Description We discuss the creeping attack on the machinery of state - from potential cuts to the Office of the Clerk to frontline cuts in public services to the use of urgency to push repeals unnecessarily alongside removing Regulatory Impact Statements. Is there fire among the smoke here? Is this a considered approach by National and its partners, or brute incompetence? And how does the undermining of Te Tiriti by ACT play into this? This episode’s co-hosts Angela, Kyle, Mark Timestamps 0:00 Introductions 1:51 Front Room Cuts 7:01 State vs Public Services 12:15 Underfunding the Underfunded 15:50 Accountability Politics 26:48 Hijacking the Machine of Government 32:29 Te Tiriti o Waitangi  36:29 Brexit Strategies in NZ 46:19 Importing Ideas with New Constituents  58:48 What Can Be Done 1:09:58 Closing Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive Support us here: https://www.patreon.com/1of200