Mark Angus

@SonofOmahu @KaposkiDanni @Kenlomax6810 It’s called transliteration. Maori didn’t have a word for lawyer, so they call it ‘roia’. Somehow though the rest of us are supposed to use the maori rolling r when pronouncing names to Rotorua. There’s a pretty clear double standard.

@KaposkiDanni @Kenlomax6810 There's a whole industry of Maori activist academics who take perfectly good words and Maorifies them. The English language just uses foreign words.

Shutting out more than 95 percent of you potential customers sounds a recipe for bankruptcy. Anyone supplying this cafe should demand cash up front.

@actparty @BrookevanVelden A good way to get it running smoothly is by declining every application

BREAKING: After six years of failing to meet timeliness targets, Internal Affairs under @Brookevanvelden has hit its citizenship processing targets for six months consecutively. It's another example of ACT Ministers driving efficiency in public services.

@cheungkarkei If mass immigration is madness, what would undoing the madness be?

That is the correct and realistic middle ground. Mass deportation is madness. Mass immigration is madness.

@JosephMooneyMP Can you stop immigrants from bringing their parents, or stop the parents from getting benefits they don’t contribute for?

There are around 2.3 million full-time workers in New Zealand supporting a total population of 5.3 million. New Zealand’s total dependency ratio, combining children, retirees, part-time workers and non-workers, already exceeds 50 percent of the working age population. Total Crown expenditure accounts for over 42 percent of GDP. On current Stats NZ projections, almost one in four New Zealanders will be aged 65 or over within 20 years, a share that continues rising steeply beyond that point. NZ Superannuation already costs $23 billion a year and is forecast to grow by 25 percent to $29 billion within just four years. Treasury’s own long term fiscal statement, He Tirohanga Mokopuna 2025, is unambiguous: on current policy settings, government debt is on track to reach 200 percent of GDP by 2065, driven primarily by the rising costs of superannuation and healthcare. The OECD’s Pensions at a Glance 2025 reinforces this, projecting that across OECD countries there will be 52 people aged 65 and over for every 100 working age people by 2050, up from 33 today and only 22 in 2000. National has twice taken a responsible policy to the electorate: lift the superannuation eligibility age from 65 to 67, with more than 20 years of lead time so people can plan. Twice it has been blocked. The result is a demographic and fiscal problem that has been deferred, not solved, and is now substantially harder to address than it was a decade ago. This is not a distant risk. The fuse is burning and it’s getting shorter fast. New Zealanders deserve an honest conversation about it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather…

@TomRutherfordMP @SimeonBrownMP *Murderers can’t get parole. It’s cleaner like that

Families deserve answers. National is focused on supporting victims, creating safer communities, and holding violent criminals to account. Labour on the other hand…

Interior design for the new French high-speed trains.

@PronouncedHare She quit… who cancelled her? It is enjoyable seeing her disliking the taste of her own medicine though

@RusselNorman Why don’t we just extract our own oil and gas, and people can still use solar, no one’s stopping them

Solar panels + batteries + electric transport gives us the freedom to take back control of our energy and transport systems from dependence on oil supply chains stretching around the world, and stabilise the climate in the process.

@PronouncedHare Foreign populations growing while our population shrinks does not justify mass immigration Liam. It’s irrelevant

@PronouncedHare Yeah they are so bad at it lol it’s like maybe they shouldn’t have even had mass migration in the first place

@actparty Why 10 years? Why not 2?

Residency is a privilege. When you commit a crime serious enough to receive a 10-year sentence, your victims don't have a time limit on their suffering, so there shouldn’t be a time limit on accountability.

@PronouncedHare Japanese immigration and Somalian immigration is exactly the same and if you disagree your racist 🤡

@PronouncedHare Why not have a FTA with no visas or immigration attached? If immigration isn’t an issue here, they can strike the provisions out of the agreement

@JosephMooneyMP What does ‘foreign’ even mean to you? You think we live in an economic zone in which anyone who happens to be here is not foreign.

An extraordinary - and blatant - foreign influence campaign to interfere with New Zealand politics using social media as a vector - this account with over 122,000 followers (describing himself as being based in England), began a sustained attack less than an hour after I published a post calling out the nonsense being stirred up about our FTA with India.

@kaiviti_cam This stuff is so basic it shouldn’t be electionaring, it should have been done 2 years ago as a matter of course for the coalition. It’s insulting that they’re pulling it out now.

ACT’s plan to tighten immigration is straight out of the NZ First playbook - deport serious offenders, English requirements, welfare stand-down, infrastructure surcharge. Sensible stuff. Watch the usual suspects on the left lose their minds and scream “racism” in 3… 2… 1… rnz.co.nz/news/political…

@damienmgrant Student Visas are obviously a scam in this day and age, no body really needs to come here to learn unless they’re looking for residency.

It's time for some battered chicken. I read (parts) of the 1364 pages of the free trade deal with India. stuff.co.nz/politics/36097…

@JosephMooneyMP @ZoomerHistorian You should put mass immigration to a binding referendum and sort the matter properly.

@ZoomerHistorian There is no “replacement and genocide of white people in New Zealand” mate. Grow up

An MP in New Zealand dismissing concerns about the replacement and genocide of White people in New Zealand as ‘European social media angst’ Vermin

@actparty How about no welfare for any non citizens. Deports all offenders. Deport all overstayers. You guys are weak

ACT’s immigration policy restores the basic bargain that New Zealand was built on. People are welcome here if they contribute, respect our democratic values, and help build the country.