Labour didn’t expect to win 2017 and they didn’t expect to win an MMP majority in 2020 so they had no reform agenda to force the Public Service to act in the interests of citizens and not themselves.
Grant Robertson’s Central Wellington wonksters however had other plans.
The policy wonks saw an opportunity to reform policy and expand the State that way rather than take cattle prods to the eyeballs of their Wellington bureaucrat comrades.
The Wellington Central Wonksters allowed their Wellington bureaucrat brethren to keep their fiefdoms while expanding the State by building a bigger kingdom.
And so it has come to pass:
- 3 waters – will take all local water for the glory of the State!
- Radical Public Health Authority – goodbye failing DHBs
- Universal Union Membership – watch as the capitalists scream
- RMA reform – watch as the capitalists scream more
There isn’t any beauty in the Frankenstein State monolith Labour’s wonk team have welded together, but sweet Jesus it’s huge.
The danger is the wonksters for a bigger State won’t limit themselves to policy and will also create a Big Sister State that criminalizes speech and stomps on civil liberties to punish breaches of woke dogma.
The Wellington bureaucrats will allow this policy reform to pass as it doesn’t impinge on their glass palaces but at some stage the Left have to urgently reform the neoliberal welfare system or allow these unelected bureaucrats to continue to call the shots.
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Perhaps not the PSA take the brunt, but enable all workers to improve their lot and act quickly to restore legal aid and enable workers to take a reasonable case in a timely fashion, with a limited and low legal bill.
Unlikely at the present.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/is-this-justice/453297/kiwis-in-need-of-legal-aid-stung-by-interest-that-outstrips-mortgage-rates
Some of New Zealand’s poorest citizens now owe a share of $177 million in legal debt – and the government’s charging them 5 percent interest. In this story from the Is This Justice series, Farah Hancock meets a man who ended up with a government caveat over his home.
Or perhaps Labour should be taken to Court for carrying on business under a misnomer – it’s name and supposed purpose a fraud, perhaps Martyn you could hold a competition for a new name for The Labour Party.
Labour has greatly increased the number of Wellington bureaucrats, just sayin’
You mean bureaucrats as opposed to frontline staff that actually do stuff?
So much has gone wrong with our public service over the years that things no longer happen. Unfortunately many politicians seem quite OK with it as muddle/senior bureaucrats and politicians piss in each others pockets even IF they start out with the best of intentions.
Everyone wants to leave NZ now.
100% Martyn
Now you can understand how the USA got into its current position. The long term employees of the federal agencies control the country with the elected politicians little more than puppets and bystanders. Their democracy is a sham and any elected government that dares to constrain the powers of the bureaucrats quickly finds himself set up to be vilified in media, spied upon and attacked with ‘lawfare’ using a weaponized justice system. That’s what we’ve witnessed for the last 5 years.
I’m confused by this article and comments. What is writer conveying / what have I missed? I get this bit from article: “The Wellington Central Wonksters allowed their Wellington bureaucrat brethren to keep their fiefdoms while expanding the State by building a bigger kingdom.”
What are the comments about though? What is PSA, for example?
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