Just like TDB warned you, there was always a secret State Asset agenda in the background…
State-owned enterprises sale decisions will not happen before election – minister
The state-owned enterprises minister Paul Goldsmith says the government has been clear it would not sell state-owned enterprises without campaigning on that.
However, he did not rule out campaigning on such a move in future.
“We’ve always been clear that if we were going to sell them, we would take that to an election as a commitment, and so we’ll do that,” he said.
He said Cabinet had not yet made decisions on what might replace the Interislander ferries.
An independent report on the options for doing so was delivered last month, but has not yet been released.
“These are big decisions to make, we’re just going through the options at the moment, and when we’ve got something to announce, we’ll announce it.”
…just like TDB warned you, here comes the privatisation…
Chris Bishop cites private sector spending for infrastructure funding and user-pays
The Infrastructure Minister wants more private sector financing, such as public-private partnerships (PPPs), to pay for major projects.
In a speech to Local Government New Zealand on Thursday night, Chris Bishopsaid he wanted Government grant funding to become a last resort for councils.
“My speech talks about some of the things we’ve been talking about as a Government for six months, and we’ve actually campaigned on – so making greater use of tolls, public private partnerships, things like value capture as well,” he told Morning Report on Friday.
…this mutation of a road policy that National have trotted out slashes public transport infrastructure and is a naked attempt to push poor people off the roads!
This is user pays privatisation of our Roads, exactly as TDB warned you and we are seeing the same scam in public health we saw in public housing with the Government manufacturing a funding crisis they create!
In the Budget, National allocated just 2.9% increase to health services but inflation was 3.3% and population growth 2.6% while an ageing population adds more to costs.
National gave 2.9% for health but we needed 8% to stand still, is the electorate dumb enough to fall for National’s latest manufactured public service crisis to introduce more failed free market reforms?
The Minister says we can’t afford $1.4billion for health but we could borrow $14billion for tax cuts!
Is the electorate dumb enough to believe this?
The political agenda of the Right is to underfund public services and claim privatisation is the solution.
You are being collectively tricked again New Zealand!
We’re not as dumb as they are expecting us to believe their shilly-shallying and subterfuge. Deferring decisions until post-election is deplorable, but more will be done by stealth as has already been done in the health sector, and with the counter-productive dumbing down of education, preparing the way for more privatisation here too. Goldsmith can’t even articulate anything competently, and only a fool would believe a tobacco salesman – in a government lead by a soap salesman.
Ithink most of the New Zealanders who are capable of doing that sort of arithmetic have already left.
Henry Filth This is partly why I wonder whether government opting out of paying the NZ Police Force a decent wage is also part of an underhand political agenda.
The private run ferries have not experienced any of the problems the Railway run have .
Kiwibank is so poorly resourced the country does not use it .
Any of us old enough to remember when the State was in control can recall what a terrible job they made of it .
Strong oversight over a privatized market is the best answer .
Bluebridge does not have Nicola selling any replacement boats before they get delivered. I have no doubt that the Interislander could be trouble-free if the politicians & especially corrupt politicians like those in charge now just left them to do their job.
The boats were not the problem it was the jetties that were running away with the money .The budget had totally blown out and even Labour said they would find it hard to accept. The ships have been cleared to run for 5 more years so no need to panic .The last grounding was poor seamanship not due to an problem with the ship
Here we are happily being trundled along the path to Belt and Road solutions.
Those of us old enough, born and bred and brought up in this country know what a great job the state did. You weren’t .
Privatization created inequality, fact.
In 73 it took 18 months to get a phone on you needed to check which xmas the card you received was meant for railways had 24 thousand workers many were moonlighting at the same time.The only good thing was the great MOW which did a great job of building the infrastructure that we still rely on .From memory a Labour minister broke it up and sold it .
bull shit one of the blue bridge ferries shit its self a few months ago and could not sale .They are just tubs compared to the new ferries we were buying .Kiwi rail will need to buy at least 3 to keep up with expected growth as 2 corollas dont equal two Hino trucks do they .
Yes private banks are the answer with 8 billion a year leaving the country .Imagine if all that money was actually kept and invested right here in NZ
Have you ever been a passenger on BlueBridge?
I’d rather drown
Mmmmmm. I suspect you wouldn’t.
Bluebridge does not transport trains so not comparable with the state funded ferry.
Trev blah blah you need to frighten us with some reliable facts, to get us to read you from top to your smelly little toes.
Even the police commisioner is closing up shop and moving on .He can see no future with shrinking police force expected to do more .Family harm is now off the action list along with mental health crisis in the commuinity as we focus on taking gang patches and kicking kids around in boot camps
Correct Gordon, we’ll said.
I don’t think anyone is going to miss Coster right or left.
To be fair it would be hard working to the loony tune of Labours soft attitude to law and order
Very few commissioners stay for a second term.
Even Lord Vetinari in Pratchett’s Discs saw the advantage of setting up official football matches with prizes for the hoi polloi. And he was a pretty tough geezer, high in the instep as they would say in Regency times (Georgette Heyer).
Anne Perry’s book Southampton Row is about some dodgy people but they had good police aiming to provide appropriate controls on the public and their own Forces. That It’s a really complex story of the highly developed art of political back-stabbing and maneouvring.
Big items important to the future outcomes of NZ citizens like population planning, i.e. asking NZ’s what size population they want in 10 years and asset sales should go to referendum, and be binding.
It is already clear NZ’s are not keen on asset sales by the 67% No vote in the 2013 referendum when Key was in charge, but as it was not binding he ignored it and sold down the power companies anyway.
In 73 it took 18 months to get a phone on you needed to check which xmas the card you received was meant for railways had 24 thousand workers many were moonlighting at the same time.The only good thing was the great MOW which did a great job of building the infrastructure that we still rely on .From memory a Labour minister broke it up and sold it .
Moonlighting – they must have wanted to work in those days not like the layabouts now !! People working at less than optimum level, are better ’employed’ than being left staring disconsolately at their cellphones like zombies and applying for jobs where the advertiser won’t even reply or only accepts machine driven applications and nothing you have of that nature works. If youre skint you can’t charge the phone, the van has leaked on your computer and fused the keyboard etc. You fatheads that run everybody down haven’t a f…….g clue.
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