Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
Wayne Brown's #Auxit moment
TL;DR: Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has become our version of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, except without any of the insatiable appetite for media appearances. He has mastered their impulsive crash-or-crash-through styles of ‘policy making’ and could poison the well for National on October 14 if he (and National) are not careful.
Yesterday’s decision to pull Auckland Council out of LGNZ was not only ludicrous, counter-productive and self-defeating ($640,000 of savings are wiped out by $1 million of savings forgone by Auckland because of leaving LGNZ). It also wasn’t supported by Auckland’s…
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