Trumpet “work place skills” as one of the BIG SIX economic drivers. Establish a skills forum to drive the skills strategy. Announce that the forum will meet five times in 2010, starting in March, so that early progress can be made. Then forget to call the March meeting, or any others, so that yet another leg of the Governments economic plan turns out to be a hologram.
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Frankly, it’s another letdown
Pete, if they put their minds to it they could still meet five times in 2010. Despite the delay all is not lost
I’m getting used to this government
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” if they put their minds to it they could still meet five times in 2010.”
That’s a big if Loota.
What are the other five drivers? Just asking.
Are you guys going to take on Williamson’s comments?
You’re meant to be standing for economic sovereignty, which most Kiwis support and here you’ve got a Nat minister labelling everyone who doesn’t want to sell land to foreigners as racist.
make hay while the sun shines, yes?
Where’s Goff’s strong rebuttal of Williamson’s insult, drawing on the idea of economic sovereignty?
Not that the NACTs ever had any plan other than giving NZs wealth to themselves and their rich mates courtesy of tax cuts, tax switch, and government bailouts (although that one is can be laid at Labours as well).
It would require that they actually have minds…
Well, John Key is a busy man I guess.
I don’t understand the problem. Mainly becuase the meeting wouldn’t of made a difference any way.
It would of been just another PR stunt.
But they’re missing the opportunity for FIVE PR stunts. Unimaginable.
These days, their fun-filled days to stun us with stunts are few are far between.
Aren’t oppositions meant to oppose?
only saying…
@Loota
“But they’re missing the opportunity for FIVE PR stunts. Unimaginable.”
They would get red eyes from all the flashing cameras and sore hands from all the hand sakes.
It is only a dissappointment if you believed it in the first instance.
Anything can be said to stall and then jump to another issue. There are so many that the bigger pattern tells what the agenda is. Certainly not unemployment as that is a tool to drive down wages, while complaining about the enormous cost of benefits.
Must be time for another benefit bash, the right wing sport.
Tax cuts for the rich and Corps. A much more important agenda. Those promises are kept even when it is plainly clear that the country can’t afford it without cuts to services including important aspects of education.
A skills forum..?
I’m no idiot and that doesn’t appear to mean anything…
Jeremy FYI the forum would have been the point where Bus NZ, the CTU, ITOs n the Government swapped their views etc. It is how a biggish strategy like workplace skills stays on course. Maryan Street and I convened such a group in Govt. It worked. This outfit know how to pay lip service to workplace skills development but that’s where it stops. I think I will post once or twice this week then call this series to a halt….
Oh boy