Still doing ram raids under National but less jobs to apply for given Nationals high unemployment rate.

They don’t vote. Unfortunately, it’s the criminals who do.

Backbenchers from all Parties work hard at looking after their constituents.That role plus the ministry work they do means most do 60 to 70 hrs weekly . I would be surprised if many on this forum could handle the pressure.

The young people under Labour were too busy doing ram raids to attack pensioners

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/10/mental-health-leaders-resign-in-latest-health-nz-departure/

Thanks Rangi. Do you think TPM are aware of this? Why aren’t Labour and the Greens standing up and saying something? I don’t get it. It feels bad – really bad.

Do backbenchers do anything useful? Since the govt has sacked scores of public servants in the various ministries, couldn’t the decision making that those sacked public servants did, be taken over by backbenchers, to give them more to do than smile and laugh? For example, instead of just having a minister of health and associate minister, why not subdivide the various elements of health, such as pharmac, aged care, gp’s, specialists, training, etc, and put backbanchers in charge of some of their decision making?
Or do politicians not want such reponsibility, and taking the blame when things go wrong, instead of just being able to blame public servants.
The current system has a bloated parliament with backbenchers who sit around smiling and laughing, and ever larger govt ministries to look after public hospitals, that once upon a time, all looked after themselves, quite efficiently.

WINSTON: What the hell…I never signed up for this young lady…you put me in charge of the ferry situation because you weren’t competent enough to do it yourself…first you threw away $300000000, when you mucked up the original perfectly good ferry deal…and now you’re trying to muck up my own perfectly good ferry deal…so I’m going to tell you what the reality is…either you go along with the deal I’ve put together…or that 2026 election, is going to be happening next month…do I make myself clear?

If only

Spot on I have been talking to plenty of NGOs in our small Far North town and all of them are having massive funding cuts at the end of June this year.
Apart from the fact they are a huge employer here, they provide essential addiction and mental health services.
There will be people tasered in the streets again on a daily basis, just like 7.5 years ago and packs of 11 year old kids standing over every OAP they come across for their pension.
Happy days are coming.