Tom Rutherford

Christchurch family’s fight for ‘no body, no parole’ law one step closer after bill drawn from ballot. @TomRutherfordMP chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/chr…

Wow these are the people Labour want to work with 🙄 A Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori coalition would be an absolute circus.

Labour hasn't issued a press release in two weeks. There's an election in six months.

Labour complaining about prisons again. People should consider the consequences of their actions before committing crime. That way they wouldn’t end up in prison in the first place. Labour aren’t just soft on crime, their first priority is clearly criminals, not victims.

If Christopher Luxon got on a plane Labour would have been criticising the PM for his fuel usage. Labour are barking at passing cars while National is ensuring fuel supply for Kiwis and targeted support to those who need it the most.

A very special day for us, while our community was dealing with something absolutely heartbreaking. I’ve shared some reflections with the Herald here. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/ba…

It is with a heavy heart that I send my thoughts and condolences to the family that have lost two of their loved ones in the Welcome Bay slip. Our thoughts as a country are with you. Thank you to teams that worked so hard to recover them, I know how you will be feeling.

An incredibly distressing event in a place familiar to many New Zealanders. Our thoughts are with Australia.

At the select committee today, I told Ginny that I thought gang membership had increased by about 2,000 under Labour. I was wrong. It was 4,000, or 75%. No wonder they were so upset.

Cracking down on gangs, increasing Police foot patrols, strengthening Police powers and delivering tougher consequences for offenders is working.

If we want real debates about employment, responsibility, accountability, and how our system works, the least the media can do is start with the facts.

One of the questions I get most often from people in our community is why the quality of journalism in New Zealand has slipped so far. This is a perfect example. New Zealand deserves better than cut-and-paste journalism that skips the fundamentals.

The media ran their story painting a picture of a man applying for nearly 8,000 jobs and being failed by the system. What they didn’t bother to mention: he’d been in prison, sentenced to 25 years for kidnapping and carjacking with a deadly weapon. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360895…

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Hipkins promised there’d be no capital gains tax. Now they’re campaigning for one. You can’t trust Labour on tax.

This one slipped below the radar, but is well the worth! Oriini Kaipara butchers Te Pāti Māori’s opposition of the juries (age of excusal) amendment bill and gets destroyed by National’s Tom Rutherford, who picks apart Kaipara, mocks Takuta Ferris, calls out the hypocrisy of Te Pāti Māori and still has time to highlight the positives of the bill while taking down Labour’s Arena Williams. Brilliant stuff!

Speaks for itself.

@morganfrnchstgg @aniobrien No need for an OIA - I’ll give you the answers. - no playlist as we talked the entire way. - best road trip snack for me was the mince & cheese pie I had in Reporoa. - can confirm that we did not play I Spy.

Things are so shitty politically in the world these days that this warmed my heart. Very NZ. nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-…

@aniobrien @Suitandtie9999 We had a blast. Definitely something I’ll laugh about in a few years time!