It was an awful weekend on the roads with ten people killed in five separate crashes.

This has given cause for the experts to be rolled out for their views on reducing the road toll.

The police boss reckons that many roads around the country were simply not designed for travelling at 100kph.

I guess he's right but there are also motorways that could handle speeds of 120kph.

I have driven in a lot of countries around the world and there is one thing that remains constant, our roads are third world in parts.

Indeed, some third world countries have better roads.

Our road infrastructure needs to be upgraded, it shouldn't all be about trains.

Having said that, its people who cause crashes, not roads.

TORIES

The Conservatives beat up Labour rather badly in the UK elections.

It was the same old thing for Labour - left wing academics preaching old stuff that doesn't resonate with middle Britain.

The son of a Marxist intellectual, Red Ted, Ed Milliband was anti the market and wealth creation.

The polls got it wrong. The polls favoured the left. Based on the polls, Red Ed would have been PM today. So horribly wrong there is to be an inquiry.

But Labour's lost too because their socialist policies were out of touch with British people.

Red Ted was going left when he should have been going right.

Aside from Tony Blair, Labour hasn't won an election since 1941!

Blair took Labour to the centre. Blair knew where the election was won. Red Ted took them back to the left again and lost.

The loopy Russell Brands are not reflective of the population.

You win elections in the middle.

HOUSING

The weekend has been littered with housing stories again with the focus on the ridiculous prices being fetched in Auckland.

If its not a bubble it looks perilously close to one.

The PM is defending the suggestion that investment properties held by his MP's is one of the reasons they are reluctant to target the investment property sector.

National MP's have 18 investment properties in Auckland.

I note that even Labour isn't making too much of a fuss over this -probably because Labour MPs have a swag of properties themselves.

Russell Norman is back beating his capital gains tax drum again. This is a losing strategy. It was rejected last year. It doesn't make any difference to property prices.

Abolishing the tax concessions afforded to property investors and regulation around banks lending would be a more logical move.

Sooner or later the property bubble will be pricked, and when that happens, if its a crash, there will be real problems for our economy.

One thing for sure - being up to your eyeballs in debt won't be pretty.