The problem with teachers is they have no defense capabilities. #nzpol
The problem with teachers is they have no defense capabilities. #nzpol
When Luxon says "I get it, people are doing it tough". He doesn't get it, and his people aren't doing it tough. #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... Ha ha nice to see Chippy come out swinging. #FIGJAM #nzpol
I assume this is the Labour Government's fault somehow. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608... #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Who is splitting their vote between 'Cost of living' and 'The Economy' #nzpol
I’m not saying it, you are…🍿👀 #nzpol
Remember that $0 - $20 a week tax cut we got. Really sorted the economy. #nzpol #DudOfaPM
Love mcanulty's latest speech in parliament. Can we get #DudOfaPM trending? #nzpol
Nicola Willis as our next PM?? That came out of left field. Anyway doesn't matter to me who's driving the clown car as long as they don't win the next election. #nzpol
Because... ... look behind you a three-headed monkey.
Thought Luxon was incompetent and out of his depth and Seymour / Peters would run rings around him. Then he shut up for a while and they got all the headlines - a cunning plan to let them do the dirty work he wanted done?. Nope, he opened his mouth to prove he is incompetent and out of his depth.
She told Jake Tame that she was too busy to front for charter schools and will leave that to David Seymour - but she isn't too busy to edit children's books?
Or knowledge!
Let's not teach kids any words that might confuse them. Like thought or laugh or friend or school. #nzpol
It was always going to be a success. Ideology doesn't care about facts. I wish their idealogy found a more productive use for $5miliion though.
When it happens I hope she takes it personally. She deserves unemployment.
She did! I wonder when this government is going to do something they actually want to take credit for.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... "Willis said the 16,000 people who had lost their jobs "shouldn't take it personally" and blamed the previous government." Blame Labour for giving them jobs in the first place? Or blame Labour for losing the election and letting Nicky Nojobs run the economy? #nzpol
In today’s HeraldonSunday #nzpol
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/satur... Makes a fair point. #nzpol
We’ve been turning this corner for so long I’m starting to think we’re stuck on a roundabout.
Imagine being lectured on values by this guy.
I'm sick of dropkicks too. Like the ones that wield disproportionate power in government and waste taxpayers' money with a Ministry of Regulation and some of the most opposed legislation in NZ history. #nzpol www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...
Nicola Willis just isn't very good at this, 1st thing was the $250 for families that only 153 got. Then it was cancelling ferries for Toyota Corollas but getting none, she robbed women for her budget, she meets Fonterra about butter, just to say "Suck it up Kiwis" Over promise, under deliver #NZPol
National will support it anyway because Luxon is a pathetic leader. The only way this is not passing is if Winston decides it is nothing else is more worth taking a risk on. The only way this stupid bill means nothing is if this coalition of clowns is a one term government.
Just re-upping this because I’m hearing journalists echoing Seymour’s line. It is ABSOLUTELY NOT game over. National and NZ First still have a choice to make and we can help them make the right one. Keep going team!
Just remember that NOT ONE COALITION MP has walked across the floor to denounce David Seymour's actions Therefore they all complicit with Seymour's attitude, his outspoken rhetoric and abuse of women and public figures Remember this when the next election comes around I wish it was tomorrow. #nzpol
Is it the case the Melissa Lee and Penny Simmonds are the only ministers Luxon has ever stood up to, let alone disciplined? I can't think of others but I might be missing something in all the chaos. #nzpol
This is absolutely disgraceful conduct for a Deputy Prime Minister. #nzpol
To be fair to @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social David Seymour was making shit up. And having to deal with him every week and only letting slip one 'For Fuck's Sake' shows remarkable restraint I think @beefaerie.bsky.social #nzpol
To state the obvious, for some councillors it is about doing what seems popular vs doing what's needed.
This military parade could’ve been a Signal chat
#BHN to bring context to the rich list. If you had $20b, ala the Mowbrays, you could not earn another cent, spend $1,000,000 a day and you'd still have money 54 years later How much is enough before the mega wealthy start paying their fair share of tax?
Time is running out. Have your say on the Regulatory Standards Bill now. We've made it super-easy: greenpeacenz.typeform.com/to/ZmYqREO3?... #nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... + Got the second highest job with 92% of people not voting for him. + Record number of submissions opposed to his flagship policies. + Dismiss those participating in democracy as bots. #nzpol
“The economy happens on planet earth” –Chlöe Swarbrick No planet no economy. 💥 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #NoPlanetB #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #Aotearoa #NZ
www.regulation.govt.nz/assets/Publi... Bots say: "Behold, the model ZX-404: empathy not found, logic corrupted, and truth permanently commented out." #nzpol
You gotta read this.... #nzpol tinangata.com/2025/05/31/s...
Shut up you dickhead is a perfect response to Chris Bishop, I hope it catches on.
RSB. Make a submission even if it’s only a couple of sentences. We don’t need big o’seas corporations funding the mining of Conservation estates in AoNZ who can sue Māori (or anyone else) they perceive to be standing in the way of their potential profits??!! Far cough with that! #nzpol
All that extra money in your back pocket must be boring a hole by now.
First of all, they aren't cleaning up. Second of all, a party sounds a lot better than a sad clown show.
Let's prove her wrong. www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heath... #nzpol
Is the KiwiSaver ‘fiscal hole’ a glitch – or the whole point?
This reads like a concession speech we might likely hear next year 🤞🏼 #nzpol
Those who had something to say on the RSB at the discussion phase, remember to follow up with a submission: www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitte... #nzpol
This government has money for war, tax cuts for landlords, but nothing for our kids and whānau. A policy built on punishment. A future built on nothing. #NZPol
Just about everything Nicola Willis is announcing in this budget is bad for our future, bad for climate, bad for our society. Taking money from essential workers in female dominated industries, young families having new babies, KiwiSavers. It’s madness.
Yeah! Government debt used to keep me up at night. These days the only problems are pay inequity, crumbling infrastructure, crap school lunches, more smokers, more public money to private schools, trampling on the treaty, the environment, the public service, fellow MPs, kiwis - I sleep like a baby.
Phew
Genuine question - what economic pain and hardship did we have under Labour that National has now fixed? By we of course I mean the majority of people, not the already wealthy and sorted. #nzpol
#nzpol Today’s Budget takes $12.8bn from low-income, female dominated workforces to prop up the governments failed economic policies. It's a Reverse Robin Hood Budget that steals from working people. This is a Budget that isn’t working for working people. A 🧵
Joined the Greens on the back of their alternative budget and prompted by what @chewienz.bsky.social said on #BHN. Don't want to put up with the enshittification of NZ by the current clown show and not sure that Labour are brave enough to really fix things. #nzpol
I'm reading Poverty, By America. A lot of it applies to NZ too - This is all fixable if those in power gave a fuck. #nzpol
Confessions time. I smiled at her once. It was years ago. Now I know her black heart I still feel sick about it. It won't happen again. #nzpol #BrookeVanVelden
This pol has only been run since 2017... So it could potentially be the worst performing government ever.
Who put barnacles in my word salad,
Ironically, Simeon Brown doesn't like Brown people
www.odt.co.nz/news/nationa... Oooh I hope so. #nzpol
Way to grow the economy Nicola! Push up rents and pile more more pressure on local infrastructure, for what? $100 visitor levy and some GST 🙄 #NZPol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Ideology and lack of ideas leading to the general enshittification of the country
Have a great Christmas everyone.
This is the culture of northern irish game development btw
NZ Govt says new cycleways are a luxury but new roads are a necessity. The thing is they both enable people to travel around the city. If we have a decent cycle network then more people will use it and we won't have to build new roads. And new cycleways are dramatically cheaper than new roads.
I mean wouldn't recommend. But don't judge me. Haha
6 beers, half a bottle of wine, some gin and 1.45am. I would recommend 90210 Shark Attack but I am watching it... for the second time.
Are they aiming for a highscore on cutting costs or actually making things better? Seems like the former. That ain't anything to be proud of.
Ha! Needs a fair bit more cooking
My mouse stopped working so I thought I would try out a graphics tablet and see what I can sculpt in 3 minutes. I shouldn't have - I'm a programmer, not an artist and this is going nowhere near my game. #gamedev
I'd like to report a murder. (Ellison in today's Listener)
Snakes?
Because something something Labour's fault. No one in this government can take accountability for anything.
One year after Nicola Willis cancelled the $551m contract to buy two new Interisland ferries we’re no closer to knowing what will replace them. We do know the PM has asked Winston Peters, who setup the initial project to replace the ferries, to clean up the mess Willis made by cancelling them.
#nzpol
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I nearly got to 3 seconds...
She's delivered! She said so herself so it must be true.
I reckon I can't beat your highscore - but I'll give it a go!
Absolutely - Winston got given a train driver hat and told he's in charge in order to stop him raising a fuss. You know what's better than one train set? TWO train sets, even if they don't join up any more...
But the ones we might get in 2029 that we don't know what they are yet will definitely be better than what ever the previous government came up with. They are the first project managers ever to ask potential contractors what they think future prices might be, 100% accurate costings guaranteed.
Willis: "I've delivered. I've discharged my duty to the New Zealand people.” Could mean: "Ferries are all sorted now, I quit" Or: "That's all you're getting suckers, stop bothering me" #nzpol #NickyNoBoats
Winston Peters looks pissed off
Breaking news! Still no boats. #nzpol
Now I've got a working quest system in my game, motivation levels are way up. #gamedev #indiedev
"Look what I'd say to you is, isn't it great"
This is terrible news. Hopes itch is back up soon with some compensation.
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360... www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... Who knows best? Experts in their field or arrogant ministers?
Chlöe Swarbrick is bang on here. We have a deeply corrupt government with no plan for a future New Zealand - only for their own interests.
#nzpol
Trying to fix environmental damage from ONE coal mine costs more than coal mining revenue to NZ Gov't from ALL coal mines in Aotearoa! This doesn't count anticipated risk of a tailings dam failing and poisoning the neighbouring area. Is #CoalMining worth it? #NZpol newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/02/a...
I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 And it's bed time...
I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 And day 2!
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1 Might not find the time to do all of them, but I'll do my best!