MEDIA WATCH: Jack Tame destroys National Party Finance Spokesperson Paul Goldsmith’s climate denial & hoax regulation bonfire
Thank God for Jack Tame and Q&A last night.
National have launched their bonfire to burn regulation madness which is funny because they utterly ignore climate change in their economic policy release.
National are playing to the petty bigotry and low imagination horizon of muddle Nu Zilind by trying to claim we are awash with useless red tape that is slowing down our economy, yet as Jack Tame devastatingly pointed out, the National Party in the last term of Office actually conducted a Rules Reduction Taskforce to look at this exact issue and what did the Rules Reduction Taskforce find?
It was a surprise to us to find out that a number of the loopy rules are in fact just myths. They are misinterpretations and misunderstandings that have been repeated so often that they have taken on the status of facts. We heard many examples where people are not clear about what they need to do and why. Myths fill the gap when clear information is hard to find. We highlight these myths in this report along with the loopy rules that need to be changed or removed. We discovered that loopy rules are difficult to get rid of because they’re part of a wider system, because a focus on the customer is absent, or because of the interests of experts or the fears of their administrators. What’s clear is they thrive when rule makers fail to take responsibility for them.
…well, well, well. Over regulation is just a myth and demanding to burn two for every one implemented is like amputating any foot with an ingrown toenail! National have already looked to reduce regulation and their very own Task force found that the whole over regulation was a myth!
But the Q&A debate went further, after highlighting this myth to Goldsmith, Jack asked why National’s economic plan didn’t bother mentioning climate change once, and Goldsmith’s stumbling, bumbling explanation that tripped over itself and accidentally fell into the red tape bonfire he was lighting is the kind of delightful self mutilation only a self published author could manage.
So National are promising a bonfire of red tape that doesn’t exist while ignoring a climate crisis that does exist???
If NZers are stupid enough to vote for this, we all deserve damnation brothers and sister.
Amazing journalism from Jack Tame.
And that is all it takes to unravel such a shallow party the national party ask the hard questions thank you Jack Tame
Oh dear, the economic ignorance of trained economists rather than educated economist. His responses are typically of the dogmatic approach of a trained economist. Grow is good, grow or die, climate emergency denial, fear of regulation when it’s clear that good regulation allows for good economic decision making, they are all just ignorant repetitions of the mantras of neoliberalism
Q&A is really lite weight now with a smart arse presenter always looking for away to trip up whoever he is interviewing . Hard to take the programme seriously any more
Comrade, I disagree, Jack really nailed Goldsmith with the previous taskforce pointing out that the over-regulation myth is just a myth and also threw Goldsmith when he pointed out that in 40 pages of economic policy, there wasn’t one mention of climate change, that’s very good journalism and highlighted the yawning gaps in National’s vision.
Whether you like Jack’s style is a moot point when he is bringing that level of insight.
why is it light weight trevor because Goldsmith got owned by Jack
The only lightweights are the ones who think it’s hilarious to troll New Zealand’s Prime Minister for being unwed and such sexiest bullshit. Y’know all the ones with out the brains for policy.
Imagine if National Party MPs had to answer to someone like Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan. You’d never get the blood out of the furnishings.
So basically it is reconstituted National political ideology from 30 years ago, when they embarked on deregulation of the labour markets and certain skill based industries. They were warned by certain advisors not to take this path, as it would lead to a rise in work place safety incidents, decline in skill levels and poor standards of productivity/practices.
10 years later – BOOM. Distinctional building industry full of cowboys, building defects, rise in accidents, leaky buildings, dodgy developers scarpering from responsibility, heartbreak for owners.
Then there is the hostility industry, that struggled, and still struggles to get enough skilled chefs and management today because of the very same reasons made 3 decades ago by National
30 years later, we are still paying for all this and playing catchup. It has, and is still costing the country 10s of billions of dollars in redressing the defects and lost productivity. All thanks to National’s narrow mindedness, and their minority, yet , influential “donor’s greedy pursuit of the quick dollar.
If even more than enough to put this irresponsible party back in power to repeat this policy of deregulation to potentially reak hovoc on various sectors, and allow unscrupulous individuals to thrive again, then we are a truly stupid nation.