New Zealand monopolies need to be broken up. @nznationalparty.bsky.social never have the cojones to break them. @nzlabour.nzcow.com

Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at 70-year high → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich. How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. Democrats must remember this — and act on it.

@nznationalparty.bsky.social & @actparty.bsky.social want to privatise more of our assets.

The Post/Freshwater Strategy poll Labour 38% National 30% New Zealand First 9% Greens 8% ACT 8% Te Pāti Māori 2% Left bloc 48% vs Right bloc 47% #NZPol

Tamihere got about $200k when he exited WP for Parliament. He takes double dipping to a whole new level. Is this not criminal? #nzpol

Luxon Will &co are not empathetic, not curious and not serious leaders. Ireland gives its pensioners a Bonus; that’s civilised.

Remember Judith Collins wanted NZ to copy her beau Boris Johnson in our response to Covid? I do. Thanks @nznationalparty.bsky.social #nzpol

I think Luxon has been told he'll be rolled if he doesn't resign early next year. He gets his pension, his summer holidays, the promise of a knighthood if he goes voluntarily. He will claim that he has completed his mission of putting the country back on track #nzpol

Christopher Luxon says he will be prime minister leading into the election next year But not coming out of it buddy! #NZPol

Q. Minister Mitchell, did your office have a culture of leaving you with ‘deniability’? Q. Were you intentionally non-informed of certain topics? Q. Who told your electorate office manager (sister) not to inform you of complaints against senior cops and when? #nzpol @nznationalparty.bsky.social

Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National. Don't believe National on Kiwisaver. #nzpol

"The system has always worked" says #NZPolice Minister Mark Mitchell. Yeah right. What he means is the system of charging complainants to shut them up works. MsZ is still silenced by implied threat on outstanding charges. Ref interview with Jack Tame on #NZQandA #NZpol youtu.be/WeAYPVBgb7U

Mark Mitchell has to go. He lied. He covered up .He has no integrity

💩🥚💩👮 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

@nznationalparty.bsky.social can never be trusted with #Kiwisaver #nzpol

DO NOT TRUST LUXON WITH KIWISAVER.

Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announces new National Party KiwiSaver policy

Mr. Luxon, what you continuously say is some of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent responses were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this country is now dumber for having listened to it. #nzpol

#Luxon has demonstrated a careless approach to managing his relationship with the police. Luxon is too keen to be ‘liked’ that he doesn’t understand the discipline of ministerial governance. #nzpol

Mark Mitchell @nznationalparty.bsky.social set an ‘anti-woke’ tone in the Police leadership. Here is what AI finds…

Mark Mitchell set the tone for the culture. @nznationalparty.bsky.social #nzpol

What with the folks that will need sacked from this McSkimming coverup and those that should be sacked for adding fake clicks to their breath testing numbers, it's gonna be pretty tricky for Mark Mitchell to get his extra 500 cops, eh?

A year ago. Feels like our déjà vu is now experiencing some déjà vu.😒 #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Mitchell also said that the PM's office had also received at least some of those emails. So was there a similar protocol in place with the PM's office to withold information from the PM and his team? If so, when did the PM become aware of it? If not, why wasn't any action taken sooner by PM?

Mark Mitchell says 36 emails were sent to his office but also that a protocol had been put in place by the Police Commissioner's office to prevent him seeing them. I'd love a journo to ask: 1. When was the protocol put in place? 2. When did Mark Mitchell become aware of the protocol? #nzpol

Charge Luxon with ‘waste of police time’! He caused 3(three) police officers to remove an old bike from his garage. #Luxon #nzpol

Why is this **** the Head of State of Aotearoa New Zealand? #nzpol @nzlabour.nzcow.com

Why is this **** the Head of State of Aotearoa New Zealand? #NZPol @nzlabour.nzcow.com

Charge Luxon with ‘waste of police time’! He caused 3(three) police officers to remove an old bike from his garage. #Luxon #NZPol

Here come the asset sales. Here they come again. Here come the asset sales. When will it ever end? (apologies to Monty Python)

Yeah, Luxon. Go to the election with that plank in your platform.

What a patronising arse, Luxon. We little people need to be more ‘mature’ and agree with him? Phoook @nznationalparty.bsky.social #NZPol

Three police officers sent to clear rubbish from Prime Minister’s garage!!! Thanks @nznationalparty.bsky.social , a class act . #NZPol

@rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy Infantile amateurish news editing on the 0800 news this morning. Embarrassing and infuriating. 1st item was ‘average speed cameras’!!!!!! FFS put an adult in charge. #NZPol

Aotearoa An Oxygen Thief: A bald waste of skin in a suit; Who am I talking about?

What next? Ban acts of bastardry? Nastiness? @nznationalparty.bsky.social #NZPol

It doesn't get said enough that Nats have built just 45 State houses since coming into government, no one is being housed in your ghost houses Bishop and now you want to hunt people off the streets? Where worse can you send them, the sewers where you slither? #NZPol

What’s happened to @nzrepublic.bsky.social

The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night: - Decoupling the ETS from Paris - Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years - Delaying the public sector target by 25 years - Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Nasty 🤮 lot reaching for the Trumpian DEI hate mongering vote among the NZF & ACT ranks. @nznationalparty.bsky.social .#NZPol

Thanks @nznationalparty.bsky.social , you are getting us noticed around the world. #NZPol

Ireland funds the arts and is a very successful economy. New Zealand defunds the arts and is in recession. Thanks @nznationalparty.bsky.social & @nzactparty.bsky.social

Why doesn’t NZ pick its own head of state? This is beyond embarrassment. @nznationalparty.bsky.social @nzlabour.nzcow.com #NZPol

I don’t like ‘internships’. If a job is worth doing it deserves to be rewarded with proper pay. If a job can only be accessed by months of nil wages then only those with relative privilege can get in. Ban unpaid internships. #NZPol

@nzrepublic.bsky.social New Zealand’s King Charles spotted his first wife when she was 16 and dated her when she was 19. He had another woman as a mistress when he married Diana. He is upset with his brother for raping a 17 year old? #NZPol @nznationalparty.bsky.social

@nzrepublic.bsky.social Why does Aotearoa New Zealand hold onto a corrupt dysfunctional ‘royal family’ 20k km away for its Head of State? #NZPol

The sight of Paul Henry on TV One stirs a rage in me. I can’t press the button in the remote control fast enough when his ads come on. @tvnz.bsky.social

Ah New Zealand, the land where we finally do things other countries have done forever, all of whom have greater GDP per capita than us, but a parade of naysayers are hauled out to tell us why it’s not good. You stupid cunts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?