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Originally Posted by Bruce
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.
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I certainly agree that we need to scrap large amounts of bureaucracy and political bagage, but our monarchical government doesn't have to pay the price. There needs to be more accountability and veto in our system aided by our Crown government. If we are to maintain the monarchy I think we do need to consider an elected Governor General; the representative of the Crown (which acts on behalf of the people) should be appointed by exactly that; the people.
A Presidential republic would be ghastly. The President is always a fatcat puppet of the bureaucratic government. Semi-presidential, Parliamentary and non-executive political heads of state are always the same news.
What New Zealand needs is a representative of the Monarch (and thus the people) that isn't the honourary seat for an ex-Cabinet Minister etc
We need a professional, non-partisan, honourary citizen with a dedication to attacking unnecesary use of power and to Her Majesty the Queen and people of New Zealand.