We are being governed by bullies, who not only bully personally, but appoint/employ/amplify other bullies to beat us down & make us cry 🤬 This Levy person is an example outside of ministerial control by US - i.e. we can't un-elect HIM and exert any citizen control/sanction over him as with an elected official. Even though we know the weak-as-whatever PM WOULDN'T do it anyway, even Luxon has no control over him & his private & public utterances (glad to be proved otherwise if I'm wrong?)
These bully Ministers don't take on people who can resist meaningfully or fight back with big $$ & revolving-door lobbyists in their ears when they make decisions - no, they bully beneficiaries, and the disabled community & their support networks, and health workers from GPs on down, and struggling families whose power bills, rates, insurance, food, prescription charges etc. etc. have gone up far beyond whatever measly tax reduction they got ($4.30 a fortnight for a fixed income retiree ?) And much of this comes from coalition partners who between them got a small minority of votes - I guess we should give them some credit for being ruthless in wielding that minority for excessive power so Luxon et al can pretend they are the govt?
We are being governed by bullies, who not only bully personally, but appoint/employ/amplify other bullies to beat us down & make us cry 🤬 This Levy person is an example outside of ministerial control by US - i.e. we can't un-elect HIM and exert any citizen control/sanction over him as with an elected official. Even though we know the weak-as-whatever PM WOULDN'T do it anyway, even Luxon has no control over him & his private & public utterances (glad to be proved otherwise if I'm wrong?)
These bully Ministers don't take on people who can resist meaningfully or fight back with big $$ & revolving-door lobbyists in their ears when they make decisions - no, they bully beneficiaries, and the disabled community & their support networks, and health workers from GPs on down, and struggling families whose power bills, rates, insurance, food, prescription charges etc. etc. have gone up far beyond whatever measly tax reduction they got ($4.30 a fortnight for a fixed income retiree ?) And much of this comes from coalition partners who between them got a small minority of votes - I guess we should give them some credit for being ruthless in wielding that minority for excessive power so Luxon et al can pretend they are the govt?