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NZ government, sowing: HAHAHA SLASH CLIMATE INITIATIVES LOTSA MONEY SAVINGS! NZ government, reaping: OH NO WHAT THE FUCK, HOW IS THIS FAIR?

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]

Please read this. www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

Copilot, write me a report that explains how much I hate this woman. No wait, doesn't matter how advanced you've become, I CAN DO IT BETTER.

Most decisions made by public servants, and explicitly those decisions relating to entitlements & liabilities, are definitionally management decisions based on delegated authority from the Crown via ministers and the departmental hierarchy Therefore

Sky News: Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist. Greta Thunberg: See you all at the next climate strike :) news.sky.com/story/human-...

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So. If a closed caucus meeting has a confidence vote in the PM and the PM refuses to accept the outcome of the vote and they call in the Speaker to give advice, who says you can’t make him go. Then no one speaks up because they’d lose their party membership. Would it look different to this?

Government: courts are subverting Parliamentary intent. Courts: you got any select committee reports to help us understand Parliamentary intent?

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

"Don't worry if YOU'RE hurting, there are foreign people who are hurting worse! Doesn't that make you feel better?"

A MUSLIM Mayor! Imposing Sharia clean air law on Brits! Taking away the job of London Bobbies to stare into the smog and say "It's another pea-souper, Sarge, we'll not catch the Ripper tonight!"

Team crying child

Wish I could say I'm surprised but this is par for the course with this shit government.

Don't forget Simeon Brown, former Minister of Transport who pushed for raising speed limits.

Jesus. Is our PM from Britain? Because you ask him one slightly tough question and he turns into Sir Keir Stammer.

The Government is currently negotiating an Enhanced Border Security Partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security that would grant US agencies, including ICE, automated, direct access to New Zealanders' biometric data and identity records.

Oh, I know this one! We own Air New Zealand because its former private owners made a series of ghastly decisions and registered an operating loss of $1.45 *billion* in 2001 and the Clark govt stepped in, bought an 82% stake and renationalised it so we still had a national carrier.

#nzpol Child poverty data from Stats NZ out today. All political parties except Act agreed to the Child Poverty Reduction Act 2018, creating legally mandated targets for child poverty reduction. Right now, we are missing even the looser targets the government has set. A 🧵

i am not hiding anything, just "made multiple repeated mistakes for 20 years" on something that's pretty damn hard to be mistaken about. i mean when you own as many properties as these poor fuckers do it must be hard remembering all of them when it comes time to declare and register them. #nzpol

Kind of weird to illustrate this using a hacker-like figure as opposed to, say, a photo of Shane Jones

ONE BILLION DOLLARS. IT WAS THE ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION THAT MADE THEM STOP THE DUNEDIN HOSPITAL AND IREX. No money for hospitals or the ferries, money to prop up fossil fuels.

I absolutely guarantee you that the below and Luxon announcing a gas terminal isn't a coincidence. Corrupt piece of shit #nzpol

It would be funny if it didn't make me so intensely furious.

London has landed in the top ten greenest cities on the planet 🌱 Not bad for a city that never sits still. We’re delivering cleaner transport and more green spaces, with even more to come.

For once I agree with the message Bishop Brian has for his flock.

Fukn Winston Peters going about the W.H.O. being "unelected bureaucrats" Motherfucker, you're a LIST MP who has won a total of ONE election in the past six. #nzpol

What a fucking Quisling.

You have to love this.

UK Labour doing exactly what Nate Silver wants it to do has led it becoming the 4th most popular party in the kingdom.

It seems disingenuous for The Post to publish this without acknowledging that Luke Pierson is a founding member of Vision for Wellington, especially given that Stuff owner Sinead Boucher is also a member. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

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Worldwide mortality experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2024) shows excess deaths over that period in almost every country measured. Australia (+6%) was below average, and New Zealand (+0.1%) the lowest we measured.

Donald Trump and George W Bush are very different in many ways but they have this in common: they were/are very appealing to large numbers of people and I would very much like to know what the fuck is wrong with every last one of them

There's a new "grassroots" website automating supportive emails to Erica Stanford / signatures on an open letter endorsing her attacks on te Tiriti and you have until the end of this skeet to guess who registered the domain name ... Did you guess Jordan Williams' Campaign Company? Gold star

I am Jack's absence of surprise.

An oldie from 22nd April 2024 but even more relevant today than last year. And each year that we continue to use fossil fuels. #NzPol #Cartoon #30PercentPure

Certified banger.

I heard there was a statue tall That sneered at folk and commanded all But you don't really care for symbols do ya It goes like this the feet the fist The head that fell the aim that missed The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymaaaaandias

What the fuck is this shit?

THIS. Can we please normalise taking money from the absolute parasites who hoard it like a dragon? You could fix SO MANY problems without austerity for the rest of us.

Also worth noting that our worst paid nurses in New Zealand, the ones whose pay equity claims were thrown in the trash by this government aren't able to join the strike today. But remember that primary health care, aged care and Māori health service nurses stand in solidarity with the strike.

#NZ #kikorangi 🇳🇿 'Strong likelihood' measles spreading in the community, officials warn “"Three of these cases are not linked to overseas travel which means there is a very strong likelihood of undetected cases in the community," Sime said.” www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Surprise! #kiwi

Before I stopped paying for Spotify I used it to trawl for the ENORMOUS amount of music I missed because nobody can keep up with all the gems. Then I buy the ones I love online and the artist wins.

Well, fuck.

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