Hipkins

A change of names doesn't change the operation.

It shows !

Thats a win/win for the dr

Michael Bassett on Hipkins, saying what I and many others have said about Labour's shelved policies
www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/michael-bassett-hipkins-and-his-policy-deferrals
some excerpts, on policies
The media became very excited when new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announced some policy changes a few weeks back. Weak reporters like Claire Trevett were ecstatic. Even lesser lights talked of “bonfires” of unpopular policies and hailed the emergence of a new Ministry. In truth, all that can be said is that they were rushing to boost Hipkins. But the reality is that all of the old policies are still around, and will be dragged out of the cupboard again if this Labour government is re-elected in October. In his clever cartoons, Garrick Tremain keeps making this point. Those of us who find co-governance divisive and racist, must not overlook the fact that it is still there in the remodeled health system, in Three Waters, and in the great confused heap that is David Parker’s attempt to restructure the Resource Management Act. And the Prime Minister is on record recently saying that he wants to push that bill into law before the election.

and on Hipkins
This is where we need to consider Chris Hipkins’ role in the mess that has piled up over the last six years. As one of the most senior ministers since 2017, he was directly responsible for education where standards have been in freefall since he came into office. Exam expectations for NCEA have been reduced twice, a bogus New Zealand history syllabus was signed off, and all school children are led to believe that Maori have always been treated as second-class citizens. It was under Hipkins that truancy from school grew into an epidemic. As Minister of Police, he then presided over a scene where retail crime mushroomed and there were growing numbers of fire arms offences plus ram raids.
As Minister of State Services, Hipkins was responsible for the confused Public Service Act that was passed under urgency before the 2020 election. Poorly drafted, that Act put an unelected official, now called the Public Services Commissioner, in charge of state services, ending the previous world where democratically-elected ministers are in charge of the bureaucracy in their departments. As Roger Partridge of the New Zealand Initiative has pointed out, there isn’t even a clause in the new Act making it clear that the Public Services Commissioner’s principal function is to assist the government to implement its policy agenda. The new reality is that state services are no longer directly accountable to any government. Can we be surprised that the number of state servants has ballooned under this regime, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions more for worse services?

Na,
They had an article savaging Luxon the day before. I thought it was a weak article and looked like political bias to me. So to see the equivalent article on Hipkins just made me think they were balancing the ledger.

I don't think either article added anything to the political debate or people's understanding of these two guys. That they are opinion pieces just makes it look like Stuffed are telling you what to think.
Anyone worked out who the backers of Stuffed are yet? Sinead Boucher bought it for $1, since then no-one knows who is behind the angles they are working.