It's official. This government is just the same as the last one. The "honeymoon" is over and it's time to get dictatorial.

Headline this morning: "Plan to raise age for driving". Some of you might remember that a short while ago the ministry of transport put out a "consultation paper" with regard to changes that they wanted to make to transport in NZ. I guess there were quite a few submissions - mine was one of them.

There was even a - temporary - online discussion forum for interested people to discuss land transport matters. One of the post said (paraphrased as obviously I can't remember the exact words) "this is all a waste of time because I reckon that the bureaucrats in the transport department have already made up their minds what they will do and they are looking for a few people whom they can point the finger at and say 'the public broadly agreed with us'". On the list that the poster had suggested was on the agenda was "raising the driving age".

Well it would seem that that is EXACTLY what the attitude was. As usual they quote all sorts of emotive garbage that has nothing whatsoever to do with raising the driving age, like xxxx number of 15 and 16 year olds were involved in xxxx number of "crashes" (note how there are never any "accidents" today, they are always "crashes" - and I always believed that "crash" wasn't even a real word but just some sort of sound that a baby might make to denote something hitting something else, a "baby talk word" like "bikkie" for biscuit, or "geegee" for horse).

Anyway, here's the link to the story:

Plan to raise age for driving | Stuff.co.nz

See how silly, obvious and plainly idiotic government bureaucrats can be?

We've got to stop kidding ourselves, there is no "consultation" only government agendas - or rather more accurately bureaucratic agendas, coz we all know that it is the government bureaucrat with the obsessive personal agenda who really makes all the decisions. Politicians only get mega-bucks for passing silly legislation and telling lies all the time.