Weird how we could say the exact same thing about Seymour here too. 🤔 #nzpol

Rich man buys shorter prison sentence www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wealthy-n...

Be Honest Minister Stanford #NZPol

Simeon Brown is funding private equity telehealth companies up to ~4.5 times ($65/appt) more than community GPs. These same companies e.g. Tend Health are then charging Kiwis $80-100 for a call. #kiwi

Motherfuckers www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/19/g...

For all those people calling for the PM and / or Finance Minister, just take a moment to consider David Seymour is currently Deputy PM #nzpol

Dear What Used to be the Middle Class in Aotearoa, If you vote in the interests of the poor, the chances of you doing better is almost 100% If you vote in the interests of the rich, your local community will be worse off. You can’t afford what the rich can, and you will get poorer trying

China is dumping peaches into the NZ market resulting in Watties dropping contracts with kiwi growers Also Fonterra continues to charge kiwi consumers more than their overseas customers Time to review our approach to international trade, so kiwis are always coming out as the loosers? #nzpol

Are there adult nappies for the economically incontinent? Features I'm looking for: Can absorb $671m pissed away on zero ferries. Can contain a big jobs dump. Won't leak tens of thousands of Kiwis to Australia. #nzpol

🎶 if Jesus Christ came back today as he threatened he will, which poor group of people do you think that he would kill? Who would he allow to starve if you gave him a chance, and if he saw a genocide, would he take a neutral stance? 🎶 youtu.be/hE-yXDsmaKQ...

Straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, the Finance Minister who has bought the NZ economy to it's knees finds herself intimidated when faced with representatives from God #nzpol

So just to be clear, these businesses would be uneconomic if they had to pay for the cost of cleaning up the damage they are doing, and can't just leave it to ratepayers to fix? And that is a bad thing?

"The minister has said donning an adult nappy and chaining yourself to a door was not the way to get an audience with her." So they should have done the usual thing of offering a big donation instead?

#nzpol The minimum wage increased 1.5% this year. Data from Stats NZ shows: - Food prices up 5% - Fruit & Veg up 8.9% - Meat up 9.4% - Bread up 9.5% (white sliced up 41.7%) - Cheese up 14.3% - Milk up 15% - Electricity up 11.4% Laser focused on the cost of living www.stats.govt.nz/information-...

If you want to know how the NZ health system is functioning (or not functioning), someone deeply unwell I know who requires health support has just been assessed as not needing that support - which means untrained family (women) are picking up unsafe situations in an unpaid capacity. Much like this👇

More performative politics as NZ First claims publicity from a members bill. A party that thought renaming Govt departments was so much more important that it became a part of the Coalition agreement P.S. How about the Coalition just funds public health properly? #nzpol

The mask has slipped from Better Wellington www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/better-we...

Maybe the NZ media should be asking Rimmer now why he wanted Aotearoa's parliament to align itself with a particular side in a US far-right gang-war?

It saddens me that Ray Chung is one of the top 3 candidates for Wellington Mayor

Because people like Seymour are looking to stoke American imported culture wars because it’s been working for Americans far right authoritarian douche bros .. he wants a piece of that action. He’s a cunning opportunist.

Wait a goddamn minute. So properties owned by a trust has to be declared, properties owned by a company has to be declared, but properties owned by a company owned by a trust DOESN'T have to be declared? www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mp-put-25...

I don't understand Charter Schools, don't they just prove if you spend more per child they will get better outcomes? Where is Act in this whole thing saying the state should pay more per child? Lets just spend that much on all the kids #NZPol

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

What. Theres no money allocated for scrapping and replacing NCEA. They clearly haven’t learned anything from the ferry shambles or from the mess they’ve made of the Dunedin hospital rebuild. #nzpol

Charlie Kirks death "struck such a chord with New Zealanders" that many of us went to find out what that chord was, and why we cared about Charlie Kirk I've never heard our acting PM say anything like this about the many other shootings.

Looking forward to strong commentary from David Seymour and Winston Peters on the difference between free speech & violence and the need to protect democracy regarding the resignation of an MP who received death threats following politically motivated targeting amplified by members of the NZ Govt.🦗

Probably be good for the politicians here who are talking loudly about things like the essence of democracy being under threat to then be asked why their consistent behaviour and actions since being in power have been to undermine our democracy and inflict structural violence through bad policy, eh

When you see it altogether, it paints a very clear picture… #nzpol

Cheats! #NZPol

“I'm not at all calling him any kind of fascist. But you have to say: he persists in showing an unholy warmth and sympathy to people who, at Nuremberg, would have been not the prosecutors but the accused.” subslack.substack.com/p/places-we-...

Nothing to see here: "We want a leader and a prime minister [who's] going to do the right thing not wait until the media to actually make him do the right thing." (Christopher Luxon, Jun-23, when it happened in a Labour Govt). www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mp-put-25...

Some people seem to have missed that this was for a photo opportunity (although the photos were extra). Our PM has cut down to a bare minimum 7 PR people maintaining his TikTok posts, and still some people are complaining. I heard that the pavlova wasn't even that nice

don't forget that David Seymour is the only MP in the last decade who has openly implied he wanted a Ministry bombed

From Shamabeel Equab on LinkedIn. The result of Luxo's laser focus on the cost of living. Just look at 2025

Good on Robert Walters www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360... Its telling that they expect higher standards than some political parties

In a shock turn of events I see that the windfall for farmers has not trickled down into the pockets of rural communities. I felt sure trickle down would come through this time. Surely we must lose all hope in it now, unless there is just this one more time... #NZPol

Also David Seymour is such a shit. Always about "you can do what you like with your property, EXCEPT when it comes to intensification in HIS electorate. What a bell-end.

According to Willis, following Australia - the country where unemployment is lower, wages are higher, and to which Kiwis are moving in droves - would be economically illiterate.

@mountaintui.bsky.social doing the Mahi again to add nuanced and well researched perspective to the criticisms of NZLabour from ALL sides. I didn't study politics and I'm no expert in political strategy but I understand that there is a game to play and have to trust Labour know what they're doing...

ETS auction again gets no bids. Another 1.5 million tons of carbon in the pile, to be cancelled at the end of the year if unbought. www.etsauctions.govt.nz/public/aucti...

Looks like our PM has lost his copy of "Art of the Deal" Apparently that surplus of $13,000 is what we negotiated to get a second pilot for a few hours. But doesn't include the normal security details we would have to pau. Thank goodness we have got rid of that old wasteful spending Govt. #nzpol

Chris Bishop’s fast track law is designed so that applicant’s false information cannot be challenged by the public during the consenting process and hence a consent can be given based on fake information

How it started: NZ Govt has too many bureaucrats How it's going: The NZ Govt increased the number of public servants in both 2024 and 2025 (www.publicservice.govt.nz/data/workfor...) It's a great summary of how #nzpol is going nowdays - a disconnection between what is said and what is done.

Doctors are concerned the Healthy Futures Pae Ora law change will stop health workers speaking out about things they think are detrimental to healthcare and the public. My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #PaeOra #HealthNZ #PublicHealth

That's right: there is no difference. RNZ reprinted govt PR pretty much verbatim and put it on their website. No byline, no mention this is all from a press release, no attempt at context or pushback or, indeed, journalism. 2/3

They're laser focused on bringing inflation down

When the NZ Govt has run out of things to privatise The large campaign donations made from the property sector to National and ACT are probably just a coincidence

The NZ Govt really is showing how well it stands up to lobbyists

tax policy written by farmers? oh well, goes with the gun policy written by gun lobbyists, the environment policy written by mining companies, the employment policy written by uber...you get the drift. #nzpol