What everyone is missing in the negative Mood of the Boardroom rankings
There is a hilarious disconnect between the media’s screaming negative headline coverage of the Mood of the Boardroom, what the tribal left are screaming back and what was actually said.
The negative headlines paint Labour out as economically incompetent while the tribal left are screaming back ‘Fuck the CEOs’, what no one (other than Dr Bryce Edwards) seemed to actually do is read what the CEOs were saying, and it’s hilarious.
The CEOs aren’t attacking Labour for economic incompetence, they are attacking Labour because Labour haven;’t actually be transformative on housing, poverty or inequality…
Interestingly, business leaders have some of the same concerns about Ardern’s Government as those on the political left – especially the failure to deliver on their promises.
For example Don Braid of Mainfreight, who has in the past been quite supportive of the Government, says: “There is a lack of direction and sure-footed policy to combat the failings around health, education, housing and crime. Stop the political posturing and interference. Focus on the core fundamentals and then get out of the way.”
When asked about Ardern’s delivery of “transformative change”, business execs rated her only 1.7/5. According to the Herald, a typical comment from business was: “Lots of talk on policy but little actual impact”.
Some of the areas that business rated the Government most poorly on are also areas that Labour supporters might also feel disappointed about. Here are some of Labour’s worst marks from business:
• Addressing the housing shortage 1.81/5
• Improving children’s wellbeing 1.80/5
• Addressing transport constraints 1.80/5
• Immigration 1.36/5
…NZ Business ‘gets’ that the welfare of their workers has to at least be tolerable or they won’t/can’t work!
The criticism from CEOs is that Labour haven’t actually been transformative on the fundamental issues they expected Labour to be transformational on.
Tribal Labour apologists are just endlessly screaming back at the CEOs without appreciating that the CEOs criticisms of Labour are exactly the same as actual progressive problems with this Government.
In all the noise and shouting the actual issues CEOs have with Labour are totally drowned out.
Which is the point right?
As we stare down 12 months till the next election, the tribal left have to hide and gloss over all the enormous policy failures by Labour rather than actually hold them to account.
It is outrageous that Luxon wants to punish those on welfare with disabilities, yet it turns out that Labour have spent the last 5 years doing exactly that and have sanctioned 4000 disabled teens on welfare.
Tribal Left shhh you when you point this out and that’s why they are shushing this Mood of the Boardroom report.
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The views of business are generally not worth a tin of the proverbial. Yes, at the moment employers need workers in a reasonable state for their own purposes. It is recent history (COVID) that brings us here.
Migrant labour will top up the numbers soon enough. NZ Labour Caucus will only change with pressure from new gen voters and a revitalised left/union movement taking direct action.
Retiring Rogernomics & Ruthanasia & sadistic MSD really need to be the priority.
Well pointed out.
It is dripping with irony that even “Business” can see Labour’s many substantial failings that the rest of us who voted time and again for these morons, can.
If Labour get a bit of a pasting at the upcoming local body elections in Auckland, and I suspect they will, figuratively, the ship has officially hit the iceberg.
Jacinda needs to get back to NZ pronto and her and Grant need to get their heads out of their arses and wake up and ACTUALLY address many of their policy shortcomings, not do announcements.
Housing. Start borrowing big and build state houses. Buy flat pack houses from China if that what it takes, opening the immigration dam to builders with guaranteed citizenship. As in crisis setting policy management type of urgency.
Crime. Another day, another extremely violent robbery in a mall, fucking over ordinary people in the process plus sundry unreported robberies over the 24 hour period. People are on edge. Abandon the empty prison corner stone policy that has led to this mahem, put the word out to the judiciary, (as they have done before to arrive at this point), to cut the mushy shit and sentence properly, threaten the youth court with extinction unless it does what it’s was legislated to do and get a real police commissioner, for Christ sake! Getting Chippy as police minister was premium Ardern appearance management over substance. It just got worse. Honestly, this situation cannot go on!
But watching our PM lately is sad, she knows only PR and her hollow style is going to annihilate Labour as a brand permanently if someone in that party doesn’t bypass her torpor and act fast to stem the bleeding. They are up against the dull, loathsome Luxon and they’re still losing, not surprisingly!
And at least Muldoons government built things that have stood the test of time!!!
You do realise that tough on crime leads to curbing of civil liberties and an increase in police brutality. Do you really want police to be able beat people within an inch of their lives, or gun them down like dogs?
The excecution of George Floyd was thanks to the zero tolerance, broken windows style policing that you seem to get off on.
Apart from you who is saying “beat people within an inch of their lives”, “gun them down like dogs “, and the most weird, “execution of George Floyd”, you do realise none of the above will happen, ever, to reduce the crime wave we are living through except in your fantasy world, don’t you?
Well you seem to think that this country should become a police state, where people are gunned down by police on a regaular basis, and our prisons should become like those in the USA, with gangs allowed to shank and rape who they like
Why are your arguements always so over the top. George Floyd was a tragedy but police being tougher on crime does not mean necessarily that police turn into brutal beings. It is obvious to all except those that cannot fault this government in any way that they are softbound crime and the crimes know .Ram raids daylight robbery violence are all out of control and innocent people are effected .If being safe means a few civil libertis are surrendered that is fine by me .
Well there you go, you do support police brutality, violence, lynching and the suspension of due process. I supposed you think prisoners should be raped and shanked too.
Addressing immigration seems to be a open door to fraudsters coming into NZ from OZ, UK, Asia and around the world and then picking off NZ victims, while NZ recruiters fail to do proper checks!
NZ also exports NZ fraudsters and tax evaders like Eric Watson and co horts who seems to be a favourite of media and government in NZ and some of NZ’s biggest companies have shady pasts under shady CEO’s and ownership of those shady transactions.
Former Bendon owner Watson targeted by SEC for insider trading
https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/former-bendon-owner-eric-watson-targeted-by-sec-for-insider-trading-20210712-p588wy
Government and NZ recruiters have not learnt from Joanne Harrison and the plethora of other cases of fraudsters in NZ local and central government, in fact they seem to welcome fake CV’s and Eric Watson like scams, as part of NZ corporate culture of ripping people off. This guy managed to get an advisory spot at Ministry of Social Development before taking over a council owned company.
“What was missing was the handful of civil lawsuits over fraud and unpaid money; the NZ$30 million of damages he has been ordered to pay; alleged drink-driving charges in 2011, 2014 and 2018; and a restraining order from an ex-fiancee. All of it amounted, as former friend Evan Levine put it, to a “trail of horror”.
New Zealand recruiters never discovered any of it, allowing Boyd, an Australian, to work for more than two years as a senior adviser at the Ministry of Social Development before becoming the boss of CCHL, a company owned by Christchurch ratepayers.”
Chief executive’s ‘trail of horror’ includes fraud, debts and drink-driving
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/better-business/129979753/chief-executives-trail-of-horror-includes-fraud-debts-and-drinkdriving
Sounds like he didn’t actually work at the US banks….. nobody checked.
Appointment to the role of Chief Executive Officer for CCHL
https://www.nzx.com/announcements/385176
Tim who? US bank never employed ex-CCHL boss
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/ceo/tim-who-us-bank-never-employed-ex-cchl-boss
Too many fraudsters getting legitimacy from working in NZ government agencies – many of whom use it to go on and defraud other people in NZ!
Sadly the culture of NZ supports fraud and secrecy at the highest levels and NZ recruiters and media’s ability to look into some NZ self celebrated names but shady pasts, is non-existent.
In addition many of the whistle blowers remain under the mercy of the fraudsters with NZ’s government officials hiding the fraudsters in plain sight and supporting offenders, who victimise others working with them.
Whistleblowers tell of ‘incredible’ day their jobs were axed
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/331250/whistleblowers-tell-of-incredible-day-their-jobs-were-axed
Subsequent investigations found them not to have been made redundant due to Joanne Harrison…. it was just a coincidence.
Funny how the questionable mangers are safe, while the more skilled employees under the incompetent managers keep being forced to leave government organisations.
‘Not fit for purpose’: Waka Kotahi road safety team faces restructure
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/waka-kotahi-unit-facing-restructure-deemed-no-longer-effective-documents-reveal/
Indeed. This is the flip side of Walmart in the US telling their workers how to apply for benefits because their pay is so low. This is what you see when our support for the working poor is so bad that companies can’t even tell their workers to get extra benefits.
@ Mohammed Khan,
That is the direction NZ has gone – where highly profitable consumer companies like supermarkets or ‘NZ land banking’ tourism ventures are supported by taxpayers to top up their growing workforces low wages.
Apparently even airline pilots need food stamps in the US ….
University lecturers in the UK are homeless…
Why the west is falling and in division amongst it’s own people in terms of civil war and disobedience. Thatcherism, Rogernomics, Neoliberalism, does not work long term and eventually destroys the countries people and society from the inside out.
savenz
Can you pass on the link about the airline Pilots in USA? I’d like to read that.
Hi Greywarbler, hope you are having a great weekend, here is the link.
Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ – Pilots on Food Stamps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQJx3L_CDQ
‘My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/30/my-students-never-knew-the-lecturer-who-lived-in-a-tent
Agreed Martyn.
While Labour’s aims may be admirable, they’re simply not competent enough to deliver them.
Why are your arguements always so over the top. George Floyd was a tragedy but police being tougher on crime does not mean necessarily that police turn into brutal beings. It is obvious to all except those that cannot fault this government in any way that they are softbound crime and the crimes know .Ram raids daylight robbery violence are all out of control and innocent people are effected .If being safe means a few civil libertis are surrendered that is fine by me .
Sorry Trevor but your general reference to crime and support of Labour is just nonsense. I credited you with more common sense than the idiots Bob and coward Kraut.