What does it matter to you? The absolute worst case scenario and the one you seem to be horrified at facing, is the model that is already being implemented by the current government. We all got the bill. And cabinet refused to take or place blame.
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People can call me what they like - I have been called worse here on ST (refer NZOG, PEB, Pike River, Snakk & Plus SMS but to name a few). Call me great grandfather for all I care 😊
But if someone like tim23 wants to challenge me time & again after I have gently refuted his assertion, I reserve the right to call him out - my prerogative.
He has the right to refute my assertion of him as a grasshopper - and challenge me to a bet if he do wishes.
In any case, tim23 has been in hiding the whole day with his pathetic tail between his shrunken balls - so let’s leave him to whimper in the corner.
Well said Artemis. When posters and others in society start using the term "shutting down" I get very afraid. Very often it does not mean shut down "all bad speech" but generally speech or other events they do not like. One's they do like that are also hateful they do not seem to want to shut down.
It's a political debate, but even if not, lets be for robust discussion with a bit of name calling if you like. Don't like it, go cry a river somewhere.
Of course it matters to me - I (the tax payer) pay the bill, along with the affected businesses.
The model, as it is now, works well - modified by need and learning.
The example of Serco in the prisons was given - prisons worked well but Serco, for all the 'standards' they had, managed to botch that.
Private enterprise has a primary driver - money. You don't see a conflict of interest?