(12-12-2016, 07:36 PM)Punchwood Wrote:

(12-12-2016, 07:10 PM)Kris Kringle Wrote:

I think part of the problem with leading Regional Affairs is that it requires a long-term vision. That is not to say my precedessors and successors have lacked a vision or the ability to enact it (most, particularly but not exclusively post-Escade, have been more than capable), but there is a difference between doing a good job in some areas and doing a comprehensively good job in most areas.

There were many times in which I failed miserably at this, because I focused too much on what could be achieved in the short term as opposed to what should be the result in the long term. Often it's not a matter of what festival we can do next, but how many festivals to we want done. It's not a matter of when we can get a newspaper issue released next, but how often do we want them released.

Having that kind of overarching vision is very difficult, something that few can hold for long, myself included, and that is the real key to success in Regional Affairs.

With that in mind, whether or not splitting the Ministry will make enacting that kind of vision easier, that is something I'd rather not say. It just might. It just might not. I just mean to emphasise how, as I said last time this came up, true success will eventually happen because of how the leadership acts, not what the law says.

But we can make that leadership easier by reducing the workload of the Minister.

There are very few examples in NS that give one Ministry so many responsibilities many have taken the step to separate it into two Ministries, some even further and have three Ministries. Those regions have not suffered, those regions have seen an increase in output from all Ministries.

What I'm asking you all is why are you so afraid of doing something different? You are all acting as if the Ministry is working amazingly well at the moment. I'm not attacking Seraph here but the Ministry is no where near the levels of output it once was, Seraph is doing a very good job at rebuilding much better than me but at the end of the day it does still have lower levels of activity than we want or should be expected.

The sense I'm getting at is not that people are against the idea of two separate Ministries but rather there is no political will to do so. No one wants to take that risk because what about if it doesn't work? People are just too afraid to take a risk and try something different. Why not try two Ministries out for a term as a test? If it works awful then I'll hold my hands up and write the legislation to recreate RA again. But it could really help the region and it could have been what we needed? There is no harm in trying it out, I doubt very much that all the FP staff will leave if the Ministry splits and don't come back if we needed to re-join them again.

So why don't you try something different, instead of thinking about the negatives think about the positives and take a risk and take a chance and see what happens otherwise we'll never get anything done again.