Reining in the harlots

The Government is right to ignore the clamour to revisit our prostitution laws in the aftermath of a harlot’s murder in Christchurch.

The city council down there – would you believe? – has a prostitution bylaw subcommittee.

Pig pong and foregone profit

Where there’s muck, there’s money, they say in Yorkshire. And in this country, where there’s pong, there’s profit. Until the bloody neighbours bleat about wanting to smell roses, not pigs or mushrooms, and local authorities conspire to shut you down.

Finsec can bank on Alf

We don’t normally take kindly to trade union whining, in the Northern Wairarapa. But if the bank workers’ union, Finsec, reckons I can flex a bit of political muscle for them down at the Department of Labour (which I can), it should come and have a natter with me.

Fanworm and clean bottoms

They’re a caustic bunch, the Parliamentary Press Gallery, and fanworm is the sort of thing they feed on. My mate David Carter today made an important announcement about biosecurity, bugs and all that stuff, and it didn’t take long before one of the hacks was showing off his prowess in the scoffing department.

Moving and shaking in Mangamaire

Talking about the Government’s broadband push (which I mentioned in my first posting), let’s hear it for the Tararua District Council. As reported in the Manawatu Standard, it has taken on the might of Telecom “with the launch of its own groundbreaking high-speed broadband connection throughout the district.”

Why I am blogging

Things have come to a pretty pass when the hacks in the Parliamentary Press Gallery ignore the brilliant oratory and carefully reasoned press statements from the long-serving and much-admired Member for Eketahuna North.

The bloody Dominion-Post hasn’t had a word to say about me (good, bad or indifferent) since that unfortunate incident