"While sympathetic journalists weep over Kiri Allan’s mental health woes and her manifold romantic troubles, everyone overlooks the real problem she shares with many other ministers in Chris Hipkins’ lack-lustre government – insufficient experience of real life."~ Michael Bassett, from his post 'Chippy's chickens fly the coop'
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Thursday, 27 July 2023
"...the real problem Kiri Allan shares with many other ministers in Chris Hipkins’ lack-lustre government"
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I agree with the quote - " insufficient experience of real life" is the main problem.
ReplyDeleteHowever reading the rest of his article, he's not really talking about real life experience, but insufficient political experience. Even a lifetime of political experience doesn't make you experienced in real life, if anything it makes you less so.
Aye, agree.
ReplyDeleteBassett's own big problem is *his* lack of real outside-politics experience. It's a real blindspot.
I'd say at best he's partly right. For instance when he said that when he was a Minister, he knew that getting the funding approved for something was not enough to achieve a result, and that he also had to monitor carefully what the departments were doing rather than just assume it was going to happen. That's certainly been a particular weakness of this government. But I'd still posit that this is a 'real life' skill that successful people in the private sector must learn, but not necessarily required to be 'successful' in politics.
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