Bizarre seeing the ghouls lambasting the apparently outrageous spending during the early 2020s. Turns out that it is not that easy to balance the books when you crash the economy. Austerity always backfires.
Credit where it's due: it's really good that Andrew Little not only signed this letter but is vocal against this government's kick-the-homeless bullshit.
I really love that Wellington's leaders are speaking out against this cruelty - Auckland's and Christchurch's should do the same.
See if you can spot the impact of that wild Cvid spending on private sector debt levels. Damn that gubmint for reducing the debt we're leaving our kids.
Current NZ coalition messaging:
"The recovery from the economic downturn caused by our incompetence has been set back by the actions of a US president whose policies we completely support." #NZpol
Crazy cvid years clearly visible... just look at those excessive subsidies to, errrm, keep businesses afloat and support our creaking health system.
Spend on social protections hit 13% of GDP in 2022! Numbers not seen since 2011 π€. Oh, and in 2025 after RBNZ & Govt tanked the economy.
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
Jeyzuz... that's a new low. Just when you thought they couldn't get any lower Costello and her team said hold my beer π€¦ββοΈ
The absolute mind boggling thing about NZ covid response in 2020-2021 as someone who did the entire first level 4 and then went to Texas is that yβall were roaming around while many people were in *self imposed* lockdowns because their govt abandoned them.
National is currently trying to spam you with the covid enquiry findings-pointing out Auckland was in lockdown too long and Labour spent money on βnon covidβ stuff. This is a distraction. Think of how many more people would have died if they were in charge of it. #nzpol #crational #red26 #lyingluxon
I must admit I'm surprised at how little the Royal Commission gave to vaccine opponents, some of whom saw this process as the thing that would vindicate them. Can't get much clearer than this.
BREAKING: High Court has ruled that Mariameno Kapa-Kingi was unlawfully expelled from Te PΔti MΔori. The Judge has ordered that the party write to the speaker to advise that she is once again an MP for the party.
Or doubled down on public and active transport. Or electrification of the vehicle fleet.
Instead we turned energy independence and resilience (core conservative values?) into another imported culture war
1) Healthcare "woes" are purposefully engineered by corporate-allegiant politicians, so that 2) banks committed to profit can write reports promoting privatisation, so that 3) compliant media outlets can write headlines like this. This is the process by which we lose our public health system.
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
The main target - Green MP and former city councillor Tamatha Paul - has hit back: βI put my name and face to everything I say and do because unlike them, Iβm not a coward.β
Indeed, assuming this represents current policy, it is an open admission that the regime change effort has failed, de-nuclearization is likewise impossible or impractical and the only objective that remains is to extricate from a costly failure.
if you're going to TACO, just hurry up with it and don't leave any ambiguity about whether Israel or Iran could drag you back in
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People think the MoW was just about pouring concrete but it was also a design, architecture and computer science bureaucracy with a level of technical knowledge and planning expertise that has never been matched by the family name contracting companies who acquired the state assets.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
Cartoon depicts National Party Prime Minister of New Zealand's 3 party coalition dressed as a clown wearing long shoes as he is tripping over the skull of smokers ( refers to plans to cancel the smokefree target and repeal legislation). Luxon's head has struck a bee's nest labelled 'Tiriti O Waitangi' from which angry bees fly to sting him on the ass. His top hat falls off labelled '7 Houses'. He is about to fall face first into budget custard while crying profuse clown tears "Why can't I get a break?" he whimpers plaintively.
Introducing Cluxo The Clown #nzpol cartoon (Dec 2023)
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
The worst strikes of this war are the ones on your wallet! I talk more about this over at my Substack: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/western-wo...
it's a book about the coolest guy in the entire fucking world. he just starts cool and gets cooler. polar explorer. giant with a pegleg. golden age of hollywood writer. nazi resister in denmark. won the $64,000 question
Government cuts are directly responsible for people dying. This governmentβs thirst for landlord tax cuts is killing people.
Screenshot of a social media post by a verified account named David Seymour reading, βOur dinner for Persian freedom fighters was well timed. Let freedom reign this time.β Below the text is a photo of a dining table set with plates, glasses, and a vase of flowers beside large glass doors. Outside the doors hang several green-white-red flags with lion-and-sun emblems. A folded cloth sits on a countertop in the foreground.
Let's not forget that Seymour called New Zealand's first Iranian born member of parliament, a woman whose parents fled the regime as dissidents, a "menace to freedom" resulting in her needing extra security as threats increased
He directed contributed to her being hounded out of public life
O'Donnell was appointed to the board in July 2025 on a three year term. He is one of the four directors of Dynes Transport Tapanui, which donated $20,000 to NZ First in July 2024.
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The live album they did is even better
