CAN EVERYTHING STOP BEING SO FUCKED UP New DCC council now is RW climate denying fucking looney bin stuff. Anyone Anti-Cycleways in 2026 should be declared unfit to stand for public office. Un-fucking-believable

It remains completely absurd that Jenna Lynch is married to the ACT chief of staff and remains a political reporter. It's just a blatant ongoing conflict of interest that's never disclosed. Just shows how much Stuff is just not a serious media organization...

In his latest, @connorsharp.bsky.social looks at another cost of the government's RoNS mania: deaths and serious injuries that could have been avoided with low-cost safety improvements that were sidelined by "a myopic focus on over-scoped highways". www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/05/12/t...

#nzpol There is nowhere more comforting and warm for this coalition to reside than in the upper parts of Trump’s corrupted arsehole

This is the kind of bullshit that sank the Clark government - the seabed and foreshore legislation. It should have the same effect now but apparently the MSM don't care about legal principals now?

"It's an affront to democracy," he said. "If Parliament can cancel a live court case, then no legal claim is secure at all, once it becomes politically inconvenient."" ( Add yet another Trumpist circumvention of legal restraints on excutive power to [ tinyurl.com/NZHTrump ]) #nzpol

#nzpol Just wondering out loud ... does that mean there will be 14 prosecutions 🤔???? (not holding my breath😠)

When a Government tells you they can find money for landlords and tobacco companies but not for our rangatahi, they’re telling you where their values lie. #nzpol

i think i figured out why the term "cost of living" bothers me so much—it's completely supplanted the word "poverty" it's a term that refers to the comfortable being a little less comfortable, and not the uncomfortable being pushed to the brink

He doesnt take advice. At all. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Yeah it was a cracker

Bernard Hickey doing god’s work with Verity Johnson. This is so worth sharing far and wide on as many platforms to which you have access!! #nzpol

Winston Peters was a practising lawyer for 4 years; he's been an MP for 45yrs

Our donor loving govt has: Systematically destroyed emissions reducing policies. Crashed the carbon price. Subsidised high emitters. Put up $200 cash for fossil fuel exploration. Will tax billions for LNG. And is now outlawing climate litigation. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/environ...

Imagine building a multimillion dollar project without taking international price spikes into account in today's world... This smells like a dirty deal done through Luxon and Trump's people business interests.. #nzpol

"Dipshit" is pretty harsh. It's pretty funny & well made, IMO

The OECD are known for their woke, anti economic values

There you have it: planning for energy resilience and a shift away from fossil fuels is "kumbaya and mush" according to the CEO. It's a sign of how far NZ's current government is based on ideology rather than evidence that a National Party PM criticises the OECD's work.

Will Labour commit to reverse this law change? #NzPol

The NZ Govt charges the same Road User Charge to a small electric car as it charges a giant 3.5 tonne diesel SUV. Giant cars cause more road damage, more injuries and deaths to pedestrians, cyclists and children, more climate and air pollution. It is a bizarre subsidy and it needs to change.

eViDeNcE bAsEd pOLicY #nzpol

And I'm not sure that being a lawyer FORTY FUCKING YEARS AGO, is quite the flex ol' druncle thinks it is

Small but ongoing hatred: the way he says "the last administration" like Americans do. It is THE LAST GOVERNMENT you shitty little weirdo

Great chat with columnist for @stuff.co.nz Verity Johnson about idea NZ Govt is too indebted & we can’t have nice things.We’re actually rich & have low debt/gdp. The budget cutting obsession is ideological, moves wealth from young to old, & stunts NZ Inc. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

These two headlines are in no way related. #nzpol

Being asked for the source of false information you shared in your capacity as a minister is not "a hypothesis". What a prick. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

I'm sure he'll be stoked to know that he's exceeding people's expectations. KPI hit!

As a former Labour govt staffer I wish to disclose that any mockery I spray at Prime Minister comes from: 1% old loyalties 1% ideology 1% enjoying a joke 97% astonishment anyone could be this shit at it

That's really my point of view. Yes labour are a big elephant in the room but if we want good progressive politics then we need to grow our own little green elephant into a big stompy Mammoth. Did I stretch my metaphor too far there? Yes I think I did. But you get what I mean :-)

Get a wooden stake, thrust it through the undead heart of NeoLiberalism, seal it in a lead lined sarcophagus & fire it into the heart of the sun... Translated, stop voting Labour / National status quo

#FreeEverlee "NZ govt should be demanding Everlee's release or at the very least that she be told why she's being held in detention & that she have access to her lawyer & to communicate with her family" - MP Vanushi Walters, NZ Labour Foreign Affairs spokesperson @vanushiwalters cc @davidfarrier.com

Beautiful pairing of what the PM says and a picture of something that isn't meeting it's objectives here.

We have changed from a country where most everyone got served a reasonable helping to one where now the favoured get extra large plates groaning with more than anyone could eat and the majority get slops on smaller cardboard ones

Stop looking at what Discount Mr Potato Head is saying and start looking at the pattern of actions. What goal is actually being signalled by "I'm going to be focusing on outcomes"? To my view, it seems the intent is to gear society toward a highly individualised, stack-ranked system of privilege.

Yeah i arrived at this point too some time along the way. If you're piling on Labour as a whole or individuals(best not target individuals)it's gotten old & too late to be beating that drum esp on Bluesky. Ask What I do = vote Greens/other. What action now = volunteer/join/push voter registration.

This government is now offering less than nothing for our young people. No jobs, no welfare, no training or education support ... this does not augur well for NZ's future and creates conditions civil unrest: open.substack.com/pub/drbex/p/...

Good to see some positions don't need to wait for the Budget. #NzPol

💯 And do more than just emphasize. Get active. At risk of sounding repetitive, volunteer with the party you most align with. We don't have big money like the right so we need many hands. We are people powered, not money powered. "Care wolves, not swear wolves"

"redirect some of that funding to trades training" What? You cancelled the fucking trades training system when you became the government as it had 'failed' Someone in the media please call this absolute fuckwit if a PM out. SHOW SOME BALLS www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

While I definitely find Labour's centrism frustrating, I think the actual progressive left need to focus on the positive ideas from the left rather than bathing in negativity that the party you're probably not going to vote for anyway isn't as LW as you'd like. #nzpol

Ask him about “boot camps”…

This country had a smaller tax base in the past, so how did we build hospitals, rail, roads and bridges and at the same time have world class education and healthcare? We taxed the wealthy hard. They were still wealthy, and society was better off.

#NZpol “This is not random abuse” ⏫ Please absorb ⏫ "She said the abuse included racist and misogynistic slurs spread across social media and amplified through political and media discourse. “It reflects a broader pattern of systemic racism and misogyny directed at wāhine Māori in public life.”

NZ Debt rose from about 40% of GDP to 49% of GDP under National But internationally speaking, NZ's debt to GDP is very low - and explains why NZ has such a big infrastructure deficit and standards are lower in builds #nzpol #newzealand #debt

If we’re just going to have continuity of NACT policy under a Labour govt, why the fuck would anyone vote Labour?

Everlee Wihongi jailed by ICE for a month now moved to another prison unable to communicate with family or lawyer. Labour is calling on Foreign Affairs Minister to advocate with US govt for her release or at least she should be told why she is being held and able to communicate with family & lawyer.

A pretty demonstrably bad democracy when the kidnapping of a NZ citizen by the US inspires zero concern - across the board. If this had happened during Jacinda Ardern’s term NZ media would have followed her every move until this was resolved. The silence - and the complicity - is very loud. #nzpol

So the government basically just slapped a surprise $12,000 tax on every family with a tertiary student in it? Laser-focused on what now?

Breaking hiatus because this government has done a lot of awful shit but I really, truly believe that not only letting ICE disappear a New Zealander, but lying on ICE's behalf to justify her detention, has got to be the kind of thing that cuts through to politically disengaged people