Yes AIR has been poorly run for a decade now. Incurring unsustainable debt levels to pay a dividend.
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The SOP came from another party.
National and Act seemed to be asleep and didn't notice until it was raised by academics.
At least Seymor owned up to the party being asleep, Luxon says otherwise. He says that they were aware but, for some reason, didn't say anything until raised in public - a lie!
Don't let the truth get in your way. Nothing changes with you. From AAP factcheck:
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"In an emailed statement, NZ Police provided AAP FactCheck with constabulary numbers for 2008 to 2020, as at June each year. The figures, which are not routinely published nor publicly available, show officer numbers as distinct from the total number of NZ Police employees.
According to NZ Police, in June 2008, there were 8,211 police officers. Ms Collins first became police minister in November 2008.
The NZ Police figures show officer numbers then rose to 8,643 in June 2009 and 8,707 in June 2010, before dropping to 8,638 in June 2011.
Ms Collins’ portfolios changed in December 2011, but she returned to the role of police minister in December 2015.
There were 8,923 police officers in June 2015 and this dropped to 8,899 in June 2016. Ms Collins portfolios changed again in December 2016.
While there were some year-on-year decreases in the number of police officers during Ms Collins’ stints as police minister, officer numbers increased overall by 688."
National and Act voted against it!
Ardern and her cohort of idiots voted for it. Was Ardern really incompetent enough to not know what she was voting for? Did Mahuta not inform the caucus, or is Ardern lying through her fulsome teeth?
So did Ardern lie, or did Mahuta pull a swifty on her colleagues who were stupid enough not to vet what was in the bill? Take your pick, it's one or the other.
And don't come back with the Mahuta line of it originating with the Greens. We know they are idiots. Mahuta or Ardern? Who needs to fall on their sword?
It's all just a sideshow Jonu, they got caught being sneaky again, so who cares whose fault it is, no-one will be held culpable, no-one will lose their job, they'll "fix the mistake" and Labour will vote in 3-Waters with their majority and the noise will die down about the entrenchment because it will have been removed.
Job done, despite nationwide condemnation of the 3-waters bill (5-waters if you look closely).
You and other Labour skeptics are debating the entrenchment clause which is a non-issue since this duplicitous government got called out, when the real issue is that this bill should not be enacted in law, for many reasons that are more important than making it difficult to overturn.
This government will go down in history as the most ideological implementation inept government ever in the history of NZ. It's an utter embarrassment.