by frog
Entirely coincidentally and fortuitously, just a week after Russel asked the Minister of Transport this question:
Dr Russel Norman: Has the Minister received any advice that there is a connection between the woeful underfunding of public transport in this country and the fact that five party leaders of five political parties in this Parliament are driven around each day in Crown cars, and have no idea what it is like out there because they do not know what is going on with public transport?
The Dominion Post captures photos of cabinet Ministers walking to work yesterday.
The Dominion Post confirms the coincidentalness:
Several denied they had been ordered to walk the few hundred metres from the Beehive to Premier House in Tinakori Rd to avoid more accusations of elitism.
and:
But most said they walked because of the “beautiful” weather – curious on a sunny but icy day.
On April 29, the last caucus day at Premier House, it was balmy – and nearly all were chauffeured.
Photo Credit: Dominion Post
Published in Society & Culture by frog on Wed, July 9th, 2008
Tags: cabinet, Frog, frogblog, green, ministers, new zealand, party, public transport, walking
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
would they have been muttering ‘warm’ comments about russel..?
..under their (icy) breathes..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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So, following Russell’s logic, he cannot possibly know what is going on in, say, the New Zealand business sector, as he has had so little direct experience with it?
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“So, following Russell’s logic, he cannot possibly know what is going on in, say, the New Zealand business sector, as he has had so little direct experience with it?”
Are there any Greens with experience in the business sector ?
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Does dressing up as Ronald McDonald count?
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Judging by the profiles of the green party candidates promoted over the last few days, none has any business experience.
But dressing up as Ronald McDonald makes one knowledgeable about?
Not one green candidate would know what ROI meant (maybe Jeanette does as rumour has it she owns some of those capitalist shares in wind flow technologies).
But worse,
Not one is offering any workable economic answer to the recession New Zealand is in right now.
When we ask serious question such as where the money to pay for increased wages (cue for a Sue Bradford reply) will come from we get blank spaces and stares.
Has any Green party got any economic, business sense?
Russle wants PT but where is the money to pay for it? What will he cut to pay for it. Or will he advocate borrowing? Or increase taxation even higher?
Or is he living in the “workers paradise” of his imagination where taxation cashflows are not a problem?
While the Greens have plenty of policies to make the environment and the “workers paradise” sustainable, not a single one is costed, budgetted for or measured for viability against the nations taxation cashflow.
Greens what to tax “bad” higher and “good” lower. Well lets see some figures. Increase taxation on petrol to pay for the electrified railway in Auckland. Yep that is going to happen. What taxation will be reduced so that Joe Bloggs can provide for his family?
Repeat again, in the next year we are going to have another round of rogernomics (even if Labour win the election) simply to bring the economy back in balance. What are the Greens economic plans to either prevent or minimise this?
That is what the party leadership should be addressing. Are they capable to do this or are they only good at protesting, not fixing?
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>>Not one green candidate would know what ROI meant
Indeed.
Take the “Buy Kiwi Made” campaign, for example. That is clearly a campaign that requires a direct response measurement – either people purchased NZ made with greater frequency than previously, or they did not. Yet, I keep getting fed vague soft branding metrics i.e more people were made aware that that buying New Zealand made might be worth considering.
Not only do they not see the obvious problem, they maintain the campaign has been money well spent!
Muppets.
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“either people purchased NZ made with greater frequency than previously, or they did not. ”
And is Buying New Zealand made the best option anyway ? We survive by flogging our milk ,timber,coal, electricity and scenery to other countries. We need to import products that we cannot economically produce ourselves. Don’t the Greens get this ?
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Saw this on kiwiblog a while back courtesy of toad:
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/05/the_greens_party_list.html
Some of those are more persuasive than others, but oh well.
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>>Don’t the Greens get this ?
No.
>>And is Buying New Zealand made the best option anyway ?
Right. A flawed, unrealistic campaign on top of a flawed, unrealistic ideology.
Wasteful, incompetent and not smart.
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Ever eaten Lisa’s Humus?
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Well fisked StephenR!
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Aristophanes said: Ever eaten Lisa’s Humus?
For those who don’t understand this reference, it is to Lisa Er, who is the Green Party’s candidate in Mount Roskill.
Oh, and thanks for linking to my kiwiblog post on this topic from a while back StephenR – been out of town and off-line over the last 24 hrs and just catching up with frogblog.
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Not sure why I remember that *particular* post…
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