The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 14th February 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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I don’t need to carry in KFC and pretend to care when it’s not a climate event
So, serious question:
Why are so many of the self-proclaimed Left on NZ Twitter promoting KFC all the time? And picturing themselves with free merchandise (and presumably meals?)
Why are so many union comms people promoting KFC (presumably for some kickback) – journalists too… shouldn’t they disclose what sort of deals they have done?
KFC – US crap.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/89378478/crown-seeks-preventive-detention-for-prisoner-who-forced-teenage-cellmate-into-oral-sex
So, why are Corrections not being held to account?? There is no reason for them to allow a newby to share a cell with this guy, no matter how much the kid may have wanted to.
As for this statement …”Judge Field raised concerns about the length of time taken to respond to emergency alerts, but said that was ultimately a matter for prison authorities.”
Sorry Judge Field, but that’s NOT a matter for Prison Authorities. To my mind that is an issue for a higher authority to look at.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/89345614/house-in-polices-sight-after-ministry-of-transports-joanne-harrison-swindled-public
Why oh WHY are we surprised and WHY is it that we should feel outraged? It was inevitable.
When we have a public service based on a corporate model, run as little fiefdoms with KPI’s and purchase agreements all linked to a politician’s desire, risk managed, where common sense is absent, and where there is no regard for that “public” in whose name it operates and who funds it, stories like these are inevitable.
Show me a Munstry or a department that hasn’t become utterly dysfunctional – because I can’t now think of one. There are of course many, many front line public servants who work daily in spite of their overpaid corporate masters rather than because of them.
MoBIE (and its disparate departments cobbled together under a Joyce vanity project), Police, MSD (and all its failings including those of CYFS), Education, Health, Corrections, “Justice”, Eternal Affairs, Munstry of Transport or whatever they call themselves these days that includes NZTA – the people that brought you rules around use of indicators at roundabouts that a majority still can’t understand) ….. and worst of all a State Services Commission whose day to day activities actually involve doing Sweet Fuck All, and who still don’t seem to have successfully implemented a public service code of conduct that most understand, are committed to, and which is monitored, and when breached – offenders are akshully sanctioned.
There’s even STILL a Te Puni Kokiri where the idea of treaty compliance took a back seat many moons ago.
We’ve engineered a public service where corporatism and the road to the fascist state is at 5 minutes to midnight.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/89345614/house-in-polices-sight-after-ministry-of-transports-joanne-harrison-swindled-public
Why oh WHY are we surprised and WHY is it that we should feel outraged? It was inevitable.
When we have a public service based on a corporate model, run as little fiefdoms with KPI’s and purchase agreements all linked to a politician’s desire, risk managed, where common sense is absent, and where there is no regard for that “public” in whose name it operates and who funds it, stories like these are inevitable.
Show me a Munstry or a department that hasn’t become utterly dysfunctional – because I can’t now think of one. There are of course many,many front line public servants who work daily in spite of their overpaid corporate masters rather than because of them.
MoBIE (and its disparate departments cobbled together under a Joyce vanity project),Police, MSD (and all its failings including those of CYFS), Education, Health, Corrections, “Justice”, Eternal Affairs, Munstry of Transport or whatever they call themselves these days that includes NZTA – the people that brought you rules around use of indicators at roundabouts that a majority still can’t understand) ….. and worst of all a State Services Commission whose day to day activities actually involve doing Sweet Fuck All, and who still don’t seem to have successfully implemented a public service code of conduct that most understand, are committed to, and which is monitored, and when breached – offenders are akshully sanctioned.
There’s even STILL a Te Puni Kokiri where the idea of treaty compliance took a back seat many moons ago.