Pete Marshall

@NMowbray23 @eleludemann @NZNationalParty @actparty Also ask where were and are the pathetic press gallery. It’s hard to fathom how a Labour supporter thinks.

We should never FORGET labour. Just a small fraction of their wasteful ways. @NZNationalParty @actparty 1. 18 wallabies — $2.7 million A eradication programme costing $153,000 per wallaby and 26,000 hours of labour. Cheaper to fly each one business class back to Australia. 2. Three Waters — $1.2 billion torched Spent on a policy nobody wanted, that was immediately scrapped. Included $14,500 to write a single job description for a CEO who never existed. 3. RAT tests — $531 million sitting in warehouses Costing $100,000 per day just to store. Most never used. Private businesses could have managed this themselves. RATS were also approved over a year too late. 4. Mongrel Mob meth rehab — $2.75 million Including $239K on catering, $157K on Marae hire, and $100K hiring a van. 5. Virtual job expos — $835,000 Over two years. 126 people attended. That’s $6,626 per person to attend a Zoom call. 6. Shorter shower campaign — $2.8 million Printed in 7 languages. To tell people to have shorter showers. 7. Health recruitment ad campaign — $514,000 Launched globally to attract health professionals. Result: 3 interviews. 8. Overseas recruitment ad for Kiwis — $10,000 Spent promoting Australian citizenship to Kiwis already living in Australia. 9. Wig tour — $73,000 Taxpayer money to fund the Arts Minister’s husband’s “Ulu Cavu Wig Tour of New Zealand.” 10. Abandoned China immigration office — $3 million Kept paying rent on an office that had been closed for over a year. 11.) 2.Auckland Harbour cycling/walking bridge — more than $50 million spent before the project was cancelled 12.) Auckland light rail 229 million spent wjth not a single meter of track put in the ground before scrapped. ( over 1 mil a week ) 13.Workforce Development Councils 65 million a year for bodies critics said delivered little tangible value; subsequently disestablished. 14.)RNZ/TVNZ public media merger — about $20 million spent before the merger was abandoned 15.)Let’s Get Wellington Moving — around $35 million spent on consultant fees while only about $250,000 went to actual construction before the programme was wound down 16.The Taliban publicly praised the NZ Labour government after receiving a $3 million donation framed as humanitarian aid. 17.)11. $842,000 to research ethnic women in NZ politics Nearly a million dollars to study the experiences of ethnic women as politicians within NZ’s political system. A topic that could’ve been handled with a university research grant for a fraction of that 18.).... could keep going and going.

@deirdrekent The good thing is looking at you your planned obsolescence is going well

Planned obsolescence should be an easy win for the #degrowth movement. At least two organisations are already working on it. Repair shops and Menz sheds springing up. deirdrekent.com/planned-obsole…

@winstonpeters Being offended is an extreme weeknes of character. Have strength in yourself.

It has been reported that police have recently visited Renee-Rose Schwenke about a so-called 'offensive' social media post she posted. Not threatening, not inciting violence, just that it allegedly offended someone. If this report is true, this is '1984 thought-police' level overreach. It should seriously frighten every New Zealander who believes in freedom of speech. This is not about whether this particular post was offensive or not. There will always be personal responsibility and consequences for people voicing their opinions that are viewed by some as tasteless or gormless or offensive - but those consequences should not be by way of a police visit. No one has the right to not be offended, nor do they have the right to be protected from having hurt feelings. In fact it is precisely the right to be able to offend which is the foundation of freedom of speech in our country. This has happened overseas with more regularity where social media posts, opinions, views, expressions, and even jokes are now deemed offensive by some authoritarian power and have been met with threats from police, arrests, or even convictions in court. We never thought we would see this happen here and it has a chilling effect on where we are going as a country. As Oliver Wendall Homles Jr said, freedom of speech also comes with responsibility of speech - you cannot falsely yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre without there rightly being a consequence. We already have laws around 'responsibility of speech' ranging from defamation to incitement of violence, and that is important - but people's freedom to have their own free opinion is something which should be aggressively defended. We don't all have to agree with each other's opinions, but we should all fight for each other's right to have them. This is the essential foundation of our free democracy. If we start to accept this kind of overreach by police to curtail individual freedom of speech, our democracy will fall into the type of totalitarian oblivion that will destroy our country.

@SeanPlunket @TVONENZ I would suggest that ranting a bit job limiting

You know what I think about people posting from their cars! But this is a “panellist” for a @TVONENZ “news” programme. x.com/kiwispec/statu…

@nickarockel As the school prefect is where it needs to stop. He’ll make a lovely mayor one day.

“I could’ve hugged him. That’s where we’re at; even acknowledging the nature of the problem seemed like a huge step forward compared with the PM’s answers yesterday. Chippy’s speaking style is friendly and authentic - he actually sounds like a leader.” Open to all ⬇️

@nickarockel Ffs when are you going stop being a victim. Crying to mummy. Stand on your on feet. Constant whining

"I don’t see any vision from National, just the same stale promises, a commitment to make the wealthy wealthier, to tighten the screws of austerity on the majority, and to blame everyone but themselves if they fail yet again to deliver on those promises."

@nettieg3 The alternative is already out the back door

@realMaalouf Opportunity!

He left his house, the mosque, and even the sidewalk, choosing to pray instead in the middle of a busy road! What do you even call this?

@Geniustechw Goats?

A party with no women. Thoughts?

@Matt_Pinner Used to put rings in the noses of pigs to stop them rooting, does it still work?

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see a woman with a nose ring?

@mauriceraiti What a dick you are. So Seymour is out every day making lunches. Look all the pathetic corrupt civil servants.

David Seymour is pathetic. He needs to own the fact that a batch school lunches was an inedible mouldy rotten and dangerous . Don’t shoot the messenger. So what if he’s a complainer. He has every right to.Just sort it.

@nickarockel Dick

“What kind of Minister looks for cost savings in our schoolchildren's lunches, and what type of government gives kids lower-quality food to provide landlords a tax cut? What kind of society would think that was ok? I still struggle to understand it.” Link ⬇️

@Joe_Trinder Fkn boring

The Anglophication of Aotearoa is failing dramatically by Unpatriotic colonisers who hate everything Māori while living in Polynesia. Its like living in Japan and hating on the Japanese.

@chimerajaxs Amazing how internationally they don’t get it. Most probably don’t even know where NZ is.

How many TVs in New Zealand will have their lives cut short?

@AntiWokeMemes Paint by numbers

@ClintVSmith Clinty still as stupid as ever.

@otokyo__ She missed a bit

First thing that comes to mind

@Suitandtie9999 Was she a staffer ?

Openly courting publicity, this relationship is now fair game and open to scrutiny and yet not a single probing question from the press gallery. Can voters trust Hipkins?

@Geniustechw Show him the door

What should she do?