I see the news is reporting that there will be a sell-out of EV vehicles this week. Yet another opportunity for the rich to act in their interests and for the poor to suffer the consequences of rich people's choices.
#nzpol
Dunno about that, but ISTM that the person who is currently associate minister for education, associate minister of finance, associate minister of health, associate minister of justice, minister of regulation, and deputy PM should probably offer to do one job properly rather than six badly.
Deflection
The christian nationalist god hates schoolgirls and loves paedophiles
#uspol
The Luxon governmentβs ethos has been making it easier for the privileged to extract money from the rest of us, and making Aotearoa attractive as an asset to be stripped by global elites. Itβs long past time for the public to lose trust in a man whose only work is to deflect and βhustleβ.
#nzpol
I thought that when the Russians sent a female cosmonaut up to Mir they were hoping to be able to announce the worlds first extra terrestrial conception. But it didnβt happen.
IF Luxon is replaced, we have an intriguing show ahead of us: will the new leader try to exercise more control over Peters and Seymour, or less? For National's future prospects it needs to be more, but with their support so weak the coalition partners will see an opportunity to be seized.
#nzpol
He didn't spill enough of it
Governments used to collate and record confidential data to inform their decisions. It was a protected resource. In private hands it is no longer a resource but an asset; and any confidentiality is a cost that can be traded away for profit
#palantir #ukpol
Took that as a challenge, tricky indeed
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That's because NZ can't offer a diplomat, only a pair of dipsomats who think it's an honour to let the US walk all over them.
People were paid to educate Marco Rubio. If you're looking for wasted money...
#uspol
The cost of doing nothing is not nothing
#climatecrisis
#nzpol
In times of international and local crisis, it's good (note: it's not good) to have a Prime Minister whose sole talent is talking about himself and about how much he loves hustling.
#nzpol
Building yet more fossil-fuelled infrastructure is the total opposite of pursuing energy resilience.
#nzpol
I'm still looking out for "cast cancellations" as marquee shows lose their non-white non-male leadership castings and replace them with all-American (sic) whiteboyz
NZ has a government in exile and all policy statements have to be cleared through the new FBI office in Wellington
#nzpol
The trouble for Keir Starmer is that he only represents the extreme of the middle
#ukpol
βI donβt think the progressives beat us, I think the progressives were told how to vote.β says the man who spent the last month telling people to vote for him.
Reform are poor winners, poor losers.
#ukpol
Every decision Luxon makes proves that he (and his government) are not interested in the well-being and security of our people; what matters to him is pleasing global corporates (and profiting off the kickbacks, probably)
Sensitive jazz trio version of Smells Like Teen Spirit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C228...
If Chris Luxon wants to run government as though it were a business, then he and his cabinet should be personally liable for the long term costs of every single one of his alarmingly short sighted policy choices.
#nzpol
This damn government believes human rights should only be a priority for the privileged
#nzpol
It's the broke mind virus
The Paris Mayor swimming in the Seine the week before the Olympics is the closest parallel I can think of
I think he's run out of hustle?
It's amazing how many journalists claim skepticism while manifesting gullibility
They won't be taking holidays here, they'll be invading
well both are better than hatebait which is what most of Seymour's speeches amount to
