Wait?
WHAT!
Nicola Willis asks public servants for their ‘best and boldest ideas’
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has implored public servants to bring bold new ideas to the table, while acknowledging the government was “asking a lot” of them at an “unsettling” time.
She also used her address to the Institute of Public Administration to foreshadow a “radical” shake-up of how the government contracts social services.
Willis’ speech comes as the coalition is driving a major cost-cutting exercise across the public service, axing thousands of jobs and initiatives.
…let me get this straight.
National shit all over the public service, slash the public service and underfund it and Nicola wants them to giver her their best ideas???
It’s like an arsonist who has burnt your home down demanding you cook them Christmas dinner!
National are so bereft of ideas, they are begging the very Public Service they are denigrating for ideas.
The truth is that National have nothing more than extreme right wing experiments and their donor talking points as policy and need anything they can hold and distract the electorate with as the economy hits the skids.
The hollowness of their donor talking points once fleshed out makes the legislation so hopelessly one sided for their donors they can’t hide it.
Begging for ideas from the people you shit on is so on brand for National Party though right?
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Here’s an idea Nicola. Tell your gutless leader to grow a spine and stop being used as a door mat by Peters and Seymour. His latest love fest with Peters is pathetic.
Yes what a fucken joke .Instead of sucking Winston he should have gone to the village where our navy sank their second hand ship .
Two lessons fir him to learn ,dont buy second hand ferries ,and step up to the village and the Korean ship builders .
He wont do either of the above because god says they are just bottom feeders .
Yes…a gutless leader who made a really dumb decision when appointing Nicola No Boats as the Finance Minister….what a fucking stupid idea that was.
No experience…
No high level IQ that has the ability to learn fast , dissect and discern copious amounts of information and risk factors to make up for the lack of knowledge.
Just a plain old Joe Blow who cuts for yhe sake of cutting without any consideration of the ‘quid pro quo’ factor…down stream affects…
She trots out the same tired old lines… ” We are going to go through every expense line by line “… blah blah blah.
That approach has never worked!!
It didn’t work for Thatcher or Boris..it didn’t work for Reagan or Trump…It didn’t work for Richardson
Knee Jerk Nicola No Boats is all at sea…lost…and not a lifeboat in sight… Triple dip recession coming up.
Luxon has often said , pathetically and arrogantly, that he is ‘good with numbers’ and that he wasn’t about to be lectured to by Grant Robertson and Labour about economics..
Well it hasn’t taken long for the egg to find the face!!
Stupid woman she has just sacked the real ideas people who work in the back office and the head honcho takes their ideas and claims they are his or her own thoughts .Those back room ideas people have left and are now sharing their ideas with other mor progressive governments world wide .
Thats why she has no plan on how to replace the cook straight ferries .
Stupid woman? I forgot that sexism is fine if the woman is right wing.
Can a factual comment be sexist? Nicola Willis (adult human female) is hardly the sharpest tool in the shed.
An English degree doth not a finance minister make, but your interpretation of GW’s comment might be generous.
What are you saying?that she is really a drag queen or something.As far as I know she is a female human so calling her a woman is not sexist .
It’s not sexism if it’s true.
All the best ideas and solutions and methodology comes from the rank and file workers. Not the consultants or middle and Senior MGMT.
So pay the public service workers below the average wage, all the consultant d hourly rate s and they will give you all the great ideas you need.
The rank and file workers have opted for an easy life. There aren’t many ideas past the weekend.
They have taken all their great ideas off shore where they are very well paid now for those ideas .
It’s proven that rank and file workers have the best ideas and choose the life they live not an easy life as some absolutely nobody suggests.
Can you point us to the proof?
I’m still waiting on your proof they chose an “easy life” ?
They probably couldn’t afford the plane fare Gordon Walker assumes.
So why didn’t she reach out to them before she sacked them she may then have actually saved some jobs
Well there’s a novelty. An accountant without an imagination.
I bet she’s only just discovering the galaxy sized fucking mess we’re in, and why. We WERE rich and world-first until the grave robbers came then went without challenge from a population too self absorbed in their own wondrousness to see privateer burglars walk right past the glittering tee vee then out the front door with the family jewels, bones and all.
Stupid has its own way of meting out justice. A wrecked agrarian primary industry right there, see it? Just over there past the cafe’s, the latte’s and the absurd house prices where the Vampire-like foreign owned banks feast on your blood and your soul as you try to pay them their rort that is your * mort-gage. ( You know what you should do? Stop paying your mortgage and declare war on the Australian owned banks. Why not? They’ve invaded us as sure as if the arrived with guns. )
Australia aye…? Good ol Aussies. How many young Kiwis are flaking out to Australia again? And why? Australia gets our best and brightest and we get their parasitic banksters now wearing the skins of their prey.
https://www.thepress.co.nz/business/350094635/nz-banks-some-most-profitable-world
nicola willis is a three legged nag-donkey. Thinking of how she became minister of finance makes my skin crawl.
We need a royal commission of inquiry up and into every single atom of our politic and our economy urgently.
So why did Willis not ask the service for ideas in the first week of November?
I have a sneaking feeling they would not have suggested cutting 10,000 jobs.
Its like dumping the blame and the problem on those who have been bashed.
What happens if the members say “our suggestion is you reinstate all 10,000 of the jobs you cut”.
Will she then say “thats a great idea I will reinstate all the jobs next week”?.
As with the coalition of crap her days are numbered.
That’s typical corporate neo liberal speak for…. give us your feedback so it looks like were listening and being inclusive then go ahead with her plans anyway regardless.
Seen it so many times in the private sector.
Cut , gut , and invoke fear of more job losses and pay reductions as there are no alternatives.
Spot on Mosa. We’re a Bit over the, ” we really care ” hoax.
yep spent 35 years dealing with that shit daily .
Clusterfuxon’s political mantra:
Get elected.
Form a government.
At any cost.
Sounds like Nicola is doing faux consultation. Surely a managerial class public servant has already been given some Actlas manufactured policy they want suggested.
“Nicola Willis asks public servants for their ‘best and boldest ideas’”.
Another day , another joke
from the NACTZIs
Here’s a tip for Ms.Witless
Whilst losing our best and brightest scientists and researchers
to overseas stop pretending
you didn’t cause the void
of people WITH the new ideas.
By July- 359 specialist science roles
had so far been lost or were proposed to go, with that figure likely to climb. Cuts that amounted to the loss
of more than $50m to science R&D.
The complete absence of a science strategy in NACTZi’s plans with cuts affecting projects such as
geohazards, climate change
and food sustainability.
Tip 2. for Witless –
These projects enacted on
FUTURE focused solutions,
from some of the finest minds,
are worth billions in forward revenue
AND sustainable employment.
( never mind the fact that they’ll
also save farms for the dear Nats vote ).
Tip 3 for Witless-
If you like the pending lawsuits
and being in the public stocks
( eg.see BHP’s shit they are in for
billions of compensation)…
Just keep making Judith,
David and Shane your experts…
uphold the ‘she’ll be right attitude’
and keep endlessly spewing
out the cover up platitudes
Judith – “but in this fiscal environment
it is crucial that our investment
is targeted and aligned with
Government priorities”.
Bahahahaha !
Tip 4-
Stop backing the likes of
unsustainable jobs and low
returns to the Government purse
in seabed, coal and gold mining –
that way too you won’t have to give millions and millions to PI nations for climate crisis.
Tip 5 –
Don’t be witless.
Here’s an old turkish proverb
for you to masticate on
” When a clown moves into the palace,
he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus. ”
Stop being another NACTZi clown, there’s overkill already.
I was looking on MSN the other day .She was slammed by a lot of her government worshipers who managed to survive the pandemic .Amazing how many fucken climate non beleivers over there that dont give a toss about the future because they think the are SORTED .