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#3337787 31-Jan-2025 16:21

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So you setup unappetizing food of doubtful value.
When a % are not eaten that becomes a reason to cancel the whole scheme.

"The right will withhold food from 100 kids out of fear that 1 might not need or deserve it.

The left will feed 100 out of concern that 1 might really need it."

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#3337964 1-Feb-2025 09:22

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/01/will-simeon-brown-regret-slashing-funding-for-cycleways-launched-by-key/

On a personal level, Brown decided cycling wasn’t for him. “Look I’m sure it would be better for me but ultimately at the same time I’ve got to get to places quickly and efficiently."

I mentioned that other MPs incorporated cycling into their similarly busy lives. “Well good on them, I choose not to. I choose to drive a car and get where I need to go quickly because my time is important.”

I guess this goes some way to explaining Simeon Brown's weird love affair with roads and his distaste for anything to do with cycling or physical activity (also comes across to me as quite arrogant). Of course, now he's Minister of Health he's going to inherit all the issues that go with people not doing much physical activity as they're forced to drive everywhere 🙄

Ironic that John Key (as mentioned in the article) was a big advocate for getting the cycleways going...now a successor government of his is probably going to either can them or cut them back drastically.

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#3338111 1-Feb-2025 18:47

quickymart:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/01/will-simeon-brown-regret-slashing-funding-for-cycleways-launched-by-key/

On a personal level, Brown decided cycling wasn’t for him. “Look I’m sure it would be better for me but ultimately at the same time I’ve got to get to places quickly and efficiently."

I mentioned that other MPs incorporated cycling into their similarly busy lives. “Well good on them, I choose not to. I choose to drive a car and get where I need to go quickly because my time is important.”

I guess this goes some way to explaining Simeon Brown's weird love affair with roads and his distaste for anything to do with cycling or physical activity (also comes across to me as quite arrogant). Of course, now he's Minister of Health he's going to inherit all the issues that go with people not doing much physical activity as they're forced to drive everywhere 🙄

Ironic that John Key (as mentioned in the article) was a big advocate for getting the cycleways going...now a successor government of his is probably going to either can them or cut them back drastically.

Its a little like another leader of a country. Obviously less so, but you can fill in the blanks. I thought a Government was for the people, silly me.

Yes the "people" may be businesses or workers. Both need both. Thats why centrist has been more the focus in recent years. Seems not now.

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#3338112 1-Feb-2025 18:48

quickymart:

https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/02/01/will-simeon-brown-regret-slashing-funding-for-cycleways-launched-by-key/

On a personal level, Brown decided cycling wasn’t for him. “Look I’m sure it would be better for me but ultimately at the same time I’ve got to get to places quickly and efficiently."

I mentioned that other MPs incorporated cycling into their similarly busy lives. “Well good on them, I choose not to. I choose to drive a car and get where I need to go quickly because my time is important.”

I guess this goes some way to explaining Simeon Brown's weird love affair with roads and his distaste for anything to do with cycling or physical activity (also comes across to me as quite arrogant). Of course, now he's Minister of Health he's going to inherit all the issues that go with people not doing much physical activity as they're forced to drive everywhere 🙄

Ironic that John Key (as mentioned in the article) was a big advocate for getting the cycleways going...now a successor government of his is probably going to either can them or cut them back drastically.

As bolded, seems not the case.

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#3339560 5-Feb-2025 12:25

Thanks, Luxon.

Some quotes:

Unemployment rises to 5.1% with the country experiencing the largest annual fall in employment since December 2009.

There were 32,000 fewer in work compared to a year ago. This was the largest annual fall in employment since the year to December 2009

Well, done. You managed to tank the country.

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#3339751 5-Feb-2025 19:35

Source

Finance Minister Nicola Willis said the figures were the "human cost of lingering effects of economic mismanagement by the previous government".

But it's not our fault. 🙄

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#3339753 5-Feb-2025 19:37

Deflection much? Come on you lot, you've had the reins for a while now, how about taking some responsibility instead of blaming the previous crowd. It's getting really tiresome.

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#3339757 5-Feb-2025 19:55

quickymart:

Deflection much? Come on you lot, you've had the reins for a while now, how about taking some responsibility instead of blaming the previous crowd. It's getting really tiresome.

Been the same playbook by all parties since forever...

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#3339783 5-Feb-2025 21:26

National this time around seem to use it as their go-to excuse quite a bit though, I've noticed.

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#3340060 7-Feb-2025 08:21

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quickymart:

Deflection much? Come on you lot, you've had the reins for a while now, how about taking some responsibility instead of blaming the previous crowd. It's getting really tiresome.

Been the same playbook by all parties since forever...

Exactly. Funny, nobody seems to remember it being used ad nauseam by Labour 2017-20.

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#3340231 7-Feb-2025 18:18

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Exactly. Funny, nobody seems to remember it being used ad nauseam by Labour 2017-20.

If the previous Government had held the reigns for 9 years, that is material.

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#3340355 8-Feb-2025 08:35

They all do it, and unfortunately, they all load plenty of ammunition into the incoming party's gun to fire

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#3340428 8-Feb-2025 09:52

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541258/government-backpedals-on-some-automatic-speed-reversals-says-consultation-now-possible

Cripes make up your mind.

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#3340709 9-Feb-2025 09:38

The incompetence is up there with the worst. Seymour didn't think through his cunning plan.

Extra costs have been pushed onto high schools that need to employ extra staff to handle distributing meals once they have been delivered.

Previously, suppliers distributed lunches directly to students within schools.

“What the minister hasn’t thought about, or Cabinet hasn’t thought about, is that distribution time,” Couillault said.

At Papatoetoe High School, there were no complaints about the quality of the meals, he said. The issue was with the 1600 meals that arrive needing to be sorted into boxes for the 70 form classes where they were handed out.

“That’s logistically quite a lot. And then those boxes need to come back when the kids have eaten.”

Couillaut refers to the tidy up as “rubbish bin admin”.

The aluminium trays meals are delivered in are returned to the School Lunch Collective for recycling. “So you’ve got to make sure all the trays don’t have anything in them, stack them up.”

His school has employed five people who are currently working four hours a day to help with the set up and then the tidy up, he said.

Once the programme has settled in, he expects the time required to reduce to around 12 hours labour a day, but it’s a cost the school is not funded for, he said.

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#3340710 9-Feb-2025 09:40

Another quote from the article above:

Meanwhile, schools in Auckland are still reporting problems with meal deliveries.

After not turning up at all on Monday, school lunches arrived 10 minutes before the end of the day on Tuesday at Sutton Park School in Auckland’s Māngere East.

When the truck arrived at 2.50pm on Tuesday, it was not possible to deal with the meals in the time left before the end of the day, principal Vaitimu Togi Lemanu said.

“I said you can turn around and take your lunch back, and I’ll see you tomorrow.”

On Wednesday, enough meals arrived for Year 1 to 4 students, but there were not enough for all children in Year 5 to 8 classes, he said.

Seymour is of an incompetence at sky-level high.

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