The public does not want a lesson in governance theory. They want democratic control and competent delivery. What do you think, are elected leaders still truly in charge, or has the balance tipped too far toward the bureaucracy?
Watts said on Tuesday that once the law is passed councils will have six months to review their appointments before the law change takes effect. It will be unlikely that the necessary law change will be implemented before the election. Only being seen to be doing something to chase votes.
The general trend across the wider polling picture seems to be correcting in favour of the coalition. Luxon and his team will be hoping this upward movement holds.
We should applaud the government for having the nerve to announce the tough decisions. But announcements don’t matter that much. Execution and delivery are critical. The world is moving. We need to get going.
And they are well and truly on their way to achieving their goal, because it has reached the stage where they’ll not only be accepted into a future co-governance agenda, but the seriously frightening bit is that they’ll hold power of ‘VETO’.
If we really want to make energy more affordable, perhaps it is time to look at alternatives like nuclear energy.
If they are unhappy about it then they should sing for their supper elsewhere.
The rating agencies made it clear that while the budget shows prudent short-term management, it falls short of the more ambitious structural reform needed to put New Zealand’s finances on a truly sustainable long-term footing.
If you think National is rolling back co-governance, you are being conned. Isn’t it time for New Zealand to wake up?
We would all be better off if we had an agreed understanding of what the Treaty actually provided, and for that reason it was a tragedy that parliament threw out the Treaty Principles Bill promoted by the ACT Party.
“The only person who’s going to save you is yourself” – Billy Brown on meritocracy, iwi elites and why New Zealand needs to start digging.
Local government was never meant to be the enforcement arm of radical gender theory. It was meant to fix the roads, empty the bins, and run the pools without turning them into ideological battlegrounds. Instead, Christchurch ratepayers are funding this grotesque farce.
