I saw associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee put out a press release in support of Janet Dickson with legislation in the pipeline to change the five year ban the REA can impose to something less harsh. That's great, right? When I read the press release I was shocked and outraged.
McKee had sent a sternly worded letter (a "Letter of Expectation") to the REA last February that the cultural training course is not relevant and should be dropped.
I quickly checked the Real Estate Agents Act and then the relevant Crown Entities Act to confirm my suspicion: the minister responsible has the power to appoint and sack members of the REA at will.
In an act of gross insubordination the REA threw her sternly worded letter in the bin and had Crown Law vigorously defend the legal challenge from Janet Dickson. We know that "public service neutrality" is a myth, but here you have public servants openly disregarding a directive from the duly-elected government. It would be easy to replace them with just cause, even though none is required.
At any point in the last year, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith and associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee could have replaced the members of the REA.
The entire saga has happened because they wanted it to. Only they had the power to stop the radical activists running the REA, not the courts.
Don't get me wrong, I want McKee to succeed. I am not an ACT voter and never will be, but there is a lot of good policy she is working on. This shakes my faith that she has the will needed to deliver in the face of resistance from radical leftists under the remit of her own portfolios. MPs don't answer to the left-wing media, they answer to the voters who put them there to do a job. We will back you up if you do it. If Goldsmith or Luxon are in the way of hiring better civil servants, then we need to know.
The issue is not one of the rule of law, but the rule of men. There is nothing in the law forcing the REA to revoke Janet's real estate license for five years, to ignore conscious objections, or to mandate cultural indoctrination courses.
They are doing it because they want to. They continue in their positions because the ministers responsible want them to be there.
Nicole McKee has only promised a change in law that would fix nothing. Radical leftists run the REA today and they will run the REA long after she is gone. Unless they are sacked with the stroke of a pen and replaced with authorities loyal to the government's agenda or the REA is abolished entirely.
The message is clear: bureaucrats can refuse to implement the government's policies and nothing will happen to them.
All these left-wing indoctrination courses across every professional body could be removed today. They are not mandated by law, but are implemented by radical activists in the bureaucracy. The problem is the coalition, and National in particular, do not want them gone.
Nicole McKee may be in government, but she is not in power.
Dieuwe is the editor of Right Minds NZ. - where this article was sourced. In addition to conservative politics and reactionary thought, he likes books, gardening, biking, tech, reformed theology, beauty, and tradition.
McKee had sent a sternly worded letter (a "Letter of Expectation") to the REA last February that the cultural training course is not relevant and should be dropped.
I quickly checked the Real Estate Agents Act and then the relevant Crown Entities Act to confirm my suspicion: the minister responsible has the power to appoint and sack members of the REA at will.
In an act of gross insubordination the REA threw her sternly worded letter in the bin and had Crown Law vigorously defend the legal challenge from Janet Dickson. We know that "public service neutrality" is a myth, but here you have public servants openly disregarding a directive from the duly-elected government. It would be easy to replace them with just cause, even though none is required.
At any point in the last year, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith and associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee could have replaced the members of the REA.
The entire saga has happened because they wanted it to. Only they had the power to stop the radical activists running the REA, not the courts.
Don't get me wrong, I want McKee to succeed. I am not an ACT voter and never will be, but there is a lot of good policy she is working on. This shakes my faith that she has the will needed to deliver in the face of resistance from radical leftists under the remit of her own portfolios. MPs don't answer to the left-wing media, they answer to the voters who put them there to do a job. We will back you up if you do it. If Goldsmith or Luxon are in the way of hiring better civil servants, then we need to know.
The issue is not one of the rule of law, but the rule of men. There is nothing in the law forcing the REA to revoke Janet's real estate license for five years, to ignore conscious objections, or to mandate cultural indoctrination courses.
They are doing it because they want to. They continue in their positions because the ministers responsible want them to be there.
Nicole McKee has only promised a change in law that would fix nothing. Radical leftists run the REA today and they will run the REA long after she is gone. Unless they are sacked with the stroke of a pen and replaced with authorities loyal to the government's agenda or the REA is abolished entirely.
The message is clear: bureaucrats can refuse to implement the government's policies and nothing will happen to them.
All these left-wing indoctrination courses across every professional body could be removed today. They are not mandated by law, but are implemented by radical activists in the bureaucracy. The problem is the coalition, and National in particular, do not want them gone.
Nicole McKee may be in government, but she is not in power.
Dieuwe is the editor of Right Minds NZ. - where this article was sourced. In addition to conservative politics and reactionary thought, he likes books, gardening, biking, tech, reformed theology, beauty, and tradition.
8 comments:
People say that National is pointing in the right direction, which may be true, but it is no use for a vehicle to point in the right direction if it doesn't move.
Are people saying that National are pointing in the 'right' direction? Who? It looks decidedly left to a lot of us because it is little different to the direction it was headed under Liebour. Maorification has not been stopped, it is doubling down. The Treaty gravy train has not stopped, it is gathering speed with MACA, etc. ably abetted by Goldsmith et al. The author of this piece says that Crown Law were set into action to vigorously defend the legal challenge from Janet Dickson (i.e. we paid again!). So, it is the same old malaise, the same old direction and the vehicle is simply sitting there waiting for its old driver to get back behind the wheel and press the "go" pedal again. He Puapua ...
We need a January 6th, now.
Clearly unless these issues are forced, nothing positive will happen.
ACT and National both work for the revolution. NZ First isn’t much better.
One thing Donald Trump learned after his first stint as President is that a loyal administration is paramount.
It seems our coalition government haven't learned this lesson.
My belief is, the status quo suits them just fine.
Sack the board. It’s that simple. No employment for 5 years.
Unless the govt stands up to the recalcitrant bureaucrats they will achieve very little. The Yes Minister types know they just need to dig in and bide their time until the next govt comes along, and so the merry go round continues.
It certainly is "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" all rolled into one
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