 Jim Smith 🦋

We’ll be coming 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 See you at the 2026 @FIFAWorldCup 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 #FIFAWorldCup

Look at that sexy fucking Saltire. Just look at it. #WeCanBoogie

#SCODEN Air McTominay

@grahamruthven Tears in Auckland. Have a pint for me!

And just in case you’re wondering what the other picture was like…

The game of my life. I’ll never experience anything like that again. WE’RE GOING TO THE WORLD CUP!!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Excuse me @AlexHorne but have you considered how fabulous a Taskmaster contestant @reallorraine would be?

@ElizabethMistry @notpennym Hey Lizzie! Sorry, but never been to Wellington. Are you on Bluesky?

@notpennym @JiSm ???

@leafy_blowerman I cleaned the whole house yesterday waiting for some new speakers to turn up. Was a bugger.

Yer bum's oot the windae, ye wee nyaff.

@dieworkwear Why has nobody mentioned Luxon's matching Christmas pajama pictures? Every year! x.com/chrisluxonmp/s…

are you wearing a t-shirt over a suit jacket??

"You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is." David Bowie, born this day in 1947. - Jamie

Hello @nextupcomedy can someone please message me about me account? Can't find any way to contact you! Thanks

lewis : "lets get a picture together. good luck to you man" 'thank you' lewis : "work hard, alright?" 'yes sir' 🥹🩵 #F1 || #LasVegasGP

@itvnews Wake up. AMOC will flick off anytime soon and it's back to the ice age for Britain.

Could changing ocean currents make UK winters colder? #Echobox=1732230420-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">itv.com/news/2024-11-2…

When the late Dr Moana Jackson schooled Gerry the school teacher on his gripe that Māori are misinterpreting &misusing the Treaty.. Obviously Gerry didn't pay attention & learn anything there, coz this face during Hana's haka betrayed the fact he's still racist as fck #nzpol

@AceMcWicked Just asked Winston Peters the very same question!

Who's we? How do many do Slate think, reading this, know Brad Pitt or can get within swinging distance of him for a good slug?

@winstonpeters Goodness, that's poorly written. To aid my understanding, who is the never-introduced "we"?

Yesterday’s hikoi wasn’t grassroots – it was a Māori Party astroturf. What most in the mainstream media are not reporting is that the organiser of the hikoi is the son of the current sitting Māori Party MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, is employed by the Māori Party, and stood as a candidate for the Māori Party. The company that fundraised and coordinated the hikoi called “Toitu Te Tiriti” was incorporated in September by the wife of Rawiri Waititi and the daughter of the Māori Party president John Tamahere. Driving and flying to parliament in their Car-koi was nothing but a recruitment and fundraising tool for the Māori Party – and the Labour Party ignorantly joined in. The Māori Party just used and manipulated thousands of Māori yesterday for their own pointless political stunt. They staged a protest against a piece of legislation that they already knew is not going to pass into law. The faux outrage is obvious for all who see it for what it was. Their aim was to gather anyone and everyone no matter what their cause - including patched gang members. It’s the same reason they conducted a sham haka in the House last week. It was a disgraceful pre-planned and coordinated stunt that served only to intimidate and undermine the running of the House and grab as many headlines as they could. They are a bunch of extremists and middle New Zealand has had enough. New Zealand is a democracy whether the Māori Party like it or not. And using ‘Māori culture’ as an excuse for their disgraceful behaviour is an insult to Māoridom. No ordinary kiwi, Māori or non-Māori, should accept the behaviour and intent of this Party of Extremists. They don’t want democracy, they want anarchy. They don’t want one country, one people, one law - they want separatism, division, and laws based on race. They state it specifically. And the Labour Party have fallen over themselves to try and join them in their race to the bottom. There are some more conservative Labour MPs who know they are coming close to a point of no return. Their Party has already left middle New Zealand a long time ago, and their Party is going to leave them hanging in the wind soon too. They must wake up at night in cold sweats thinking about how much Labour is now fighting for the space on the woke far-left instead of fighting for middle New Zealand. Since 1867 Māori have been elected to Parliament with just four winning a general seat until the introduction of MMP when we saw the exponential growth of the number of Māori MPs. Right now, we have the record number of Māori in Cabinet of any government - more than all the Māori Party MPs combined. All the Party of Extremists want to do is act with utter contempt and ignorance at the progress that has been accomplished. They are trying to tear that all down for their own ignorant misguided political gain. They are trying to tear down our country along with them. We are not going to concede or yield to these separatists, these people who spew an anthem of hate against other people. We will not be bullied by these cultural elitist extremists. We stand for one people, one country, one flag, united as one – Māori and non-Māori. It is the only way our country will ever succeed – and we will never give up fighting for that.

@chrisluxonmp @anwaribrahim @LawrenceWongST @shigeruishiba Your government, pal.

Our Government is laser-focused on growing the economy so we can unlock higher paying jobs for Kiwis, and deliver better public services like health and education. Close collaboration between APEC members strengthens economic connections, which are vital for the growth of New Zealand’s economy. It was great to discuss with regional leaders how we can deepen our relationships to improve the lives of our people back at home.

A moment of your time @AlexHorne ? The cinema task: I think you counted seats, not chairs.

Wondering if the air in Dunedin is wet, like in Glasgow.

@urbantui @secondzeit When he was teaching, he was apparently useless and could barely control a classroom.

@secondzeit Our speaker is like that headmaster we all disliked! Because he wasn’t fair!