Beware False Prophets

Quelle Horreur! It is time to man the barricades! The House of Hennebry is trying to take over the fair city of Hamilton. From their lofty tower in Horrorfield, self proclaimed King Roger and Queen Jane, along with the Princess Royal, Tania and old man Ken setting himself up as Chancellor of the Exchequer, they are plotting their dastardly plans to take our city back into the Dark Ages.


With their band of court followers they have pledged to keep rates down. Although there is already dissension in the ranks with some supporting the new stadium and others are supporting the rail link to Auckland. It won’t be long before these false prophets will be facing the guillotine in Garden Place.

Keeping rates down is a laudable decree you might say, but what does this mean for the future of our city and region. All responsible councillors have a very wary eye on excessive spending and the ability of all of us to pay.

So what makes the House of Hennebry different?

Are they going to build a moat and a wall around the city to keep growth out? Which spending on essential infrastructure and community wellbeing will be cut? How will our libraries, theatres, sports grounds, parks and gardens fare under this one eyed tyranny? What family silver will be sold to reduce the debt and how many jobs will be lost to ensure rates are kept down to the rate of inflation.

We have seen this before throughout our fair land when former fiefdoms went for zero rates increases and since then we have all been paying for this silly vote catching nonsense.

Our city needs independent, strategic thinkers who really care about our city and region and will not jeopardise our region’s future by only caring about cutting rates. People who do not only think of short term gain for long term pain just to get themselves elected. Honesty, integrity, strong leadership and prudent management are the qualities needed in our leaders.

The House of Hennebry has shown none of these qualities but thinks we, the peasants, are so gullible we cannot see through this strategy to get a bunch of self serving, power seeking and inexperienced people to take over our city and region.

Remember City Vision and the havoc they caused in their one term and are still causing through a District Plan that has allowed wholesale development and destruction throughout our city. It is noted with interest the leader of that group is back calling himself the “rates cutter” – more like the Grim Reaper.