Another Labour legacy
March 6th, 2009 at 7:38 am by David FarrarPoor old Pete Hodgson doesn’t seem to have realised they lost the election, and is complaining that Jonathan Coleman is going to dismantle the Pacific division of the Immigration Service. The Herald reports:
Labour Immigration spokesman Pete Hodgson said Dr Coleman’s decision was short-sighted and based on political grounds because Labour had created the division.
So let us look at this wonderful legacy Labour left, according to an independent report:
- the division had had no clear picture of its duties
- lacked strong leadership
- had become isolated from the rest of the Immigration Service
- its leadership created an “us and them” approach
- attitude prevailed among staff that its leadership was “untouchable”
- staff were not properly trained or resourced
- problems with inconsistent decision-making
- difficult decisions were sometimes put in the “too hard basket”
- staff morale problems included grievances over pay and conditions
- poor internal relationships
- concern regarding financial processes and compliance
- huge backlogs of applications and issues regarding timeliness and quality
They should be proud.
Tags: Immigration Service, Jonathan Coleman, Pete Hodgson
March 6th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Labour was a disaster for the New Zealand economy.
It was a great day see them booted out of office on 8 November 2008.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Business as usual for Labour. Debacle after debacle, but its okay – they had plenty of money to throw around with casual disregard for those providing it.
Vote:The Pacific Division of the Immigration Service was a microcosm – a “Model of Labour” – without having to work.
March 6th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Sadly yet another example of a sick system that maintains people of authority in an unfit position of power. The mistakes of the Labour Absolute Power machine of idiocy will take decades to mend. First Dyson with ACC and now Hodgson with immigration. These up themselves deluded fools are classic exhibits of the principle that states in a hierarchically structured government administration people tend to be promoted up to their level of incompetence. Surely these dodgy Labour MP’s are accountable under the law of common sense and decency?
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 8:14 am
It appears that every time that National gets in to office they have to spend their first term fixing the many problems left by the narrow minded and doctrinaire Socialists. Given that we have recently had NINE WASTED YEARS in a row then there are certainly a lot of problems to put right. An immigration division that is out of control needs to be controlled. A culture of incompetence needs to run by competent people. A clarion call needs to go out to shape up or ship out.
Vote:Thank God we now have a great captain at the helm and a crew who can lead New Zealand off and away from the rocks. The rolling maul of improvements across the board and reform of the immigration service bodes well for the future of our country. There is finally hope. Kiwis abroad, come home. Together we can salvage pride and prestige. The next nine years will be great.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:24 am
We need to be grateful the calamity of the Labour government is finally behind us.
The socialist Labour party and its minions have inflicted great damage to the NZ economy and social fabric, so every step must be taken to return our contry to working order. If it means dismantling the quangos and bureaucratic organisations created by the comrades, so be it.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Dear Labour,
You fucked it, they’re fixing it.
STFU and stay out the way.
Yours
Vote:NZ
March 6th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Pete Hodgson, Pete Hodgson?
Ineffectual greybeard chappie?
Irrelevant.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 8:38 am
Labour are trying oh so hard to hit a 20% poll rating good luck to them.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 8:43 am
I think they’re trying to hit the bottom of the polls so hard they bounce back to 30 Doug.
Not sure its a good plan, but I’m all for it. They can duke it out with the greens for lest significant party on the left.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Pete, Its broke. Let them fix it. You couldn’t make it work so STFU. Your comments hold little weight.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Over the last few weeks it has become obvious that Labour are in a much bigger mess than many first thought, when Klark resigned on election night the prevailing opinion seemed to be that Key would come under enormous pressure from Labour once the usual honeymoon period was over.
That assumption was based on the premiss that the main reason Labour lost was due to the public’s boredom with Klark and Kullen rather than any great shift in the nations overall political leaning, I think it is now fair to say that assumption has proven to be wildly inaccurate.
The public became sick and tired of Labour’s arrogance and “we know better than you” attitude, they also became sick of the corrupt and shifty way Labour operated, the great thing for those of us who never want to see Labour in power again is that Labour have not yet learnt their lesson.
Labour’s front bench are angry, they are bitter and they are most definitely twisted, as DPF points out people like Hodgson, Dyson, Mallard, Kullen and even Parker all ooze hatred and bile, they simply cannot make a statement to the media or in the house without coming across as small minded and nasty, at a time when Labour should be listening to the people they seem to have buried their heads even deeper into the sand, as yet they have not accepted that one of reasons the public turned against them because of the extraordinary waste of tax payer money as witnessed by the affairs of the disastrous Pacific Island division.
I do not think it is too early to say that Key and the Nat’s have already sealed their second term, Labour are in a mess and will not recover until well into that second National term, not until Labour have a complete clean out of their front bench will they become an effective opposition, Labour need to understand that they have to earn the right to be the government again, they way they are going about things at the moment makes that possibility extremely remote.
Long may it continue.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Why is the Media asking Labour for a response?
Why are Labour stupid enough to respond.
9 years of sleaze and total corruption has gone to their heads.
FFS the Labour Staffers will be stealing presents next.
Oh hang on!
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Habit Glut.
Its like a drug addiction.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 9:00 am
There is much truth in what you say big bruv. I do shudder to think what the next tier of Labourites will be like, given the tendency these days for left-leaning parties to become increasingly nuttier (and in conjunction, parties of the right become increasingly wimpy)
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Big Bruv,
>Labour’s front bench are angry, they are bitter and they are most definitely twisted
Sounds like the lick spittles at the substandard having been swigging from the same bottle of bile, they are bitter, twsited, angry and even more dogmatic in their defense of the retarded socialist agenda that failed.
F*cking funny eh?!
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Just re-read the blog, and surely this is obvious.
‘League of Gentlemen’ , black comedy series had a thread in it about pauline who was doing training for ‘dole scum’ to get back to work.
Only 2 jobs suitable for the candidates were Bramble Pickers, and Baby Sitters.
There is some demand for PI fruit pickers, but not sure that I would be enthusiastic about them baby sitting for a living.
When Thomson was pinged for importing half of Kiribati, what were they doing here? Bludging or Bramble picking.
Bringing in PI’s by quota who do zero for the country, apart from keeping Restaurant Brands shares stable, and rents in South Auckland firm.
Would love to know the ‘Value added’ on the last 10k imports from the fat lands.
For sure there are some outstanding Sportsmen in the mix, and some savage killers as well!
My opinion, send any PI bludger back to whence they came or an uninhabited island is fine as well.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Labour crow about not increasing the countries debt – well, I say, given the amount of cash flooding into labours coffers we might have been 40 billion in surplus right now. We would be a net lender … how awesome would that be now.
Instead , a lot of that cash has simply dwindled away. Largely on white elephant schemes and into pockets of greedy, unmotivated, and inefficient bureaucrats.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Big Bruv,
you hit the nail on the head. Clark knew she had to go otherwise all that shit she had been rolling in would finally be made to stick.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Remember all that election advertising:
“An election based on trust”
“John Key, I cannot trust you”
Well, as it is proven, pure fiction from that Labour scaremongering, shit stirring, bullshit machine.
What happened to that hidden agenda. Key seems far too busy cleaning up the mess of the last 9 years.
If they had spent less time bullshitting and covering up their own arses than dealing with real problems, we may not have a trust issue with Labour at the moment.
Labour should jus grow a pair, admit their mistakes and try to regain credibility with te public. Unless they do this, the next election will be up to National to lose, rather than for Labour to win.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Memo to Pete:
There was an election on 8/11/08. You lost. Get used to rollbacks of all the damage you and your mates caused. And if you don’t like it, bugger off and get a job.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Glutaemus Maximus’s little rant about Pacific Islanders was a blast of overt racism. Racists are usually a bit more careful with their ugly little opinions.
Looked at a world map recently GM? Have a look – you might notice that NZ is in the south-west Pacific, not somewhere in the north Atlantic near Europe. So what would be sensible about denigrating all the neighbours and treating them badly?
There is a Samoan-born National MP – should he be sent back too, or does he get honorary white status by virtue of being in the right party?
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
JD, his rant wasn’t racist. It was xenophobic – Aussies talk about Kiwis like that all the time.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Here’s a link from the WINZ website, one can reach it by clicking on the “We speak other languages” button on the front page.
http://www.winz.govt.nz/about-work-and-income/contact-us/language-lines/index.html
This page shows us exactly the calibre of immigrant enticed to New Zealand by the Labour regime, where they came from and the inducements Labour offered them when they got here.
You’ll note the absence of languages spoken in first world countries, such as Japanese, French, Spanish, Dutch and German.
Labour’s preference was to import the HIV positive and the diseased, the illiterate and the unskilled. They did this because straining society’s services to breaking point and artificially altering the ratio of productive Kiwis to unproductive proletariat are precursors necessary for a socialist revolution, according to the Trotskyist dogma that Labour subscribes to.
And they had help. Labour didn’t do this by themselves, the officials of the Ministry of Immigration assisted them. Those officials that selectively ignored immigration policy, that rubber-stamped 3rd world immigration, that were complicit in the “browning” of New Zealand, must be held to account.
A review of every grant of residency and citizenship enacted over the last decade must be made. Citizenship and residency that is found to be unsound must be rescinded and the officials concerned must go to gaol.
New Zealand for New Zealanders.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
The last profound statement Pete HODGSON made was “National wants to rip up the $500 million cheque New Zealand is going to make from signing up to the Emissions Trading Scheme”
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I hope someone writes another book or two of the kind that Richard Prebble wrote in the 1980′s about the endemic waste and disorganisation that the incoming Lange administration discovered in government departments. History is repeating; the trend is always in this direction if there are not responsible watchdogs looking after OUR hard-earned tax dollars. I wish the NZ voter would LEARN.
And calling these things “Another Labour Legacy” is exactly right; it is repugnant to shift the blame as the lefties in the media will do, onto the new administration that now has to plug the holes in the fiscal dyke.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Outstanding sportsmen are welcome, otherwise the AB’s wouldn’t have such good statistics?
There is a Samoan-born National MP – should he be sent back too, or does he get honorary white status by virtue of being in the right party?
Is he a Bludger? If anybody from the Islands is making a positive contribution, then well done then, and well done us.
If the have been chosen to be ‘professional dependents’, and grateful to the Violently Corrupt Labour/NZ1 administration.
There should be a review of all immigrants allowed in over the past 10 years.
Labour were simply importing Votes. How corrupt is that?
Joe Smug? A Question?
FFS what is the connection to Iran, Somalia, or Afghanistan. Short of Muslims are we?
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
So now good people you know why these socialist bastards removed treason from the books.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
GM – the great majority of the Iranians, Somalis and Afghanis will be refugees. NZ accepts 750 refugees a year, and has done so for many years under both Labour and National led governments. Refugees are likely to get support from WINZ and other agencies – leading to the language line link that caused Oob to get so excited. There are very few migrants on benefits – not suprising as they have to pass language, health and job/qualification checks – and the majority of migrants on benefits came in under the ‘parent’ policy in the 1990s – when there was of course a National Government. Speaking of that Government, one of the Ministers of Immigration of the time had his warrant withdrawn ie was sacked for making very questionable decisions. So evil socialist swine and trotskyite revolution-mongers don’t have a monopoly on dodgy practices.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I’m sorry. I didn’t quite catch that. Which department was that again?
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Why do we need a divison devoted to a particular group of people from the same area? We don’t. There should be one category for all applicants. If they meet the threshold of being able to contribute to our economy in a meaningful way; are willing to accept and embrace our culture; and can meet character requirements, then they should be considered. If not, we don’t want or need you. Just look at Britain and the problems they are encountering – no go areas for Brits of european descent, bombings in London etc. Immigration should be about getting what is good for New Zealand – after all, the reason why we are the best country in the world is due to the people here.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Immigration is a tricky one. I know Germans, Dutch and Austrians who came here under the points system. Having sold properties in their own countries and converted the proceeds into NZ dollars they were able to buy pretty nice freehold properties. After being granted residency they quit thier jobs, did thier 26 week stand down, and are now on the dole. They like the NZ lifestyle. Personally I think they should all fuck off back to where they came from.
Vote:March 6th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
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