bloggers are predictably outraged but really they should be supportive of Mutu. Think of all the nasty household chores women could get out of if New Zealand women blindly accepted this concept promoted by Mutu. Many women would argue they are menstruating all month.

I think it is a great custom practised by some Maori (according to Mutu) and can add menstruation to the list of excuses why I will not handle preparation of food and point blank refuse to ever garden.

Now Paul Henry has been given a golden shower by Rick Ellis, New Zealanders need something of utter meaningless consequence to debate and I can think of nothing better than the exclusion of pregnant and menstruating women to looking at a (.........boring.......zzzzzzz.........) museum. I mean come on people. Let Maori have their own exclusion here, you can ignore it if you wish but it's not like you are being banned from something important, like drinking down at Shed 5 on a summer day.

Supercity and Ethnic Diversity

There are 20 Supercity Councillors.

Jami-Lee Ross is of Ngati Porou heritage, he's from C n R
Des Morrison from Franklin is Ngapuhi, he's from C n R
Alf Filipaina from Manukau is Samoan/Maori, he's from Labour
Arthur Anae from Manukau is Samoan/Chinese, an Independent, he's a former National Party MP.

That is three of the four (75%) ethnically diverse members of the Supercity are in fact from centre-right or independent-right leanings. Labour and the left could manage just one member in a position to win a seat.

There are 20 Supercity councillors. The latest census was 2006 and at the census (where individuals could tick more than one box - 110.5%) the results were:

European 56.5%
"New Zealander" 8% (the PC version used mainly by NZ European's)
Pacific Islander 14.4%
Asian 18.9%
Maori 11.1%
Other 1.6%

Therefore European covers description for possibly 65% of the population in Auckland. Leave that aside and let us examine the ethnic groups of Auckland.

Despite the bleatings of Maori and Pacific Islanders, Asians at 18.9% are actually the next largest demographic in Auckland. They have just one Supercity Councillor, Arthur Anae. Full credit to Arthur but I doubt he speaks either cantonese or mandarin so Chinese are again missing out, as are Indians. Little wonder they tried a wee trick down South to help their chances. Asians have just 5% of possible representation (give or take the bad maths for those who identify themselves as of mixed ethnicity).

Pacific Islanders make up 14.4% of the Auckland population. They have two clear representiatives on the Supercity council, Arthur Anae and Alf Filipaina. They have 10% of possible representation (give or take the bad maths for those who identify themselves as of mixed ethnicity).

Maori make up just 11.1% of the Auckland population. They have three representatives on the Supercity council, Des Morrison, Jami-Lee Ross and Alf Fiipaina. They have 15% of possible representation (give or take the bad maths for those who identify themselves as of mixed ethnicity).

Matt McCarten claims that the Supercity is out of kilter. In relation to the Council Matt is right, but for different argument to his own.

The Supercity Council is well within kilter for Maori. In fact they are over-represented. Pacific Islanders have a much great argument for representation at the top table and then again the Chinese and Indian (as "Asians") populations in Auckland.

We all know the answer to the Maori seats however. What Maori leaders want are their own appointment pinko lackeys who they can control and appeal to the politics of envy of the masses. Not these right-wing upstart financially independent positive Maori such as young Jami-Lee. He's not what they mean by "Maori", nor any C n R representative.

Len Brown needs to hurry that referendum through. I would like to know what Chinese, Indian and Pacific Islanders think of Maori representation over their own, when if any groups have the right to have their representation increased it is actually these.

If Len Brown wants a more inclusive Auckland he has to focus on increased representation not for Maori or even Pacific Islanders but "Asians". They are the true disenfranchised ethnic grouping in Auckland, not only in terms of population but in terms of economic power. Both Chinese and Indians contribute a great pool of rates and taxes (far greater than Pacific Islanders and Maori) and take minimal from welfare, they have to ask - what on earth they are getting in return for that?

Last Words on Henry *

Evil, nasty, horrible man


* will be back.

Great Supercity Result

Auckland gets a year before the general election to see precisely what a Labour government would do to New Zealand.

Look for:

- massive increases in spending
- massive increases in rates
- hideous pet-project spending

SpLENd Len SpLENd.

It was also a good dummy-run for the centre-right in terms of making sure they attract better and more electable candidates to the cause in 2011 at the general election and perhaps dare I say it, clean out some of the total liabilities running these campaigns who are using campaigning methods from the stone age. Anyone who thinks John Banks for example can win the Mayoralty of Auckland again needs to be taken away to a wee small room and isolated for several years. The dog has had its day. Banksy has the rest of his life to look forward to, doesn't need politics.

As has the old C & R brigade. Clean out your entire houses. The game is over. You need to remodel yourselves entirely, clear out the Board. I don't want to ever see the name Michelle Boag near a centre-right political campaign again either. Anyone responsible for excluding Cameron Brewer from the ticket in favour of the 170 year old you stood, also needs to go, as for endorsing Alex Swney, hello, love Alex, great marketing and promo guy, but politically he is just un-bloody electable.

Auckland really did get the Council they deserve. The new Supercity with the odd exception such as Jami-Lee Ross, Cameron Brewer and Michael Goudie (hot young chap but looks like he stands for completely nothing), ended up being a place where old pollie's have gone to die one last time at the trough. The roll of (dis)honour:

Arthur Anae (you have GOT to be completely joking)
Chris Fletcher (come on, naming her a right-leaning candidate!)
Richard Northey (come on!)
Penny Webster (former ACT MP more suited to the sticks)
Ann Hartley (who you ask?)

Then there is:

John Walker (looking more than ill with Parkinson's disease)
Len Brown (sufferer of a major heart attack)
Sandra Coney (I mean Waitakere how could you?)
Mike Lee (Mr Rail)

All and all an uninspiring bunch of old and unhealthy riff-raff there that sadly does seem to represent Auckland. One would hope they would be true to their collective past political performance and do absolutely nothing.

But Len Brown has already promised to make Auckland the most liveable city in the world with mass transit. A disaster pending when Auckland isn't big enough in population or small enough in geographics to sustain such a dream.

Thankfully Mark Ford is there along with other businessmen and women to monitor proceedings to let this bunch of spenders of other peoples money just the reality of the situation.

Let the circus commence.

Anyone But The Chinese

CURIA Poll: Foreign Investment Results Oct 2010-1

New Zealanders over the past few days have split their views about Paul Henry's comments in relation to in general Indians, but have a look at New Zealanders attitude to the Chinese.

In a poll commissioned by "evil Chinese giant" Natural Dairy, respondents had the choice of Australians, French, UK and America persons in which to sell farms to. And the Chinese.

Australians, the group most like New Zealanders polled 18% on the polarising extremely uncomfortable index. British on 23% and Americans on 27% then the French on 31% and miles ahead the Chinese on 41%.

The French was an interesting chuck-in to this poll designed to appeal to the rural audience I guess and incite them. The French you see are renowned for subsidies and have an historical place in rural New Zealand's shit books.

Another interesting result that in the section where people gave their opinion of restrictions on sale, despite Curia's and Whaleoil's commentary the results city and rural are pretty equal in their decision that only New Zealanders should be able to buy farms. Averaging around 65%.

I wonder what that poll would be like if home owning New Zealanders were given statistics of the amount of foreign owned private properties there are in New Zealand and then asked if New Zealanders should be able to only sell their homes to other New Zealanders? Therefore dropping their own home value as there would be a much narrower pool of buyers. "Other people's" syndrome would win the day. We want other New Zealanders to be forced to sell inhouse. We want the best price for ourselves!



Which brings me to Pansy Wong.

Many New Zealanders think they have a divine right to handwring and squeal when the right-wing, white middle class Paul Henry's of the world stand up and say something out of the box but for example Tim Selwyn has written some severely vile pieces about Chinese people, mocking Pansy Wong's accent for example. Something that like the colour of her skin, she just cannot change. As has Bomber.

Let me proceed here in Bomber's words:

The simple fact is she speaks shocking English and ridicule might be the last remaining tool to get her to lift her game. If you want to know what the English language sounds like when it's being murdered it's not Murray Mexted - it's Pansy Wong.

It's not just her accent - it is that she doesn't indicate plurals, she can't pronounce common English language sounds, she leaves words out etc. That goes way beyond accent. She has not MASTERED the language - and yet there she is in parliament, where the primary method of communication is speech, hurting people's ears.

You mean she doesn't speak talk like a "New Zealander" Bomber? Because I can understand her. Yes, it takes a little concentration, but so does it when I listen to the rough speaking, mumbling Pita Sharples or any Pacific Islander who hasn't refined a "Noo Zoolund" accent.

But because we are talking a Chinese lady here and more pertinently from a centre-right political party, she gets no protection from the hand-wringers after this abuse from their darling in the media, Bomber.

On Paul Henry deeming the current G-G not enough of a New Zealander we get this from Bomber :

Anand was was born and raised in Auckland for fucks sakes, it's Paul Henry's own ignorance he is illuminating the airwaves with for considering someone not white enough for his liking could not possibly be a NZer.

Fine. But not fine when Tim and yourself have made Pansy Wong's accent a topic of cheeky ridicule over the years because she speaks with a heavy Chinese accent that like her skin and family tree, she just cannot leave behind.



Pot, kettle, slack, chaps. Can't wait to hear the debate from Citizen A tonight as Tim, Bomber and David Slack talk "Paul Henry and TVNZ's response" where no doubt Tim and Bomber will claim by inference their own sainthood in the race relations area.

Basically Chinese immigrants in New Zealand and now those wanting to invest in New Zealand suffer from a racism by economic perception. Chinese = country larger and richer than us = weird people who can't play rugby = threat = bad. It's the same sort of racism by economic perception that Hone has towards Europeans. It's still racism, I am not complaining about it as we are at all times great piss-takers of others quirks, I am just adding to my point in the Paul Henry debate that racism is prevalent in New Zealand across everyone, so forget being holier than thou that you are not part of it.

But just when I thought New Zealand had run out of balanced commentary on the issue of Chinese ownership of farms, I stumbled across this piece from Richard Fyers including confirmation of what I have read here in China:

As well, Chinese companies and even individuals may not invest outside China without obtaining Chinese Government approval. The controls on outbound Chinese investment are far more complicated than their controls on inbound investment.

But the best piece of reality remains as to the productivity of this farmland and why New Zealand remains stagnate in terms of finding new ways to make farming returns more beneficial than the cost of capital invested. If farming is so productive and the most important contributor to the economy then why dont New Zealand productivity stats reflect this?

Most farmland in New Zealand is in the financial control of overseas bankers, who are keen to deleverage.

It is this simple fact as well as a large percentage of New Zealand residential property being similarly "p"wned offshore through banks, that makes a sensible person give up on even pretending New Zealand is or has been for a long time, owned by New Zealanders.

Update: Bomber has emailed me and posted this with an explanation the posts linked above were not his and it was Tim's work I will have to accept his word, given if you hit the links now the pages do not exist. I did double check the links before attributing his work and they were from Bomber.

The wonders of team effort blogs boys is that like team effort television, you have to accept each others work. Especially when apparently Tim was in jail at the time and Bomber was posting on his behalf. Well who remembers the precise Tim period when Tim was in jail? Bomber if you posted the comments then you have to accept that you condoned them as you had full control for what was going on.

It would be like Paul Henry saying in his defence "TVNZ made me say it".

Interesting Photos

What on earth is going on here Big Fella!!

* Pecuniary Interests Disclosure:- various unnamed sources will be buying me a long lunch in return for posting this.

** Link for pinching the photos... Check out other pictures from Tiger Tiger here. Fun company.

Focusing On The Important Things

Statcounter gives blog owners a record of the terms used in search to get to their blog. I often check it just for a giggle. One came up today that was worth mentioning:

"can I get the dole in ireland from nz"

Brilliant. I hope you can.

Sense Of Humour Post

As a believer in free speech, I shall give the Greenies a hand in disseminating this highly amusing ad. I give them a hand as Fongterra just so enjoy participating in open debate about their products don't they?

One glass of Anchor fatties blue top milk by the way rolls in at 100 mls 61 calories, half of those from fat. Therefore a 250 ml glass = 152 calories.

I hope the lady went on a long run.

Random Impertinent Question

Fran O'Sullivan has a look here at Allan Hubbard's PR fightback under the header "Hubbard's A-Team won't be cheap". We agree. Any professional worth their salt looking for a challenge would charge a premium for the lost cause attached and an extra risk-coefficient for the chance you will never get paid. Definitely a cash up-front job.

O'Sullivan in saying "ensure that other Hubbard teamsters - such as Clarke - stay off-limits to media" euphemistically describes Sue Wood's job as "keep Mai quiet".

O'Sullivan writes about Chen Palmer:

* Public law practitioners Chen Palmer. The Wellington-based lobbying firm recently circulated a letter to Commerce Minister Simon Power on behalf of 71 Hubbard investors asking him to terminate the statutory management of the Hubbard companies. The letter was copied to all other Cabinet ministers.

My question follows:

Did Mai charge time for one letter or did she charge time for 71 separate identical letters from each investor? Including the cc's.

Just asking.

Imprecision In Insult

From the below post on Paul Henry. Anonymous love:

Kate, you truly are a troglodyte. J.

Well stumped as to what possibly this word meant I googled it and found an entire story devoted to modern day troglodytes. Here is one in Tunisia. No sign of Dom Perignon or Bluff oysters is there? And she's wearing a myriad of stitched table cloths subserviently awaiting the arrival of her no doubt high-income provider of a husband:



These people were driven underground at Matmata (hehe) long ago in order to hide from invaders — and they grew to like it! With outside temperatures soaring well above 40C, the constant 17C temperature offered by their cave houses grew more and more attractive. So much so that when the government offered to rehouse them in modern houses, the majority of the Tunisian troglodytes preferred to remain in their cave dwellings.

The simple life these people lead is reflected in their simple possessions. It can make a possession-rich Westerner fell quite humble when these simple and happy people offer you a drink from the little they have.

The closest we have in New Zealand to troglodytes really are state house tenants. But at least troglodytes don't appear to be bludging so much off the taxpayer as they refuse to move into houses with Sky TV.

Problem is, if middle-class white male Paul Henry insulted someone on Breakfast TV by calling them a troglodyte, there would most likely be a Broadcasting Standards complaint from some twat like anonymous "J" and outrage among beneficiary groups saying he is insulting the poor/ethnics again wouldn't there?

Handwringers Add To Paul Henry Phenomenon

This picture was taken just a week ago by Norrie from The A List. Paul Henry the recipient of a popularity contest voted for mainly by magazine reading middle-aged and elderly women.

I don't really care what Paul Henry says on television. He has his job for a good reason. He is good at it in a market where very few are. His Boss went all classic SOE soft-cock on him today and suspended him.

Henry is now a victim of the white middle-class male bashing machine that exists so prevalently in New Zealand. David Garrett had his turn a few weeks ago, now everyone hand-wringer has forgotten that and Henry's been subjected to similar lynching. Lynch the white middle-class man, especially those with right-wing tendencies. Simple. Henry even earned a Minto/McCarten protest special today. How rare is that?

Red Alert has desperately tried to link Henry to the National Party as he was a former candidate. Taito Field was a former Labour MP. Enough said. "Grunt" Robertson calls Henry very quickly a "former National Party candidate". Trevor Mallard then repeated this, they then tried to bring John Key into it. Apparently Key was meant to stop the interview and walk off? Or put him over his knee and spank him?

If Henry was a Maori MP we know he could have said pretty much anything he wanted and escaped sanction. Witness Honest Hone.

If Henry was a gay male Labour MP we know he could have done anything he wanted and then rather than facing discipline, he would be able to call in for two months paid sick leave.

If Henry was a female, well lets face it, he wouldn't have said it as females on TV in NZ are employed to look good and be as dull as dishwater.

If Henry was a pinko of Indian descent he'd have name suppression for suspected electoral fraud.

If he was a Maori radio announcer he would be allowed to be as cheeky as he likes. JT and Willie for heaven's sake? Hone is allowed according to Willie to say whatever he likes as Maori are the only ones voting for him. "Advance positions to the nth degree to fire up opinion" says JT that's what they do. even calls homosexuals "homos" on this TV3 piece as they both carry on calling Jewish people "jews". No complaining about that from the handwringers. As JT and Willie are nowhere near white or middle-class enough.

The Governor General is only the Queen's bitch sitting in New Zealand. A servant of the German inbreds who are currently UK's largest single family of welfare beneficiaries. Past Governor Generals are listed here. Head nodders. Of which the current Governor General presents as the ultimate kiss arsing tame head-nodder acceptable to all political parties for being no one of any major opinion. The position by thinking people doesn't really deserve adulation as Dame Cath Tizard has held it, instantly devaluing it. In accepting the position after years of service as a tame likable ethnically diverse head-nodder working in Government appointed positions, Satyanand embarrassed himself more than Henry in making this comment.

Since 1985 when David Beattie left the post, there has been just one term that of Michael Hardie Boys when the position hasn't been held by a woman, a Maori or now Satyanand, dare we call him someone of "Fijian Indian descent". We know that the next Governor General will in all likelihood not be a white middle-class male. The position has now developed into a token one for matronly looking women and ethnics.

The Governor General is historically a head nodding white male establishment position that ironically for the past 9 years has been held by either a woman or those of lets say "non European" extraction. Quite why anyone would accept it mystifies me other than they too wish to be controlled under a regime of inbred Germans who are the largest known welfare beneficiaries of the UK. If offered, no self-respecting person, especially those of non-European ethnicity should accept it for what the position now represents - years of alleged oppression that many say they have spent their life fighting against. But of course they will accept it as they get a flash car, title, driver, security and one last time to not only feed off the trough but to fill it up with French bubbles and swim in it.

The real issue is not what the Governor General looks like or whether they even are a New Zealander.

It's why the hell New Zealand has to have one in the first place?

So Paul Henry you deserve your two week rest, go off to Europe for a nice holiday with the latest woman you are shagging and tell the hand-wringers to go fuck themselves as they now enjoy in your place a solid contender for the world's most boring man, Rawdon Christie and wait for it - Paul Holmes.

New Nano - Another Apple FAIL!

I post this for public service purposes as I am expecting this to be a weakness with this generation of Nano. Google the issue and this will come up.

This is the new Apple Nano


Large hold button on top right hand corner - already broken. It is nice to make something this small with only three buttons but the unit has reached critical mass for smallness. It's now just too fragile.

I've only had the thing a few weeks so fortunately there is probably no refurbished one for them to replace it with as the buttons cannot be repaired as the unit doesn't come apart. Yes, to my shock and horror Apple are now giving you a refurbished model of these toys if you send it in the warranty period. Shameful.

Hick-ups a Plenty

Bernard Hickey has been taking the strange pills lately. Some of you have commented in wishing for me to counter-post as you take it as an affront to the political right. And then there is this from of course none other than Bomber. Not PC had a pretty good chop last week.

Thing is, Bernard is a repeater and sometimes journalist. He launched a rather curious one man crusade over the past years attempting to talk down the housing market. Remember it was going to fall 30%? Then 15% Then 10%. He's not right wing or left wing, not capitalist or socialist. For him to say he has lost faith in markets is a bit like saying I have lost faith in Liverpool winning the Premiership this year. I never actually had it in the first place. Hickey's place in the business media is like the "Paul Henry" of the genre. His self-imposed role is to stir thought and comment hitting New Zealanders love of housing, poor savings records and low wages. Specialising in his readership of interest.co.nz - borrowers and savers. Like anyone who can explain complex financial terms to dumb-arses, he exercises a reasonable amount of power in the medium.

Bernard has five just genius ideas titled "5 ways NZ can control its currency and capital flows to boost productive activity and exports while reducing debt".

I think this says it all as to where Bernard's head is currently at. I cannot add anything else to it.

There is a standout comment there in rebut.

Wendyttle - Coming to a Town Near You!

Archive Wendyttle family photo

High Tea with Wendyl

Bless here is your opportunity to meet Wendyttle in person where I assume the female side will wow you into buying her latest 302 page $29.95 epic - A Home Companion. It's out in bookstores this Wednesday 6th October. The perfect gift for Christmas for anyone with a mother who is just as batty as batshit.



I shall give her a free plug, because I have mercilessly taken the piss out of her all year. She will be the one out the front driving in the Silver Prius Hybrid sponsored by Giltrap City Toyota.

Auckland, Sunday 31 October, 2 to 4pm at the Heritage Hotel Auckland
Tickets are $65 and include high tea, a glass of bubbles and tea and coffee.

Wonder if there will be chicken with those egg club sandwiches.

Sniffing The "P" Rort

The more I read about the effects of meth or "P" the more I think it is nature's way of some natural selection in the middle-upper classes. There are too many people in the world taking up too much space. We can afford to lose a few and it's only fair that the dumb ones get off first.

How much time and effort is needed to prove that "P" is bad and if you take it then by now you go in with your eyes open and deserve every negative consequence that results?

In an effort to make the middle and upper classes care more about the effects of "P" the Herald on Sunday was full of "P" today. Another "P" theme. Problem is it doesn't make us flinch at all. We've seen these people in our own social circles, we read it, roll our eyes and turn the page. We all know better now when someone is doing "P" and stay the fuck away from them. The path of self-destruction is quick, hard and fast.

A D-grade lawyer whinging about how "P" destroyed his life. No, having a sack of shit job killed your will to live, "P" replaced that and you destroyed your own life.

A lawyer so hopeless that he used a stolen credit card to pay for his Law Society membership.

"One illegal credit card payment even went to pay for his Law Society membership".

Fortunately the Law Society has side-lined him for being a dumb arse. Forget being a P-head, I would red card him alone for life for using the credit card to pay for his Law Society membership. He stuffed up his life, but at least he had a life. Most P users are never that successful to start with. But that makes for bad Sunday tabloid fodder.

P is blamed for a sex blackmail case in Rotorua. Without P this chump would have just picked something else to blame the blackmail on.

Paul Holmes has a whole column to Keisha Castle-Hughes. Keisha isn't on "P" but plenty of her dumb arse friends have been. There's apparently going to be a film made about "P". Wonderful. And I guess NZ on Air will fund the promotion for "P". Holmes is delighted. I don't know why? He really should get on with the rest of his life.

The Minger has a story also on Keisha, who is a recovering alcoholic. Poor Keisha. More poor Millie.

Anyway I guess "P" sells newspapers on a Sunday. The only problem I have with "P" is that the government doesn't just give up policing it and build secure armed facilities to regulate, legalise and sell it themselves. Think of the revenue in that? Profits overnight would smash gangs who rely on the income.

It seems to be the most sensible thing to clear the gangs out, the "bad" meth and the constant drain on taxpayers funds to "clean up P" by those ambulance chasers such as film makers, gangs who have decided they wish to help (another rort given it is no secret that they all sell and manufacture it) and of course the rehab facilities. They all seem to be run by questionable criminal sorts who have their hands in every pie already, the counsellors are all dodgy crim set types. It makes you wonder where the money is actually going. Or whether like the major US banks, it's merely a hedge against their customers. Pita Sharples floats up occasionally to lend his five cents worth. They are all losing, losing and losing. Chest-beating from the Stellar Trust about how well they are doing is just unbelievable.

New Zealand has come out with an almost dis-belief of the "P" situation. The belief being that New Zealand is more special than other countries but it is not special, New Zealand does not have a meth problem because it is just like everywhere in the world - people everywhere consume drugs. New Zealanders just don't have a good choice of less anti-social, drugs like cocaine. Flood a market with cheap coke and demand for "P" would go, especially from recreational and start-up users.

I am facing "P" apathy. The only problem with the drug is that it doesn't kill its consumers fast enough. "P" users are boring. The recovering addicts are even more boring.

If you want to die just do us all a favour would you and find something quicker and less expensive?

You aren't special. You took "P" because you didn't give a shit. Stop bothering us that we have to as well.

Poster Child For What Is Wrong

So very much is wrong here....

"I couldn't believe it but I sort of had a feeling, though. I used to look at women with twins and think you are so lucky - now I have three sets," she said.

Lucky? No "lucky" is all those good women who medically cannot have children or find it difficult to conceive with a partner, having a child. That is lucky. This woman is just a future DPB breeding machine. Having her first lot 10 years ago at age 21, the next lot 2 years ago at age 29. The only thing this woman is good at is breeding.

Coping with the sets is not easy. She is on a sickness benefit and her partner of nine years, Wiremu Kokiri, is a hands-on dad while he looks for work.

Hmm...."coping" denotes there was no choice in the matter. The first set of children are 10 and she's been with Wiremu for nine. Closing one's legs or the use of contraception is always a choice. Especially when her hyper-fertility has been proven.

The couple are hoping Housing New Zealand will find them a bigger house, but they are not in the top priority queue.

Hoping? This is all this couple will ever do. Hope. Hope that the taxpayer will keep funding their lifestyle. Hope that their kids will be looked after by the State and taxpayers because they sure as hell cannot.

"We are on a low income so we live on the basics. I am on the sickness benefit for my fibromyalgia [muscle and joint pain which leads to weakness in joints]. I have to have cortisone injections but I still get numb fingers and pins and needles. I am on the waiting list to get an operation," she said.

No, you are not on a "low income". You have NO income and it sounds like neither of you have had any income for a long time. Net beneficiaries for life this couple. Any income they have is 100% reliant on the taxpayer.

This is precisely why being a mother cannot be compared to a job in the workforce. This woman now has six children that she is enjoying playing mother to. Giving her the only purpose in her life. An activity that takes up so much energy and stress, yes. Her "fibromyalgia" allows her to be a mother to three sets of twins but she can't get off her arse and get a job. And why would she? Fibromyalgia is basically a condition that doesn't cure itself but a tag given when the medics haven't a clue what's actually wrong with you. I have been diagnosed with it at University, as did many contemporaries of mine who spent hours studying hunched over a desk. It was the "in" diagnosis at the time. The issue being that you have to ignore the diagnosis, harden the fuck up and deal with it. Having six children would hardly help controlling the symptoms if you actually had the condition. The cause of this woman's fibromyalgia may be long hours stuck in one position watching daytime television.

Usually astute tabloid journalist Carolyne Meng-Yee did not ask or investigate the one thing everyone should be asking, how much money is the taxpayer spending on these eight net beneficiaries for life?

So this is:

- sickness benefit
- "partner" who doesn't work
- on a wait list at housing NZ for an even larger house
- on a wait list in the public health system for an operation for a questionable illness
- a high user of the community card and GP system

Any system that allows such a demographic to breed, and then turns around and encourages them to keep having children over a period of a decade that they cannot afford, really deserves the outcome it gets. More welfarism.

The fact of the matter is that this couple are better not to work in the current system. They would have to have an income they will never receive while working to actually "earn" more than they are being given by the taxpayer for popping out more children. Minger claims that the Treena is on a sickness benefit but that contradicts earlier media reports that before the babies were born she was planning to go back to work as a "caregiver". I back Minger's reporting. If this woman is medically unfit to work looking after someone else and be compensated with a sickness benefit then how the hell can she look after six children?

These children are born into welfare. Children with stuff all hope of doing any better than their parents. With the current welfare system there is no other thing for the poor taxpayer to do but chalk up the fact that they will be slaving their guts out to pay for the lives of the SFNS (silly first name syndromed) family from hell:

Sharaz & Shaqiel
Daklan & Darius
Kramer & Kelly

I can't see how the New Zealand taxpayer will ever get a return from this family. The country would be better off writing them a cheque for one's years welfare as a sort of redundancy (non-returnable passage on the passport) and shipping them permanently to a country that can afford to keep them - Australia.

Both Labour and National policies have already written this family off because it makes it nearly impossible with the "carrot" system in place that this family will ever get off welfare. It's time for some "stick" to balance the "hug a benny" policies of the past and try a new approach. Making families like this comply with a policy of affordability in their family planning.