Labour / NZ First Government

[jonu]

Andrew Little is a dangerous man and the quicker he is got rid of the better for this country.

Agreed. He has no idea of the damage he is doing. Blissfully ignorant.

[artemis]

Labour's big ticket manifesto items should have had detailed project plans prepared and stress tested while in Opposition. They had 9 years to plan. In the case of Kiwibuild it was big ticket policy since 2012. Turned out to be a slogan without much substance.

To be fair there was a 100 day plan, and it was met, with much fanfare. But look closer and most of the list was spending money or setting something up.

The government has had some successes but complex delivery not so much. Yet any government has an army of resources available to deliver. It's not like Ministers have to do the grunt work themselves. They are the Executive team, their job is to drive the delivery of the vision.

[jonu]

Dr Bloomfield now apparently banished from the Beehive Press Gallery facility. Parceled off down the road to a venue he felt he needed to apologise to journalists for being cramped.

The reason? Separation from the Cynical One. Cindy doesn't want to be seen alongside the Good Doctor any more. Heaven forbid they cross paths in the corridor or worse yet, appear on the same stage.

The minute there was uncomfortable and bad news she was goneburgher. Done were the daily propaganda sessions. Cindy found better things to do with her time. Let's see....like butchering Light Rail.

[Baa_Baa]

Kelvin Davis dreadful interview on RNZ tonight, about the $m's gifted to tourism businesses like Hackett and the options for loans after that. Could not give a straight or factual answer to any of the questions, no idea whether loans backed by assets, didn't know the interest rate ... on and on. What an absolutely disgraceful display of ineptitude.

Bring on the election, Labour after screwing the economy by saving all but 22 people, is now completely out of their depth with the broken border controls, no idea whether their lax controls have seeded community infection again, and absolutely no idea how to recover an economy except spraying tax payer dollars around like confetti. Run by a bunch of complete muppets.

[Panda-NZ-]

Bring on the election, Labour after screwing the economy by saving all but 22 people, is now completely out of their depth with the broken border controls, no idea whether their lax controls have seeded community infection again, and absolutely no idea how to recover an economy except spraying tax payer dollars around like confetti. Run by a bunch of complete muppets.

They aren't broken at all, everyone is required to go into managed isolation for 14 days. Tests don't matter and uninspiring Todd knows this but wants to score cheap hits. All he seems to do is grasp onto any bad headline he can. Mediocre opposition.

[macduffy]

Agreed. He has no idea of the damage he is doing. Blissfully ignorant.

And he is our Justice Minister?

[winner69]

Minister Clark definitely don’t like Ashley

Threw him under the bus good and proper


https://twitter.com/tovaobrien/statu...975777793?s=21

[Balance]

Minister Clark definitely don’t like Ashley

Threw him under the bus good and proper


https://twitter.com/tovaobrien/statu...975777793?s=21

What an arsehole. No other way of describing David Clark.

[jmsnz]

Dr Bloomfield now apparently banished from the Beehive Press Gallery facility. Parceled off down the road to a venue he felt he needed to apologise to journalists for being cramped.

The reason? Separation from the Cynical One. Cindy doesn't want to be seen alongside the Good Doctor any more. Heaven forbid they cross paths in the corridor or worse yet, appear on the same stage.

The minute there was uncomfortable and bad news she was goneburgher. Done were the daily propaganda sessions. Cindy found better things to do with her time. Let's see....like butchering Light Rail.

The treatment of Dr Bloomfield seems to me to be dreadful. I understand his role to be Director General of Health is (loosely) described here https://www.health.govt.nz/about-min...utory-function

That doesn't seem to include:
- Responsibility for border control
- Responsibility for managing quarante facilities
- Participation in party political broadcasts as we experienced at the end of lock down

As a layman I think his performance in what are obviously very difficult and unusual times has been excellent all things considered. To see him thrown under the bus twice in the last week is a worry to be honest and I think we would be worse off without him. A serious question though, who would you most like to see managing the COVID response:
- Ashley Bloomfield
- Jacinda Adern
- Kelvern Davis
- Phil Twyford
- David Clark
- Michael Woodhouse
- National party leader (I can't even remember his name)

The point is we are in trouble when ministers don't take responsibility for their portfolios. If they can delegate responsibility to Bloomfield surely he can delegate responsibility down the line as well.

[Panda-NZ-]

He was treated like crap by Simon too. politicians eh. I too think he has done a good job so far and the military now controls whoever was in charge of isolating the returning expats.