The Government of Fluff: Googleising the NZ State

Listening to Mr Key glibly talk of "googleising" the NZ state, I am struck ever more strongly by the contingency and muddling through model of this government. The idea of a wholesale privatisation os state activities into the hands of MNCs operating elsewhere was never raised in the election. It is clear in the manner of its current presentation that it is an ill-thought-through idea that should never have seen the light in the throw-away fashion in which it has arisen. There are no costings or operational assessments (this is obvious). Instead, we have a key area of our polity being threatened with a cock-and-bull reform, the details of which are fluff, inchoate ideas in the head of a PM who speaks before he should. It is laughable.