Comments on: No more Gliding On – but are you being served? http://www.grantrobertson.co.nz/2007/08/26/no-more-gliding-on-but-are-you-being-served/ Grant Robertson - Wellington Central Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:20:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Thoughts on the Future State « Policy Progress http://www.grantrobertson.co.nz/2007/08/26/no-more-gliding-on-but-are-you-being-served/#comment-556 Thoughts on the Future State « Policy Progress Wed, 19 May 2010 17:30:42 +0000 http://www.grantrobertson.co.nz/2007/08/26/no-more-gliding-on-but-are-you-being-served/#comment-556 [...] diagnosis if not entirely new. Labour’s Grant Robertson was making some similar points in a? blog post as early as 2007, and he in turn was drawing from a report the UK thinktank Demos did from the PSA. [...] […] diagnosis if not entirely new. Labour’s Grant Robertson was making some similar points in a? blog post as early as 2007, and he in turn was drawing from a report the UK thinktank Demos did from the PSA. […]

]]> By: Jordan Carter http://www.grantrobertson.co.nz/2007/08/26/no-more-gliding-on-but-are-you-being-served/#comment-10 Jordan Carter Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:01:22 +0000 http://www.grantrobertson.co.nz/2007/08/26/no-more-gliding-on-but-are-you-being-served/#comment-10 Grant, this is good stuff. I read aspects of the report for work at one point. Do you sense any appetite in government circles to actually address some of the structural problems that are evident in the old neo-liberal model, which is still fairly clearly embedded in the 80s legislation which governs most of the public service? I don't think it'd be a big vote winner in the short term (nor a big vote loser), but I think it could solve a lot of difficult political problems in the long run if our state sector could be made more effective. Is it something govt could justify putting thinking and political energy into, d'you think? Grant, this is good stuff. I read aspects of the report for work at one point. Do you sense any appetite in government circles to actually address some of the structural problems that are evident in the old neo-liberal model, which is still fairly clearly embedded in the 80s legislation which governs most of the public service? I don’t think it’d be a big vote winner in the short term (nor a big vote loser), but I think it could solve a lot of difficult political problems in the long run if our state sector could be made more effective.

Is it something govt could justify putting thinking and political energy into, d’you think?

]]> By: David C http://www.grantrobertson.co.nz/2007/08/26/no-more-gliding-on-but-are-you-being-served/#comment-6 David C Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:47:51 +0000 http://www.grantrobertson.co.nz/2007/08/26/no-more-gliding-on-but-are-you-being-served/#comment-6 Nice to see the reference to the Demos work -- a worthwhile initiative by the PSA I think. Your comments about National reminded me of a very good British documentary 'The Rise And Fall Of Tony Blair' that I watched briefly -- one of the challenges the Blairites faced (and took a long time to come to terms with, according to the doco) was the challenge for governments re. the complexity of reforming public services versus the simplicity of implementing tax cut policies (in the Thatcher years). Nice to see the reference to the Demos work — a worthwhile initiative by the PSA I think.
Your comments about National reminded me of a very good British documentary ‘The Rise And Fall Of Tony Blair’ that I watched briefly — one of the challenges the Blairites faced (and took a long time to come to terms with, according to the doco) was the challenge for governments re. the complexity of reforming public services versus the simplicity of implementing tax cut policies (in the Thatcher years).

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