If you thought Seymour was going to pause his hard right agenda, oh you are deeply mistaken, like Thanos, he now wants to just cut half the entire State...
The proposal, which Seymour says could be Act Party policy for next year’s election, plans to abolish some of the 82 ministerial portfolios and to either cut or merge the roughly 40 Government departments.
…it’s total madness inspired by Musk’s DOGE and Javier Milei’s chainsaw.
It is nothing short of a full frontal attack on the State masquerading as cost cutting.
So not only is Seymour trying to start a race war and implement property rights above human rights, he’s going to snap his fingers and simply destroy half the State for the pure ideological symmetry of it?
He thinks the Māori Chiefs who signed the Treaty, Nelson Mandela and Jesus Christ would vote ACT, at some point the rest of NZ is going to stand and deny him right?
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Good idea David .Lets start by slashing the number of Mps starting with the ones that dont have any electorate MPs such as all NZ first .Then cut the list Mps from all other parties so we only have elected people in Parliament
Gordon, absolutely agree. Get rid of the list MPs and MMP. It empowers nutters.
If we have to have big government, can it be at least competent? Just please?
Good luck with that dream Henry
It’s interesting that you ask that @ H.F.
What we must remember, indeed urgently reaquaint ourselves with is the fact that it is WE who are the government. That’s why we call ourselves a democracy and vote and pay taxes to maintain a certain managerial vector in the best interests of us lot. The politicians you see in there currently are not that. They’re merely admin and our admin has been bought by multi-billionaires ( Graeme hart for example, donated $700,000 to the natzo coagulation of useless fucks being $400K to luxon, $200 K to seymour while peters got $100K )
There must be a reboot of our political infrastructure because although we pay massive salaries to greedy halfwits with deep pockets we get lobbyist influence at the behest of rich privateers to fuck us while they steal our money, but perhaps worst of all, they steal our time.
I’ve just bought this little book by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison titled ‘ The Invisible Doctrine.’
The secret history of neoliberalism.
The inside jacket reads : ” We live under and ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental well being; the planet we inhabit-the very air we breath. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable, like a natural law.
George Monbiot talks about Neoliberalism, Climate Change, Migration: George Monbiot in conversation with Verso
https://youtu.be/Z7MFJ4EFezQ?feature=shared
I love listening to seymour spout lies about minimising government. Even though he knows that we know he’s lying, he just keeps on lying.
We have more government ministers than the UK which has a population and GDP more than ten times greater than ours. We have Ministers of Racing and Space FFS.
We can’t afford nice things in NZ like doctors, cancer drugs and MRI machines because we piss away our limited revenue on unproductive things.
Seymour talked up ending the school lunch programme. He ended up expanding eligibility.
Seymour spent half a term promoting his Treaty Principles Bill. At the second and final reading, he failed to win a single vote from an MP outside his own party.
As part of a government that has created new ministerial portfolios such as Regulation, Mental Health, and the South Island, Seymour now talks of a reduction in the number of ministers.
He’s kinda full of shit.
David Seymour is as usual absolutely correct.
‘David Seymour is as usual absolutely correct.’
Bob the first prize winner of the ” I want to have Seymour’s baby’ essay writing contest. Reward, a framed picture of Saint David with a year’s supply of worship candles.
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