Labour / NZ First Government

[fungus pudding]

Audrey Young in the Herald today suggests if Labour leads next Government Little will get Foreign Affairs, Justice and Treaty Negotiations 1

Surely she won't overlook Twyford and /or Davis for these portfolios?

[jonu]

Surely she won't overlook Twyford and /or Davis for these portfolios?

Davis would obviously be Deputy PM. Goes without saying due to his standout performance thus far.All I can say is that Cindy will be hoping her travel is still restricted due to Covid. Gotta have that diversity. Twyford.....hell I can't even think of anything funny or sarcastic about Twyford. It just beggars belief he is anywhere near the Cabinet table....let alone promoted to 4 on Cindy's stellar performers list.

Dayum it's a scary thought as to what witches brew of a concoction we could be lumbered with.

[fungus pudding]

Davis would obviously be Deputy PM. Goes without saying due to his standout performance thus far.All I can say is that Cindy will be hoping her travel is still restricted due to Covid. Gotta have that diversity. Twyford.....hell I can't even think of anything funny or sarcastic about Twyford. It just beggars belief he is anywhere near the Cabinet table....let alone promoted to 4 on Cindy's stellar performers list.

Dayum it's a scary thought as to what witches brew of a concoction we could be lumbered with.

Well there's always Willy Jackson. After all, Chris Hipkins won't be able to handle all the portfolios.

[Zaphod]

The RMA process was started by Palmer but Labour were defeated and Nationals Simon Upton introduced and passed the RMA act in 1991.
You should apologise to Palmer. Shudder all you like but you seem more the idiot to me.

westerly

Palmer was the architect of the RMA, and completed the vast majority of the initial legislation later introduced by Simon Upton who did not make any significant changes. Palmer has routinely spoken out against the RMA , labelling it an 'incoherent mess' as it has becomes patched with numerous amendments and is far more bureaucratic than originally envisaged.

We have had the RMA used as a tool to extract cash from us on a small development project. All neighbours except one (who was not directly near the building) approved of the design, but one individual stated he wanted $35K in cash to compensate him for loss of value to his property, without any concreate evidence of how it would cause a loss of that exact size. The potential cost of hearings, additional expert evidence and other elements amounted to just slightly higher than that, so it was simply cheaper to pay him the money. Later we learned that he has a history of similar requests at other properties he has lived at. Other developers I have spoken with have similar tales.

[ynot]

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www....image.amp.html

Cindy, classic piss take on latest "spitting image" "super kiwi socialistic" they have her nailed !

[tim23]

I would but the the dots don't link up. If what the Nats did was so terrible, why didn't Aunty Helen fix it during her 9 years?

We have tended to follow the UK on this H&S and RMA stuff as far as I can make out.

Regardless, it doesn't diminish the fact that idiot savant Geof Palmer lumbered us with the RMA in all it's consulting, mitigating glory. Palmer is unrivalled in the intelligent fool category.

Andrew Little probably surpasses him in the fool category, but he's just a plain old idiot. I shudder to think what legacy Little will leave us with if he gets a second term as Justice Minister. He might even get lumbered with Cindy's Ihumatao cockup to sort out as well.

To answer that you would have to tell me who Aunty Helen is?

[jonu]

To answer that you would have to tell me who Aunty Helen is?

The owner of the tit upon which I suspect your ideology was suckled.

[tim23]

The owner of the tit upon which I suspect your ideology was suckled.

Hardly worth commenting on but I will - you embarrass yourself with silly comments like that - grow up. You chose not to reply sensibly to my comment regarding the Employment Contracts Act and the lack of resources for the mining inspectorate, do you care to?

[iceman]

tim23 I think you need to consider the PRC disaster and the law for Mining Inspectorate a bit more. It is correct that the changes started under Jim Bolger's National Government in 1993. But prior to the explosion, Helen Clark had been PM for 9 years and John Key for about 3 years. No serious concerns were raised about this by either Government and no law changes were made to rectify it. BUT, certain people like Andrew Little defended it and said it was safe and praised the company, not long before the explosion. His statements now that he is a Minister are sinister and duplicitous https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot...ike-river.html

So I repeat my earlier comments that caused many to take umbrage with, including Black Peter somehow bringing nuclear bombs and President Trump into it, that Little is a dangerous man as a Minister of the Crown.

[tim23]

tim23 I think you need to consider the PRC disaster and the law for Mining Inspectorate a bit more. It is correct that the changes started under Jim Bolger's National Government in 1993. But prior to the explosion, Helen Clark had been PM for 9 years and John Key for about 3 years. No serious concerns were raised about this by either Government and no law changes were made to rectify it. BUT, certain people like Andrew Little defended it and said it was safe and praised the company, not long before the explosion. His statements now that he is a Minister are sinister and duplicitous https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot...ike-river.html

So I repeat my earlier comments that caused many to take umbrage with, including Black Peter somehow bringing nuclear bombs and President Trump into it, that Little is a dangerous man as a Minister of the Crown.

At the time of the explosion the inspectorate had been decimated so too few inspectors to cover too many sites, interesting that you too ignore my observation that unions were big on health and safety.