Post #836645
2026-03-27 06:18 UTC
Incredible really. Bishop tells an infrastructure sector audience today that the fuel crisis could get ugly. "It's a scary prospect and I'm not 100% sure the public have quite worked it out yet". (Business Desk, sadly paywalled.) Well whose responsibility is that, do you think? We have banged on about this before, but Luxon is incapable of showing anything remotely like leadership and it is literally his job to do so. That comes with the title, 'Prime Minister', mate. Doesn't matter that the situation is not of his doing or that tough, difficult decision will need to be made. That comes with the territory. But his job is to model the behaviour, set the vision, inspire people to give of themselves, that kind of stuff. Instead he is missing in action and his own Ministers are saying, in effect, people don't understand what is going on. Fuck me, it is frightening how bad he is.
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[Edit]. See non paywalled link below, thanks to @rimu
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/infrastructure/fuel-crisis-could-get-ugly-bishop-warns-infrastructure-sector#Echobox=1774552848
Replies (4)
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@irix@cloudisland.nz 2026-03-27 06:36
@paulhellyer@mastodon.nz They are terrible. Some of this stuff they public sector should just have a plan for and it should be apolitical but the Nats 'small-govt' approach just shits on any sort of collectivism. I shudder to think of what would have happened if they'd been in charge during the peak of Covid.
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@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-03-27 06:46
@paulhellyer@mastodon.nz https://archive.ph/a9BVx
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@drumahnz@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 07:18
@paulhellyer@mastodon.nz as a New Zealander, I've been driving EVs since 2016. Energy independency requires a mind shift our so called leaders seem incapable of grasping.
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@zl2tod@mastodon.online 2026-03-27 10:46
@paulhellyer@mastodon.nz True that. The public understand the problem just fine. The government on the other hand.