GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – This isn’t holding the Government to account, it’s being a clown!
I know National Party MP, Alfred Ngaro, He works hard for his Pacific constituents and he is passionate about being National’s spokesperson for Children and the Community, but revelations this week that he has been lodging 1000 written questions a single day to purposely clog up the resources of the Government are shameful.
This Government welcomes critical analysis, we are all believers in democracy and the importance of the function of the Opposition to be the check and balance to political power, but lodging 1000 written questions a day is not holding the Government to account, it’s a shameful waste of resources that would be better put elsewhere. It’s also an interesting aside that we haven’t heard a peep out of the so called Taxpayers Union about this very conscious decision to clog the machinery of Government to excess, wasting taxpayers money in the process.
A tactic National have adopted since becoming the Opposition is lodging tens of thousands of pointless questions just to shut down the Government from pushing through its agenda because it’s too busy answering disingenuous questions.
In our first year in office, National have lodged 42 000 questions, when Labour were in Opposition for our first year, we asked less than 20 000 written questions.
We must have a robust democracy and we must always be questioned, but this is a childish tactic that is beneath the National Party and its MPs.
Let’s stop the silly time wasting and get on with the job the people voted us in to do.
Willie Jackson is the Minister for Employment
Well said
Indeed, where is the so-called “Taxpayers Union” in all this? Oh, that’s right, theyre all National party supporters……
Okay Willie, here’s a question for the gentleman given he likes to protect the young: why did National grant Thiel a passport given Thiel’s stated interest in young blood. Whose NZ blood is he bottling? Someone in National will know, best guess would be an ex-PM.
https://gawker.com/peter-thiel-is-interested-in-harvesting-the-blood-of-th-1784649830
Vampire anyone?
Remember to thank the Greens for making this possible…
(Didn’t they give ‘their’ questions to the Natz?)
I still don’t understand why the Greens made this stupid offer to National. Maybe James Shaw will advise us what was their strategy for this obvious stupidity.
Ditto. I wonder if the Greens foresaw this would happen?
Perhaps its time for them to reconsider their “generosity” and take back their allotted questions.
So, will there be a campaign to get Trevor to put Alfred Ngaro on the straight and narrow, or are we just going to let this nonsense keep going?
Even twenty thousand is a sick joke.
Alfred the Polynesian Zionist what the hell is he playing at, playing silly buggars by the sound of it ?
Ngaro is a self-important dildo. I suggest the new government takes a leaf out of “Sir” John Key’s book and doesn’t bother answering any of the opposition’s questions if they’re going to act like small children.
My taxes are paying for those sods to be in parliament, and even if I don’t agree with any of their policies, I expect them to behave like adults while they’re there.
The sad thing is, it’s not “beneath the National Party” at all. It’s exactly the sort of thing you’d expect from that vindictive collection of hideous old reptiles. They lost the election. National don’t cope well with losing. They’re prone to tantrums and throwing things. And when that doesn’t get any traction they resort to sabotage. It’s just how they roll.
Just watch the next two years the Natzi’s will start playing dirty, the kids were wounded at the 2017 Election and they are not happy about Winnie sucking up to Labour.
It is going to be fun and I know National have a Copy of the Latest Crosby Textor Dirty Tricks Manual 2019.