I find it incompetent for high paid officials, including the PM, to not remember important things like what they did with this document. #nzpol

Maybe the going for growth agenda is a unicorn dream? Because in a finite world where the climate is already at breaking point, there's no advice, good or bad, as to how we can continue the growth. My criticism of Treasury is that they are not saying in capital letters THIS CAN'T BE DONE. #nzpol

#nzpol Now that Tama Potaka was forced to remove the "confusing wording," do we get to re-submit? The fight isn't over, but maybe the emphasis of my submission needs to change to - just kill the bill.

Can you please do it so it will need a super majority to be changed or any other mechanism that will hermetically protect it from the greedy hands of corporates? #nzpol

Good but not good enough. Let's keep the pressure. Conservation and economic development can't live in the same realm. If they want to sell just bits and bobs that are not conservation, kill this bill and just sell those bits and bobs. #nzpol

#nzpol Anyone already shouted this is an elections bribe (I'm looking at you simple Simeon), or is that treatment is solely for the parties left of centre?

Time for us to take a leaf from the citizens of Albania playbook. Enough. This land does not belong to the govt of the day. It belongs to the people of Aotearoa! Take your filthy hands off our conservation land, Potaka. #nzpol

Shane Jones need to pay back the difference between the budget that was approved and his inflated ego. A competent PM would require him to do that and if refused, sack him. Has the TPU said something and I missed it? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

To counter the worry of giving something for free to people who can afford to pay, the govt can simply increase the tax those people pay. The best counter is - this is what we pay tax for! #nzpol

2037! They can't manage to find a suitable replacement in the next 10 years? WTF are they doing in business if they can't manage to plan ahead. #nzpol

Also, contrary to what RWers think, lower speed actually makes the roads less congested. Try it and see for yourself. #nzpol

I decided to start sending supportive emails to opposition MPs so they'll know the public wants more. So I emailed Hipkins and said I support pay equity and that he should not hesitate to say yes, Labour will support it even if it costs $11b. It's better than a freaking road! #nzpol

#nzpol Bookmark this excellent explanation @bernardchickey.bsky.social gave as to why Aotearoa does not have a debt problem. It will become useful in the coming months as Willis will keep on screeching about the debt Labour left us. www.instagram.com/reel/DZEC8bc...

#nzpol Tapping a sign - just nationalize the damn thing then.

🤣 with this logic, every policy is a bribe. But Simeon isn't known to apply logic. #nzpol

Call me naïve (I don't care) but could men trying to show off who's got a bigger dick maybe stop and realise all of us will have much better life if we just stopped fighting each other and find a way to co-exist? #nzpol

open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/... #nzpol @bernardchickey.bsky.social excellent explanation as to why the hopium budget looks like nothing more than magical thinking.

#nzpol In which Toby Manhire & Bernard Hickey smashing the ideological dogma of govt debt & bond vigilantes. open.spotify.com/episode/1rz9...

Balancing the govt books is one big load of bollocks when one of the things it rely on is an assumption that fuel prices will drop. About time we stopped pretending like govt books need to be "balanced" and start thinking differently. #nzpol

That's $112m per km *. Does anyone want to talk about those expensive cycleways? #nzpol *it will cost more.

The NZ Initiative needs to be outlawed. (of course it's paywalled). #nzpol

David Seymour using the language of abusers. #nzpol

This has to stop. Get all these greedy bastards who are just ignoring the rules pay back what they took, with interest. Build an apartment block where out of town MPs can live and that's it. They do not need more than a 1 bedroom apartment. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...

The only reason Luxon is entitled to his entitlements is that no one takes it from him like he did with pay equity. So, to settle matters, let's give that same independent authority the mandate to decide on the pay & conditions of ALL public servants. #nzpol

#nzpol The shit about what is the definition of a man / woman designed to distract us from the awful budget reminded me of this book that I read when I had my brush with breast cancer. A woman is more than the sum of her organs aotearoabooks.co.nz/notes-on-wom...

Why is it always "let's use technology so we can fire more people" and not "let's use technology so our people can have shorter work day"? There's no magic in the 5 days/40 hours work week. It's an arbitrary number. We can change it if we agree that the purpose in life is to enjoy it. #nzpol

Fiscally conservative is fiction. Money is fiction. therefore, there's no reason to be conservative with it. We invented the rules, and we can change and adjust the rules however we want to suit the outcome we want to achieve. #nzpol

#nzpol This is a very good visual demonstration of the wealth gap. People just can't get their head around how big a difference it is from $1m to $1b. Show them this. And tax the rich. www.instagram.com/reel/DYjeM_y...

#nzpol They lie so easily and confidently thinking we are all stupid so won't find the truth. In the years NZ govt actually built things, the public service employed more people. Who would have thought.

#nzpol Who will be the journalist to ask (and check) how much the govt is spending on consultants & contractors. The work still needs to be done but to pretend they are saving money they just moved all the public servants to consulting jobs.

The only reason Luxon is entitled to his entitlements is because no one is taking his entitlements away! He has no problem taking away entitlements of the most volunerable. Rotten fucker that has the chutzpah to call himself a Christian. Rotten, the lot of them. #nzpol

#nzpol If you don't do politics, politics does you. Son's girlfriend's parents don't vote. That is until Saturday night when they learned the govt is cancelling the fees free. You never know what would be that one policy that will move people off the apathy so keep talking about things.

How do we fight the wave towards fascism? Present a vision of a good future. www.instagram.com/reel/DX6uNVa... #nzpol

#nzpol Seymour is so arrogant he doesn't get it. The kids couldn't give a F about how you want schools to mark their absence, when his govt is creating an unliveable future for them. They understand that it is more important to protect life on earth than the human invention of money.

Oh, I had no idea that as an immigrant I was causing social instability. OTOH, I am a tree hugging lefty that isn't afraid of supporting decolonisation, so maybe I am causing social instability 🤣 #nzpol

With record liquidation numbers, a govt that stopped building houses and so many construction projects, what businesses are there to take more apprentices? I can tell you we didn't take an additional apprentice we planned on taking due to the economic condition. #nzpol

Can't even say go learn a trade. There's no more subsidy for apprenticeship fees, no apprenticeship boost, no help for buying tools, fuel is too high for an apprentice wage, and they gutted whole trade industries. What exactly are they trying to do? It doesn't make sense! #nzpol

When are we going out to the streets with a France style demonstration? This is beyond economic vandalism. This is cruel, deliberate negligence. I'd rather they just came out and said, Seymour style, we want you gone instead of pretending to be a govt. I'm so sorry, Dr. Hu. #nzpol

@bernardchickey.bsky.social not mincing words: thekaka.substack.com/p/the-hunt-f... Stop the artificial, plucked out of thin air govt has to be under 30% of GDP and get on with the job of investing in our future. Yeah, I know, your rich mates will have to pay more tax. I'm OK with that. #nzpol

"People seeking citizenship should understand NZ believe in certain rights, like freedom of speech*, or that no one person or group is above the law**." *As long as it's white privileged speech. **unless they are white men in a position of power. #nzpol

It's all distractions designed to get us talking about this instead of the important things that are happening. Just like they are distracting us from talking about our warmongering PM by talking about the emails Peters exposed. Let's not fall to this trap. #nzpol

Simple. Investment that will create jobs and thriving businesses that in turn will bring in tax $. But also - Wealth tax. And if you don't like it, go somewhere else. #nzpol

That's going to be an improvement on what the CoC is currently doing. Peters can still have his penis police & what is a woman bills to keep the cookers on low slow burn. But we will be saved from the rest of the shitshow. I think it more likely that Luxon will bent over backward, though. #nzpol

#nzpol www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtt5... Piece of shit is not a swear word. In Seymour's case it's an accurate description. Seymour, who said a certain Ministry should be blasted claimed he was joking. Following that train of excuse I would think Michel Mulipola was joking too.

No wonder he's hiding from the press. Are you farmers who are hurting now paying attention? Your PM wants to support the war that is going to tank your business. How impressed with yourselves are you for voting him in? #nzpol

It's only unavoidable because BVV wants it to be so. It could be avoidable by, oh, I don't know, maybe not change the bill. #nzpol

#nzpol We know it is going to be an ugly elections campaign, where Willis will be busier telling us what Labour will do than telling us what SHE will do. So, one way to stop the debate about the landlords interest rebate is to declare you will not hurt mum & dad investors.

I thought landlords are landlording because they are providing a service to people, or so they claim. Can't have it both ways. If it's just like any other business then that comes with a risk. Something tells me they don't actually believe it's just like any other business. #nzpol

"The revision to have us on watch is confirmation...that the Government's response to the fuel crisis and its wider approach to the economy is the right one,” she said. What is she smoking? Can someone inform Willis that during Covid Labour managed to get an UPGRADE to our credit rating. #nzpol

Why can't they object the FTA on its merit and not be racist AF? #nzpol