Mr Rafael Gonzalez-Montero, the Chief Executive of Parliamentary Services, is the legal employer of all staff at parliament. After an inquiry Nick Smith MP was found to have bullied a young staffer who was blameless. It was so serious Mr Smith resigned.
Right-wingers oppose state-provided social programs like education, health, and welfare services on the grounds that they create powerful and wasteful new bureaucracies. But it’s means-tested benefits, not universal programs, that empower bureaucrats to act like petty tyrants.
The liberal middle class have spent two weeks attacking Chris Luxon as an appalling right winger and telling us how we should be very afraid of a Luxon-led government.
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ONE UNION has written to the Speaker of the House today requesting he take action against the chief executive of Parliamentary Services over his conduct relating to bullying by Mr Nick Smith MP.
To celebrate the Labour-Green policy announcement that an entire category of crime (sexual offending) can be “ultimately eliminated” if given a twenty-five-year period of attention (after thousands of years of modern human existence in which crime has obviously been a concomitant), the government last week chose to pump the Sexual Violence Bill to the top of the parliamentary order paper.
Who will stand for Justice?
The Sexual Violence Bill now before Parliament this week is a travesty that strengthens the already strong arm of the state and subverts a central tenet of our legal system – the presumption of innocence
This isn’t a Left or Right wing issue, it’s about justice and the values we have built into that justice system.
The irony of all of this is that there now must be an inquiry – NOT into how the Police arrived at this stupid decision, but into how the fuck this was leaked out of the Intelligence Unit and given to Slater with such precision he knew how to word the OIA request!