Council removes illegal signs
The Auckland Council has been removing signs that do not comply with their bylaws. It seems Jacinda not only put her signs up too early, but they were twice as large as the maximum size allowed, so the Council has started to remove them.
This is the sign that was up at Western Park on Ponsonby Road. This is arguably the most high profile public site in Auckland Central.
And this is what is there now, a blank space.
Why does Labour keep having such a problem obeying laws and bylaws? They are not that complicated, especially a maximum size restriction.
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October 1st, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I think they took it down because people were confused as to why they should vote for a horse.
“Jacinda.” Great working class name.
[DPF: 50 demerits]
October 1st, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Well what does one expect from “the daughter that Hulun never had?”
You just watch her. She’s a Hulun clone. You follow her career. You’ll see.
The most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen was a You-Tube of her on stage in garters and suspenders at a night rally during an International Youth Conference somewhere in the Nordic nations.
She’s weird, just like Hulun is.
October 1st, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Graeme will be along soon to ask if the fines for breaking sign laws should be included as election expenses.
October 1st, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Good god how incredibly arrogant and stupid are you lefties? Sorry noddy, the laws DO apply to you.
Idiots.
When labour gets the impression that their voters are also idiots, they may well be right.
October 1st, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Nice photo, though.
@reid, could I have a link to that video, please?
October 1st, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Rodders
You are welcome to it.
October 1st, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Rodders
She might look more human than the clarkenfuhrer. This is only skin deep underneath the Cheshire cat grin is another “thing”
October 1st, 2011 at 12:44 pm
The stencil typeface is interesting. I wonder what they’re hoping to convey by using it…
October 1st, 2011 at 12:44 pm
How much are these Labour faux pas costing your average union member in wasted membership fees?
October 1st, 2011 at 12:45 pm
ps, is that a Green’s sign in the 2nd photo?
October 1st, 2011 at 12:50 pm
They made signs that were twice as big as the bylaw. My goodness.
October 1st, 2011 at 12:56 pm
@Reid
That must have been at her opening speech at the the International Union of Socialist Youth in Hungary.
(For Rodders)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmQo7n5rPwQ
October 1st, 2011 at 1:06 pm
“Why does Labour keep having such a problem obeying laws and bylaws? They are not that complicated, especially a maximum size restriction.”
A very fair question. It’s quite simple really … sheer arrogance.
Labour MPs know exactly what they’re doing. In this case, Auckland Central candidates received specific and official legal advice as to exactly what was allowed and not allowed to happen with hoardings. They deliberately chose to break the law.
An inept campaign beginning to what has been an historically read seat. Good luck even trying to take it off Nikki now. Yeah, nah.
October 1st, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Thanks Other_Andy (pity that the camera is so unsteady
)
October 1st, 2011 at 1:14 pm
The socialists appear to believe they are above the law, don’t they?
The pathetic Labour Party shows the same arrogance and disregard for others, trademarks of its former leader, comrade Clark.
October 1st, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Thank you Andy, most appreciated.
October 1st, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Does anyone know who this Campbell Larsen guy is who made the disgusting comment is? Has he a position within Labour.
October 1st, 2011 at 1:29 pm
That woman is as mad as the Dear One. She’s mad, quite mad, God forbid people like her ever get to enforce their lunatic ideas and values on our society. Bloody hell we escaped by the skin of teeth from the last lot of ideological fruitcakes.
October 1st, 2011 at 1:35 pm
@CB
Posted a few days ago….
RightNow (3,195) Says:
September 27th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Mr Campbell Larsen (the extra): http://www.kamtalent.com/profile.aspx?id=20944
October 1st, 2011 at 1:54 pm
Looking at the few Labour signs around there seems to have been a deliberate decision ‘don’t mention Goff’.
Great when your Party turns its back to its Leader.
October 1st, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Sucks even more when the voting public turn their backs on your party Ross.
October 1st, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Beware that this hulun clone is the daughter of a Senior Police Officer. You would think that she would know right from wrong.. But wait she stands for Labour. Own goal.
October 1st, 2011 at 2:17 pm
@Chuck Bird.
Campbell Larsen is an almost-albino who worked at the old Waitakere City Council. Not sure if he survived the supercity reforms. Funny old thing, he was educated at the bourgeois and elitist St Kentigern College back in the day. Obviously the values based education found in private schools aren’t guaranteed to work for everyone. His parent would have wasted a small fortune though.
October 1st, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Feel bad saying this but the amount she spends on teeth whitening would drag a dozen families out of poverty.
[DPF: 30 demerits. No comments on personal appearances please]
October 1st, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Pongo
Pity she did not spend the same amount on getting the bloody things fixed.
October 1st, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Look DPF; we’ve been over and over this. Laws and by-laws only apply to other people, not the Labour Party. You’re just being churlish by trying to hold Labour to account to the same standards as everyone else
October 1st, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Had to make a trip over the hill (Rimutaka) this morning & had a chance to observe the political signage on display in various Wairarapa towns. Labour are playing it safe locally….they’ve bombed Featherston with the red rubbish but not much elsewhere, the Maori & Green parties’ hoardings are sparse yet well positioned but John Keys’ happy smile beams out from countless well placed signs.
The only thing thankfully missing, to date, are the expected hoardings pushing our incumbent MP, the plonker John Hayes. No doubt this delight is still to come but I thought that the pompous one would have been out imposing his face on the Wairarapa populace even if he had to put the signs up alone by torchlight.
October 1st, 2011 at 4:46 pm
Will Labour’s decline to third party status take two or three more electoral cycles? Which trade unions will defect to the Greens first? I guess then it will be Co-Leaders of the Opposition.
cheers
David Prosser
October 1st, 2011 at 4:57 pm
“[DPF: 50 demerits]”
What I meant to say is “I think they took it down because people were confused as to why they should vote for some who looks like Sarah Jessica Parker.”
October 1st, 2011 at 5:24 pm
I never did get how we were all supposed to think Sarah Jessica Parker is ‘sexy’, she isn’t, she just isn’t, and that is all there is to it.
October 1st, 2011 at 5:27 pm
ps, is that a Green’s sign in the 2nd photo?
Yes Fletch, and like DPF said, nothing but a blank space
October 1st, 2011 at 6:05 pm
They should put a picture of her at that meeting in Hungary on the sign.
October 1st, 2011 at 6:32 pm
If I got the chance to chose between Jacinda Ardern and SJP, it’d be Jacinda all the way.
I agree with Shunda, SJP is disgusting. Her face looks like an old leather shoe with an ugly nose.
October 1st, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Sad, sad comments on this post.
First, you have to be a real political fanatic to get too excited about the size of signs.
Second, attacking someone’s looks or photo is about as low as you can go. I happen to think Jacinta is gorgeous – she is welcome to make a pass at me any time! That has no bearing on whether or not I might vote for her as a parliamentarian.
Lets stick to issues. There is not exacltly a shortage of these.
October 1st, 2011 at 6:47 pm
No Phil Goff on the billboard. Labour cannot win elections with an unpopular Leader. Nothing about party vote either, she is trying to get back the seat. This seat contains some of the richest real-estate in NZ. I do not think this is Labour country any more.
October 1st, 2011 at 8:26 pm
‘” First, you have to be a real political fanatic to get too excited about the size of signs.”
It’s not actually the size of the signs. Nor is it really the day that they were put up. It is more the fact that Labour is of the view that it can do whatever it wants, whenever it wants and doesn’t really give a toss that it is breaking the law. This is not a one-off. It happens constantly and Labour does not give a tinker’s cuss. The culture of this party, as evidenced over the last 12 years, is actually quite scary.
October 1st, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Nookin
Aren’t the regulations governing dimensions of hoardings & the size of the writing based on road safety issues? If so Labour are not just ignoring a petty law (which doubtlessly they had a hand in writing) but also putting members of the public at risk.
October 1st, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Lazybum….
Racist, stereotyping and completely inappropriate.
Your comments will go down well at the Standard.
Why not join your like-minded bigots there?
October 1st, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Lazybum @ 8.00pm. A more appropriate name might be lazyscum. The pits.
October 1st, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Nasska
in my neck of the woods road safety is certainly the primary criterion when it comes to road side signs. I can’t imagine that it would be any different elsewhere. I am not sure that road safety is in the labour party thesaurus. Remember the Stop (asset sales) signs which littered the roadscape? But then, they might argue, no-one was killed were they?
October 1st, 2011 at 8:58 pm
It’s the usual left thing. Laws apply to other people, not to them. They’re all in favour of passing laws to stop people living their lives the way they want, but when it comes down to it, they point out that the law is stupid and insignificant, and really they shouldn’t be obliged to follow it.
October 1st, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Rodders & Andy – get a sense of humour, after all I am half Irish. LABOUR GO ON ABOUT kEY’S JEWISHNESS.
I am not racist BUT I am glad I am white.
October 1st, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Lazybum
I think you need to reflect on that one. It went a bit flat. Raybon Kan you are not.
October 1st, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Raybon Kan I am not indeed, I don’t tweet.
October 1st, 2011 at 11:23 pm
First, you have to be a real political fanatic to get too excited about the size of signs.
Perhaps, orewa1, but I think we’ve all got reason to wonder whether a party that can’t get campaign basics right are ready to run a country.
October 2nd, 2011 at 1:28 am
Interesting that Labour’s gone with the distressed/grunge look with their campaign material. Also another thing that slightly annoys me is that they have their candidates’ heads cut off at the top on all their hoardings! Did someone forget to scale down slightly?
October 2nd, 2011 at 7:57 am
Are those her real teeth, or did she buy them in a joke shop? She’s quite attractive apart from her overbite.
What is it with women in Labour and their aversion to orthodontics?
October 2nd, 2011 at 8:12 am
Morning Scott. There is nothing wrong with her appearance from where I am sitting.
http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/young-guns-talk-act-s-dope-woes-video-4427519
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:09 am
If you lined up the Clark billboards from ’99, ’02, ’05 and ’08 next to this one you would think it was just the progression of Clark getting younger every election.
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:14 am
Morning Rodders…. Yes, you’re quite right. A fine looking woman, with a touch of the equine. Perhaps Labour are a bit shy of the old tooth(air)brush since Auntie Hulun chose the poster cosmetic surgery option.
Still, it almost looks as if they’d enhanced the teeth… Wouldn’t be that old controversy marketing strategy again by any chance? Early, too big and with an over the top overbite!
What a combo.
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:26 am
What hope is there for someone with natural teeth (ie not very flash), no airbrush and no hoardings?
The main opposition has signs all over town, mostly promoting $15 per hour. Not trying to bribe anyone?
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:37 am
Morning Pete – I guess your hoardings won’t mention Income Splitting then?
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:44 am
They could but no, and I may not have any promoting Zero Fees around Uni either.
October 2nd, 2011 at 10:53 am
Aha Pete, there’s your controversial angle.
Imagine. Your smiling face in a huge, high resolution poster, brown teeth, warts and all, with the motto:
United Future – Some Times The Truth Ain’t Pretty
or
United Future – New Broom, Not Air Brush.
October 2nd, 2011 at 10:59 am
Don’t forget that UF have a readymade campaign song too
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Vicar_of_Bray.htm
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:03 am
Lol Scott Chris that’s mean. If DPF was consistent around criticising the appearance of candidates he’s give you 30 demerits for that.
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:05 am
Haha, great stuff Chris, that’s the sort of approach I like. Are they copyrighted?
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:12 am
Ouch Rodders, that’s a bit harsh. Pete’s just playing the game.
Mind you, I suppose that makes him fair game.
Bet Pete’s boning up on his Machiavelli as we speak.
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:23 am
Nah, it was UF’s leader I was alluding to. I have enjoyed reading Pete’s contributions on KB.
Peter Dunne, on the other hand reminds me more of Richard Rich than Thomas More.
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:26 am
Gosh, don’t let Peter Dunne read your comments Rodders, or there’ll be hell toupee.
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:27 am
adze
I should add that I used to be an admirer of Dunne but when he started claiming that people like Paul Adams were “middle of the road”… O dear.
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:31 am
Vicar of Bray allusions don’t matter anyway, it’s not relevant to the future of UF. If any gains are made on the current single seat it will be due to the rest of the candidates, and whether voters want to see a good dollop of ordinary people with a good range of ordinary life experiences wanting to make a difference or not.
Illustrated by a stark contrast in Dunedin North:
- a new Labour candidate standing for old Labour, he has already worked in Wellington, is a David Parker apprentice, and he churns out Mallard talking points (and reacts to my initiatives)
- a candidacy born of this blog (well raised a bit anyway) working with the people to represent the people who has freedom to be an individual representing an electorate with the backing of a sound party foundation.