John Johnson

cynical conservative.
climate change heathen.
I'll do the follow back (if you're not selling something).
No DMs please. (I will unfollow if you do)

[Penny Marie NZ @pennymarienz]

I don’t know who to credit for this, but..
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@Coltheman1 @Ewenr Party vote ACT. They are the only party definitely not going with Labour.

[In the World, Not of It @romulunz]

I hadn't realise Quilae Wong is now @top_nz leader because she answered a Seek job ad. This isn't a political party and she isn't a political leader. This is a job for her in a corporation run by faceless men.

Vote wisely.

https://t.co/eJLuVJQH6U

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@nzfirst We've seen your promises before.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

So if all the reports are true, Ilhan Omar
lied about her age to make it seem like she naturalized through her father, who apparently she lied about being a citizen in the first place, then used her illegitimate citizenship to marry her brother so that he could inherit her fake naturalization before remarrying and starting a fraudulent winery that sold empty bottles of wine?

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Serious questions need to be asked regarding a contract previously awarded to an organisation run by a sitting Labour MP’s wife.

OIA documents now confirm that Oranga Tamariki (OT) awarded a nearly $5 million, three-year contract to the Manukau Urban Māori Authority (MUMA), the organisation led by Tania Rangiheuea, wife of senior Labour MP Willie Jackson, without even receiving a business case.

OT treated a thank-you letter from Rangiheuea as the “business case” but the letter was thanking then CEO, Chappie Te Kani, for the offer of funding he had already made.

When asked under the OIA for any record of that offer, OT said it could not find one and refused the request under section 18(e) because the document does not exist or cannot be found.

It gets worse. OT’s own funding team was bypassed and the deal was agreed at CEO level, only afterwards did staff raise concerns about budget double counting and social worker rates that did not match existing contracts.

The budget was only “indicative” because MUMA had not even reviewed the files, it had no beds for half the youth and there was no competitive process.

The only performance “KPIs” listed are simply:
“Provide some recent examples of results being achieved with clients, in particular improving outcomes for tamariki Mãori and their whänau (eg changes in skills, knowledge, attitude, behaviour, or circumstances). If relevant, use a case study.” - there are no targets or measurable outcomes listed for a multi million dollar taxpayer funded contract.

This is a no-bid, high-value contract awarded to an organisation led by a Labour MP’s wife, with no locatable starting offer or business case, no proper funding review, soft narrative reporting, no targets, baselines, or verifiable outcomes and budget problems spotted only after the decision to award the contract had been made.

This is particularly concerning as both Chris Hipkins and Willie Jackson are now promoting significant devolution of services to Māori, which will mean even less oversight.

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@enfilading_fire @Suitandtie9999 And the Labour Party has hasn't represented blue collar workers for years.

[ReadyMix @thereadymix]

Of FB

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Humorous and gets the message across - kudos to the Taxpayers’ Union.

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@SonofOmahu Well her intelligence has been artificial since she's been in parliament but no one has tried to regulate her.

[Stu @StuMorrisonNZ]

So basically TOP are admitting they don't have any realistic chance of getting any of their policies accepted but they'd like the salaries to do nothing for 3 years please.
Do we need another Green Party?

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@Anamta_ali_ Kane

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@miladreaamy 82

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@Suitandtie9999 The Envy Party.

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@sqsehrish 1050.
500/.5=1000

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@Suitandtie9999 The payment came through.

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@kaiviti_cam I didn't see it but it cant have been worse than Ardern -> Collins debate.

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

@FullTwatforward Dickhead is delighted he might be able to get something for free by taking someone else's hard earned.
That used to be called stealing.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

One of the things that blows my mind about the COVID myocarditis saga is this.

At the Cabinet Social Wellbeing Committee in March 2022, 14 ministers were marked present, including the PM. In front of them was a paper in Chris Hipkins’ name, so 14 ministers had a paragraph saying a two-dose schedule may add an unnecessary risk to under-18s.

Ministers are expected to read the papers in front of them, and yet the minute does not record anyone asking why advice dated December was only arriving in March, or why a two-dose requirement had been left in place, which you would think, should at least have prompted a question.

I also can’t locate a single email from Chris Hipkins to officials asking for a “please explain,” and what else had not been put to ministers.

Carmel Sepuloni (Chair), Willie Jackson, Damien O’Connor, Ayesha Verrall and Priyanca Radhakrishnan are still MPs, and the media have not put any questions to them about whether they read the paragraph and raised concerns. Not one.

Stranger still, the Minister of Health, Andrew Little, and Ayesha Verrall, a doctor and Associate Minister of Health, were present. You’d think they would have been deeply concerned about the delay. But no, nothing.

If it was a massive failure that ministers were not told earlier, why is there no minute recording them treating the delay as a problem and directing a follow-up? When I look at explanations offered they roll two issues into one. It may have been too late to change the outcome, but that doesn’t explain why no one is on record asking why the advice was 3 months late.

[John Johnson @johnsons_tony]

Labour and the Greens want to ban price gouging but are yet to define what an unreasonable price/margin is. This another Cindy type policy of 'You'll know it when you see it'.
Which will take more power from voters and deliver it to the unelcted judges.