“NZF leader Winston Peters says the Govt’s health & safety legislation will “create accidents and deaths” but he would “not bring down a govt on the matter…” Good f**king grief, people WILL die but on the plus side I’ll still be in Govt says Winston & maybe think about it after the election #nzpol

If any party on the left had the level of leadership and policy churn the opportunist party have had in their short lifetime, they'd be savaged by the media. Instead they're getting the free ride and puff pieces usually given to right wing parties 🤔

Serious genuine question for anyone who considers themselves of the left but thinking of giving their vote to TOP... Did I miss something, or have TOP refused to work with ACT, NZF & National? Why give your vote to a party that might prop up Pedos, xenophobes & racists? I just couldn't

you should want him out of government, wong! you live in this country, you can see how bad him and his parties are! if you seriously wanted to improve this country you would not be entertaining the right!

On top of the fact that there can never be a "teal coalition" because national are climate change deniers, this is why I can never take top seriously.

www.yourtax.nz updates. This one's fun. I'm hoping that people share different scenarios they enter, because it'd be cool to see more people considering tax changes based on real estimated impacts, rather than ideology.

Literally all Chris Hipkins has to say is "I'm not here to talk about the Green's policies, Ryan, I'm here to talk about Labour's policies" except of course this would require him to have some

I have a funny feeling it might actually be months.

A key point: NZ keeps sliding down the value chain. This means not just fewer jobs here, but also less profit for reinvestment. There's always lots of whining about improving productivity, but if you don't sell higher value products, where does the money come from to invest in training and tech?

Was lithium not flammable enough?

Love 2 see a man who has accumulated like 20 million dollars as if he hasn't benefited from lax taxation and laws pretending the renters and people he uses to make money are the burden

"Ford - the son of a detective inspector" Of course he fucking is.

"Defence lawyer Anne Stevens KC argued that convictions would mean Ford would not be able to re-apply for the defence force’s officer selection process." GOOD you dumb fuck.

the Transition Research Fund, which replaces New Zealand's storied Marsden Fund, allocates just $6.2 million for science research relating to 'healthy people and a thriving society' that's less than my one single lab has spent in the last few years, but for all NZ basic science about humans #nzpol

To say you're above "left" or "right" politics is to stand for nothing. Do you care about people and the environment or not? If not, don't get in our car loser.

Any party willing to put NACT back in power after all the anti Māori, anti women, anti queer people, anti environment and anti democracy shenanigans of the last 3 years is not serious and not worth voting for. #nzpol

Luxon hasn't bothered to turn up for work today, I see. We're paying him $510,300 plus slush, and he just can't be fucked. #nzqt

Meanwhile there's literally a train station in both ChCh & Rolleston & no fucking commuter trains. We deserve our congestion, pollution & failed CO2 targets

It's cool that the mayor and majority of Wellington City councillors want our streets to be places for cars not cats.

Diesel buses and service vehicles! Govt killed the carbon tax fund that was speeding up E-bus roll-out nationwide. Of course. For landlord tax cuts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...

You don’t have to listen to or engage with people who are not going to vote and behave like they are just trying to get others to not vote. #nzpol

Tamatha was right #nzpol

huge subpost shoutout to the savvy political commentators in the chat who seem to be making the classic mistake of assuming that "centrist" swing voters are motivated by policy or logic and not deranged waking fever dreams that have an entirely tangential relationship to reality

Exactly. It's not disappointing to me that Hipkins is taking his stands where he is...it's actually scary to me. It's a sign of where he'll fall as a PM this time around. People wanna claim this is playing for votes, but a politician w/ actual integrity wouldn't hold back on human rights.

There are some on here that say they'll leave the party if Labour go with NZF. That's dandy for them but they don't have as much to lose as we do, particularly those of us who are disabled Māori trans and poor. What feels like a betrayal to those people will feel like the end of the world for us.

I'm amazed they didn't prosecute this victim of abuse as they are continuing to do with Jevon McSkimming's victim.

CHRIS HIPKINS APOLOGY TO TAMATHA PAUL WHEN www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a...

If Luxon wants people to believe that his Conservation Bill is just about selling the metservice building in Wellington, he should specify the exact properties to be disposed of in the bill, and that way we can all see and debate them. National can't be trusted. Statute or its bullshit.

Imagine a Labour government and the Greens working together on tax reform.

every few weeks you should post or rt something fairly disgusting to scare off timid followers & keep the herd strong

Every day my mailbox is empty. That is why waiting for the mail is a sad time for me.

Genuine question can someone explain how it’s good campaigning to not commit to reversing a whole heap of verifiably horrible shit this govt has done but somehow it’s also good campaigning to commit to never enacting equitable tax justice

The script for a real estate show when the writers have been reading too much Heated Rivalry: He'd never seen a deck that big. Long and firm it jutted out past the lawn. He shook with excitement as he laid both hands on it. It was warm to the touch and extended past his fingers. Sold he gasped.

Awhile back, I read an analysis of some genAI communities where people shared their "art", and it was all posts with no replies. People wanted to share what they had "made", but *nobody* wanted to look at it, not even other genAI users. The only posts with traction were ones arguing about prompts.

Genuinely do not know how anyone with a single lick of empathy can look at the absolute state of the country, the world, heck even space, and still want to be a centrist.

I wont get an inheritance, as any money my parents may have will be bled out on private landlords charging outrageous rents on 1 bedroom shitholes because they know MSD will top it up. and if this government has taught me anything, it's to only think of myself...so tax the rich

Important to do this to remove the option for Hipkins to go with NZF as well.

Entirely unsurprised to find out that the straight lady who thinks we need to know that she's horny for men is a bad faith zionist. I'm not going to spend a single minute longer investigating this Internet main character but the rape crisis centre headline also makes me suspect she's a transphobe.

Labour bottom lines: Te Tiriti ❌ Not taxing the super-rich ✅

Two ticks Green everyone. Trim the deadweight Labour benches and let us have a government that's actually willing to do the bare minimum.

Do you know who's had enough of everyone's bullshit? This bird has had enough of everyone's bullshit

Painfully expensive morning at the opticians 🫠

Keir Starmer is not a decent man. You shouldn’t get a good character reference if you’re complicit in a genocide in Gaza and criminalised those protesting against it. #nzpol Keir Starmer is not a decent man. Decent men don’t scapegoat immigrants for political gain.

Listening to Hipkins on Starmer on RNZ this morning. I’d like to say: Keir Starmer is not a decent man. No one who oversees the removal of human rights of an already marginalised community can be categorised as such. Trans Rights are Human Rights. #nzpol 1/2

Thank you Chris for making it perfectly clear that we voters cannot trust a single thing you or any other Labour politician says nor can we expect you to undo the National Government's many many harms.

Gonna need the Greens to keep repeating the fact that everyone earning under $160k will be getting a tax cut under their policy.

This whole “the Greens made an $800 million mistake” means the amount of revenue they’re expecting to bring in every year drops by $200 m. Which is <5% on the >$5 billion their plans bring in. Get a grip RNZ and Stuff.

Higher taxes for the wealthy is economic lunacy? Prove it. Show your working. Explain exactly how your mantra is backed up by anything real.