Labour’s reliance on consultants is part of their cultural Professional Managerial Class capture.
The Wellington Bureaucracy isn’t left wing! It’s a self interested Professional Managerial Class who use identity politics to mask their neoliberal hands-off-do-nothing-but-build-glass-palaces fiefdoms.
Oh they do the reo, and expose their pronouns and militantly ride bikes, they are effortless in their use of inclusion as a means to dominate and control the narrative, but they are a middle class clique, not left wing egalitarianism.
The Wellington Bureaucracy is a culture war of woke middle class Identity Politics aspirations backed with State funding, they may aesthetically be Left but they sure as fuck aren’t economically Left.
Likewise the consultancy industry that feed on their Wellington relationships with the Self Serving Public Service, they are also part of the woke washed culture clique whose interests are not ours.
We are spending A Million dollars a day is spent on motels for vulnerable people causing enormous social carnage with no real wrap around support services present and 25 000 are on emergency waiting lists – we can’t solve those problems apparently but the Government can spend a billion dollars on consultants each year?
$1bn spend on consultants each year
“Labour’s spending on contractors and consultants has climbed to nearly $1bn a year, despite Labour coming to power suggesting that they would rein in this use of the private sector. Much of this is spent on the “Big Four” contractor firms – Deloitte, PwC, KPMG and Ernst and Young.”
What the hell has happened to left wing transformative change?
You can not spend a billion dollars a year on the professional managerial class in consulting while 150 499 children live in extreme poverty, while we hand out 100 000 food packages each month while our mental health system screams.
You can’t spend a billion dollars a year on consultants while so many are in material hardship.
What happens is we have huge numbers of managers and very few staff. The mangers look after their interests, the staff get sacked and hired back as consultants and the same cultural clique keep getting paid while the misery of the poor is ignored.
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Agree 100% .
I’m afraid you may have a point
Totally.
Contracting out is a core neo lib method.
Also it explains why there is a two tier public/private health system. Hips and knees get done private–in job lots contracted out often by the old DHBs, and the tricky stuff gets dealt with in the public system! surprise, surprise. Higher paid have private health care insurance, others wait in hospital atriums for a day and half for medical attention…
The public service fifth columnists are some of the most hypocritical bludgers possible.
You forgot the militant consultants on mātauranga Māori (that Maori academics also disagree with) and making NZ a laughing stock around the world. No surprises that the ministry of education apparently has the most consultants increasing, while their educational outcomes are decreasing and teachers are out striking. Who cares about kids, when copious amounts of income producing propaganda, mātauranga Māori is allowed to take over from education to research!
Dawkins’ views on teaching mātauranga Māori go viral
https://theplatform.kiwi/opinions/dawkins-views-on-teaching-matauranga-maori-go-viral
“Unfortunately, visiting British scientist Richard Dawkins must have depressed most local journalists so severely that they have been unable to report his assessment of New Zealand — despite the fact he is one of the world’s foremost evolutionary biologists and a best-selling science author.
Last week, in a column published in The Spectator UK — which has an international circulation of over 100,000 and counts among its regular columnists the likes of Lionel Shriver, Rod Liddle and Douglas Murray — Richard Dawkins laid bare his feelings about New Zealand.
Fresh from an Antipodean speaking tour, he made clear that, when asked, he invariably nominates New Zealand as his favourite country, not least because of his admiration for Ernest Rutherford — “the greatest experimental physicist since Faraday”.
However, the rest of his column — titled “Why I’m sticking up for science” — was damning.
The focus of his criticism was the implementation of a “ludicrous policy, spawned by Chris Hipkins’s Ministry of Education before he became Prime Minister. Science classes are to be taught that Māori ‘ways of knowing’ (mātauranga Māori) have equal standing with ‘Western’ science.
“Not surprisingly, this adolescent virtue-signalling horrified New Zealand’s grown-up scientists and scholars. Seven of them wrote to the Listener magazine [in July 2021]. Three who were fellows of the NZ Royal Society were threatened with an inquisitorial investigation. Two of these, including the distinguished medical scientist Garth Cooper, himself of Māori descent, resigned (the third unfortunately died).”
Dawkins’ assessment of the backlash against the professors’ letter — titled “In defence of science” — pulled no punches: “The magnificent seven [have been] branded heretics by a nastily zealous new religion, a witch-hunt that recalls the false accusations against J.K. Rowling and Kathleen Stock. ”
Many of the ‘researchers’ pushing for mātauranga Māori are low level academic grifters who get copious amounts of government money to promote how Maori discovered Antarctica first and have better science than Nasa – their research is the ‘truth’ – just because government gave them a fortune to write a thesis about it ….
When the woke appear and rain hate on everyone with their new religion, the public support shatters… pride parade, school strikes for climate, truancy out of control, (Why go to school to learn drivel and be told NOT to critically think about anything as its racist) etc
I’m predicting a very low turn out for the census due to the woke fixations that dominated for the last two versions. As usual only the woke get heard, while others boycott and those that they don’t want to hear from, are alienated.
Never really been given much knowledge as to what Matauranga Maori comprises. I’ve assumed it is South Pacific star navigation and patentable health benefits of native plants and the Maori kings claim to own the rain, all good but what it isn’t is the wheel, writing, metallurgy, mathematics, the scientific method, atomic theory, evolution, neuro biology, antibiotics, cell phones, rockets and space exploration, etc. It will be a sad day when all the kids in this land are deprived of a comprehensive real science education.
So Ant. Blame everything on Jacinda for 5 years? Or can we stretch it to 10.
After selecting the “English” option one is immediately confronted with te Reo.
As a white male who hates everyone I was immediately triggered.
Agreed Martyn and “Economically not left” is the elephant in the room. It trumps everything else because everything else depends on it. Its actually quite cleverly covert.
Time to move Parliament to Hamilton. Less chance of earth quake. Perfect for public sector workers. Consultantancy peeps won’t like it. Can ride bike to work and engage with rural sector and middle NZ.
Keep the populus confused, eh?
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