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If you read Bob Jones' letter-as in an earlier post-you will see that Key has an option, IF he has the balls to follow it through. He has painted himself into a corner with his deal with the Maori party,the only way out of it is to call an election . He would piss in if the issue was one of 'who owns NZ' but he won't do it. A total disappointment in my opinion,and I was one of those who voted for him.

Dead right. On the question of accountability and costs, now would be a good time for the cost of salaries and 'fee's etc to be publicised. Some of these are able to be sourced in the public domain and would cause a measure of embarassment if revealed.

I understand that the numbers in the Premier sale are being reduced, that will explain why it there will be downgrades in the Select and Festival sales.

Last week the Herald published a 'letter' to John Key from our northern racist. Amongst other things he said something like...'the Waitangi Tribunal has now come out in favour of Maori over water rights'etc etc...well well well, when did the Waitangi Tribunal find for anyone else other then Maori hone? And he also mentioned the obesity,drunkenness,addiction to tobacco/drugs/meth etc and of course laid that at the feet of the 'white mahhhfuggers'. Well, I've been around a while and have yet to see anybody holding a gun to the head of any Maori forcing them to drink/smoke/eat pies etc...just another rant but as usual he gets away with saying crap publicly which anyone else would find themselves in the crap with the PC brigade over.

Peter,just like to say that I enjoy reading your posts, thanks for the effort.Very interesting.

Claude, you may recall a few years ago that offensive Tama iti dickhead came on TV and said...'we gonna be your landlords!" Well, looking at the latest gift from the Govt that statement is coming true. It won't be long before we have to pay to go onto a National Park river, lake,beach..don't anyone think it won't happen..because it is.

Thats a sound idea Gruff. The problem now is that there is too much room for personal opinion by handicappers. If there was a rule, say a maiden race,runs third,this many points-no argument. Won't work in every situation but surely in maiden and lower class racing it cannot be that hard.

So using your logic, I take it your view would be that a woman contributes to a case of rape because she is a woman?

James has appealed and will be riding under a stay of proceedings until the appeal is heard.

why would violence be inevitable? there are a few radical Maori and those who have been brainwashed into thinking they are entitled to anything that moves/breathes etc but in the main the Maori engineering the current crap are young,educated people feeding on the Treaty trough. These people have never known anything other than the grievance industry ( how sad is that) and probably aren't motivated to anything 'physical'. If the rest of the country just roll over and 'take it up..' then we get what we deserve.

Thats a harsh penalty and he should,and probably will appeal it. However it looks like the writing is on the wall in the battle between stipes/riders over the ditch?

Opo I look forward to you organising a protest march, the theme should be 'no more bullshit, stop now!' I will be the first to line up,so please let us know when and where?

Stick: While it is a given that you have ties in Auckland, have you ever considered basing yourself in another environment, i.e. Victoria/NSW,HK or Singapore? You would have had a good look around while campaiging Sunline and I've wondered why you don't have a shot somewhere else?

I hope Key doesn't lose his .....lls over this. there's an old saying that 'you reap what you sow', and in spite of being a fan of his over most issues, I and a ,lot of people believe he has been un'necessarily cosy with the Maori party. Think on this, so far in the past 12 months Maori party politicians have been pushing for higher tobacco taxes and no smoking in public; higher acohol taxes and raising age to buy liquor, reducing pokie venues and stopping anyone benefiting from pokie profit who doesn't have some connection to Maori, stopping the sale of Govt assets unless Maori get free shares in them first.....the list goes on...these are factual matters, nothing racist so don't even bother saying there is.