Gellert Coote Putting the Ministry before the People
Gellert Coote, Minister for Magic of New Zealand since 2016, recently held an early morning meeting for all Ministry employees. This came as a pleasant surprise to most, as it has been generally believed that the Minister is inadequate and has little interest in the productivity of the country. Although unfortunately, all the people who thought that the meeting would be productive were sorely disappointed.
Having set no exact time for the meeting, many employees turned up late, half way through the Minister's opening speech. Luckily, they didn't miss much. The Minister had simply announced, to little to no surprise, that this was '...our first inter-departmental meeting.' He also added that our Ministry has 'a reputation for leading the Global Wizarding community in the matters that matter.' By this point, there were many concerned faces in the audience, and it's likely that we were all thinking the same thing. Is our Minister delusional?
Coote later admitted that only since his becoming the Minister, has our Ministry 'fallen into a slum.' and at this point, I think we all expected him to resign, but instead, he asked his own employees too, if they didn't believe that he could rebuild the Ministry. He then went on to explain how his first priority was now to up the Ministries security, which also raised a few eyebrows. Shouldn't their first and foremost priority be the protection of the people against the Death Eaters?
It wasn't until the end of his speech that he stated the terrifying obvious, that 'New Zealand has become a hub of Death Eater Activities'. And what is our Minister doing about this? He's strengthening the Ministry security, of course. Naturally, it doesn't matter that he's putting all his effort into this. One or two more murders by the Death Eaters would not be nearly as devastating as loosing the odd prophecy. Is our Leader putting the Ministry before the people? Protecting himself and forgetting about the rest of us?
And if the Minister himself isn't bad enough, it seems that various Ministry departments haven't been accomplishing much, either. Rhonda West, department the Wizarding Examinations, admits that they haven't been working on the examinations at all. Just what they've been up too, exactly, we have no idea. Also, the head of the Department of Mysteries, of a department which is meant to be, as it's name implies, of secrets, announced exactly what he and his men were up to. It was, to our understanding, that DoM employees were not to discuss their work in public. Whether the Unspeakable in question has been sacked or not, we currently do not know.
After a few comments to the Magical Creatures Regulation Office, Coote dismissed the assembly, and I'm sure that I wasn't the only one who thought it very much to be a waste of time. The only thing that the meeting enlightened us to was to how poorly our Minister is governing our country. It truly is no wonder that the 'Death Eaters have made themselves known in our great nation...'
