Why do we have to have an "elected ceremonial politician"?

The crown WAS ok, but in recent years it has shown how politicised it has become. The British monarchy is just a rubber stamp for the ridiculous policies of the current prime minister.

I say it is time we got rid of our UNELECTED governor general, the British monarch as "head of state" AND any elected ceremonial politicians.

We should be looking at massively decreasing "the powers that be", not increasing them. NZ, going by its population, is top heavy with politicians and bureaucrats. We would save heaps of money if we got rid of 70% of them.

The difference between a social welfare beneficiary and a public trough feeding politician or government (central or local in both cases) bureaucrat is that the "snout in the public trough" politician or bureaucrat actually thinks that they are better than the social welfare beneficiary and demands 10 times the amount of public money.