Retail crime up 40% - welcome to NZ, thanks to pro-crims Labour Party & Hipkins government.
More the merrier though as it means more beneficiaries & voters to be bred by Labour.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...OJTUV4AP5IOEY/
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Retail crime up 40% - welcome to NZ, thanks to pro-crims Labour Party & Hipkins government.
More the merrier though as it means more beneficiaries & voters to be bred by Labour.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...OJTUV4AP5IOEY/
Anyone previewed Nosy Parker's Planning & RMA bills which are on the way taking control
away from Local Bodies- not dissimilar to the 3 Idiots on Water which Mahuta tried to sneak in
but made a huge shambles of before Hipkins tried to minimalise & hide it?
A big dallop of Co-Governance in Parker's Bills trying to be snuck through on the quiet :)
Labour can lie and cheat their way through on No Co-Governance anywhere to be seen,
but Comrade Parker's efforts show this is alive and well still on the agenda
Can Labour be trusted at all with their apparently hidden agendas tucked away in the shadows
ready to trot out when and if they fool enough for a further term ? ;)
Parker's Planning & RMA Bills are likely to be next loud screaming match to come, following
Mahuta's efforts then dumping it and her, when it threatened to overtake Hipkin's chances
of seeing the clueless and incompetent into another term ;)
Here is another post from Nelson Mayor Nick Smith about the disaster that is 3-5 Waters. I post it here as I think it explains in layman’s terms what the plan really is, something we have not heard clearly from the Government:
Presented at Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Select Committee this morning on Three Waters with NCC and Nelmac CEOs Lindsay McKenzie and Jane Sheard.
These radical changes are bad for Nelson. We lose control of $750 million of water infrastructure built up and paid for by ratepayers over 150 years. Our management of storm events is compromised by splitting up responsibilities between rivers, drains and pipes when it is common sense to manage as one. Nelson has done a good job of investing in our water infrastructure yet we will now pick up a share of the bill for billions to fix the mess in Wellington.
The impact of these changes on Nelson has gone from bad to worse with recent revelations that they also want to take off Nelmac its water contracting business worth millions and over 50 of its staff. This makes this Council-owned business unsustainable. This will mean in the short term higher rates (as we'll get no dividend and Nelmac will need a cash injection), putting the jobs of 300 people at risk as well as damaging NCCs balance further than the $750 million of water infrastructure.
The further cheekiness in this current law change is that councils still have to send out the bills to ratepayers for the new water services entity. I do not mind getting stick for charges Council sets but we are now being ask to bill for charges set by others. I also object to Council losing control of $750 million of assets on 1st July 2024 but not the $70 million debt for some years down track. This is like someone taking your house off you but still leaving you with the mortgage.
I have four further major gripes with this reform:
1. Govt said at the 2020 election Three Waters was voluntary and councils could opt in or out. They changed it to being compulsory in 2021. There is no electoral mandate for this massive asset grab.
2. Govt predicates this reform on councils having done a poor job of water infrastructure. That is true of some councils but not Nelson, which has some of best in country. Why should we be punished for doing a good job? Nor is there evidence that Govt-controlled infrastructure in NZ is in great shape - look at failures of SH bridges and Transpower substations in East Coast last month or the state of KiwiRail ferries.
3. Three waters theory is that centralisation will be more efficient because of economies of scale and standard designs - that is exactly the reasons expounded for KiwiBuild that has turned into unmitigated failure. The merger of polytechnics has also been predicated on big is better but three years and millions has been wasted, training numbers are down and the organisation is a mess with a revolving door of CEOs.
4. These changes contradict a fundamental tenant of democracy -no taxation without representation. To give historic context this triggered the famous Boston tea revolt and the American revolution and the English revolution and Bill of Rights. This bill enables the unelected Three Waters Entities to strike a rate (a land tax) without democratic representation.
For the record, I want Nelsonians to know how little say we will have on water matters into the future. Water Entity C, based in Wellington, will have a regional representation group of 18. NCC, TDC and MDC will have one rep as will the eight Te Tauihu iwi. The other 16/18 will be from the North Island.
Three waters is the biggest threat to the assets and future of NCC in its 149 years of existence. I will be doing all I can to defeat it. My immediate objective is to get the claims to parts of Nelmac off the table. My longer-term goal is to rework reform into a model where Nelson retains control of our three waters and where we get genuine improvements in how we manage this vital infrastructure.
The other side of the coin on 3 Waters reform is that,
1) For years, Councils & councillors driven by the ambition to get re-elected, have used their Water infrastructure as an asset for the Councils to borrow against in order to keep rates down.
2) The money borrowed against the Water Assets has not been properly used to maintain & replace ageing water infrastructure. It's been used for other things Councils do & to artificially keep rates lower than they should be.
3) Now many Councils are at or near their max debt levels, they are terrified of losing the ability to borrow more money against those assets & will have to either cut services or find the money for all the things councils do from rates or other forms of revenue.
4) That's not good when you're a mayor or councillor trying to get re-elected.
In my view, it would be unfortunate if Nelson one of the better councils is grouped in with Wellington whose water infrastructure needs billions.
Actually what happened was that they were forced to allow for the depreciation of the water assets.
They then saw a big pile of money that they used for other things (as you say).
They were warned that they were misusing the money but carried on.
National says that they will keep the same system but tell the councils again to behave and that will sort it - Tui moment.
When England becomes independent again, then maybe we will find out.
The UK-EU withdrawal treaty agreed to by old Etonian and USA-born Englishman Boris Johnson with the EU was so shockingly bad for the British, though, that it has already been renegotiated by the British Indian Rishi Sunak.
Well this raises another problem, there are what 72 Councils around the country.
The Councils do not have the economies of scale, or resources to employ highly qualified experts in the field of water infrastructure, & even if they did, it would be an absurd situation of them all competing for the limited number we have in the country.
The Water reforms will introduce much needed economies of scale.
How did all Labour's other expertly focussed precision policy initiatives fare ? ;)
The Beehive experts on the frontline couldn't push 3 Idiots on Water across the line without getting the backs up
of most of the councils, a majority of the Joe Bloggs out in the hinterlands and then without truckloads of
amendments trying to patch the previous day's legislative C*ck ups they tried to bulldoze throuugh mostly asleep at the helm :)
Good luck with that .. most already have very good idea of the sort of expensive disaster coming courtesy
of Labour's gross incompetence in hands of the now deposed Mahuta on Govt's 3 Waters Infrastructure Theft ;)
The councils are likely 72 times more knowledgable and better equipped on their local areas Water needs than any poorly managed & controlled blundering Govt Quango's at a huge cost ever will be - how long have the Councils been doing this again ?
Verses a bunch of Labour Beehive Twits in the job for 5.5 years who still can't get their Legislature right on first or second run without further truckloads of amendments immediately following .. :)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...nment-projects
Policy purge: Chris Hipkins cuts a swathe of once trumpeted Government projects
Wont be much left soon .. might have to borrow one of the faithful followers from off
here to paint eyelashes on to provide the entertainment, the way things are going ;)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...wances-to-rise
Cost of living: Benefits, including pensions and student allowances, to rise
To combat inflation & COL rises, or to create more inflation & increases ? ;)
Keep rolling out the bandaids - Chris - have to have something going on to keep
Gobbo Robbo busy before he finally departs :)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/131...cember-quarter
All five major banks now forecasting economy shrank in December quarter
Where's Gobbo Robbo hiding ?
Surely Adrian the ORRSOME and Gobbo Robbo could have told us this would happen before now ? :)
It's okay to come out now GRANT and tell everyone that you %*****d up big time ;)
And another casualty of Labour's could care less stance to Construction industry:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...MPR45GLFGU7LA/
KBL Joinery in liquidation: Company with 28 staff folds - shock, dismay in building sector
A Well known firm, with an almost a 50 year history
How's the RECESSION going that your mob have steered us into - Chippie & Robbo ?
How's Inflation going ?
How's Cost of Living Going ?
How will Fuel Costs be going after Woody Woodpecker has a peck away ?
How are Interest rates going ?
How are the new hidden Tax Agendas going to pay for all the Incompetence ? ;)