Dunedin Council’s thieving bastards:

Posted on January 31, 2012 by KG

‘The humble sausage sizzle could soon come with a serving of red tape in the deep South.
Dunedin City Council is considering charging schools, clubs and other not-for-profit groups $16 register their sausage sizzles.
….The changes were part of a drive by the council’s environmental health team to offset the rising cost of policing a growing number of fundraising events and community markets, team leader Ros MacGill said…’
When did a council department magically become a “team”?  I’ve yet to come into contact with any bureaucrat who understood the meaning of the term. And if this rip-off is to “offset the cost of policing” then how about cutting back on useless leftard social programs, funded from ratepayer’s money? Better still, they could simply mind their own fucking business. I detest these bastards–if every one of ’em contracted cholera, I’d feel sorry for the cholera bug.

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21 Responses to Dunedin Council’s thieving bastards:

  1. Andrei says:
    January 31, 2012 at 08:07

    The pricks never miss a trick do they.

    They have a nose for a racket to fill their coffers and justify their sorry existence.

    I eaten thousands of sausages from the humble fund raising sausage sizzle in my time, thousands! And you know what, not one of them has made me sick! Not one!

    They don’t need to police fucking sausage sizzles – arseholes

  2. Moist von Lipwig says:
    January 31, 2012 at 08:18

    Team leader Ros MacGill said.
    “We are there to protect the public, and we wouldn’t be doing our job if we weren’t ensuring they were operating safely,”

    No you’re not- you interfering bitch. You’re just another of those tedious self anointed leftist busy-bodys full of predictable self-righteousness. :evil:

  3. KG says:
    January 31, 2012 at 08:37

    Good on you, guys–it’s a relief to see people who loathe these leeches as much as I do.
    Their ineffable smugness infuriates me. An inquiry into compliance costs for industry, businesses and individuals is way overdue. As are some sackings. (Although my personal preference would be for rope and the nearest tree…)

  4. KG says:
    January 31, 2012 at 08:47

    The council here in Ayr charges a $200 registration fee for cats. For cats!
    And what does the owner get for that $200? SFA is what. There are lots of old ladies around here whose only companion is a cat, and the $200 is a real burden on them.
    Utopian greenie bastards are hijacking councils and the locals keep voting for them for some strange reason.

  5. mawm says:
    January 31, 2012 at 09:37

    Moisty, now that the education system has plumbed never before reached depths of education failure, these busybodies feel they have to help out the poor old KFC-eating, dope-smoking, Shortland street-watching, baby-factory/killers by doing their thinking for them. The big problem is that they themselves are incapable of original thought and can only parrot their leftist mantra instead.

  6. kowtow says:
    January 31, 2012 at 09:58

    This council ,like so many others is seriously disfunctional.It’s stoney broke due to massive spending on unaffordable pet projects, like the wonderful new stadium. (The old one was fine, thank you very much).RWC, they shelled out for bullshit art work etc.
    Chinese New Year and New Year they blow off ratepayer money for fireworks displays. Now fireworks are fine if you can afford them but the Dunedin rate payer is one of the poorest in the country ,so it is literally money going up in smoke!! For what?A couple of minutes of ooh and ahh and embracing and celebrating cultural diversity!
    They built a Chinese Gardens here,right next to a beautiful art deco bus station(now the Settlers Museum)Huge expense and actually quite incongruous next to the art deco (I like art deco)Helen opened it along with the comrades from Red China.
    After it’s first few years and the novelty factor wearing off there aren’t enough visitors and it’s not making money. Another costly white elephant and sacrifice at the altar of multiculturalism.

    • WAKE UP says:
      January 31, 2012 at 14:30

      “Chinese New Year and New Year they blow off ratepayer money for fireworks displays.”

      They should have got that fat MegaUpload buy-your-way-into-New-Zealand interloper to pay for them – it worked in Auckland :mrgreen:

  7. Kris K says:
    January 31, 2012 at 10:08

    Next thing the IRD will have their hand out and want their cut even though these groups are non-profit charities.

    Is there any other way to see this than “just another tax”? And one with zero justification? Words really do fail.

  8. WAKE UP says:
    January 31, 2012 at 14:28

    I know how to offset the costs of the “team” :twisted:

  9. Scumsucker says:
    January 31, 2012 at 14:36

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JUL-l6ov10

    Here’s the solution. Warning, graphic footage of government getting its just deserts.

  10. mort says:
    January 31, 2012 at 22:29

    hmm cost of policing the practice…
    2 inspectors salary $120k
    2 vehicles, $50
    data entry and admin expenses $2500
    wasted man-hours…. 8000/annum

    all in the name of a non existent threat.

    Here’s an idea Dunners, how about you say screw that, sack the 2 clipboard wielders and give the rate payers, and the fundraisers a fair suck of the sav, and take a long swim in that ever so well treated water down at St Clair

  11. Flashman says:
    February 1, 2012 at 05:54

    “Team” = a faux expression beloved of NZ bureaucrats.

    It is intended to denote:
    1. A friendly group of highly skilled, motivated and empowered people but who are empathetic, down to earth folks just like you and your mates.
    2. Who really there to help you and ease your path.
    3. Who are inspired and animated by super-ordinate goals and metrics that are themselves intrinsically GOOD.
    4. Who work collaboratively together with respect to [3] above.
    5. Are lead by omniscient and benevolent individuals whose qualifications, experienced and personal charisma confer on them world-class powers of consummate eliteness.
    6. Possess a focused work ethic that enables them to crack on with their noble tasks and work routines – indeed a pursuit of excellence is a not too fine a point to place upon their collective efforts.
    7. Energised by mutually self-supporting collegiality that enables them to solve problems, overcome barriers and so consistently achieve results.
    8. But none of this is down to personal brilliance. No. No. These are modest, self-effacing people after all. Whatever results are attained is due to the combined energies of the collective. True synergy. 2+2 = 5. There is no “I” in “Team”. Team members serve and do their jobs as part of Jesuit-like vocation: the deed is sufficient reward. A moral psychic stroke is all that they ultimately desire and expect.

    The sick reality of course is the polar opposite of [1] to [8] above.

  12. Flashman says:
    February 1, 2012 at 06:00

    I should add that whenever one of these useless Hallenstein suit wearing tossers uses the word “safety” to justify a decision, this is a code word for two things:

    1. Restricting their legal liability. [It’s their safety that’s the concern, not yours or that of the general public.]
    And/or
    2. Cha-ching! [It’s a stealth tax / revenue raiser targeting a captive monopoly.]

  13. St Hubbins says:
    February 1, 2012 at 13:08

    I thought of an expression to describe these bureaucratic parasites:

    “C*nts with Clipboards”

  14. Paul Marsden says:
    February 1, 2012 at 17:55

    They’ve backed down. More interestingly however, I detect that there might be an uprising by the people in NZ against Councils throughout the land, not only by their horrendous waste of ratepayers money, but the strangulation effect they have on the entire NZ economy. I hope the CHCH demonstration today is the first of many. Ratepayers have simply had enough of been rorted.