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.
We must resist this shit but how? How, and where do we start? I personally feel quite threatened by this and that fear is made worse for not knowing what we can do. I can’t see patterns of resistance forming anywhere.
We have no union strength to speak of, we have no financial padding around our personal lives because the banks are using inflated house prices as a control mechanism and the natzo mafia and their hangers on have taken control of the MSM. Imagine if we didn’t have the internet? We’d be really fucked.
What can we do? That’s my deadly serious question. I’ve suggested we approach the crown, both our governor general and White Hall to instigate a royal commission of inquiry into our economy and the politic that’s brought [it] and us to this point. Are there other ways of drawing attention to what’s happening so that we can all join forces to halt the onward march of rogers dangerously enduring neo-liberalism AKA capitalist fascism and please, no tractors or parliamentary lawn sit-ins if that’s what you’re thinking.
A nation wide strike bringing in farmers and their down stream service industry work force would do it but how the fuck could anyone organise that? Our farmers are so brainwashed by national on such a deep psychological level that it’d make *Professor Stanley Milgram gasp in shock.
Chloe Swarbrick is the only person I can think of who could start that kind of movement but even so she’s worryingly very Auckland oriented. Auckland is nice but without wanting to sound unkind no one would miss it. She needs to switch her lens to wide angle to see the scope of the larger picture because in my humble opinion; we’re being stalked like an animal in the wild. There will be dangerous eyes upon us few Kiwis on our beautiful Aotearoa / New Zealand and if we’re not extremely careful we’ll have our country taken from us. We must also remember that these, are unique times because we’ve fucked our only planet. There’s nowhere else to go so in the melee to not cook where we stand there will be eyes on us on our gorgeous country where, just outside my coastal house ( Yes, I have many houses and I’m also rich and ravishingly handsome so…inspiring envy is a hobby of mine. ) the rain is warm and gently falling. NOT 50+ c.
We need to switch from talking about what the problems are to actively doing something about the problems. In my opinion we need to get rid of the sad little carnival of clowns currently in our parliament buildings and get people in who actually know what they’re doing and who will start to do what needs to be done. 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires each with a $50 mil minimum after tax and four Australian owned banks reportedly taking $180.00 a second 24/7/365 sounds outrageous when we have poverty, people living rough, hungry kids, people now crushed by their own dreams of owning a house so let’s focus on them. The ridiculous rich and the Australian banks must be reigned in and the politicians who enable then should be in prison.
Farmers? You’re only 2 to 3 % of AO/NZ’s population and yet you earn *100% of our economy. For Christs sake! Have on opinion! Do something direct that isn’t going to make you look stupid. DO NOT drive a tractor up parliaments steps. DO NOT drive your tractors slowly from here to there. DO NOT ” Yeah-Nah” your way through a conversation with a small bald control-freak narcissist while being filmed.
DO ! Strike. Stay in bed. Pop condoms on your rams and stay in bed.
* Yep. Suck it up.
Starting with an attack on the bankers would be a good start. Farmers are prime targets of those scum like the rest of us.
One would hope that Green John Key, James Shaw, leaving the Greens, that the Greens might start talking tough against the international finance power- but I won’t hold my breath.
Well said, as usual, and I agree it’s terrifying to think the end of NZ/Aotearoa as we know and love it, could be so near.
Every time we look at news there’s another elite crowd trying to pull the wool over our eyes in some way.
I’d say this govt and it’s 2 partners are shooting themselves in the foot and will be lame losers for many decades but it’s the damage they are being allowed to do now which worries me.
Seymour is expecting to become deputy leader by this time next year. I think he’ll be lucky. I’m hopeful that his banishment will start before that and he’ll never get the opportunity. He doesn’t deserve such a privilege.
Like you KWTC, I’d like to see some form of movement beginning perhaps around the GG. I know it’s a non-political office but this time, it seems we will need that kind of hefty support. Labour seems to be asleep, too many sausage rolls and it’s got fat and lazy. Chloe, don’t know that she’s got the nation-wide credibility.
I had hopes something would come of the Maori king movement earlier in the year but it’s got cold and wet and everyone feels even more miserable with Seymour and Co. making our country look stupid and backward. Where is the momentum now?
You are right in that farmers need to do some clear-headed thinking and stop just toeing the party line. Forget stupid antics with tractors and muddy protests on Parliament’s lawn. This is too serious for those idiots to be the front runners.
Come on someone. Where are the promising young leaders we need?
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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