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@blackeyeagain said in NZ Politics:
More on Mallard
Hopefully he goes
Just saw the speech on parliament about this, what a scumbag.
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@kirwan said in NZ Politics:
@blackeyeagain said in NZ Politics:
More on Mallard
Hopefully he goes
Just saw the speech on parliament about this, what a scumbag.
He's been a bully boy for years
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What's the thinking on Christopher Luxon? Perhaps the next National Leader?
The quotes from his speech read pretty well.
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@kiwimurph For what it's worth I understand he was a pretty divisive figure at AirNZ.
Certainly the least impressive of the Norris / Fyfe / Luxon triumvirate from my personal experience. All three claimed credit for turning Air NZ around!
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@kiwimurph For what it's worth I understand he was a pretty divisive figure at AirNZ.
Certainly the least impressive of the Norris / Fyfe / Luxon triumvirate from my personal experience. All three claimed credit for turning Air NZ around!
Fyfe dealt with the aircraft crash in France, seemed to do a good job of casting a compassionate figure IIRC
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Patrick Reynolds is very much a PT advocate. His solution would be to throw billions at the rail line now. He is very anti-car pro cycling. So he's not against Te Huia but the fact that it is done on the cheap.
I often disagree with Reynolds' positioning but in this instance I agree that this is a pilot set up to fail.
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
Patrick Reynolds is very much a PT advocate. His solution would be to throw billions at the rail line now. He is very anti-car pro cycling. So he's not against Te Huia but the fact that it is done on the cheap.
I often disagree with Reynolds' positioning but in this instance I agree that this is a pilot set up to fail.
I never understood how this got past the sniff test. I would have gone along with the idea of the pilot (build it and they will come) but insisted that it would only go ahead if the service went all the way to the city. Schedules/stops/speed all things that could be refined later. A 2 hour train to Auckland would be the tipping point I reckon.
As for the tweets most employment contracts or employee expectations these days have something about not making public comments that could appear to be on behalf of the business.
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
I often disagree with Reynolds' positioning but in this instance I agree that this is a pilot set up to fail.
Yep, and $90M down the drain. This is an ideologically driven political boondoggle.
@crucial said in NZ Politics:
As for the tweets most employment contracts or employee expectations these days have something about not making public comments that could appear to be on behalf of the business.
If you're on a board, criticising the Board decisions is a short term move. He was an interesting choice, with little (no) governance experience
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@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
If you're on a board, criticising the Board decisions is a short term move. He was an interesting choice, with little (no) governance experience
but, but Twyford said "Patrick Reynolds brings much needed expertise in urban and public transport to the NZTA Board".
Based on Twyfords criteria we should all be shoo in's for everything from AB coach to Minister of Finance. Reynold's expertise starts and finishes with being an avid self-promoter and busy poster on the Greater Auckland blog site.
Memo to Mark Robinson - I'm still available!!!!!
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I'm laughing except not laughing cos nzta is such a permanent clusterfuck, but seriously, who in their right mind would opt for a three hour diesel train with baggage cart switcheroo included commute. And only twice a day. It's bloody 2021. We are supposedly a green and innovative nation, but are several decades behind everyone else in rail transport. It should not be this hard or this slow to get people from Hamilton to Auckland.
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@paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@mokey so what you're saying is they are doing it on purpose
The application to put gates at the bottom of the Bombays to DNA test for inbreeding was disallowed.
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