MSD cruelty reminds us what Weaponized Wellington Karens can justify

ByMartyn Bradbury
Weaponized Wellington Karen and RNZ enthusiast, 'just following orders'

Wow, she’s just following orders …

MSD boss defends linking staff performance with cutting emergency housing

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD)’s boss is defending linking staff performance with cutting emergency housing numbers, saying it’s executing the government’s policy.

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The coalition has set out to largely get rid of emergency housing, with ministers repeatedly saying squalid motels are no place for people to live.

As part of that effort it put up a target to reduce the number of households in emergency housing by 75 percent by the end of 2029 – which was achieved last year – and introduced rules making emergency housing harder to get into, and harder to stay in.

On Sunday TVNZ’s Q+A revealed MSD managers have performance measures related to reducing emergency housing numbers, which the Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson labelled a perverse incentive to decline people help.

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…MSD cruelty reminds us what Weaponized Wellington Karens can justify.

I’ve always loathed MSD and WINZ. Their cruelty towards the most vulnerable is almost legendary and listening to the latest Angry Wellington Karen justifying the cruelty is so on brand for this Government.

The Wellington Bureaucracy isn’t left wing! It’s a self interested Professional Managerial Class who use identity politics to mask their neoliberal hands-off-do-nothing-but-build-glass-palaces fiefdoms.

Oh they do the reo, and expose their pronouns and militantly ride bikes, they are effortless in their use of inclusion as a means to dominate and control the narrative, but they are a middle class clique, not left wing egalitarianism.

The Wellington Bureaucracy is a culture war of woke middle class Identity Politics aspirations backed with State funding, they may aesthetically be Left but they sure as fuck aren’t economically Left.

To brand the Public Service as ‘Left’ misdiagnoses the disease, symptom and patient!

The Right’s never ending march to amputate and slice down the State is so that the people don’t get used to a well functioning public service and so will politically agree to starve it of funds via tax cuts.

We need a bigger State with actual capacity rather than the threadbare barely regulated joke that it currently is.

We shouldn’t agree to cutting public services, we should fund their capacity and infrastructure rebuild while making the working conditions for those there a better quality!

Until we do that, the Professional Managerial Class will continue producing Weaponized Wellington Karens to implement right wing revenge fantasies as social policy.

 

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  1. We’re history in the making. We must all act to rid ourselves of the parasitic political anomaly commonly known as neoliberalism.
    Neoliberalism’s causing grave damage to our society and general infrastructure and we must get rid of it immediately. Yesterday preferably. Anyone got access to a time machine?
    ‘neoliberalism’ is nothing more than a mechanism which enables sociopathic narcissists to exploit us and degrade us for their egos, wealth creation and status and that’s done by infecting public infrastructure with hate, confusion and capitalising on the divisive hardship the disciples of neoliberalism feast on.
    Know your enemy. Sun Tzu.
    Look at this.
    The Guardian
    Burning flags, busty blondes and bison skulls: 48 photographs that capture America at 250
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/america-250-anniversary-photos-civil-rights-moon-landing-9-11-gold-rush

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