Entities and Machinations
The Government is making changes to the Local Government Act that will deal with the undemocratic situation that currently sees unelected table dwellers from voting.
It' a good move but overdue and only seems to be on the agenda because of considerable pressure from various quarters.
The Taxpayers Union has been exposing issues in the Local Government area and are hoping the Auckland Council structure will be amended at the same time.
Over the years Local Government has grown in to an entity , a creature , that acts in a bubble , pretending to carry out activities in the interests of suffering ratepayers that have their wallets and purses pillaged every week to fund ever increasing demands for dubious projects and activities.
Following the 1989 reforms the new brand of Local Government bureaucrat entered bright eyed and bushy tailed and set about setting up new plans and direction. It worked well for some time
Once the new plans became embedded a new breed emerged from the universities. The RMA had been swallowed lock stock and barrel by environmental purists. Students that had no life experience, no dirty hands , no institutional knowledge now sat at the pristine desks behind their computers and the 20030 Agenda.
They probably didn't even realise what path they were on given the indoctrination encountered and the acceptance of the new breed .These are the rules and this is how things are done.
So the machinations taking place within Local Government are flowing from the years of groundwork to implement an agenda no one can see and yet it affects every one of us every day.
The efforts of the Taxpayers Union and others are really a symptom of a fight back occurring in response to the implementation of an agenda that does not fit democracy and should be expunged from our lives.
The move to force amalgamations or tackle the makeup of local authorities will not deal with the root cause of our problems.
Changing legislation to remove the aims of 2030 will be the best way forward.
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