Transparency needed
Back in 2017 Prime Minister Jacinda Arden promised New Zealand’s most open and transparent Government. What NZ got over the next six years was the most money spent on communication staff, media minders and spin doctors.
CORRUPTION AND MISMANAGEMENT is more difficult when there is transparency.
Transparency is needed if there is to be accountability.
Back in 2017 Prime Minister Jacinda Arden promised New Zealand’s most open and transparent Government.
What NZ got from the Government over the next six years was the most money spent on communication staff, media minders and spin doctors. A cast of thousands.
Incapable ministers and staff busy trying to hide their mistakes to bury the truth. Journalists have complained how hard it was to get information out of government departments and agencies.
Public servants seem to have been poorly managed by ministers and followed their own agendas. Why else was the environment legislation so anti-farming and unworkable. Hard to believe a minister would have directed that. Or was it just total ignorance of farming and science?
The Greens and Greenpeace have vehemently opposed efficient farming. A conspiracy theorist would say there was an international goal to reduce the world population through malnutrition and starvation.
An impervious bubble seems to have descended upon Wellington that obscures reality. Policy makers are hopelessly out of touch with what people need and want.
Huge sums of money have been wasted on ill-conceived vanity projects and unnecessary reviews. Or necessary reviews poorly carried out like the Resource Management Act (RMA).
The Labour-Greens Government has created a lot of enemies and it is hard to believe the polls are so close. It is still about three months to the election and the economy is likely to worsen, not improve, so there is likely to be some greater movement in the polls.
I agree with Sir Robert Jones, it will be a landslide victory to National and ACT.
Such is the level of frustration and anger that I am hearing from urban and rural contacts, many intend to vote for ACT. Pollster David Farrar is reporting the party has 30% support in some rural areas.
Friends who used to be staunch Labour supporters are lost and not sure who to vote for. They felt let down by the Labour-Greens Government.
Nobody can predict the future but everyone is entitled to a prediction. At the start of the year I predicted to a friend, 38 National, ACT 24. I see no reason to change it.
