Broken election promises & Bishop wants to blame external factors from overseas. I remember when he & his right-wing mates attacked Labour for “very ambitious” promises & wouldn’t give them grace of a global pandemic reason. Why should we afford them grace now? #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

It was literally their entire manifesto, destroy PT, EVs, ferries, jobs, health, everything 'Burn it all down so we can make roads' They even failed on that #nzpol

What illustrious company! #NZ and #USA are the only 'Global West' countries to sit outside the highest scores for climate action and biodiversity in the annual Yale Environmental Performance Index. #nzpol epi.yale.edu/downloads/20...

Nicola does realise that cancelling contracts/ infra works, firing half the public service, letting the duopoly supermarkets gouge us more, spineless to stop the gentailers profits, has completely destroyed this country. But a fake finance minister knows best🤦 #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...

How it started / how it's going. #nzpol

'She'll be right attitude to #RocketLab putting #NuclearFree NZ at risk, experts say: NZ govt has deliberately limited public understanding of Rocket Lab's US #military connections in order to support American security interests, documents show #nzpol #US #Israel thespinoff.co.nz/business/17-...

Haven't had time today to post on the RBNZ being idiot ghouls. Suffice to say it is bad. On the upside, these kind of macho, medieval monetarist moves do tend to bring down Governments.

RNZ in a nutshell #nzpol

Just how fucked up are we to be ~14% *worse off* than post brexit austerity clusterfuck lettuce lead United Kingdom? #nzpol

Bloody fantastic thread #nzpol

Sound the New Zealand Mentioned Klaxon! "...only New Zealanders have suffered a steeper fall in their after-inflation wages [in the OECD]" Oh...

"We believe in localism, we believe in dumping the crushing costs of underinvestment in infrastructure and our ongoing denial about climate change as we subsidise farmers impacted by it to be paid for by the ratepayers until we all swirl down a giant plug hole. I'll be watching from Hawaii" #nzpol

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

On my way, Clacton.

All the business Daddies getting all worked up about how National are saving KiwiSaver and other parties should support it! Well maybe they would if they weren't racist, sexist, environment destroying billionaire worshipping wannabe facist dipshits who don't deserve anything #nzpol

National - We still dont know who will pay for the 2.7bn LNG terminal Labour - Here is a $160m home solar policy I wonder who gets questions on how its funded? #nzpol

Some of these comments are a delight

Nicolla Willis is unbearable. Claiming Costco is a success story for supermarket competition on RNZ. The Greens are the only party with a proper policy to address this rort #nzpol

NZ Super, in Treasury's own numbers: 2020/21: 5% of GDP 2060/61: 7.7% of GDP (projected) Some of the least-strained pension math in the OECD. And yet every second budget, someone floats raising the eligibility age. #nzpol

#nzpol AKL light rail, iRex & Get Wellington Moving. 3 projects canceled by the coalition, more than $1bn spunked on nothing. Not to mention 3 Waters. bEttEr EcOnoMiC mAnAgeRs 🤡🤡 N.b. not all repeals are the coalition’s, just the most hypocritical ones.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... The bogeymen under your bed are trying to frighten the hell out of you... time to turn the light on! #NzFirst #NzPol #Cartoon #ScareTactics

'Environmental disaster': Investigation into forestry slash sees damning findings but David Seymour/ACT are shilling for the problem makers and profits and not for the people and the problem solvers #nzpol youtu.be/MEfUZbstnFI

“Seymour ‘implores’ Gisborne council to go easy on forestry companies” Seymour is not working for New Zealanders. The receipts 1/3 #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/business/15-...

Aotearoa's govt is a death cult when it comes to climate change. Climate minister Watts this week wrote to councils demanding they not take climate adaptation too seriously. He did so as Europe saw deaths spike, France up ~30%, due to climate change. #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Waiting for the ever vociferous Free Speech Union to celebrate this judgement... Anytime now. 🤡 #nzpol

Stop giving fuckstick Jordan Williams airtime. He is a fucken grifter. He previously worked for National MP Judith Collins. High-profile board members and staff frequently move between the Taxpayers' Union, ACT, and National party offices. #nzpol

You know what I'm seeing more of? Supermarket staff throwing out rotten produce. They would rather sell at a premium at let it rot than lower the price and shift it. #nzpol

The health system needs $1.4 billion just to maintain existing services, researchers say, but the Budget’s cost pressures funding fell well short of that. newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/02/h...

They keep saying they don’t want to pass on “future debt to future generations” as their excuse for gutting our life sustaining services, but who has calculated the billions of $$ in consequential debt from NOT INVESTING NOW? I’d argue, it’s smarter to invest to need, not cut for greed. 🤷‍♀️ #nzpol #NZ

Not only has Simeon Brown attacked the Medical Council, causing them to stop working on their cultural safety statements, but he has also whitened the Nursing Council, no doubt aiming to reel them in from their Te Tiriti-based approach to the code of conduct. #nzpol kaitiaki.org.nz/article/excl...

I made a meme.

Sigh. Capitalism. Posts $1/2bn profits, cuts worker benefits #nzpol www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bnz-staff...

'It appears that Luxon is surrounded by people either too incompetent to check a basic fact before putting it in his mouth, or too cynical to care whether it was true.' #NzPol

Well, when the govt can rip off workers (mostly women) with no shame at all, it’s unsurprising that their corporate donors would follow suit with glee. It’s the bright new future they promised us all; no more cost of living crisis, let’s celebrate the shiny new COST OF GREED CRISIS!!! 💸💰 #nzpol #NZ

We can do that now. Always could. The thing is that 40 years ago the two major parties agreed to a very silly economic thing called the 30/30 rule. Completely made up and no reason to continue. That's the fundamental cause of much enshitification of public life. It could go away at any time. #NZPOL

To repeat: NZ finds itself at the bottom of the OECD on lobbying - we basically have no effective rules governing lobbying This is eroding voter trust in democracy. It is corruption in plain sight NZ needs fair transparent regulations-any political parties ensuring this will get voter support

Be good if Jason Walls got his tongue out of the government's ass #nzpol

The other drain on cash (and bonds) is our bloated current account deficit. We are spending $16bn a year offshore more than we are earning - that literally costs us. But, why talk about a deficit that matters? [Ends]

An obvious contributor to the slowdown is RBNZ draining QE money (created 2020 - 2022) out of the economy. The smarter reckonomists in the UK are getting exercised about the BoE doing the same. Silence here obviously - too complicated. Best to stick to 'how will we pay for it stories?' [4/n]

Sounds like how NZ policy is being written... #nzpol

The IMF wants us to have a conversation about superannuation #nzpol

To be honest, we had bloody good local school lunch providers providing bloody good lunches before Dickhead David got his Scrooge-fingers all over it. Black mark on Minister Stanford for this too #nzpol

👏 Kieran McAnulty: "Pregnant women, people being discharged from hospital, & - I think the most egregious example - women & children escaping domestic violence that were deemed to have contributed to their own homelessness because they had a home & chose to leave it." 🎯 www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The so called "Party for Business" who are STILL in control of Aotearoa's taxation system as government (and providing relief landlords and fossil fuel corporations, and not you) #nzpol #votegreen www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

'10.2% of #NZ pop has relative income poverty. 473,000 people are in material hardship. 1 in 3 lives have food insecurity. #Neoliberal #Austerity #AtlasNetwork govts have done this! assetsales+privatising services, job & pay cuts. We need Greens #WealthTax #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Ombudsman 'found it surprising the former staffer had no recollection of what he did with the lobbying document.' #NzPol