Thursday, May 14, 2009



Deserted

With the House sitting under urgency to discuss the Auckland Dictatorship Bill, you'd expect our MPs to be packing the House to deal with this "urgent" matter. But take a look at Parliament TV at the moment - there are fewer than twenty people in the chamber. So, underming Auckland's elected local bodies is "urgent" - but not so urgent that any MP (let alone the Minister of Local Government) needs to actually show up for it...