Larry Williams Drive

I think the Nats are onto something by targeting the Government’s consultancy spend over the last year. It is huge, $1.2 billion dollars on record. The year before, it was closer to $900m, so it went up by a third in one year.  That should've set off alarm bells for anyone in The Beehive, but they just pushed on with it. Such is their attitude, I suspect, to using money. A lot of this is just a complete waste on projects that have gone absolutely nowhere. Like the RNZ/TVNZ merger- up to $16m on consultants. The bike bridge to Birkenhead- $51m on consultants. Light Rail- $53m on consultants. So you and I have paid the mortgage of these consultants, but we have literally nothing to show for it.  No bridge. No merger. No light rail yet.  Just wasted money.  It’s got so out of hand in Wellington that there are jokes about the fact that there are three branches of Government: the legislature, the judiciary, and Martin Jenkins. Martin Jenkins isn't even one of the big ones. The big ones raking in consultancy fees a