05-03-2023, 04:58 PM
Mr Luxon knows all this, but they're employed as consultants because National put a cap on public service numbers.
If you reduce the consultant count, you either remove the cap on public service numbers which is not the Blue way, or you ask more of the existing public servants (who aren't super well paid these days). They won't want to do the work for the current salary, so will want more money but that would exceed the wage cap that Labour put in place to get around the "all these people are earning 100k+" problem that the media loved to kick up a stink about.
But to have everything working efficiently, National will need to raise the wage cap which once lifted will be taken advantage of immediately by the government departments because that's how they all operate, and all the savings you've claimed in advance have all but been eroded.
End result, you're paying fewer people more, and funnelling a large chunk of cash through to private childcare providers... can't imagine there'll be any connection between MPs and the providers. No, that would be unseemly...
And also looking forward to hearing the Natfans complain that National are basically encouraging poor people to have kids... because that would be the ideologically consistent thing to do.
If you reduce the consultant count, you either remove the cap on public service numbers which is not the Blue way, or you ask more of the existing public servants (who aren't super well paid these days). They won't want to do the work for the current salary, so will want more money but that would exceed the wage cap that Labour put in place to get around the "all these people are earning 100k+" problem that the media loved to kick up a stink about.
But to have everything working efficiently, National will need to raise the wage cap which once lifted will be taken advantage of immediately by the government departments because that's how they all operate, and all the savings you've claimed in advance have all but been eroded.
End result, you're paying fewer people more, and funnelling a large chunk of cash through to private childcare providers... can't imagine there'll be any connection between MPs and the providers. No, that would be unseemly...
And also looking forward to hearing the Natfans complain that National are basically encouraging poor people to have kids... because that would be the ideologically consistent thing to do.