What has NZ First Minister Mark Patterson done?
MPI withdraws staff from NZ First Minister’s office after complaints
The Ministry for Primary Industries has stopped seconding its staff into NZ First Minister Mark Patterson’s office.
Patterson is the Minister for Rural Communities and the Associate Agriculture Minister.
A whistleblower came forward to 1News raising concerns about the treatment of MPI staff in the Minister’s office. It is understood formal complaints have been made and more than one MPI staff member has left the office. No MPI staff are still working in the office.
Patterson is not directly involved in the incidents and the Minister brought in Ministerial Services once he was made aware of the complaints.
This doesn’t really make any sense does it?
It’s about his office – but not about him?
Does he smell or something?
Does he put out a foul odour that staff avoid?
Is it someone he has brought with him? Sometimes MPs bring their electorate staff into an Office and they sometimes don’t get along with the Wellington Staff, but to have an entire agency not send specialist staff to a Minister is concerning because it means the Minister is making decisions without the specialist staff he needs.
The rural community should actually be quite pissed with this outcome.
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Perhaps Chris Luxon Gould go on Mike Hoskings show and explain
watching Musk and Trump do NZ National Party v2 on steroids. there is an insidious ultra-right agenda at play and it’s got it’s hooks into hobbiton and yankville
What is the Minister for Rural Communities even doing in Wellington.
Should he not be out and about doing something useful
1.driving a school bus closer to the farm
2.delivering meals to rural schools
3.sorting out a regular RD service
4.finding some GP’s (and staff) for rural practice
5.
You’ll have to wait until the Prime Minister is back in the country. Can you imagine the fuss if Seymour sacked him? It’d be all on…
Perhaps some staff are allergic to essential oils? If someone was using one it could bring on an anaphylactic attack.
https://www.allergy.org.nz/education/anaphylaxis/
…Any ONE or more of the following symptoms is a sign of anaphylaxis:
difficulty with or noisy breathing
swelling of the tongue
swelling or tightness in the throat
wheeze or persistent cough
difficulty talking and/or hoarse voice
persistent dizziness, loss of consciousness and/or collapse
becoming pale and floppy (in young children).
Abdominal pain and vomiting are signs of anaphylaxis for insect allergy. ..
It’s very difficult if one is very sensitive. Has ACC got a plan to help desensitise such people?
Meanwhile, I’m still looking forward to hearing the full, unredacted story regarding Bayley. I’m sure there is more that we are not yet been told.
Who knows until we know really…just like Andrew Bayly…Luxo certainly was not going to tell anyone–not even Natzo rent boy Hosking–what his “loser” MP of 10 years standing in Hunua and Port Waikato had really been up to. Similarly, Winston is unlikely to shop this guy as the MPs all have so much dirt on each other.
With the provincial tory MPs, whether they be ex coppers or ex farmers, it is a safe bet to assume it will be something unpleasant that has caused other people grief.
Just another day in the clusterfuck that is the Coalition of Chaos.