Oh dear - Hyde the costs.

How embarrassing. lprent must have decided that since he can't fix the bug riddled Eddie he will try and be a political commentator.

He has a point, but he looses the thread and starts shooting his mouth off about all the things he is upset about, the same things he has defended Labour for. I'm starting to get an idea why Eddie is so myopic....

It is a bit disturbing all the same, Rodney Hide has been forced to admit that he has no idea of the costs of his super-city proposal. Phil Twyford with the aid of the speaker cornered him into an admission that he’d been acting like a Labour party person and spending money like he has a surplus to hide so he can tell us "No tax cuts".

The Minister has been caught out trying to mislead Aucklanders about whether the Government has done those costings and only acknowledged there were none, when ordered by the Speaker in the House today.

Yesterday I asked Mr Hide whether the Government had costed its Super City proposals, as outlined in its Making Auckland Greater booklet, and he answered ‘yes’.

Today when I asked what those costing were, Mr Hide danced on the head of a pin as he tried to evade the question, until he was finally ordered by the Speaker to come clean.

I'm pretty disgusted actually, Rodney talked the talk big time when he was in opposition about being responsible with tax payers money, proper process for passing laws and the need for referendums. Now the plonker is just acting like a self serving Labour party and thinking he knows what is best for us.

I'm not happy but I do smirk when lprent starts slagging off Rodney for all the same things I use to slag Labour off for. The same things that lprent defended when Labour did them. (no referendums, use of urgency to pass laws and uncontrolled spending on PR and spin)

Well as far as I'm concerned this shit is wrong irrespective of which party is doing it. I get the feeling that we are going to see a lot more of this at the double standard, the defenders of the indefensible don't like it when it's not their party doing it - I just don't like it at all.