Open mike 13/05/2024

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1. PsyclingLeft.Always 1

   13 May 2024 at 8:05 am

   MSD receives almost 5000 complaints about staff in two years

   Manawatū woman, who suffered from severe depression, spent more than four months living in her car with her pets while trying to find a place that would accept the two dogs.

   She went back to Work and Income for help but said the treatment she received from staff pushed her away from the very own agency meant to help her.

   "They treat everyone like trash, like a number. Even the security guards [at WINZ], they hover around you like they are just waiting for you to show an emotion, they're ready to bounce. That's how it feels.

   "I was once telling [WINZ] my struggle and the case manager was humming a song while I was in absolute tears. The list goes on and on."

   Taylor said contacting Work and Income became a stressful experience she would rather not face alone.

   "It got to the point where I just couldn't go there alone because of the anxiety that it caused me was huge. The only way I would go there was with a support person."

   https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516616/msd-receives-almost-5000-complaints-about-staff-in-two-years

   I wonder if any of those nasty type MSD staff are facing ….the chop? Knowing people who have had the MSD "treatment", I would find not too much..empathy for them. I'm sure there are some quite decent empathetic people in MSD…(a minority? ) I sincerely hope they dont get replaced.
   • adam 1.1

     13 May 2024 at 10:51 pm

     Nice people within MDS get pushed out.
     • PsyclingLeft.Always 1.1.1

       14 May 2024 at 8:14 am

       Probably. If you were nice/empathetic It would be pretty much hell to work "with" some of those nasties. Maybe its different in cities? But small rural towns…a lot farmers/business owners wives, With IMO a superior, conservative, if not aggressive, attitude.

       As if its…their money they are holding. And begrudging as fuck. Why people who have to use their "service" need Support People.
2. Ad 2

   13 May 2024 at 8:40 am

   If you get a moment check out Matthew Hhotens opinion of this government in the latest Metro. Scathing of Luxon and Willis and wishes them gone.
   • Bearded Git 2.1

     13 May 2024 at 9:31 am

     Finance minister and PM should go…that is pretty damning.
   • AB 2.2

     13 May 2024 at 9:50 am

     With Matthew, the first thing I'd want to know is who (and what) he wants to replace them with.
   • Bearded Git 2.3

     13 May 2024 at 9:53 am

     Hooton also makes it clear in the article that Hipkins needs to be replaced by somebody who is willing to be more radical. Of Willis and Luxon he says:

     "Luxon and Willis proclaim, there’s no cause for alarm nor any reason for policy adjustments. According to Willis’ speech yesterday, “working towards a surplus”, “putting net debt as a percentage of GDP on a downward trajectory” and reducing government spending as a percentage of GDP are now just “longer-term objectives….To use Winston Churchill’s words, they [Luxon and Willis] are “resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent”".

     AB makes a good point above-what does Hooton want instead of Luxon/Willis? He advocates for the slash and burn policies of the tiny, shady and ultra-Right Taxpayers Union in the article. Gawd 'elp us.
   • Maurice 2.4

     13 May 2024 at 10:07 am

     Hooten's earlier (Feb 2024) thoughts are also worth a look

     https://www.metromag.co.nz/society/hard-right-turn

     "If you don’t like the new government, blame Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins."

     "Three years later, Ardern became the first prime minister since 1951 to win a majority of the vote. She might have done anything she wanted, but it turned out she couldn’t. Her successor, Chris Hipkins, had the perfect opportunity to do better, with Grant Robertson and David Parker handing him their innovative wealth tax policy, which would also have delivered $20 a week in tax cuts to everyone, including the very lowest paid. It would have been an election winner, but Hipkins was too scared …."

     He does share the scorn around!
     • Bearded Git 2.4.1

       13 May 2024 at 10:46 am

       That is why Hipkins has to go Maurice.
       • Maurice 2.4.1.1

         13 May 2024 at 12:19 pm

         Labour is ham strung by the lack of new blood, with only a couple of new MPs.

         Everyone else there is tainted by the failures of the past term so I doubt that exchanging Hipkins for one of the others offers much advantage. However the knives are probably out and he may even step away altogether to avoid a spill.
     • Vivie 2.4.2

       13 May 2024 at 6:33 pm

       How ludicrous for Matthew Hooton to suggest voters should blame Labour if they don't like the current Government. Voters have themselves to blame for choosing to believe National's lies about Maori being advantaged at the expense of other NZers, tax cuts confirmed as unaffordable by financial experts, which will benefit the wealthy minority and landlords, and being taken in by the then Opposition's constant attack campaign against Labour.

       Hooton is trying to gaslight voters. What is his agenda?
3. bwaghorn 3

   13 May 2024 at 2:28 pm

   https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350274126/lost-legacy-how-labour-failed-kill-mining-conservation-land/?utm_source=stuff_article&utm_medium=referral

   Vance is wide of the mark on this one, blaming labour for jones the crook dragging nz back to the dark days,
4. Joe90 4

   13 May 2024 at 3:43 pm

   Freedom's for white people.

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   @LPNH

   Happy birthday to John Wilkes Booth

   

   https://twitter.com/LPNH/status/1788882018303975472

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