Mike's Minute: You can't beat Wellington on a good day - and when was that?

I sort of hinted at this the other day when the monitor for the Wellington City Council put out his second report. 

My question was, given there was leaking and dysfunction and the punter was at their wits end, what now for Wellington? 

Do we just get more reports? 

Well, lo and behold, another Wellington operation has their own monitor in the form of the Commerce Commission who have been brought in to oversee the mess at Wellington Water. 

The Minister has not seen any improvement, there's been no real change and unless stuff happens, there are rate rises galore for no real gain. 

So once again we can ask, what do the Commerce Commission do? Do they write reports too? 

If those reports tell us the place is still a shambles, how many reports does it take for someone, somewhere, to actually fire up a bit of action? 

I can also add, and this is an overarching observation, just how dysfunctional does Wellington need to get before it literally implodes on itself? 

The electorate changes last week were all in Wellington. Why? Because people have left and, to be frank, who can blame them? 

Then we come to Tamatha Paul, who made what most observers seemed to suggest was one of the most extraordinary comments about police anyone had ever heard. 

Her good friends in Labour called them stupid. The Prime Minister called her insane. 

Yet she holds an electorate. The good people of Wellington central, and by no small margin I might add, looked at her credentials and decided they liked her enough to vote for her. 

So Wellington, what's the story? 

What level of madness and dysfunction are you willing to tolerate before change comes? Is change ever coming? Do you actually want change? 

Do you mind paying a lot more than you need to for stuff that doesn’t work? Is a crummy council, a lot of broken pipes and a mad MP OK, as long as your cycleways are fun to ride on? 

Oh, did I mention the trains? 

You can't beat Wellington on a good day. 

When, Wellington, was your last good day and why are you putting up with it? 

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