Minister says FENZ withheld levy issue for a year
Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says Fire and Emergency New Zealand kept a serious levy issue from her for a year, despite external advice that she should be told.
Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden says Fire and Emergency New Zealand kept a serious levy issue from her for a year, despite external advice that she should be told.
Van Velden has lost confidence in FENZ CE Kerry Gregory after a seriously significant file was withheld for a year. SFO sits on a historical levy matter FENZ says is proactive and not Gregory personally. Accountability needs the file. Breach of trust. Then the SFO.
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In the end, van Velden’s word wasn’t the scandal. The real scandal is a left so intellectually bankrupt they’d rather debate diction than policy. They’ve lost the plot and, thanks to van Velden’s deft move, everyone can see it.
This is where the Politics of Aspersion have led us. No wonder Winston Peters held his head in his hands as Brooke van Velden read out Vance’s words on the floor of the House.
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The lesson here? If the legacy media wants to sling slurs and gendered insults, they’d better be ready for the blowback. And if they’re going to cry foul when someone like van Velden fights back, they might want to take a long, hard, look in the mirror.
“I think Brooke van Velden felt the outrage that many women in the parliament felt this week when that word is used a term of abuse for women, no matter what side of politics you are on, we should say it is not ok” – Willis
"Mr Speaker, I disagree with the the comments made and particularly the note of the use of the term backhanded which refers to Andrea Vance's article which was quoted from this weekend. And I do not agree with the clearly gendered and patronising language that Andrea Vance