June 11, 2022 3:00pm by David Farrar

Introducing the Kiwibuild scale

Minister Faafoi announced 20k workers would come to NZ under changes to the critical worker criteria in January. To the end of April 12 have arrived. Not 12 thousand. 12. This visa becomes obsolete on July 4 so unless 19,988 are arriving before then it’s another failed policy.
— Erica Stanford MP (@EricaStanfordMP) June 9, 2022

This got me thinking that we need some sort of scale to measure how badly this Government fails to deliver on a policy. So I have invented one – it is called the Kiwibuild scale.

A 0 would mean a policy achieved all its targets – there was no failure.

A 5 would signify a policy was massively off course, and unlikely to get close to meeting the targets or promise made.

A 10 would be Auckland Light Rail.

So where does this one get scored? They announced a special visa and predicted 20,000 would come to NZ on it. And only 12 have actually utilized it.

I rate this an 8.5 on the Kiwibuild scale.