The Christchurch City Council has great assets: Red Bus Ltd, Lyttelton Port Company, Orion and Christchurch airport, all owned by Canterbury citizens through their council, as Eugenie Sage describes in her post here. Eugenie believes, and she is not alone in her thinking, that the Government, through the huffy protestations of Gerry Brownlee, is softening up the citizens of Christchurch and beyond, for their very own fire sale of treasured assets. Starting with a not so subtle undermining of public confidence in the Council, in the same way they shaped public opinion over the Ecan Council, National's big men are sheeting all sorts of blame and accusation to the councillors of the CCC. No doubt they are enjoying the spectacle of the people of Christchurch rounding on the CE as well - grist to the mill, that sort of churn.
It will be interesting to see if Cantabrians can be fooled twice. There were vocal protests when National strong-armed Ecan out of the way. I wonder what will surface if they try it again?
Friday, February 10, 2012
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Many thanks for the heads up re. the patsy speeches Robert. It's an indication of how thin real talent is in the Government when the demonstrably unstable Brownlee carries the can for one fiasco after another. This is the guy who once prompted Don "differently abled" Brash on when to stand, sit and genuflect in parliament, and who collapsed into a heap of blubbery resentment when faced with 50,000 anti-mining protesters.
Who plots these courses I wonder, Joe?
They're certainly racking up some wins.
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