Another 'back on track' success story for this gov... #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Lay off thousands and the tax take mysteriously falls. Who'd have thunk it. #nzpol

Weekly jobs data update. The grind back to standstill continues. It still looks like it will be February 2026 before we see annual job growth increase to, errrm, zero. NB The 34 days series is more complete / stable than the 20 days series. [🧵1/n]

What's so hard to believe about Compass Group sending out mouldy food ? #nzpol

Happens when you have an illiterate Finance Minister that was so bent on slash and burn that she burned the Government's finances

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Oh shit waddup

Sure feels like crime has gone up under this National coalition. Another aggravated robbery in Chch this morning. Higher shoplifting rates. More burglaries. Before you start on backhanders, tax avoidance and selling things that don’t belong to you. #nzpol Vote them out!

Just house them you heartless callous bastards. Shipping them to poorer suburbs - because thats what will happen - so entitled folks can shop and eat without the reminder that political choices have consequences is reprehensible #nzpol

Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?" Mark Kelly: "It seems to." Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?" Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."

I almost feel sorry* for my Labour friends, this is the headline of the Wellington rag... WetNapkins asks his party to what now? Surely he's gone after Xmas? (*you know there's an inspirational leftist party in Green right)

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

More than 40 percent of electric car drivers worldwide would avoid owning a Tesla, the brand run by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, for political reasons, according to a recent survey.

At least Rancid Seymour is consistent with his endeavors. When we almost forgot what a shit-show his whole process of cheap school lunches, mouldy mince and potatoes raises its fetid hand. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Shocked, amazed, stunned #nzpol

Hey 1News. Skier has one ‘i’ - not two!

Oh FFS, more conservatism. National lite.

Almost there. Less than five hundred signatures needed.. 'Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy.' petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

GRRRRRRR

He had brain damage and was told he had to be put to sleep. Today I took Stormzy to run on the beach. I promise this will set you up for the weekend ❤️

NZ health workers were on strike today. They deserve huge pay rises. They work harder than politicians. They know huge amounts about their fields and are very well trained. What’s the training for politics? Running a business into the ground? www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Sad thing is the National govt comes into power, fucks everything up, and I mean everything, gets booted out, the other parties have to fix up the fuck ups and then we have the "rinse and repeat of the NZ political system" But at the very end of this, is the tax payer, who they forget #nzpol

Little Stormzy had his first trip out into the "real world". Testing him out to see if he'll be OK for adoptions. Look at him go! I think the early answer is a yes!

Wait. What? Why isn't there widespread reporting and public outrage about this?! #nzpol

Dear NZ Labour, Everyone hates National right now, and a big part of that is their coalition with ACT and NZF, so I'd suggest you get very on board with the Greens and hope that you don't need to touch Seymour or Peters with the shitty end of a very long stick. Laters G

While the unemployment rate is only held down from being even more shit because so many people have given up on working at all (or they've caught a plane outta here). Happy days. (Ends)

But at least we can watch the employment rate forecasts continue to nudge lower and lower while we punish people for being out of work. [3/n]

Luxon wants to sell everything not nailed down. I do not like him one bit.

Actually, the OCR isn't usually sharply cut because the economy is going *well* ...

National has the economy on life support. And I know people losing their jobs. Inflation up. People still doing it tough.

Jodie is a highly respected professor of teaching mathematics. Jodie understands every aspect of pedagogy & assessment. Stanford, with a BA in Pols, doesn’t even under how NCEA works. Listen to Jodie. #nzpol #nzed

Those motherfuckers are driving me spare

Sometimes you get a call where you have to drop everything and go. This poor dog has the weight of the world on his shoulders but he's only young. He's sleeping well tonight with us

I think Luxon has been told he'll be rolled if he doesn't resign early next year. He gets his pension, his summer holidays, the promise of a knighthood if he goes voluntarily. He will claim that he has completed his mission of putting the country back on track #nzpol

He needs to be rolled before Thursday so he doesn't get his entitlements.

Simeon nodding like an obedient poodle. Wouldn't trust him as far as I could kick the little shit.

The thinner his lips get, the madder he is

Those with object permanence going back 7 years to July/August 2018 might recall the Southern/Molyneux visit, Phil Goff's reaction, and the online reaction to Phil Goff's reaction. Smaller liberalish societies like us and Ireland are imaginary country rhetorical devices to the farrightosphere

Also the comparison to Australia is disingenuous In Aussie they have a Mandatory Employer Contribution: By law, employers must contribute a minimum of 12% of an eligible employee's pre-tax income to an approved superannuation fund That's paid in addition to wages and salaries #NZPol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... Yeah - let’s just kill the economy while it’s on life support. This will be inflationary. And that’s all we need to add to our woes.

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Wassup with asset sales? Why is a wealth tax a bit meh? Quick 🧵 Glib analogy, but life in the neoliberal economy is like monopoly. You work, earn cash, and pay for things you need as you go round the board. If you earn more than you spend, you can buy an asset - some shares, a house etc... [1/n]

Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."

And he looks such a nice guy too..

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

We, no sorry our, corrupt Panama Papers Prime Minister John Key gave this loony a free New Passport 🤦 #nzpol

Fucking dickhead. He is nothing more than an absolute fucking dickhead. If you didn’t know, they’re increasing the size of the HB Prison, building more high security places than self-care units (SC means being managed out). Fucking appalling imo #nzpol

"Our policy is fucked but we hate the homeless and bottom feeders so let's steal what precious little funds they have allocated" #nzpol

If a soaring prison population was a good thing, Luxon, USA would be a beacon of social fairness and equality.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.