Carol Yates

A Heckler gets threatened with dismissal from his job. A drunk minister of the crown, yelling racist abuse in public at a performing artist, gets support from a deputy prime minister.

We certainly haven’t forgotten David Seymour’s performance during Covid either.

Two of the worst "leaders" this country has ever known.

Never forget

The Pigs’ Palace today. Disgusting.

@KiffinEileen Tonkin & Taylor, your employee wasn’t representing you in any way; he wasn’t working for you at the time or on your premises; he has a right to speak his mind. No-one in the public was inconvenienced. You shouldn’t apologise for him, and you shouldn’t retaliate.

“It is wrong, and contrary to the traditions of our democracy, for a government to use its majority in Parliament to suspend and remove from the service of the people of New Zealand its political opponents” If there is one message to take from Labour leader Chris Hipkins’ powerful speech during this afternoon’s debate on the Te Pāti Māori suspensions - delivered just before the Opposition was blindsided by Leader of the House Chris Bishop’s motion to defer the debate until 5 June - it is that the decision of the Privileges Committee, along with the government’s continued support of it, sets a deeply concerning and dangerous precedent. Hipkins warns that such an overreach of parliamentary power threatens to erode the integrity of our democratic institutions and to undermine the very principles upon which they were founded. #nzpol #ToitūTeTiriti #OneTermGovernment

I’m calling on the leader of the Opposition Chris Hipkins to take a strong stand against seabed mining in the South Taranaki Bight! Join me and add your name now: greenpeace.nz/2yutf3

Funny how the focus on the National MP who's an elder in the church has disappeared. Media warned off by government? Police speaking with former members of sect with no official name 1news.co.nz/2025/05/17/pol…

I find this 1000x more offensive than Andrea Vance writing a column about COC Pay Equity saga stuff.co.nz/politics/36069…

Louisa Wall - This Is Not Feminism – It’s Fiscal Evasion Dressed in Lipstick thestandard.org.nz/louisa-wall-th… via @thestandard

Spare us your fake disgust Judith Collins we know what you are vile woman.

⚠️ Behold the useful idiot brought in to gaslight women into staying quiet about his government’s sudden & abrupt torching of 33 pay equity claims and the shredding of promised backdated settlements, while simultaneously changing the eligibility criteria to make future claims near impossible. You honestly couldn’t make this shit up! #nzpol

PM Jacinda Ardern's decision to freeze MPs' pay saves taxpayers $750,000, via @nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/pm-jacinda-… I will just leave this here...

This is very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad timing for National. Ministers set to take big pay rises, right after wiping 33 pay equity claims newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/13/cab…

Ministers set to take big pay rises, right after wiping 33 pay equity claims newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/13/cab…

It gets worse. Most of the 33 claims that were underway were between 63-68% female dominated. In raising the requirement of female domination to 70%, they have wiped those claims. National is lying when it says it's not removing pay equity

PM Ardern announces salary freeze for MPs | Otago Daily Times Online News odt.co.nz/news Remember this? Willis and van Velden on the other hand axe pay equity for women workers but add 10% to their own salaries of more than $300,000, and wonder why they get called names.

This is why we’re protesting