Brodie

Sorry Happy, I am on the money. When you have one person in a so-called democracy making all the decisions without consultation from any of the other ministers or caucus, then that is dictating and not democracy at all. Even the lockdown that was enforced appears as it was illegal. They are all scared of her, things are starting to unravel for her and whether Winston and The Greens are going to continue to accept this total control is debateable. Happy, have you read the article about her gagging every minister and everything now has to go thru her?..

You are correct Chief. You run a fair site for everyone to have their say. But seriously, for someone to come on here and say that the lockdown is not goi g to cause anyone any financial hardship is just incomprehensible! We are already seeing people being made redundant in big no.s and there will be heaps more over the next few months, and then he is OK with the prime minister running a dictatorship?

Mardigras, it is not a democracy at the moment if you have got the prime minister dictating to her ministers and the country. There is something wrong people if they think that what Ardern is currently doing is fine! Dont really think too many would want to be like China, but if we allow this to happen it will be problematic for everyone. If she has no confidence in her ministers to speak then they should be demoted!!

Of course I am not a fan of Labour, as they have not done a single decent thing for the benefit of the country since they have been in power since they had to have 3 loser parties amalgamate to lead!!! If I thought they were doing a good job I would be happy for the country. Mardigras, what is your opinion of your prime minister running a dictatorship????

To the sheep that follow Ardern! What is your opinion to the fact that your esteemed leader has put a gagging order on all of her ministers? That is right, she has told all of her ministers not to comment to anyone about Civd19!!!! I used to think that we were a democratic country but clearly we are not under this current government!!! Clearly Ardern has a lot of confidence in her fellow ministers, or is it just that she wants total control over everyone and that is what you get with a Socialist government! Some of you may want to to live under a dictatorship, but I don’t and I won’t!! She is very dangerous and has to go

Lockdown is causing most people some grief if they have got something to lose! The fallout from the lockdown is going to be horrific for many and I know it has not been handled very well by the government over the last couple of weeks. Personally I don’t need to reskill or retrain for anything, we are fortunate that we have not suffered as a result of the lockdown financially and only have to answer to my wife. Dont give a rats about what is happening in Sweden as it doesn’t concern NZ, and do get a bit sick of people quoting what is happening overseas as it is totally irrelevant to what is happening in NZ which is an Island and hasn’t had a single death due to Covid19.

Mardigras, you won’t be going to all the Mardigras around the world this year then? Just keep safe, take precautions!

Because of the lockdown. The Covid19 strain we have in Australasia is clearly not as devastating as many countries overseas and where they have an aged population. We have had 160,000 or more tests and not one single death of anyone under 60 and those over had underlying issues. We can all agree to disagree and this is very divisive. The reality is that there is going to be a helluva lot more deaths due to the actions of being locked up and effing the economy. Watched PaulMurray last night on Sky and the Expert on mental health over there is expecting an extra 1500 deaths per year for the next 5 years due to suicide!!

Chief, not sure if I am allowed to, but can I personally state that Mardigras is an absolute fruit loop of the highest order? Think lockdown has affected him badly, he is all over the place and delusional!

No idea who he is, as I don’t read much on the gallops forum! I am a bit more worried by his name!,

You are taking the piss!,

Mardigras, if you don’t think that this lockdown is not having any affect on the economic system and people’s financial situation, then it is not worth debating with you. Most people in Nz are being screwed! I suggest that you watch a bit of TV. You clearly have lost the plot and must be taking the piss!!!!!

You are kidding aren’t you? You don’t think the lockdown has had an affect on the economy???? Think I would be changing your name if I was you or some might get ideas?

The ones that think that the government has done a great job and are also still scared to leave their house will tend to be people that have not got a lot to lose. A business owner that is losing everything will not be thinking the same as the sheep that follow her every word. Under level 2 you have to still have the social distancing of 2 metres and yet kids are allowed to go to school with no social distancing??? if it was such a killer virus why are kids allowed at school with no distancing???? I think some people might change their minds when their employer comes to them and gives them the don’t come Monday and they join the Jobseeker line!!

Chief, you are wasting your time arguing with the sheep that think that Ardern has done everything perfectly. The truth is that Ardern, Bloomfield and the media scared the living daylights out of people that are very easily led to believe. Yes Ardern did do some things correctly, but the government has done a helluva lot poorly, including acting illegally in locking us up and having the NZ Police charging people when they had absolutely no right to do so. These charges have to be dropped ASAP! The clown that they listened to in regards to the modelling as to how many would die should never be listened to again. what an absolute dick! In Oz they were told up to 150,000 could die and yet they have had under 100 and they were oldies that were vulnerable with issues. The reality is that there will be heaps of people now with mental health issues that didn’t have any before and will include suicides unfortunately. Ardern is not a leader, she is a trained speaker Socialist with extremely dangerous ideology. She has stated that this was an opportunity to close the gap of inequality in NZ! That is the sign of a very dangerous person in a very powerful position.

Very interesting that this government of NZ has had us all in lockdown ILLEGALLY! How can anyone now have any respect for them and Ardern should stand down immediately!!!! All that have been charged will have to have the charges dropped!

Chief, the thing that I have realised since we have been in Home Detention is that I realise that we had more woolly sheep in Nz than gumans but I didn’t realise that we also had so many two legged human sheep without the wool!!!! Too many people are prepared to just go with the flow and not question anything and I will not apologise for not being a socialist and being led by a control freak! Spoke to a bloke yesterday that made a delivery to us and he thought Ardern was great! I asked why he thought that and he said he had never had such a pay rise before as he was obviously talking about the minimum pay rate that was happening! Apart from that he was at a loss as to what of benefit this government had done for NZ and he did admit that the ones around her were not the best. We have supposedly a Mr Twyford who is the Minister for Economic Development who is going to be in charge of pulling NZ out of this mess that we are in financially, and yet we haven’t seen or heard from him as to what his plan was! Seems like our Prime Minister can do no wrong in the eyes of the flock of sheep that think she is great, so god we do need some serious help! If stating the truth and not being a sheep is being grumpy in some people’s eyes, I will take that any day over being one of the flock of sheep!

Basil, firstly for some reason you originally mentioned personnel costs and you clearly were publishing wrong figures. Secondly no I don’t believe everything I read, but what I do know is that there will be that many people employed by the CCC on big money that add nothing to the CHRISTCHURCH scene. I can only quote what someone from the media has researched and what figure to believe is always hard to grasp as the figures quoted by the CCC are never accurate. cost overruns on everything and delays. Mega dollars blown on bloody cycle lanes at the expense of business

Ffs, Ranga. What is your point? Purdon was not a dominant player with winners at Greymouth!

Basil, think you need to do better research. Brodster on the money as usual. Article yesterday states that 25% of CCC employees on over $100k and wages Bill now 40% of operating expenses. Apology from you is accepted!!

Ranga, go and take your pills and then lights out before the nurses come around!

Basil, fact check! what are you on about personnel expenses? Talking about salaries have gone up to about 40% of operating costs now, not personal expenses!!! Baxendale came over to Nz to be on a salary of $500k plus as far as I can remember anyway 495 k is pretty close to $500k if she didn’t start on over 500k plus we paid heaps for transfer expenses

If they can justify these salaries of at least $2k per week then haven’t got a problem, however I would be pretty confident to say that most of them would be doing next to nothing to justify at least $100k! These big wigs are on the gravy train and because they are grossly overpaid, then they don’t mind that others are being paid too much. Then things get a bit hard and they want the taxpayer to help them out??? Earn your exorbitant salaries or piss off!

Just heard on TV1 news that RITA are going to be making 230 odd people redundant! Apart from salary cuts and spending savings it was not going to be enough to offset the drop in wagering. Will be very interesting to see what the jobs at RITA are that are being gotten rid of? Will the big wigs take a salary cut, of course not because they have got rid of 230 jobs that perhaps were t needed anyway! Read the other day that 25% of CHRISTCHURCH City Council workers were on in excess of $100k and the wages Bill was something like 40% of the expenses of the council, no wonder our rates have increased incredibly over the last few years. These companies that are paid by the taxpayer and ratepayers just don’t seem to have any qualms about ripping the people that pay their salaries off!!!! The Accountant or someone along that line at the CCC that came from England is on well in excess of $500k or $10k per week?????

Always Kevin to people that knew him well!