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@NZNationalParty Never mind the huge delays you put on all school building when you got elected

National is ensuring our students are learning in safe, warm and dry classrooms to help them get the best start in life.

@SimeonBrownMP Yes National just re employs ex ministers. Pays them extraordinary amounts of tax payers money And then gives them 63% pay rises Poor dears

Looking at the top of Labour's list for the election, it's the exact same people who were ministers last time and whose decisions Kiwis are still paying the price for. Same old Labour Party with the same old high spending, high taxing agenda.

@NZNationalParty Apparently National has done nothing … Because all you can talk about is Labour And Simeon had the check to talk about Labour’s negativity

National has a plan to fix the basics and build the future, and Labour has voted against it every turn.

@NZNationalParty Have you even read any of your curriculums!

@NZNationalParty Using AI and stealing from other countries to create curriculums that do not integrate or build upon previous learning making it impossible for children to make connections and links- cognitive overload! Counter to all priorities of the Science of learning

Budget 2026: teaching the basics brilliantly, so your kids get the best possible start in life.

@CathKakariki With a job ethic like that she must be aiming for National Party PM

Louise Upston not even in the house for the second reading of Social Security’s modernisation amendment bill. She’s introducing AI decision making for whether beneficiaries get help or not. Opposition parties have questions and she’s not there to answer them 😡

@SimeonBrownMP Soo… You have prepared and scripted this promo ages ago Your govt is truly frightened apparently

A Budget that secures New Zealand’s future, and a speech from Chris Hipkins that talked it down.

@chrisluxonmp @NicolaWillisMP How much did you pay someone for the idiotic duck / horse joke We need a serious PM Mr Luxon- grow up and do your job

My speech in Parliament after @NicolaWillisMP delivered Budget 2026 - a budget that will secure New Zealand’s future.

@SimeonBrownMP I guess you just wrote this speil off the cuff Yeah right!

Chris Hipkins just stood up in the House and delivered a speech he'd written before he'd even seen the Budget. Think about that. He didn't read it, he didn't consider a single line of it, he just dusted off the attack lines his team cooked up days ago and read them out word for word. That tells you everything you need to know about Chris Hipkins. He isn't interested in what's actually good for New Zealand, he's interested in opposing for opposition's sake. The Budget National delivered today is all about securing New Zealand's future. It means more surgeries, more cancer treatments and shorter wait times for patients who've been waiting too long. It means more police on the beat, more prison officers keeping communities safe, and more criminals being held to account. And it means Kiwi kids getting a world-class education, with the basics taught brilliantly and real pathways into the trades and industries that will power our economy. Hipkins opposed every one of those boosts to frontline services before he'd even read the Budget. He'd rather play politics than back the things that will actually make a difference to New Zealanders. And he had nothing to offer in return. Nothing on how Labour would grow the economy, nothing on how they'd pay for their planned wasteful spending, nothing for the small business owners, tradies, and families doing it tough. Just spin, slogans, and the same recycled lines Kiwis have heard a hundred times before. Not once did he mention his capital gains tax. He knows Kiwis don't want their houses taxed, their KiwiSavers taxed, or their farms taxed. This is the same Chris Hipkins who delivered 30-year high inflation, soaring interest rates, and tens of thousands of households and businesses going backwards. He had his chance and he failed. He's opposing every good idea and offering none of his own. Only National is fixing the basics and building the future, so you and your family can get ahead.

@actparty Hypocrites should not throw stones

The Greens constantly lecture Kiwis about reducing our carbon footprint, while their co-leader flies business class to London on a corporate lobbyist's dime. One rule for them, another for you.

@KiffinEileen Hardly surprising Stanford has made so many mistakes with curriculum roll out

Labour labels it a ‘humiliating day for Erica Stanford’ as she U-turns on bill a day after introducing it | Stuff stuff.co.nz/politics/36098…

@jwacarrollNZ @NicolaWillisMP @LouiseUpston Who has won Lotto?

Minister 'comfortable' getting $1000 a week home allowance odt.co.nz/news/national/…

@liedmyway2top Hours of practice, scripting and PR training and he still looks and sounds like this.

What I’d say to you is some NZers might say that as tomorrow is my 3rd budget as PM, they’d like to know what I’m delivering. But the reality is I’d like to spend time letting you know all about Chris Hipkins & Labour, cause that’s been the main theme from me for the last 3 years

@winstonpeters You live in soundbites and have done throughout your career- and Shane Jones dream in sound bites. Come on it’s not your first “rowdayoh” Mr Peter’s

NZFirst heard the feedback from you about the proposed homeschooling amendment and we helped the minister make that change. Due to the urgency of the matter, we met with the Minister for Education yesterday evening and this morning to work together to find a solution and a way forward on the matter. NZFirst worked well with Minister Stanford to get this done. The result has been the removal of the homeschooling provision. We are a party of practical action not pretentious mimicry - we don’t rely on soundbites and performative expressions of concern in posts and letters like other parties in parliament tend to do.

@SimeonBrownMP Hey Pinocchio you’ll never get real boy status like this

More misinformation. Under National: ➡️ Record funding into health. ➡️ Around 2,000 more nurses. ➡️ Hundreds more doctors. ➡️ Waitlists coming down. ➡️ Shorter stays in emergency department. ➡️ Faster cancer treatment, with 33 new cancer medicines. ➡️ Shorter wait times for elective surgery. ➡️ Shorter wait times for first specialist assessments. ➡️ Improved immunisation rates. ➡️ Started construction on the Waikato Medical School. ➡️ Boosted funding for ambulances. ➡️ Record funding for GP clinics. The list goes on. Labour has run out of ideas, so they’ve turned to misinformation instead. Kiwis won’t be fooled by empty slogans and they remember the skyrocketing waitlists Labour left behind last time.

@actparty This is your govt and your celebrating reading the amendments- pathetic

𝗔𝗖𝗧 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 ACT says the decision to remove amendments related to homeschooling in the Education and Training Amendment Bill is a major victory for the thousands of home-schooling parents who spoke out against bureaucratic overreach. Following strong feedback from the home-schooling community, ACT Education spokesperson Laura McClure wrote to Education Minister Erica Stanford yesterday warning that Clauses 5F and 51A of the amendment paper risked treating good parents with suspicion and imposing unreasonable compliance burdens. Today, the Minister agreed to recommit the Bill. "Draconian new restrictions on homeschooling were a mistake, rushed into law at the last minute," says ACT Leader David Seymour. "We have fixed it, and Parliament will take those clauses out of the law today. This is a victory for democracy, showing that people can be heard by politicians and change can result. It is also a victory for educational freedom, the simple idea that you own your life and can choose your pathway, rather than being a character and a play written by others." “I’ve spent the last week listening to the deep concerns of the home-schooling community, and I took those concerns directly to the Beehive. Today, common sense has prevailed,” says Ms McClure. “Wellington bureaucrats tried to use a handful of isolated cases to justify sweeping new powers over thousands of loving, committed parents. “New section 640A was a free rein for a future government to regulate home-schooling out of existence and force children back into the state system, with very few safeguards in primary legislation. It also raised serious concerns by expanding the Ministry’s powers to demand information from parents. “In my letter to the Minister, I made it clear that we cannot write laws that treat everyday families with suspicion in an attempt to catch a small number of bad actors. Parents who make enormous sacrifices to educate their children deserve respect, not open-ended powers for future regulation. “I want to thank the Minister for listening to ACT and to the home-schooling community, and for making the right call to pull this legislation back for further work. “ACT believes in education freedom and trusting parents. We will be watching the redrafting of this Bill closely to ensure there are strong safeguards protecting the rights of home-schooling families.”

@nzfirst It is your govt’s law !

@jofromgreylynn @chrisluxonmp like all “great” CEO’s he passes the buck. Another self promoting CEO promoted to the point of total inadequacy

lol Luxon is blaming Ministerial Services rnz.co.nz/news/political…

@actparty @dbseymour The statistics don’t say that at all

School Strike 4 Climate, then vs now. @dbseymour's school attendance push is working.

@SimeonBrownMP Repeated lies Mr Brown

Gas reserves ran low and prices spiked because of Labour’s reckless oil and gas ban. As part of Budget 2026, National is enabling new bank loans to help Kiwi businesses move off gas, reduce energy costs, and protect jobs.