Adam’s little list

Adam, just like the character in the Mikado has a ‘Little List’ and he is sure that none of the following Wellington Councillors will be missed, especially after their recent performance over the proposed flyover:-

Yet having backed the spending of a five-figure sum at a time of great financial restraint to have a last look at the alternatives, Mayor Celia Wade-Brown and Councillors Stephanie Cook, Paul Eagle, Justin Lester, Iona Pannett, Bryan Pepperell and Helene Ritchie backed a motion that the council ignore its findings by not endorsing the flyover.

Committee chairman Andy Foster voted against the no-support motion because he believed it would cause confusion as it did not mean the council actually opposed the bridge

These people need to be given the boot and very comprehensively for their attitudes and money wasting

To help them on the way, Thomas Allen’s excellent version from the Last Night of the Proms:-

Unnecessarily cumbersome – a massive understatement

The DomPost ran an editorial on the Novopay mess and finished with these words:-

The Ministry of Education should then turn its mind to addressing one of the underlying issues that has been blamed for Novopay’s woes.

The extraordinary complexity of the school payroll, with 15 separate collective agreements throwing up thousands of possible permutations, is unnecessarily cumbersome.

Surely, it can be made more simple.

The key element in the Novopay debacle? Now this was not the only cause, but given the Ministry had decided upon a package solution and not bespoke, then why did they not do what every adviser surely would have told them, that is review, simplify and amend processes and awards to fit the system. Avoid customisation like the plague should have been the mantra.

‘Unnecessarily cumbersome’ surely the understatement of the year, if not the decade in so far as NZ IT projects are concerned.

 

Who wrote…

Who wrote:-

On Waitangi Day most Kiwis opt for a barbecue, go to a concert or take the chance to go to the beach like any other day off. They make a point of making the day quite ordinary, and I understand why.

They don’t see the appeal of a celebration if it’s going to be a day where the focus is on argument and protest

No not Susan Devoy, but David Shearer, the Labour Party Leader pro tem.

Clearly if Susan Devoy is being pilloried for holding similar sentiments, especially as evidence of fitness for appointment as Race Relations Commissioner, with some even suggesting such views make a racist, then Shearer shoud be hounded form the Labour Party immediately as he is clearly unsuitable to lead it holding such a view. Ah, but hypocrisy and double standards are the hallmark of the left.

Another misleading Herald headline

The increasingly appalling NZ Herald runs article headlined:-

Novopay: Govt sticks with unstable system

This implies a decision has been made to keep the system. Yet reading the article we find that Minister Joyce has said he does not yet have all the necessary information to make a decision as yet.

Quote of the day

Peter Calder writes on the tribulations of going to Eden Park:-

I would not want you to think I’m saying it was better in my day because you might think me an old fart. But I am old-fashioned enough to remember when going to the test was a relaxed and enjoyable day out, rather than a visit to a place that was equal parts prison camp and adventure park.

Adam is sick and tired of…..

1 Complaisant media parroting Green and Labour  attack lines and not subjecting issues to proper analysis

2 Kneejerk reactions from the likes of Annette Sykes to the appointment of Susan Devoy as Race Relations Commissioner

3 Media reporting of Novopay issues

4 Teacher unions

5 The pronounced anti-business bias in media

6 The morons who insist o driving the wrong way in car parks

7 People in large 4WD who cannot drive them properly and hog parking spaces with them

8 The ongoing constitutional review which appears to be taking place in secret and will doubtless enshrine the Treaty and all sorts of other PC nonsense in any recommendations

9 The failure of the MSM to adequately analyse and comment on Russel Norman’s economic pronouncements

10 Idiots who write to the papers saying, for example, that John Key should not have gone to South America whilst the drought was on, as he was needed to fix it. The drought is a natural occurrence, John Key cannot fix it. No doubt these idiots believe in the efficacy of rain dances and human sacrifice to propitiate the gods.

The Vatican Rag – Tom Lehrer’s classic

This classic satire on Catholicism seems particularly apposite somehow