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David Hancock's avatar

All great ideas in my book. And not forgetting the BSA and PJIF. If National and Labour continue to poll badly then with a NZ First/ACT majority well, just maybe....we all pray for our nation to be over this dreadful contagion of correctness.

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Barry Watkin's avatar

Farmers know to dock sheep to prevent irritating flies and parasites bothering and weakening them.

These little bureaucratic empires as illuminated by John are similarly irritating and as far as I can tell, largely unnecessary and wasteful of the public purse.

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Just Boris's avatar

I like the scatological comparison Barry.

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Barry Watkin's avatar

Heh - and I wasn’t vulgar either.

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Ed Porter's avatar

The Charities Registration Board also needs a significant overhaul based on its most recent high profile decision.

Clearly another organisation so petrified of not wishing to be (wrongly) called "racist" that its decisions are automatically made up for itself.

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Just Boris's avatar

Do NOT get me started on the whole fucking Charities topic Ed. Boris has been banging on about this for years, but of course, because Boris is a sad little twat, nobody listens to him. The rorts in what is supposed to be a 'sacred zone' are legion. Mad Ms Mahuta (of co-governance fame) during her time as Internal Affairs Minister wound open the tap for Early Settler Grifting. Ngai Tahu are the experts, followed closely by John Hand in the Jar Tamihere. On the Charities website, Ngai Tahu has from memory 5 pages of carefully crafted 'grift vehicles'. Iwi are neck deep in this whole charity troughing exercise. It stinks to high heaven.

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Barry Watkin's avatar

That they succeeded in squeezing millions from a woke and weak Meridian was infuriating too.

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Katrina Biggs's avatar

Once the Ministry for Women included blokes in its charter it muddied its waters, and was no longer a ministry with a clear 'customer base' and purpose. We don't need ministries that chop and change their raison d'etre willy-nilly.

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John McLean's avatar

Precisely Katrina. Nill Willys

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Katrina Biggs's avatar

I see what you did there :-)

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Barry Watkin's avatar

Heheh - slick.

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Stephen Riddell's avatar

Great work, John! I feel about 95% in agreement with your assessment of these ministries...

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Mike Fox's avatar

Good work John, they could all indeed go and we would be better off as a country.

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Just Boris's avatar

Typically brilliant summation John. Our country is in somewhat of a financial pickle simply because we spend too much money on the wrong things. Your long list of absolute-waste-of-time Ministries is a great start and I strongly concur. May I please add in the following areas of 'easy wins' that we could eradicate to get us out of Grant Robertson's hole (ew...). Others may have some more to add:

1. Iwi Anything Providers (Boris avers that most of these are hugely unproductive and mostly scams that are bleeding us dry)

2. Charities. Especially Iwi ones that are really just tax evasion. (Damn, that is two in a row for Iwi...)

3. Rates levied equally across ALL land. (Ok, three in a row...)

4. Waitangi Tribunal (does this qualify as 4 from 4? Sensing a pattern here...)

5. Cultural Advisers who work in the Public Sector

6. Immigration (let in ONLY the top ones that we need. Cut the rest)

7. Maori Seats.

8. Mosques, Burkhas and pretty much anything or anyone strongly Islamic (you think the cost of this migrant category ain't gonna bite us in the long run?)

9. Any university course that is stupid and wanky (I am look at you Social 'Sciences')

10. Lawyers & Judges. (No offence intended) I reckon we could bin most of them and still be fine. Or at the very least, rein in the activists and lay out the kind of society we all want to live in.

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Barry Watkin's avatar

Interestingly, a new Marine Protection zones sign (from DOC) appeared at our local beach, with descriptions of zones around the Hauraki Gulf, along with regulations and dire warnings of penalties - ah but wait - yes there’s a subset of citizens who are exempt.

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Just Boris's avatar

grrrr.... It's racism, pure & simple. He iwi tahi tatou.

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Noel Reid's avatar

Yes indeed

While the savings wouldn't amount to $Bns, every bit counts.

And there's an old saying:

"if you take care of the pennies, the pounds look after themselves".....

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John McLean's avatar

You’re correct Noel. The billions NZ was notionally liable to pay was never going to happen. But the fact that liability was putatively on the cards shows what a nonsense it all was

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