Bryce Edwards: Are Lobbyists Running Amok in the Halls of Power?
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Sean Plunket talks to Bryce Edwards from the Democracy Project - Are lobbyists running amok in the halls of power?
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Bit nuts when experienced commentators confuse lobbyists with consultants...
Why are the taxpayer inevitably paying for all these lobbyists and consultants? Very very few of them are required, yet they have proliferated under the last one or two dozen election cycles...
Taxpayer carrying ever more deadwood and privateers as time goes on.
Good work NZ, carry on endorsing this political doctrine at your peril.
IT IS CORRUPTION SEAN - ok, so those with money can BUY influence with politicians that WE elected to represent OUR interests, NOT the interests of lobbyists.
Great comment, the truth.
Guess its what we get when our so-called govt becomes a 'ltd co' and its executive starts playing the greed and cronie game.
How do we go back to legitimate government?
Have you seen which parties accepted the most 'donations'?
Who got the contracts for all the new road barriers and the red pointy cones?
Spot on about the Te Pati Maori story vanishing off mainstream media. Is it racist to say the investigations will be a whitewash? 😊
😂 billion dollar whitewash
Vaccine contracts?
Currently New Zealand has the most lax laws around lobbying in the world . An MP can leave parliament and start a " consulting " firm immediately .Most nations have a minimum stand down period of at least three years !!
You may find theyre not legitimate law, this is a private club imposing its will in the constituency. Their 'laws' are mostly legislation, a different thing entirely, which they have suckered the public into accepting as law. The dividends are staggeringly enormous, look how well they pay themselves...
Here in NZ the flow goes the other way - consultants become MPs and Ministers overseeing the sector they were consulting and lobbying for. So perhaps we need a stand down from lobbying before entering Parliament?
Poor old Bryce. Out of his depth with this topic.
British citizens have been voting for the election pledges of less immigration for the past 14 years and got the most immigrants ever in that period.
There has to come a point where you admit reality and declare that the peoples will is not being democratically implemented.
And then scientifically explore what the real explanations for certain phenomena are. Evidence based and as objective as possible.
How many lobbyists in NZ represent the most productive nation on earth that wants to buy NZ land. The National party are on the yuan and represent the expansionist interests of the most productive nation on earth. Selling the land for our so called benefit. Is that considered anti democratic?
How do we keep so called democracies authentic?
You're on to something here...
By NOT AQUIESCING, by taking action, holding them accountable...
Too much for most who are programmed to focus on their money and believe blindly what the state media present them - "the single source of truth", J.Ardern, circa 2020
NZ has been FULL OF SHIT for all of my 46 years .... Atleast China pays their News presenters the same as their soldiers... Judy Bailey represents all thatś disgusting about NZ, while NZ soldiers were getting shot at for $80,000 a year she wasn´t content with $800,000...
Sean, as you well know the answer to lobbyists is not more regulation as proposed by Mr Edwards there is sufficient transparency to obtain official records of who a Minister is seeing/meeting with in their diaries. MPs are and should be meeting with industry lobbyists, Union Officials etc as they represent collective bodies who employ thousands of people across the country. Mr Edward's solution is create more regulation and more bureaucrats to administer this on the basis of transparency. Second point and one you alluded to is Mr Edwards stated that "billions of dollars were given to employers/companies" he should know that the Covid wage subsidy had to be passed on to employees it was not to be retained by the employer so his comments seemed unusually biased and misleading. As former Parliamentary Official and now an Employer I can speak with some knowledge on both these topics!
NZ is small so lobbyists have an undue influence
How else can the government (in an economic slump) give funding to special interest groups, if not for lobbyists?
By using the five senses rather than listening to the pirates who backhand $NZ to them. Open your eyes.
Why should 'special interest' groups get preference?
Hey Sean, shut up and let the man answer a question.
Poor ol' Bryce, not his finest moment.
Yes
example of evils of lobbying.... PJIF
Straight out corruption. Lobbying should be banned. Lobbyists can write written submissions, the same level of access the public generally gets. Otherwise lobbyists can vote like everyone else.
The other issue is political donations. We can see their impact through the stupid policies the coalition are putting in place.
not a great interview. To much Sean and not enough from Bryce
Voters want a govt of lobbyists and ex-MSM presenters. Seymour, Willis, Bishop, McKee, van Velden, Stephenson all lobbyists. Lee, Stanford, Parmar ex-MSM. Goldsmith ex Waitangi Tribunal. The list goes on
Thats harsh. Maybe they'd accept it by default or accident?
sharnele lal hes a trans disruptive activist lobbying consulting fior a labour mp