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Will John Boscawen tell us what his first car was?

Posted by on August 26th, 2010

The Hon John Boscawen is taking his first piece of legislation through the House. It’s the Committee stage and third reading of the MotorVehicle Sales Amendment Bill, being considered under urgency.

The last stage of this Bill was under urgency too. Hmmm A couple of months ago. Very urgent!

I used that last speech to muse about the importance of making a car purchase. In particular my first car. He was a 1948 Morris 10, named Maurice and cost $125. it sparked a flurry of reminisecences from MPs and other commenters on their first cars.

We await with interest hearing what John Boscawen’s first car was.

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Filed under: Consumer Affairs, humour
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Red Alert first to break the news – lamington boscawen replaces roy

Posted by on August 17th, 2010

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At 6.29pm yesterday Red Alert was the first medium to report the impending Act firing. Loose National lips. But a good example of the new media being way ahead of the rat pack.

Boscawen’s most memorable act was to keep on talking with a lamington on his head during his pathetic Mt Albert race – look at TV3′s footage

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Filed under: act party, coalition management
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Heather Roy to be sacked tomorrow

Posted by on August 16th, 2010

Usually very reliable Wellington source tells me that John Boscawen is to replace Heather Roy as Act Deputy in the morning.

Rodney’s revenge ?

Update – this mornings Herald story

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10666622

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Filed under: act party
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So what’s happening in ACT ?

Posted by on March 20th, 2010

Seems like the coup is on again. Might explain Hide’s weird behaviour this week.

Apparently Boscawen is to be the Hide replacement.

Interesting internal analysis of the 2009 version of the issue here.

Some wonder how bright it is for those who depend on Rodney currently for their seats in parliament to try to dump him.

Bit risky, but then maybe Douglas and Roy have decided that a party with under 5% is not what they want. That instead they want to return to the glory days of ACT being a party with principles and principals they could believe in, and one with enough size to have real influence in government.

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Filed under: act party, blogs, coalition management
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This weeks ballot – and we are off again

Posted by on August 26th, 2009

The ballot for a Member’s bill to be introduced resulted in the following bill being drawn:

2. John Boscawen Crimes (Reasonable Parental Control and Correction) Amendment Bill

The introduction of the bill will be announced at 2.00 pm today, and the bill set down for first reading.

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Filed under: children, parliament, social development, Uncategorized
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Where are they?

Posted by on May 15th, 2009

We’ve now been debating the Local Government (Auckland Reorganisation) Bill since about 4pm on Wednesday. Interesting to note that none of the wannabe Mt Albert MPs have had anything to say on the Bill. I’ve sat through most of the debate and haven’t heard a peep from Melissa Lee, John Boscawen or Russell Norman. These guys are already MPs, so they have the right to speak and vote on these proposals which will have a significant impact on the electorate that they want to represent. Why should the voters of Mt Albert elect an MP who isn’t interested in defending their interests?

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Filed under: by-election, democracy, mt albert, national
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