Councillor Tony Randle on the state of democracy and governance in Wellington

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  • Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
  • Michael Laws speaks to Councillor Tony Randle about the state of democracy and governance in Wellington.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 15

  • @winstonsmithsoul
    @winstonsmithsoul 6 місяців тому +28

    When ratepayers money is used to fund anything, all meetings should be public. If your business model depends on secrecy, most would call it corruption. Too many times the ratepayers are ripped off by corrupt practices of property developers and their pet councillors. It must stop.

    • @mattheweden-pc5pk
      @mattheweden-pc5pk 6 місяців тому +2

      We the ratepayers are not here to fund private businesses,the mayor is way off base,what a joke,just resign do wellington a favour

  • @davidprosser7278
    @davidprosser7278 6 місяців тому +15

    Spending money on a movie theatre now is like spending money on steam cars in 1923. Totally ridiculous.

    • @AmonAnon-vw3hr
      @AmonAnon-vw3hr 6 місяців тому +1

      How can you expect a lottery winner to spend money responsibly?

  • @harbourhaven
    @harbourhaven 6 місяців тому +9

    I thought the mayor brought the counselling into disrepute with her actions in public restrooms

  • @SopwithTheCamel
    @SopwithTheCamel 6 місяців тому +1

    The only function of a councillor used to be to oversee what the CEO is up to, and obviously comment on that. This is BS.

  • @andreatodd3095
    @andreatodd3095 6 місяців тому +3

    Sounds like the Wntg District Council needs a Commissioner appointed like Tauranga......mismanagement of public money and leadership sounds rife in our capital city imo.

    • @pgreen8531
      @pgreen8531 6 місяців тому +1

      Absolutely right

  • @kevinansley7353
    @kevinansley7353 6 місяців тому +12

    This would apply to all council spending, ratepayers have no more money to waste on nice to haves at the expense of infrastructure.

  • @greghall3150
    @greghall3150 6 місяців тому +9

    Hi, I am so pleased I promoted NZ First to so many people, my feedback from them is very positive about the coalition and its competent agenda.
    Attention Deputy Primister Winston Peters. I wish to push my agenda on the Marsden Point rebuild as we need our petrochemical production if we are going to be a first-world country. All food in our supermarkets and roading has a fossil fuel element to it. I would push for China to be the contractor in this endeavor as they have a successful professional and proven track record of quality infrastructure projects internationally, on time, and within budget. We need a sober view of China's human rights issues that are falsely claimed to be by Western propaganda. China respects the sovereignty of all nations The US bombs and China builds! China wants to trade not war and will be the dominant economic superpower. There are over a thousand petrochemicals we use unknowingly.
    Historically, the destruction of Marsden Point was a politics of tyranny.

    • @AmonAnon-vw3hr
      @AmonAnon-vw3hr 6 місяців тому

      @greghall3150 lol China builds alright. Then claims ownership of whatever they've built.
      21st century colonization.