I’ve decided to set up an occasional e-slop bucket. I’ll pour into it stories of sloppy and slapdash behaviour by National government ministers. Two ‘SL’ words to add to slippery (for saying one thing whilst thinking another) and slashing (sweeping and random cuts).
The first motion of excrement is Nick Smith’s two-week lapse of reason and his bizarre behavior over ACC.
- ACC privatisation by stealth for spurious reasons – softening up the voters by undermining the corporation. Using ACC levy increases, the ‘black hole’ funding story, hinting at (but failing to promise) cheaper private accident insurance premiums, suggesting ACC is affecting NZ’s credit rating, etc. All with very little basis in fact.
- Botched sacking of Ross Wilson merely for political reasons. We know that because by all accounts Ross Wilson was a highly competent chair of the board. Smith replaces Wilson with John Judge, one of the owners of Health TV, citing Judge’s business acumen. (Thinks: is Health TV a business seccess story? Also, Health TV is a health product promotion/advertorial vehicle; does Mr Judge have a conflict of interest?). John Judge goes in all guns blazing looking for commie gooks in the ACC jungle, grilling other board members and sizing them up for sackings, only to find he has no ammo because he was never really appointed in the first place. That’s because Nick Smith botched the questionable sacking of Ross Wilson.
- Bully. Gatecrashes select committee hearing on ACC’s financial reporting. Most media describe this as ‘”bizzarre” behaviour. Smith bullies Chief Executive Jan White and answers questions to project his lies, rather than allow any provision of evidence that could be used to challenge his privatization agenda.
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