NZ Police want Gun Lobbyist’s to stop making law – hahahahahah

Police Association urges PM to strip gun reform portfolio off Nicole McKee

The Police Association wants responsibility for firearms reform taken off ACT Minister Nicole McKee, saying she’s a former gun lobbyist and has excluded police from consultation.

McKee says the groups being consulted were “largely ignored” during previous consultation for firearms reform, and the suggestion police have been deliberately excluded shows “a paranoia ill-befitting of the organisation”.

She says the firearms registry review has not started yet, and the Association will be able to make submissions in later phases of the reforms.

In an open letter to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, the police union’s president Chris Cahill raised serious concerns about the consultation process for the government’s firearms registry review.

He said the minister had included 17 firearms interest groups in a targeted consultation process for the review, and just other eight groups who may take a differing view.

The association is also not one of them.

“It is our members who are literally in the firing line, combatting the threats posed by criminals all too willing to use firearms. It is police officers and employees who are responsible for administration of the Arms Act and ensuring compliance with this legislation,” Cahill wrote.

“Given our lengthy history in promotion of the safety of our members and the protection of the public, we consider our exclusion raises serious concerns about the integrity of the reviews and the independence of the Associate Minister of Justice, Nicole McKee.”

How do I put this in a polite way.

We are a petty small people who cherish our bigotries while focused on cow udders, Rugby and denying alcoholism.

We are the easily manipulated sleepy Hobbits of Muddle NuZilind and the OECD acknowledges this when they warned us that we are allowing corporate prick consultants to dominate our policy now…

According to an OECD report released today, New Zealand needs to tame its corporate lobbying industry. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has ranked New Zealand as the fourth-worst country among its 38 members when it comes to regulating vested interests that try to influence policymaking.

The OCED report for this country, Product Market Regulation indicators: How does New Zealand compare?, says that New Zealand is one of the few advanced economies that still doesn’t “have adequate rules that ensure transparency and accountability in the interactions between public officials and interest groups”. They warn that this absence threatens to produce an “unlevel playing field” in which big businesses can dominate and monopolise New Zealand industries, reducing productivity.

The report evaluates all the regulations in economies such as New Zealand to highlight where regulation, or a lack of it, leads to reduced economic competition. The OECD performs this process every five years, using about 1000 questions relating to each country’s regulatory framework. Overall, the quality of New Zealand’s regulations is deemed to be very close to the average in the OECD—the country ranks 20 out of the 38 organisation members.

Regarding lobbying regulations, the OECD measures each country on a scale between 0 to 6, in which 0 means “more transparent” and 6 means “less transparent”. Countries at the top of the scale, like France and Ireland, have excellent lobbying scores – both on 0.86 out of 6, and even the US is near the top, with a very good score of 1.71. New Zealand is at the other end with a score of 4.93 out of 6. The only OECD countries faring worse are Slovakia (5.14), Luxemburg (5.57) and Turkey (5.57).

…this is a point that all the right wing Trolls who scream about Jacinda never ever admit.

You’ll never see any of the ZB Trolls acknowledge that the Right have elected and empowered these corporate consultant pricks so that our policy is their profit margin!

The Right never acknowledge how they have empowered these corporate interests and we have allowed Big Tobacco, Trans National mining Interests and the Real Estate Pimps to run wild over policy against the common good.

That’s fine and dandy because there isn’t anyone strong enough in society to stop them, but gleefully we have the much vaunted Police Association in opposition and for the first time the Right will feel a tad split.

On the one hand, the Right are pro-Police to the point of sexual fetish, but on the other hand they love guns.

For the Police Association to highlight the power of a gun lobbyist like McKee and demand she is dumped from making any more policy is just too gorgeous for words.

I want the Police Association and ACT to fight to the death.

We all do.

This is the Government the Right voted in, corporate consultants and lobbyists who manipulate our anger and prejudice to make themselves more money.

We were once a better people than this.