Audrey’s Report Card
February 27th, 2009 at 11:00 am by David FarrarI missed this yesterday – Audrey Young did a report card on the Cabinet. She hasn’t included Ministers outside Cabinet, which would have also been interesting. Her ratings are:
- John Key 9/10
- Bill English 7/10
- Gerry Brownlee 6/10
- Simon Power 8/10
- Tony Ryall 8/10
- Nick Smith 8/10
- Judith Collins 8/10
- Anne Tolley 7/10
- Chris Finlayson 7/10
- David Carter 5/10
- Murray McCully 7/10
- Tim Groser 7/10
- Wayne Mapp 5/10
- Steven Joyce 7/10
- Georgina te Heuheu 6/10
- Paula Bennett 7/10
- Phil Heatley 7/10
- Pansy Wong 5/10
- Jonathan Coleman 6/10
- Kate Wilkinson 6/10
So one Minister is on 9/10, four Ministers 8/10, eight Ministers on 7/10, four on 6/10 and three on 5/10.
The average score is 6.8/10. For the frontbench it is 7.6/10 which is pretty good.
What I will find interesting is the trend over time – Ministers will be scored the next time Audrey does ratings.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Um, Gerry Brownlee “Doing well in energy, however, with clear consumer focus.”
I normally respect Audrey’s assessment of political competence, but can’t quite figure this one. As frog posted yesterday:
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I am note sure we should take a vanity project like this too seriously. I certainly hope Ministers DON”T. But her comments on faults would be helpful I suppose. But Governments should not let themselves live in a media bubble, it hands over too much power to people like Audrey Young and John Armstrong.
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 11:29 am
PB gets a 7? So if she hadnt lied to Key, it would have been an 8?
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Is this Audreys job application to work in government ?
With the government pay bands become public and the newspapers looking to cut their costs she maybe looking to do a Paula Oliver
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Oh yes they do take it seriously tvb.
So do their staff!
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Yet she gave no overall report on the Government as a whole, nor did she cover the non National Ministers, as I commented in my own post on the matter.
Yet the article headline misleadingly referred to Govt Report Card.
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Of them all, Brownlie’s contributions may be the greatest.. as he kills off superfluous energy strategies. The falling markets have done all he needs to reduce over consumption, CO2 and energy.
Tim Grosser may do the next best thing if he kills the notion that sheep and dairy cow burps should be considered under Kyoto.
And collectively, the Govt will do us all a huge favour if it can convince people of just three things..
* Necessity is the mother of invention.
* Govt is not the solution.. it’s the problem
* Tax kills growth and innovation.
JC
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
So if you’re a Nat, you get a passing grade from Audrey even if she’s assessed you as having achieved nothing so far… (Carter, Mapp, Wong.)
I finding it hard to reconcile this with the Kiwiblog Right’s regular insistence that the Mainstream Media is chronically infiltrated by the commies, and a shocking sycophant and supporter of the left.
Perhaps Baiter or Phil or one of the others could shed some light here?
Vote:February 27th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
‘Tax kills growth and innovation’
That’s why the wealthy are wealthy in the US; never taxed
Obama’s changing that
The wealthy are going to be come good socialists …. kicking and screaming all the way…. but no longer uber Americans
THe english worked this out in the early 20th c. THe idle rich (at the hands of the jealous pollies) were brought back into the real world with some real taxes.
If there’s one thing you can’t be is better off than the pollies if they don’t belong to your social class.
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