THE RE-WRAP: Gargantuan Ship of Hopelessness

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Wednesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) And Litany of Uselessness/Undoing Damage Done/We're All Going On a Protesting Holiday/Some Things Are Worth Consultation/Grumpy Old Hero of the Week

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
Therapy There. Welcome to the Rewrap for Wednesday, All the
best bits from the mic hosting breakfast on Newstalk SIDB
in a sillier package. I am Glen Hart. Today is
OCA Day. But when the show was happening, we didn't
know what was going to happen, although we did. We've

(00:45):
got a weird situation with somebody going on a protest holiday.
Should councils have to consult with EWE over every little
damn thing? And Jamie Diamond is a grumpy old man
and Mike likes the cut of hiss GiB before any

(01:06):
of that. So yeah, the Public Service report is out
and it seems like they're not really serving anybody very well.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
You really got to read it to believe it, and
even in reading it might well be you still can't
believe it. A report, one of a number of investigations
now underway, has reported back on whether personal census and
COVID intel collected at Manaeua Marai was misused for electoral purposes.
Now it's important to point out this particular report didn't
have it within its scope to find out whether the

(01:34):
Mariah did anything shonky. That report is still to comets
with the police. The Maria, if you recall, was managed
by a Takata tash Kemp, also a Mari party candidate.
She went on to win the electric by a handful
of votes. What this report does find is proof, beyond
any shadow of a doubt, that even when you stack
the public service full of people the way the Labor
government did, they are still incompetent. The head of STATS

(01:55):
going he won't be reappointed. Each of the departments looked
into Stats Health New Zealand Ministry of Health. They've all
been found hopelessly wanting a combination of one not really
having any oversight of information that may or may not
be protected, may or may not be inappropriately used. In
two when concerns were raised, still doing nothing about it.
High trust models were in place. Ha ha ha, high trust models.

(02:18):
Remember the Gold and the durn Hipkin days of the
high trust models. It basically confirms the Public Service Commissioners
finding last week, having had a look at the public service,
it isn't fit for purpose. It has too many meetings,
there are too many departments. We need a few gotten
rid off and if you designed it today it wouldn't
look like this. No safeguards, no regard for privacy and
the issues around privacy. The report has just a litany

(02:40):
of uselessness. And remember the alleged skull duggers part. Whether
the Maori Party used some of this intel to help
their election campaign. That out comes still to surface. It's
bad enough as it is. If they then get pinged,
it's a full blown scandal. Think about it. You potentially
have a Parliament made up in numbers in a way
it should not have been. At least one head has

(03:03):
rolled or is rolling, but you can't make the stuff up.
It's gliding on. It's worse than most would have thought,
and it's not even over. The worst may in fact
still be to come.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
So a gargantuan ship of hopelessness as well as as
a litany of uselessness. Mike described all of that airs
this morning. It's good with the something things up today.
If you could have hand it to him, it's a
rewrap and he's always so an eye look to and

(03:33):
it comes to all my ocr predictions as well.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
So we await today's pronouncement from the Reserve Bank on
our much debated cash rate. Can I remind you of
a couple of things. One the article I quoted from
and alerted you to last week from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,
which looked at the Australian economy and compared it to
ours specific like for like examples, which included the Reserve
Bank's approaches to monetary policy and jobs. The conclusion could

(03:57):
be seen in the desertion of New Zealand by the
tens of thousands that had hopped on a plane to Australia.
The second example came last week at the Wycatter University
Economic Forum, where some economists sat on a stage hold
us of the staggering incompetency my word, not theirs, of
our Reserve Bank and its maniacal approach to throwing money
at stuff, despite the fact that after a while a

(04:17):
lot of the fears that had been peddled didn't actually
come to pass, and as a result, throwing more money
it stuff would be counterproductive. And yet they did it,
and as a result we got a level of inflation
a mile higher than it needed to be, and once
that all worked its way through the system, we had
to lay off a whole lot more people than Australia, remembering,
of course, Australia's jobless rate is less than four percent,
of ours is over five still climbing. Hence today when

(04:39):
another large cut is coming because so many things came
to a halt, we had a recession. In fact, we
had three recessions, while Australia had exactly none. The debate
today is whether it's the last big cut i e.
Fifty points. They will argue inflation is well contained, which
in and of itself is an issue given they have
done the job, and yet where's the normality, where's the growth?

(05:00):
Whereas the damage they've caused so great we might have
a little bit of inflation, falling interest rates, and we
still can't get ourselves off our knees, remembering of course,
that a lot of an a is psychological. Will you spend?
Will you hire? Is their growth? Do you take a punt?
That's the narrative the government, of course, are desperately working
on at the moment. I still argue, and the HSBC
backed me up with their summation that no one anywhere

(05:22):
got hit economically like us, that the Reserve Bank and
their actions have a lot to answer for and to
this point they've gotten away with it largely Scott Free.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
What does he want a firing squad? Shall we? Shall
we move on? So sick of talking about the oci
rewrap Now this is a bit of a weird one.
Would you join a protest when you were on holiday somewhere?
He's like a bit of an effort to me. I

(05:52):
prefer I don't know, happy hour by the pool.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, the business of debiyon holiday thirty years anniversary when
parliaments sitting in parliament doesn't sit this off And I
mean I can only conclude honestly the Murray Party aren't
that interested in the actual process of taking life suits.
This is a woman, This is a woman who didn't
have a clue about this.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
We arrived at the airport and I wasn't aware of
what had gone on with the passport and the delegation
to China, and so there was this assumption that I
had arrived for that.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, why would they be assuming that, Oh, I don't know,
Because you're an MP in the Parliament in New Zealand,
you might know what's going on in the world. Winston
China deals, No, no clue.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
You don't give you a thirtieth of it winning anniversary
every day, do you?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
No? But that depends on whether she's celebrating the day itself.
That was a question I was going to raise. So
say it's literally, say it's today and they're in Rara time,
they're celebrating their thirty of the anniversary on the day
while parliament's sitting. Or do you just do your thirtieth
anniversary trip at a time that's more convenient. I don't know.
Over the eight nine ten weeks of some of that,
the Parliament wasn't sitting.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh that's an idea. I mean, you can't always get
flights that match up with the right day anyway, can
you accommodation and stuff? So you just go sometime close
ish and say, yeah, we're there to celebrate at well,

(07:19):
I know it's your anniversary. And also so not only
was she protesting on holiday, she was protesting on her anniversary.
I don't understands the rewrap right. How much consultation is
too much? Here's Mike explaining what I mean.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Timuru's mayor, who's Nigel. Of course Nigel Bowens district cannot
afford to consult EWI on basic infrastructure projects. And this
is yet more of this madness that's got hopelessly out
of control. So if you're not following Timaru, they got
one and a half million dollar redevelopment of the downtown
Ish area. And as part of the Infrastructure committee meeting yesterday,

(08:00):
the idea of EWEI consultation on the redevelopment of a
toilet block was a box ticking exercise. He decided to
speak publicly on and he's one hundred percent right. The
world's got a little bit mad on the whole. You're
here for them to give us advice on basic water infrastructure. Now,
why are they consulting Murray, Because you've got to consult Murray.
The rule says you've got to consult Murray, you know
on significant areas of natural beauty, conservation land, things of

(08:23):
historical significance. You know, you might go down the track
and say fair enough toilet block. Not so much for
them to give us basic advice on water infrastructure. Where
a toilet is versus where a water fountain goes. I
think we can figure that out. So he speaks, of
course the sense, but those aren't the rules. And so
there are councils all over the country who spend money,

(08:44):
time and energy consulting Murray on frippery. And that's yet
again an insight into what's wrong with this country.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I'm not against the idea of being consulted on drinking
fountains because I'm partial to the ones that have the
person drinking fountain out one side and the fill up
your drink bottle out the other, and then that then
fills up a dog bowl. I like those ones and

(09:14):
that and any dog owner I think will agree with me. Actually,
if we can get the ravishmen back in the part
while we're at it, they probably don't have their problem
in Timorary. I don't think that was an Ebie consultation thing.
I think there was a Wayne Brown slashing costs kind
of a thing. Unless they've got a Wayne Brown and Timorary,

(09:35):
you probably still go all your bens the re rat. Actually,
speaking of grumpy old men, now do you think I
meant Wayne Brown or me or Mike or Jamie.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Diamond My hero of the week, Jamie Diamond of JP Morgan,
who was caught on a leaked tape rallying against Jen
Zeters who work from home bullshit bureaucracy. His words not mine.
He slow decision making, phone calls going unanswered, younger recruits
being left behind because of the shift to remote working.

(10:07):
He hates it. Don't give me the shit that worked
from home Friday works. I call a lot of people
on Fridays and there's not a goddamn person you can
get hold of. I've had it with this kind of stuff.
He's concerned about the damage working from home was doing
to these young recruits. Accused the managers of failing to
keep the practice under control, of abusing the privilege to
slack off. There's no chance, and I'm going to leave
it up to managers, zero chants. The abuse that took

(10:28):
place is extraordinary. A lot of you were effing zoom
and you were doing the following, looking at your email,
sending text to each other about what an asshole the
other person is not paying attention, not reading your stuff.
And if you don't think that slows down efficiency, creativity
creates rudeness, it does, go Jamie. If I give him
a knighthood, I would.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
We seem to get a lot of these sort of crusty,
old rich people who claim that business isn't done the
way that they used to be. Done in their day?
Should we be listening to them? I'm not talking about Mike.
I don't find him particularly crusty. Here's old, though, and

(11:09):
certainly grumpy on occasion. Me too, And we'll be back
with more curmudgeonally comments tomorrow. See then.

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