Annual job growth still stuck firmly in the negative - running just short of 30,000 below the same week last year. Misery compounds. (1/2)

In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands. This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol

Incompetent heartless government hurts the young unemployed youtu.be/8aTWMV6ULIc?...

Just got sent this from an article by Bryce Edwards. This is completely false, and he never once fact-checked it with me. My campaign was run by me and my small volunteer team. Comments like this reflect a tired mindset that assumes women can’t succeed in politics without a man pulling the strings.

Ruining lives

The NZ Drug Foundation has a major new report pressing the case for a replacement of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, which turns 50 this month. Thing is, its recommendations – for a complete realignment to health, not criminalisation and punishment, are ... drugfoundation.org.nz/topics/polic...

Andrew Hoggard says he will allow cancer-linked glyphosate to be increased by 100 x in our food production. He's also ignored a High Court order telling farmers to remove cruel farming practices around pigs - extending the 2025 due date out by 10 years. This is ACT #nzpol #kiwi

This is evil.... EVIL!!

Property is back on the menu, boys! Thanks RBNZ and National Coalition - let's put productive investment back into non-productive assets. Extra: a central bank's core remit is inflation - not economic growth or fiscal policy failures #nzpol #kiwi

This won't end well

He is that odd mix of deeply unlikeable and hopelessly incompetent....

I would wager that a large proportion of the adults who think this is a good idea have kids who are over 20 and who dislike them intensely. It reeks of paternalistic, condescending, control.

Fucksake. It's quite clear now that they only looked at this benefit policy as political marketing and took no advice on who it would impact – which includes young people with serious health issues and disabilities. Just feckless and cynical. Shame on them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Cantabrians, are going to enjoy more cow piss nitrates in their drinking water. It's probably carcinogenic, but apparently economically worth it....

Go Chlöe! Go Green! 💚💚💚 youtu.be/zl_LgDjpzxE?...

King Charles and King Chump

Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap

🤣😂😬. youtu.be/_ZWdHhTeQdQ?...

Another good breakdown of NZs current economic woes... www.youtube.com/live/xoTijSR...

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Scary

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

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Dolphins have the right idea 🐬🐬🐬

Just Vote Harder Won't Work This Time open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

The Bish

Found this on Facebook. Pretty much spot on...

Tax the rich. And remember, they don't see us as equally human as them. They see us as inferior beings who don't deserve a living wage for our labors or health care or benefit from our taxes. Their proof of our inferiority is the fact that we are not rich.

💚 A Member’s Bill in the name of Green Party MP Kahurangi Carter which aims to prevent deaths from drug overdose, the Drug Overdose (Assistance Protection) Legislation Bill, has been pulled from Parliament’s ‘biscuit tin’ today #kikorangi

"Rome is burning" - NZ business leaders lose confidence in government, complaining the Coalition is constantly bogged down in culture war distractions and hoping the economy will just fix itself. 8% said broadening capital gains taxes was the most needed piece of reform #nzpol #kiwi

What I'd just say to you is, many thanks to the media for never calling us out on this & instead platforming our oil and gas ban big lie as if it was the truth. #LyinLuxon #WorstPMEver #WorstGovernmentEver #StateMediaCapture #NZpol

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

This is the flotilla for Gaza. Utter lawlessness.

It's interesting seeing the vitriol toward Greta. I wonder how many different bot farms are involved in it. I know people who don't like her, but that seems more a tribal thing. Don't like being told they're a part of a big problem. Investors, in pretending there isn't one.

To 'tax' that greed adds, when something public becomes privatised

If so, this would be just because the Wright Family think that the name is now affecting their "brand" - but underlying links need examination. Wayne Wright Jnr inteview with Duncan Grieve a few years ago is a good one - and they bankrolled Platform (I've heard up to $20m to start) #nzpol

The temerity...

Did you know that David Seymour, the guy who opposes policies to cut climate pollution in the #ClimateCrisis, is increasing the cost of your insurance by at least $200 per year to pay for…. climate disasters!👇

Greenpeace agrees with Prime Minister Luxon that pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement would be the “fastest, quickest” way to “punish farmers” – and is warning the PM not to weaken New Zealand’s methane target for the very same reason 👇

My dog is 7mths old and knows more science than RFK...

Woah! Never mind the apology (actually, do) what about this? "more than half of all day shifts and more than a third of evening shifts between January and November last year were understaffed." No wonder nurses are on strike. More power to them! Get more of them ASAP.

Greenpeace submission on the Government’s draft Fuel Supply Resilience Plan #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pub... via @Greenpeace.org.nz

Those who sell their $5mil+ houses are already rich. What do rich people do with $5mil+? They buy more houses.

Laser focused on the cost of living 🔥💥🔫

Who's failed experiment was it Nicola? #nzpol

BOOM! A years-long battle between Pākiri locals and a sand mining company has ended after the miners withdrew their High Court bid to continue dredging operations in Auckland's north. Another great win for people and planet! #GoodNews #PeoplePower #nzpol

On Nicola Willis' 'Orr-chestrated litany of lies.' www.nzherald.co.nz/business/eco...