An open letter to Harry Duynhoven, ex-MP

[Sanx]

Dear Mr Duynhoven,

On behalf of motorists and motorcyclists across New Zealand, may I be the first to say good riddance, you useless bearded terminally-obtuse speed-obsessed moron. Your presence in Parliament will be sorely missed by absolutely no-one with an IQ above 75.

With Labour's recent well-overdue humiliating defeat and your well-deserved unemployed status, hopefully New Zealand will witness a new road and transport safety policy that is actually aimed at reducing road deaths and injuries rather than simply adding to the swollen consilidated fund. Given Labour's documented dismal performance in this area, you'd have though that Labour's road safety initiatives were thought up by a weak-minded fool with absolutely no idea what he was doing. Well, the cap obviously fits.

I sincerely hope your proven record of incompetence and stupidity prevents you from ever getting a job with any responsibility again.

Yours sincerely,

Dan Halford.

[Ixion]

I don't think that's quite fair. Harry was actually not a bad bloke. It was Annette King that was the driveling idiot. Bear in mind that Harry , as a Minister outside Cabinet (ie , flunky) had to do what he was told by Annette. No arguments.

We could be worse off. be careful what you wish for.

[James Deuce]

How are those Brisbane roads?

[Sanx]

Ixion, I usually agree with you, but this time you're wrong, plain and simple. Harry Duynhoven is a man who exercised his power and responsibility with absolutely no idea as to what he was doing. He was obsessed with one thing and one thing only; speed. Had he the slightest modicum of intelligence, he would have reviewed his piss-poor performance over the past nine years and realised that Labour's record in this area was worse-than-dismal. Road deaths up, reversing an extant year-on-year decline since 1990. Injuries almost doubled. If he had the slightest modicum of shame, he'd have admitted, publically, that he was a blithering idiot and resigned. Instead, thousands of people had to be injured and hundreds unnecessarily die because of his incompetence and Labour's ever-present desire to increase revenue.

As Labour have bee removed from power (nine years too late), hopefully we'll see a major change in road safety policy. I suggest the following:

• LTNZ / LTSA / Whatever-they're-called-this-week head honchos sacked. Immediately.
• Immediate instructions sent to Police to actually concentrate on bad driving and not harmless speeding. Exceeding the legal speed limit doesn't cause accidents and there's absolutely no credible evidence from anywhere in the world that it does.
• Immediate cessation of the use of all speed cameras, fixed and mobile. They don't reduce accidents and there's no evidence from anywhere in the world that they do.
• Howard Broad, and the top traffic cops given jobs more suited to their intelligence levels. Cleaning up vomit in the holding cells, for instance.

I'd also like to see, but wont:

• Immediate cessation on the use of chip-seal as a road-surface.
• Raising of the national speed limit to 130 kph.
• Removal of all bus-lanes.

I'm not quite dumb enough to expect that anything like this will happen, but I can live in hope. But, given that I'm now in Brisbane, it doesn't really affect me anyway.

How are those Brisbane roads?

A fuck-load better and safer than the ones in Auckland. Thank you for asking...

[Forest]

I don't know if Harry Duynhoven was the culprit, but New Zealand officials basically adopted the Victorian road safety programs and adapted them for local conditions.

[James Deuce]

But, given that I'm now in Brisbane, it doesn't really affect me anyway.

A fuck-load better and safer than the ones in Auckland. Thank you for asking...

Bye bye.

[Sanx]

I don't know if Harry Duynhoven was the culprit, but New Zealand officials basically adopted the Victorian road safety programs and adapted them for local conditions.

And the amusing thing is they don't work in Victoria either. Well, when I say 'work', I mean they don't do anything to reduce the road toll or injuries. But they're bloody good for the bottom line.

[Dooly]

In my dealings with the area LTSA rep and WOF authorities blokes, they have all said that all of the pedantic bullshit and petty ideas and impending rules etc like noise etc have all originated from Duynhoven.
They could'nt stand him and what he was trying to do.
Good riddance, piss off.
And he's meant to be a biker as well.

[Pedrostt500]

Years ago I had a hilman superminx station wagon no REG no WOF that I used to drive to work on night shift, I used to live a couple of doors up from Duynhoven its probably me all those years ago starting my old beast to go to work on night shift that turned him that way, as the beast only had an excuse for a muffler, the GT 380 Suzuki with no baffels probably put the icing on the cake.

[GIXser]

Dear Mr Duynhoven,

On behalf of motorists and motorcyclists across New Zealand, may I be the first to say good riddance, you useless bearded terminally-obtuse speed-obsessed moron. Your presence in Parliament will be sorely missed by absolutely no-one with an IQ above 75.

With Labour's recent well-overdue humiliating defeat and your well-deserved unemployed status, hopefully New Zealand will witness a new road and transport safety policy that is actually aimed at reducing road deaths and injuries rather than simply adding to the swollen consilidated fund. Given Labour's documented dismal performance in this area, you'd have though that Labour's road safety initiatives were thought up by a weak-minded fool with absolutely no idea what he was doing. Well, the cap obviously fits.

I sincerely hope your proven record of incompetence and stupidity prevents you from ever getting a job with any responsibility again.

Yours sincerely,

Dan Halford.

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD........

Fuck Dan, you crack me up.. please send the letter ...

[Naki Rat]

He may be gone from parliament but due to the length of time he was there you can be assured that he will be sucking the public tit for many years to come by way of an ongoing stipend.

Not much we can do about that but!

[ynot slow]

Agree with the post,after 3 terms in government,you would assume he would be a minister eh?

Then again he was a teacher and treated adults as per they were kids.

He did have a porsche back in 82 or so,when he coached the NPBH soccer 5th 11 or so,what a wanker as well,don't tackle the boys so hard,he didn't have the ball ref,go on take his ankles(said real quiet)and aimed at the player beside me to get me,spoken so the ref wouldn't hear that comment.


And he wanted to be elected not on party list says to me he was way down the list so if not elected wouldn't get in,at least he had some brain to state elected or nothing.

[Pussy]

I'm not unhappy to see him gone

[pritch]

Harry's gone? Bugga I must've ticked the wrong line...

While there is no way Harry could be given a pass mark for his performance, Ixion has a point, Annette King was calling a lot of the shots. Also under our system of government he couldn't sack Andy Knackstead even if he wanted to.

I was sort of hoping I'd see him in the street as happened once before. He was a bit startled at what I told him then but it turned out to be right.

Politicians tend to talk to their supporters and only hear good news, I'd have been pleased to tell him how it really was. I hadn't talked to anyone who was going to vote for him - and most had previously. He had formerly been regarded as a good electorate MP.

Interestingly Harry hasn't conceded yet, he's praying to the God of special votes.

[ManDownUnder]

Dear Mr Duynhoven,

On behalf of motorists and motorcyclists across New Zealand, may I be the first to say good riddance, you useless bearded terminally-obtuse speed-obsessed moron. Your presence in Parliament will be sorely missed by absolutely no-one with an IQ above 75.
...

Dan Halford.

A private respond from Nigel Kelly.

Knowing Harry as I have done for a considerable number of years I take affront to you writing to him on my behalf - you in no way have any right to insult who I consider to be a good man on my behalf.

Don't speak beyond your brief.