I emailed a friend saying this lot were an apology for a Government. His reply was along the lines of: They certainly couldn’t be called a Government, in fact, they are so useless they could barely be called a committee.
Well, let’s look at the past week the so-called committee has just had, particularly New Zealand First.
Shane Jones managed a damning story almost daily. He allegedly started off by threatening the forestry industry that votes for money was the way to go. It didn’t seem to occur to the man that this may not be quite above board. The lady in charge must have recalled a line delivered at herself, as Shane got a zip it sweetie type of telling off. Ignoring that, he thought a dollop of utu wouldn’t go amiss for those foreign investors who criticised him politically and threatened to go to the Overseas Investment Office to find out who they were. Again, not quite above board Mr Jones.
Then to his obvious joy out comes a report from working group number 1053, or that’s what it seems like, recommending the removal of the Auckland port to Northport. Who was on this committee? Some of you might remember a Garth Brooks song Friends In Low Places. High or low doesn’t really matter but it sums up what appears to be the case in this carry-on. For the third time, not quite above board, Minister.
This was also a week when the Chairman of the Party resigned not just from his position but from the Party altogether. It is now transpiring that the Party is in chaos internally and their financial affairs are allegedly a mess. And they think they can participate in the running of a country. They are a joke. To rub salt into their wounds it was revealed on Friday that most NZF voters wanted Winston to go with National prior to the last election. However, after the Government was formed they switched their allegiance to Labour. Are we to assume Winston is the pied piper of New Zealand? I wonder what they think now.
Not to be outdone, Labour leapt into the fray courtesy of Damien O’Connor who went to Gore and effectively gored the farmers, telling them he’d been there more than he’d liked and they were to get over it. I presume he was referring to the water proposals. Wow! How to win friends and influence people. What a numpty. Then along comes Megan Woods with her electricity report from working group 2021, or so it feels. She intends to implement a number of recommendations or more aptly electric shocks.
Power companies will receive theirs in the form of direct Government interference on how to run their businesses and consumers will get theirs in the form of rising power bills. This is the exact opposite of what was the intended outcome. Even our friend Barry Soper agrees this will most likely happen. The vocalising of Ms Woods predictably says otherwise. Reading the Labour Fails series that Suze has been diligently compiling, it is blindingly obvious these clots really are clueless. How many if any, have a good handle on their portfolios? And I haven’t even got to the antics of Ms Genter who blocked submissions that were anti her car tax proposals. National Party spam she called them. Can’t leave the Greens out.
So at week’s end what have we got? New Zealand First has Shane Jones supposedly swotting up on the cabinet manual, lol, and Winston returning from overseas to a Party in disarray. Labour, along with Jones, have lived up to their reputation of meddling in privately-run companies. They persist in doing it and then wonder why they are regarded by farmers and businesses as being unfriendly and why business confidence is so low. Grant Robertson says this is always the case when you have a Labour Government.
This week provided him with the answers as to why. The chances of Robertson understanding them is about as likely as Namibia beating the All Blacks on Sunday night. Nil.