Our current PM has terrible poll numbers....it is mainly because the current crop is fucking things up all over the place, and he is rightfully taking the flack.

I was jokingly saying maybe he needs a fake assignation to bump his numbers.

I know America has to be the biggest and best....but other countries have leaders that are fuckups also.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i really liked Jacinda Ardern but i haven't been paying much attention to NZ politics since. kinda had my political attention span taxed to capacity. i won't make you explain it all, but got a good link to catch me up on the broader strokes of what has been going on?

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a bit much.

The highlights:

My biggest gripe; the use of urgency to ram through unpopular legislation without the usual checks and balances. Leading to all kinds of bad laws.
- None of the "urgent" legislation met the definition for use of urgency, but it turns out there are no protections around its use, just guidelines that haven't been breached before.
When the new govt was formed, they came in a cancelled a bunch of stuff that the previous govt did, some was utterly moronic. It cost us a lot of money and time.
Cancelled world leading anti-smoking legislation; which has just been made law in the UK.
Fucked up the school lunch system for kids in need; it still isn't fully sorted 2 years later.
Implemented austerity to such a degree that the nascent economic recovery was reversed and we are in a real-wage recession but even though there is "growth" happening
Fucking up the education system; basically re-writing the curriculum to hearken back to the 1950-1980's style, that goes against a lot of the bet evidence; in this they ignored an open letter from the college of teachers calling to not put this in....the new curriculum is just filtering in to schools now.
The fast track legislation; rammed through with urgency. This has been opined using "fast track to corruption"; basically it allows the minister to bypass the normal consenting process to allow "significant" projects to go ahead...now projects that had been previously blocked on environmental or other grounds are coming back and getting through.

There are a lot more smaller things; but basically NZ is limping along waiting for the election this year and hoping for change....that may not come because the other major party is fairly meh.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well damn. That's a hell of a synopsis when I just asked for a link. Thank you.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago

All good...unfortunately, it looks like they have a good chance of getting back in.