Whinge whinge whinge....

Thats all you've ever done Burke. Don't let the FACT that you presided over a poorly performing, money wasting and administrative nightmare colour your views.....

time for a new council election. definitely time to get rid of the useless ceo.. the city is still recovering from a disaster and needs a council that is working together for the people and the redevelopment of the city. the city needs to be united and able to sell itself to the developers who have the final decision as to where they will invest their insurance payouts...

I am impressed. A Knight of the realm who actually knows about and does care about the state of our crumbling local democracy and has the courage to tell it how it is.

Thank you Kerry.

If we the people allow our city to be ruled any longer by Sideshow Bob and Crony Tony, we do not deserve to live in a democracy...we need to stand up and be counted...I shall be taking the day off on Wednesday 1 Feb to give my support for our democracy...we desperately need hope and faith in our council and that cannot exist while these two men remain in the council.

Fresh autumn elections...mayoral or better still the whole council.

Shut the door the horse has bolted.

Yes indeed. Parker was all for a commissioner at ECAN. My God the man thinks we are fools without any memory capacity. Sad that Parker didn't resign yesterday. The march must go on on Wednesday. I am overseas but will have someone there with a placard from me.

Totally agree with Sir Kerry. If it's good enough for Bob to put a commissioner in place for ECan then it's more than acceptable for commissioners to be put in place to sort out the CCC nonsense. There is so much infighting within the council at present and it's all centered around personalities. It's schoolyard antics at a time when the people of Christchurch need competent leadership. It seem's to me that the CCC is the new place for clapped out media hacks to go out to pasture. Dissolve the CCC and put some people in who actually know what they are doing I would be more than happy to see Sir Kerry as Mayor of Christchurch.

Well said Sir Kerry. Good to see you get some profile in the media again - a person like you is important to our democracy. One of the few politicians I can remember who has kept to his values!

As i see it,the only reason why ECan was replaced is because the government wanted to ensure the farmers were not being too disadvantaged.We once enjoyed, what should have been an endless supply of some of the worlds best drinking water, now,so much of it is poured onto farmland, causing leeching and contaminating town supplies.

On the mark here Kerry. I said that just this week in a comments column on here. The mayor should never have gotten back in. He is the main root problem.

Well done Sir Kerry, it needed to be said. How dare the Government dictatorially replace an elected council, if they and we were unhappy, the best and only thing to have done was to call a new election. That is what is needed now with the City Council.