The Nelson City council and its ventriloquists dummy the Nelson Mail, are envious that the Tasman District council is not receiving the same harsh criticism of its proposed debt levels.
The Nelson Mail is parroting its puppet master's concerns, that its critics seem to be treating its paymaster in a biased and unfair manner.
If the Mail took the puppet masters arm out of its intestinal tract for long enough to be able to think for itself, then it would be obvious that the reason that its paymaster is receiving that flack, is not just because of the singular issue of debt alone.
The reason for that flack is instead, the deadly toxic combination of taking a mortgage holiday in conjunction with adopting that level of debt.
If the only way the council can afford to pay for that level of debt, is to stop paying other debts, in other words by taking a mortgage holiday, then the alarm bells should be clamouring throughout the fourth estate. Instead the silence is deafening.
The Tasman council understands the dangerous inter-reaction of that toxic combination and therefore avoids that particular lunacy like the plague.
The reason that the Nelson council so deservedly receives such uneven criticism is that unlike Tasman, it is reckless enough to undertake that very lunacy.
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- This blogspot is born out of a deep democratic concern about the continual political spin and the outright manipulation and suppression of information by local government and local media. In my view that rampant disinformation has become so extreme that it can only be considered grossly deceptive. This blogspot attempts to provide some balancing transparency to that situation. Hopefully it might even help keep the "buggers" honest.