People are going into debt & taking loans for power bills. National said privatisation would reduce bills. Seymour says power companies shouldn’t be renationalised as it would interfere with profits for s/holders. It’s what Seymour wants - profits for private providers ahead of healthcare for us.

The New Zealand government’s underfunding of healthcare is killing people everyday & Doctors are saying it everyday and being largely ignored. Privatisation will make this situation worse. #nzpol

I thought this was an excellent post from Willie Jackson that explained the state of the economy and exactly how it got there. I'd like to see all Labour MPs repeat the exact same message again and again to try and cut through the spin from the right.

Remember when National MP Joseph Mooney tried to get a Massey academic fired just for pointing out we don't want American politics in NZ and to beware of those that want it? I do. #nzpol Joseph Mooney

Come on! Where's the tīeke? And how is the takahē not in number 1? Let's vote people!! birdoftheyear.org.nz

Team tīeke have got such an awesome campaign going on over on tiktok. Definitely adding them to my vote. #Birdoftheyear

What a week! Drinking a spirulina like it's the 1990s, it's the 50th anniversary of te Wiki ō te Reo Māori AND Bird of the Year voting has started. Forget the US culture wars, let's celebrate what makes Aotearoa special. Kākā or takahē?

The president of the ACT party groomed and raped teenagers. There is evidence (and allegations) that the party leader covered it up. Is this kind of behaviour acceptable for a deputy prime minister in NZ? Was his honesty and fitness for leadership ever persistently questioned in relation to this?

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/nz...

BRIDGE CROSSING POSTPONED. Change to the Gaza March for tomorrow. Starts in Aotea Square.

This absolute piece of 💩 debated with me that semi automatics should be allowed more widely in NZ. He used the same talking points as Kirk. But he won't mention that in his free speech vs violence bullshit post.

Just catching up on the ERA appointments made by van Velden. On LinkedIn, Pākehā men doubling down that there's no bullying problem in NZ workplaces. 🧐 My experience says the opposite. A medium size firm I worked at had multiple cases that were settled or lost in court, all deserved.

Taxpayers Union isn't even a union - but they're coming for local control Jordan William's outfit appears to be working in sync with the National Government - and the end goal could be privatisation of local assets #nzpol

Fuck the rest of you though, you can just work until you die and be grateful for your gruel #nzpol

Lush at Buchanan Street in Glasgow is closed, as the cosmetic retail giant shuts its doors in ‘solidarity’ with Palestinians 🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 It is a similar scene up and down the UK, as every one of Lush's over 100 stores is closed 👇 𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘖: 𝘎𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘥 & 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴

I support the nurses' strike #nzpol

Had an elderly family member at Auckland hospital ED over the weekend. Only 6 doctors on when they should have 12. We were urged to write to Simeon Brown. We were at the top of the list and still took 7 hours to be seen. Amazing team there and left much better than arrived. How do the workers cope?

Went to Mary: Birth of Frankenstein at the Waterfront Theatre today. If you can, go!! The teen loved it too. Gothic, campy, grippingly scary, feminist, fun! www.atc.co.nz/whats-on/202...

New Zealanders electricity bills are already high. When Luxon blocks offshore wind, by fast tracking seabed mining in the same place, he is driving electricity prices higher, while blocking new low emissions generation. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

In Aotearoa, it's guns, tobacco, booze, oil and gas, mining, intensive farming, private healthcare, road haulage... Them govt ministers are all about the sweet sweet donations/board directorships

Nail on the fucking head.

The replacement plan change has same capacity as the current plan. Filling up the 2 million capacity would mean every single property in Auckland was developed to its full potential. What’s worse? CF is happy to misinform the public or that she might actually believe this?

One of the saddest examples of the woeful inadequacies of mental health support for rangatahi and whānau in Ao/NZ. An extreme case where a child requires in-patient stays for a month and cannot attend regular school. The mum can't work full time and the support is carer support hours... cont

David Seymour mansplaining at the Women's Expo in Kirikiriroa today is quite... something. 🤯🤬

Fonterra farmers got $3.2billion cash in hand from the sale of Anchor etc. Luxon says they now have cash to spend. National have also allowed farmers/businesses to claim back 20% of cost of new assets against tax. What about the rest of us that still can't afford butter? Where's our incentives?

Block out your morning on 7 Sep to visit Tāmaki electorate and let BvV know how you feel about pay equity changes going through with zero consultation. #nzpol

What I'd just say to you #StraightUpMcAnulty is, who are you calling a dud? I'll have you know I've always fallen up. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver #EconomicVandals #ElectionRiggers #NZpol

Seymour on teacher strike after 6 days negotiating: "I would have thought a bit more negotiating would have been responsible" Seymour on van Velden doing zero negotiating when dropping pay equity: "Brooke van Velden should be congratulated, she saved the budget."

Brooke van Velden will be holding multiple street corner meetings all over Tāmaki electorate on 7th September. I highly recommend everyone comes to join them and make their feelings known about pay equity. #payequity #nzpol

What does Luxon normally do at 1am?

Brilliance from Kieran McAnulty. It didn't make it to media, but, well blah, blah, blah... m.youtube.com/watch?v=eedS...

$671,000,000 for delivering no ferries. Ouch Nicola! $228,000,000 for delivering no light rail. Ouch Simeon! They waste HUGE taxpayer dollars to deliver nothing. Good at cancelling and cutting but not very good at delivering... maybe that's the point.

Chlöe Swarbrick at "peak theatrics" says man who drove car up parliament steps to distract everyone from the "Tim Jago thing"

$671,000,000.00* *the price Nicola Willis paid for thin air.

Why hasn’t Newstalk posted a dozen times on the Friday info dump about the cost of the cancelled ferries like they did about former ministers not being needed for public meetings about the Covid witch hunt? Weird…

Spending $671 million on not buying ferries. #OutOfTouch

This poor man has effectively been tortured for the last 5 years, for the crime of breaking some windows. This law really scares me, it's so inhumane and open to abuse by an underfunded mental health sector. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Is this Coalition Government involved in a Ponzi Scheme? #nzpol

Every day we're reminded that this is a government made for the opposition benches. They only know how to play at being attack dogs, nothing constructive amongst the lot of them.

Is this why Brownlee felt spineless was such a personal insult? #nzpol

Today, if you're shocked by Stanford's racist removal of Māori from school books, go and watch this documentary. It's not ancient history, this is 1970's Pukekohe. Māori women having their heads stomped in for daring to try and shop at a whites only shop. Tvnz+

The most sickening thing to wake up to. Stanford instituting racism in our schools like it's Pukekohe 1975.

National PArty / ACT $5 million boot camp result is worse than it looks. 1 died. Of those left, 88% re-offended, and 45% are in jail. This is what Luxon and Karen Chhour claim is a "success". Worse, Luxon was told this would entrench and harden crime. National just don't care. #nzpol #kiwi

If you want to hear the back story to how someone becomes a key player in global covid conspiracy theories, listen to this excellent podcast. Jon Ronson's When Things Fell Apart series is so good. open.spotify.com/episode/3X3m...

Mowbray has always been and will always continue to be a stain and burden on Aotearoa. What a twat. Low bids for Treasures, misses out by $100k. Blames the guys that win the bid. Harasses them nastily. Then sues them for millions. 🤬

Looking through old magazines and found this 1921 illustration of Bluesky

Quick video for the 'we saved too many lives, spent too much $, sent inflation to the moon, made interest rates go up, and now we have to pay for our sins 😢' crowd. The idea that NZ could have 'opted out' of global inflation surge is daft. Almost as daft as NZ opting almost uniquely for a recession.

Actually an 87.5% recidivism rate. 7/8 reoffend. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

If a 70% reoffending (and 20% dropout) rate is "success", what does failure look like? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A government announcement of something that wasn't true. About something that hasn't happened. That this government also made more difficult to do by repealing the previous governments legislation to appease cookers. What a perfect encapsulation of the govt. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...