Not only in government with - but enacted the agenda of NZ First without fail or resistance - that's what's most significant here.

Nicola Willis this year compared to December and an older photo

Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year, Rod Drury pivots, denying sexual misconduct claims -- now saying it was "consensual" Yet the complaint, lodged in 2017, remains under secrecy & Drury left Xero soon after Scoop by @paulapenfold.bsky.social

What a contrast Ardern's Labour borrowed ~$80b including for Covid, John Key $50b, but National tracking to $120b for landlords & smoke companies - and that's before fuel crisis & their pay equity theft

Brownlee's real claim to fame was being found guilty of assaulting Steve Abel's father.👎😡

This means everyone pays more - it is the opposite of fiscal prudence Another huge contrast between Grant Robertson's achievements vs Willis's PR fluff #nzpol #kiwi

Another credit rating downgrade for #NZ Grant Robertson got higher ratings for the country, Willis trashed it National were warned this would happen if they repealed 3 Waters & forced Councils to take on more debt, as well as keep borrowing for "tax cuts" & landlords

A condescending PM during a serious fuel crisis #nzpol

Baffled at watching journos report on this like it's some huge news item and then omit what prompted the jibe in the first place. Nicola Willis interjects loudly HA HA during Parliament, prompting a response from the Opposition. Journos are reporting the response, but not the interjection #nzpol

Nicola Willis interjects "HA HA" as Hipkins responds in Parliament. Edmunds looks incredulous and asks "Are you all right?" Later, NZ Speaker Brownlee directs Nicola Willis to withdraw her statement, as Willis says she is deeply upset by Hipkins' statement #nzpol

Such sweet company, all of them, you Marxist lefties, woke blah blah blah Unhinged populist politics in #NZ

Winston Peters desperate for people to ignore NZ First's $300 million gift to tobacco companies, and his party being behind the repeal of #NZ smoke free generation, which #UK went on to implement successfully #ukpol #nzpol

Banger. After banger. She's amazing. This is so bad. And she's fucking the only one going this hard. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/22/d...

Australian consumer regulator takes Woolworths to court - alleging deceptive marketing & price gouging Meanwhile in NZ, regulators are toothless while right wing governments keep moving to remove their powers/roles "Free market" is BS ideology

New Zealand businesses expect to fire workers and reduce investment as the Middle East conflict drives up costs and hits profitability, according to a new business survey. Yet National, NZ First & ACT are still trying to claim there's no impact

Nothing says "I'm a confident and secure Prime Minister" like reading a pre-written statement, which includes snarky attacks on the media, then walking out of your press conference without taking questions.

Gerry Brownlee could have been summoned in near the end to break a stalemate leadership vote Luxon has changed his wording from "full support of Caucus" to "support of Caucus" #NZPOL

NZ PM Luxon attacks media for reporting on successive National Party leadership coup attempts What an idiot . Of course it's relevant #NZPOL

Luxon now threatening the media for reporting on his party's dissatisfaction of him.

After spending all morning threatening and bullying MPs, and saying outspoken MPs will be disciplined, Caucus emerges to swear allegiance to Mr 17% PM #NZPOL

Caucuses only behave like this when they are very distressed

Winston is attacking the DOC while claiming that environment and economy are mutual goals. NZ First brought back this - in a move even the USA criticised

Wellington NZ hospital carpark flooding picture as IAG warns that weather events are increasingly erratic, frequent & intense - just like the climate scientists warned

NZ Coalition Govt cuts flood protection money by almost half as 'notorious' woke insurance companies call for urgent action Weather claims rise by 256% and IAG says storms are increasing in intensity and volume: "Every 8 days" Below is Berhampore in #NZ capital Wellington

'A storm every eight days' - country's biggest insurer calls for systemic response Famous W0kE 1nZuranCE companies strike again

Inflation CPI at 3.1%. This encompasses prices BEFORE the US/Israeli attack on Iran and Hormuz straight closure. So the economic geniuses Luxon and Willis cant blame others for their incompetance. As for NZers who still believe National are "prudent fiscal managers" - f****n grow up!!

Remember when RogerDouglas, Richard Prebble, Ruth Richardson, Max Bradford, et al, promised us cheaper power through competition? How's that working out for us? Send them your household bills. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Bullying & MAGA doesn't earn you discipline in the National Party, but speaking up against Dear Leader does

Fuck off Shame Jones, you appeared on a radio show that promotes Christchurch terrorist ideology NZ First is depraved

There is an insane and disturbing amount of vile Anti-Indian sentiment about and parties need to respond to it. They can respond by trying to capitalize on it like NZF, or they can reject it. Ignoring it and hoping for the best only rewards those capitalising on it. It's also moral cowardice.

None of this is normal.

The fact that Hosking read these names out loud and Hosking is a Luxon ally says it all. Also who leaked the MP names? Did Thomas Coughlan not protect his sources or did it come from elsewhere? What a mess this party is.

Winston Peters could stop the FTA Indian agreement being signed by withdrawing from the Coalition now But of course NZ First won't - all they will do is keep inciting racism and anger because that's what powers his party

I see Shane Jones appears on far-right network that regularly platforms, & promotes Christchurch terrorist's violent extremist ideology (rebranded as 'remigration'), & amplifies the same anti-Indian racism, & xenophobia through his "butter chicken tsunami" framing. Dangerous, & disgusting. #nzpol

5 National Party MPs now being painted as "disgruntled" staffers: - Barbara Kuriger, Deputy Speaker - Sam Uffindell, once attacked a kid - Andrew Bayly, called Kiwi worker a loser - Joseph Mooney, called for deportation of Kiwi citizen - Tim van de Molen, threatened Labour's MP

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/topics/post-... The anchor is dragging the National Party down... #NzPol #Cartoon #Caricature

30 or 40 feral MPs then? 6 or 7 MPs ? File under: Things media could ask to make it all even more ridiculous.

Luxon now claims the 5 MPs comment wasn't true It's really a waste of time listening to this guy - or any National Party MP

Quiet, sweeping changes to Treaty clauses could lower te Tiriti to its weakest legal standard in #NZ. The change shifts the Treaty to just another factor that can be considered before any decision Govt ignored advice from its advisory group, which recommended no substantive changes and no repeals

Things aren't going so well for Nick Mowbray and David Seymour's hero.

Winston Peters is the only one who can easily stop the India-NZ FTA deal now that National have moved to legally sign it. Will he do it?

That "household budget = nation's economy bullshit" has got to stop. Thatcher and Reagan to blame.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

Good come back to the idiocy

The Board might have something to say about Minimum Parking Requirements which infringe on Private Property Rights (by artificially imposing a set of regulations that distort property prices, planning and the market mechanisms between developer and purchaser/tenant on provisions of said parking)

David Seymour's $80 million Ministry of Regulation sets up 7 Board members to defend property rights. Recently Seymour said his electorate didn't want folks looking at their pools

National Party will legally sign the NZ-India FTA in a week. Labour has criticised the move, saying it is "recklessly irresponsible" to sign it without majority support. National have ignored calls by Labour to see the details. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Interesting that National Party's response to bad polling & disastrous leadership # (16% approval) is to witch hunt concerned MPs James Meager, once a much vaunted MP, also relegated after he helped Chris Bishop calculate numbers for a leadership run www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

for those abroad, the the treaty of waitangi is new zealand's founding document, intended to giuarantee Māori some measure of equality in our own country. Any "repeal" is itself a treaty violation and a betrayal.