Well well well. Davey Cormack? Neale Jones? Where’s Clint Smith?
All the Wellington Woke Warlords are being exposed for what they do in the shadows – have the Wellington Woke gone into self harm watch yet?
How will they cope seeing their Wokest Queens so exposed?
These pricks have always looked down on me, and while I may be many things, I’m not a fucking sock puppet for corporate influence.
Why would you hire the chinless wonder from down under Big Davey Cormack?
He is s douchebag shmuck who instead of helping Pharmac do good, he helped them be dicks.
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.
The Wellington Woke Professional Managerial Class and their cosy relationships with consultants is a reminder they aren’t economically left, they are aesthetically left.
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What Left? *crickets chirping*
100%
This is what big government looks like.
Everybody wants to be a commissar.
especially a nat bought and paid for commissar, huh calm?
Absolutely nailed it Martyn.
All aided and abetted by self-interested identitarians whose incessant whinging dominates what passes for political discusion in this corpocracy.
Agreed. There is sufficient money in this country. We just choose to spend it on the wrong things – like these silver tongued grifters. Meanwhile in Otara more kids go hungry, get beaten and never learn to read properly.
Here’s a thought. What if we divided Aotearoa into three highly autonomous provinces along the lines of Australian states, one with Auckland for its capital, with full authority over things like spending on light rail or not as the Aucklanders see fit and the ability to turn up en masse at the town hall to make their feelings known to those with the actual power to make decisions, one with Wellington for the capital of a bailiwick extending as far as Taranaki and Hawkes Bay in the north and Kaikōura in the south but no further, and a rest-of-the South Island and Rakiura province with Christchurch as a capital that was reasonably accessible to people from Dunedin, Invercargill and the West Coast. Would we then get a more down-to-earth form of government? More than one person thinks that unaccountable and physically distant overcentralisation is the root of the Wellington malaise, the malaise of a town that would be no bigger than Nelson if it were not the capital and must therefore keep centralising everything unto itself. Wellington could still be the capital of the middle province and the nation’s capital, but with reduced powers and less scope for inside-the-beltway intrigue.
Interesting concept. Great minds and ideas with little concern to understand outcomes in the short and long term, and alternatives, and if essential action or just something to impress the peeps, are how our combined country works or rather, doesn’t, at present.
Closer attention by the local people with some autonomy into a larger ‘Council area; required proof of practical ‘civil engineering’ of everything in a civilised, intelligent way could work better. Smaller groupings into sort of fiefdoms* with limited budgets, not ‘general competence’ (which leads to an unfunny play on words). When citizens put forward problems – they would be circulated in brief and then a general meeting held to discuss how to tackle, or why.
Also there would be short courses established nationwide giving basics on decision-making using criteria, and all the things that effective citizens should know about planning, budgets and politics. And groups be formed in each fiefdom to lead discussion on citizens opinion and these groups would largely take the place of the present elected councillors, with people in the groups who had achieved Citizens’ Certification becoming lead people in designated matters, as already happens in present Councils. They would be informed, up to date on local and national matters in their concern and report to the general citizenry usually monthly except at times of great change.
Local government officers would be answerable to the city citizens group and everything done would be in conjunction with the leading group. Central government would have less say, but would still oversee budgets and providing finance for big projects; there would be some form of external audit by reputable people, not necessarily from Treasury or the worldwide FIRE merchants.
This is just a ramshackle idea knocked up in a few minutes, (please don’t be rude about it considering it rudimentary!), but it brings up some of the points that would have to be considered if there was meaningful change.
* Some info on fiefdoms.
However, not only land but anything of value could be held in fee, including governmental office, rights of exploitation such as hunting, fishing or felling trees, monopolies in trade, money rents and tax farms. There never did exist one feudal system, nor did there exist one type of fief. Over the ages, depending on the region, there was a broad variety of customs using the same basic legal principles in many variations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fief
We have been brought up igorrant and gormless in thinking we had established a sound sort of society that just needed steering in the right direction. But we have ended up on the rocks, a bit too much booze, and not ready for wild conditions, financial and climate-wise.
We lost the ability to live simply, saving up for things, or denying ourselves some, knowing when we had enough at the moment. Learning how to live well in a sharing, thriving democracy has been replaced; the stern dictates of living carefully and within limited budgets etc are for rustics. Axe that axiom with ‘the world’s my oyster’ if I concentrate on learning how to reach up, be ambitious, and promote myself and make money.
The consultant meme has arisen from seduction by the money-mad financiers who grew on the excesses of war booty, carrying their experience into peacetime throughout the late 20th century.* The goal is to get where the advantages ans opportunities are, and if you try and take advantage of situations, even manipulate them your way, you too can become a billionaire like Graeme Hart.
*President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961)
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15/12/2022 — On January 17, 1961, in this farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the establishment of a “military-industrial
Eisenhower’s farewell address – Wikipedia
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As we peer into society’s future, we – you and I, and our government – must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease
The private sector can do everything cheaper, don’t ya know! Call it. The emperor is stark naked and most now accept this as the new norm. Bollicks. Got to be a better way.
For nearly 6 years the misery of the poor has not only been ignored,but made worse.
Gosh that is the longest thought of yours Bob that I have seen on this blog. If you put another on to it, you might be on to something?
Gee thanks Greywarbler,as a fan of yours I shall heed your sage advice.
Yes that would be wise King Bob1. Then we can’t keep our sparkling repartee going for yonks. Som good may come from it ere I die.
Not just the last six years – more like 35 – 40. Your intention may have been to discredit this Labour government, but you need to include the Nat years of Richardson and Key, as well as Douglas and Prebble.
Ok accept that RosieLee.
My point is Jacinda Ardern promised to fix it but instead made it worse and oversaw the largest transfer of wealth in our history.( source the TDB)
Not to mention the diversity and inclusion racket.
Poor old Leah Panama and her co-host Miles Davis had to apologise for saying it was ridiculous the idea that men could get pregnant.
And I heard their Radio Station had to spend $25,000 to get the Rainbow tick which included re education for Leah and Miles
Well, given this form of capture, it begs the question, what else about Labour is captured? Corporate capture, in of itself, is a major issue after all. And what are we going to do about this, shouldn’t the Left be addressing these issues and if not, shouldn’t we be as critical of the policies or choices Labour makes, as the Right might be! After all, what’s the point of all this then?
Moving Parliament to Hamilton or Palmy, would drain the Swamp. And no, not every thing is done online by these types. The egos of the consultantancy peeps are such that they love to be seen in nice cafe s or meet in rooms to justify the pay rate.
“What the hell has happened to left wing transformative change?”
But was there ever a left wing in AO/NZ? If there was it was a bit shit.
This is what, in fact, there was. A clique of good ol boys pissing up in the Canterbury Club while working out strategies on how to take all that beef, lamb and wool they had stockpiled in new fangled freezers and wool stores to the UK, Europe and the USA and sell it to make 1000’s of %’s profits while never having to lift a fat little white finger. That, is what was happening. The rest of it is a circus of bullshit delivered to us via a corrupt, well lobbied media and all bought and paid for politicians.
That’s all we had then and that’s all we have now. I keep telling you guys. We need a fucking commission of inquiry.
Here’s a challenge for you. Go into the countryside and find a ewe. Watch as she’s mated with a ram. Follow that ewe until she has her lamb and now follow both of them until the lamb’s weaned. Now, follow the lamb. If it’s a ram it’ll almost certainly be neutered then fattened and sold to a mercantile firm who will export the butchered animal to the supermarket in say London.
Go back to where the fattened lamb or hogget is raddled which deems the animal to be fat enough to warrant purchase for on-sale. The animal goes to a point of sale where the real money’s made. A lot of it. Hundreds if not thousands of percent above what the farmer got for it and that money’s almost never seen again. Aye boys?
There’s no Left wing. There’s no real Right wing either. There are only crooks, slaves, schmucks and suckers.
This is bloody interesting and while some of you might think Russell Brands off your topic I think the topic is showing itself as being rather global when it comes to stealing the money of others. And who could blame me for thinking that when you know that the “world’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam” The Oxfam report says that between 2017 and 2018 a new billionaire was created every two days.
So much for a vibrant and powerful Left Wing then. Run down by a super-yacht full of coke freaks. The dirty, filthy, rotten, lucky bastards!
The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/21/world-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-per-cent-oxfam-report
Royal commission of inquiry. Now. Please. Ta.
They’ve convinced themselves they’re not neolibs. Maybe, maybe not but they’re certainly Blair type 3rd wayers. PMC marketing and comms spin meister grifters in suits flipping between gigs for whoever pays the most, and whatever gig will look the best on their CVs and LinkedIn.
These people are media whores. Prostitution serves a purpose, as do sex workers who are far more honest. These guys don’t actually do anything of use and indeed they’re beginning to have a negative effect with the public.
Maybe you could have a look at the PMC’s hereditary nature.
Handed the medicinal cannabis market to corporations
Done nothing about poverty.
Business handouts during covid
Gold plated unemployment scheme during covid worth twice the normal benefit “so as not to affect their living standards” so labour said
supermarkets situation gave them a wet bus ticket
nothing done about the housing market
nothing done about the rental situation
nothing done for employees
Labour is left wing? Fuck off.
” 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. ”
Bomber you are mates with members of this government can you please ask them seriously what left wing transformation means or meant when Jacinda campaigned on it.
Obviously fuck all otherwise we wouldn’t be confronted by another disgusting child poverty report !!!!!!!!!!!!
LINO and its support of anyone above the $60,000 salary cap which is a conservative figure is obvious by their policy direction and the leeches they pay our money to for advice !!!!!!
The real competition between NZLP and National for support is over the people above.
Its easy to come to that reality because since 2017 most of the stats that relate to poverty and the effects of austerity have deteriorated !!! under LINO’s watch than they were after the fall of the last National led government.
But at least the wealthy and the corporates are making amazing profits along with the property millionaire class under either major party in government and their enablers.
Under these conditions a hundred years ago the fightback began with the Labour movement.
Regardless of catchy transformation marketing real change will only come from a new movement standing for economic and social environmental justice.
“they aren’t economically left, they are aesthetically left.”
So well put, you do have a sharp turn of phrase Martyn. I know quite a few people who are “aesthetically left”.
indeed how many of the ‘right on’ vote for their mortgage in the privacy of the polling booth then give a few coppers to greenpeace or oxfam?
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