The only people selling us misery are this government #NZPol

👉🏾 If life gives you Luxon, squeeze him out at the ballot box. 🍋 Vote Te Pāti Māori. ❤️🤍🖤 #NZPol

Weird how they can twist ACT dogwalking National into fascism to write a scare story about Greens *checks notes* doing the mahi and going out to talk to people about their policies.

AI is gonna mark your children’s assignments and we are gonna put tracking devices on your car and sell all our conservation lands and take away your voting rights and blame you when businesses go under for not spending your non existent money. YOURE GONNA LOVE IT - Nats

My knowledge❤️ #nzpol

So, we're canning books in one of Aotearoa's OFFICIAL LANGUAGES???? #GTFO #NZPol #RacistGovernment

I'm very tired of folk thinking that lack of "growth" aka expansion is a terrible thing. It's the stupidest mantra of our age to insist that everything must grow/expand/increase, and it's a big part of the reason we're in this shit.

#nzpol It won't stop unless we can try and stop it—so submit against Brooke van Velden's latest attack on workers while you still can. Submissions on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill close NEXT WEDNESDAY. Make your submission here: www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Courtesy of Shamubeel Eaqub, Chief Economist at Simplicity... 74,000 jobs gone. SEVENTYFOUR THOUSAND JOBS!!!! This government is destroying AoNZ simplicity.kiwi/learn/resear... #NZPol

#NZPol Any government should need a significant supermajority and to have campaigned on selling any publicly owned assets. It’s disgusting that these morons are allowed to impoverish our shared future prosperity for a 20 second sugar hit because they are too stupid to invest in productive growth.

Is it too much to ask that people in political adverts are real, what they represent is real and they are there willingly? No stock photos , no AI? If you cant find one Woman, one Nurse, one Teacher to support your views enough for a billboard perhaps your views are fucked? #nzpol

It’s not just that unemployment is up 28% since the govt took office it’s that they engineered it! If you have the faintest clue about how the economy works you know that cutting public spending impacts the private sector immediately. The govt is the private sector’s BIGGEST customer.

If, like me, you're a tree hugging socialist bastard, you should follow the Greens on bsky

Latest stats indicating the worst unemployment numbers since the outbreak of the pandemic are further proof that the Govt’s policies are forcing people further into hardship and poverty.

Can’t believe we actually have to petition this shit, but here we all are… #NoFBI #NZFBI #nzpol #Aotearoa #NZ #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #ProtectDemocracy www.maoriparty.org.nz/say_no_to_th...

Absolutely disgusting #nzpol #CorruptCoalition

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It's been a real week in NZ/Aotearoa politics. At the moment, every new week tends to be worse than the last, but this one has been particularly bad. We've had full mask-off anti-democratic moments as well as a disconcerting increase in culture war garbage. A list. #nzpol

His full quote: “ it's outrageous that someone completely disengaged and lazy can rock up to the voting booth, get registered there and then, and then vote to tax other people's money away.“ Sorry, but that's a call to suppress left voters specifically.

There's a reason I've been calling out the similarities between the US alt-right playbook and ours for a long time - do folks see it yet? Stanford has also cut Treaty of Waitangi from the Education Curriculum & tightened what books are allowed #nzpol

Please sign! If it's good enough for politicians to degrade the state of our health service, they should at least be forced to use it. chng.it/2mmVsYzdFW

We need strong statements from Opposition parties. This may be a manufactured culture war designed to distract from a class war but it is real erosion, real harm and real lives being impacted. “If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic.” - Judith Butler

This EXACTLY the same in Aotearoa - except Māori are the scapegoat. W DO have enough money to use for the things we, as a society, need. As long as we put a stop to the gutting of society by the wealthiest people for their own benefit #VoteGreens

#nzpol THIS from Jane Kelsey!!! Share and submit e te whānau!!!! Why has a bill to relax foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny? www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

There are still people who believe that more punitive prohibition is the solution to the problems caused by punitive prohibition. Half a century of overwhelming evidence from Nixon's "war on drugs" that they are 100% wrong makes no difference to them. #EndProhibition #nzpol

(Sorry I'm always sayin the same thing, but every news item about this gets it twisted) Ray Chung’s email about Tory Whanau is not some random thing he did. It’s part of a global pattern: women leaders being targeted with false, sexist rumours to undermine their credibility and leadership. #nzpol 🧵

Our government continues to ignore facts, and truth...because that doesn't win elections, instead appealing to the public's desire for punishment.

"The latest Taxpayers' Union-Curia Poll...." And that's where I stopped reading. #nzpol

That's some of why this is manifesting in changing road speeds, of all things. "How DARE *you* tell me what to do! Undo it! FIX IT!" is now a governing impulse of the donor classes, regardless of context, and NActZFirst are happy to help out the rich folks they consider 'actually human.'

#NZGovt A small war with local government: #Capping #rates simply makes the problem of paying for #services worse -Craig Renny #nzpol #economics #NZGovtFail #CostOfLiving #Neoliberalism #AtlasNetwork open.substack.com/pub/craigren...

#NZ #media is in big trouble - #AtlasNetwork propaganda & ‘silencing’ voices & anti-Democracy trouble, & anti-ClimateAction, anti-worker - & it’s not only NZ. #AtlasNetwork a.k.a #Project2025 is doing the same in US, UK, Canada, EU, Australia, Sth America & more! #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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EV’s are, by their nature of being very new and having up to date crash protection, will certainly be in the category of causing the least harm to their occupants. There is zero data provided to support the added cost.

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

Good to see another Atlas Network linked govt get told to shove it. Plus, am I really the only person who is chilled by knowing NZ's Deputy PM possibly wants civil war? Why is that not getting more press? #nzpol #kiwi

Seymour is absolutely hopeless at drafting legislation. "The proposed design of the bill reduces the likelihood it will meet its intended goal of improving overall regulatory quality, could impose costs on agencies exceeding the potential economic and societal benefit, and may also ...

This just reminds me of when Katherine Ryan told me off on air for calling ACT far right and now look what they are doing

If political parties were serious about strengthening Aotearoa's democracy, they'd remove the vast majority of appointments to public positions from the hands of ministers (who are susceptible back-slapping and bribes/donations) and commit to establishing an independent commission for appointments.

What do you do when it's ALL on fire? I'm so fucking tired. The world has gone completely mad.

David Seymour wanted thousands more people to die from Covid for the sake of business David Seymour wants more smokers to keep smoking and die early to save money on superannuation payments Who the fuck likes this guy? #NZPol

This is the New Zealand Luxon and co are giving us. While the Govt celebrates a reduction in emergency housing the people they have turfed out of emergency housing and/or refused to house have nowhere to go. This is the back on track they are celebrating. #NZpol A coalition of callous bastards.

These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in. Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau. You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them. #HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori #NZPol

Data released by Stats New Zealand today shows that the economy grew on a quarterly basis by 0.8% but fell on an annual basis by 1.1%. The economy is about the same size it was in March 2023 tells you that we have had almost zero (0.3%) economic growth over the past 2 years. A 🧵

Businesses claim that donation that YOU MADE via them, as theirs, and they can then claim 100% of that back, unlike individuals who only get to claim 33.3% back. Yep, that sounds fair.... #NZPol

Chlöe and Marama are out there busting their arses holding this CoC to account and demonstrating how their alternative budget would work for all New Zealanders; Chris Hipkins might make a statement if a journo knocks on his door long enough. What do the Greens have to do to convince Kiwis? #nzpol

I'm really happy that Spinoff is writing pieces in praise of Chris Bishop! I'm told by the veritable @foxylustygrover.bsky.social everyone on Bluesky knows Bishop is a cunt so can only assume Spinoff doesn't live here #nzpol #kiwi

Remember kids, authoritarians hate paper trails that contradict them. That's why right-wing radicals go to such lengths to undermine science and humanities scholarship, ban books, shutter public libraries and downgrade objective reality and object permanance to mere opinion. #nzpol

Fuck me days. They're really going gangbusters. #NZPol