PMol07
486 posts
Things seemed OK, even looking up ... until you lot got back!
November can't come soon enough!
Goodbye! You've pillaged any decent legislation to improve AoNZ's lot!
NZ National Party@NZNationalParty
We can’t tax, spend, and borrow our way to a brighter future. By getting the books back in order, we can keep taxes low and invest in frontline public services.
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@ClintVSmith I do enjoy your desperation as you see this government with a handle on the economy. It does mean that your gravy train and trough hunting days are over. Just find something useful to fill your time
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about half the $50b extra debt in the next 4 years pays for the tax cuts for landlords, tobacco companies, businesses, high income people etc
rest is basically the result of the last two years of economic stagnation, which means the govt gets less tax & pays more income support
Clint Smith@ClintVSmith
this is just false Net Government debt excluding the Super Fund (National's preferred measure) was $136.3b at the end of 2022/23 and will be $190.8b at the end of 2025/26. Up $54.5b The Government forecasts it to keep rising and peak at $241.0b in 2029/30. That's another $50.1b
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@ClintVSmith Your desperation is so evident. Missing your days of influence at the left side of a small town?
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the economy grew by 7% per capita under the last govt with an extra 295k jobs
under this govt, GDP per capita is down 2% & we've lost 28k jobs
by cutting tax for the rich while slashing infrastructure investment they've managed to both borrow $60b & crater the economy
Tim Elliott@tjgelliott_tim
@ClintVSmith Who looks at Labour and goes "taxing the economy so civil servants can enjoy a boom will fix things"? How would creating an even more hostile environment for the dwindling real economy help? Interest rates are rising. Labour can't fake GDP by growing the public sector.
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@AucklandIsland Crap analysis. Shows how easily you are sucked in by expensive PR consultants.
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Meanwhile in Oz a Labor government is making power bills cheaper.....
"In other words, batteries are flattening the peaks in demand, and prices are finally falling as a result."
abc.net.au/news/2026-05-2…
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@JosephMooneyMP If you're so learned then answer this.
Why did you government cancel the ferries on order (by text message) when it was the dumbest move ever?
The new deal cost more, are inferior craft and whilst the others would now be in service, the newer less capable haven't even been made.
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Our learned friends would do well to remember that Parliament is the expression of the will of the people, and the supreme legislative authority.
It holds parliamentary sovereignty, meaning it can pass, amend, or repeal any law.
Tim Murphy@tmurphyNZ
Our learned friends begin to stir on the Govt's continual blocking of and over-ruling of court judgments. NZ Bar Association press statement: "If retrospective legislation becomes a regular occurrence or norm, citizens will not know with any certainty what their rights are."
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@TheCoot5 @tmurphyNZ And the decisions of middle class former lawyers don’t always successfully reflect the will of Parliament! (the highest court in the land)
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@tmurphyNZ berating of Court decisions has been very apparent this Term-Peters and Jones both vocal about decisions that don't go their,or better, their donors way.
We're on a very slippery slope as most media continue to ignore blatant corrupt practise and cronyism.
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Our learned friends begin to stir on the Govt's continual blocking of and over-ruling of court judgments.
NZ Bar Association press statement:
"If retrospective legislation becomes a regular occurrence or norm, citizens will not know with any certainty what their rights are."
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The issue with Labour's #DuckGate isn't so much the embarrassing content (and inconsistency with Barbara Edmonds otherwise excellent record of playing the issue, not the person) it is the question of *who* leaked the audio, and why.
Suit and tie@Suitandtie9999
The actual audio of Labour’s Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds referring to Nicola Willis as a “duck-faced horse” and hearing her laugh about it, is far worse than seeing it in print. Truly nasty stuff from Edmonds and Labour.
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@AucklandIsland Won’t let activists write laws either.
Back to parliament! Good thing ceding Sovereignty fits into place.
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I'm sick of the corruption of this National coalition. They let corporations write laws and then enact them while we suffer the consequences. Over it. 😤
rnz.co.nz/news/political…
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@AucklandIsland Do you support the unions having say over Labour policy whilst also contributing heavily to Labours finances?
Because that's been going on for decades, and I haven't seen you whinge about that?
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Stop the rabid neoliberal insanity that is practiced by most of this current rabble, especially Seymour, Willis, the rest of ACT, and at least 60% of National.
Everyone needs to kick this ideological madness to touch #nzpol
Craig Renney@CLRenney
Labour stands with public servants, public service unions, and the services we all need. 167 days to make this a one-term government and turn New Zealand around
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Good. NZ First confirming that a vote for them is a vote for National.
New Zealand First@nzfirst
We. Will. Not. Work. With. Labour.
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@AucklandIsland Utter rubbish to your machinations CK
Parliament is the democratic source of law for New Zealand.
Parliament, as in the Coalition, will resolve this issue which Liebour failed to address.
Labour lies in ignorance
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Is NZ governed by the rule of law or corporations?
"This is not just about climate change anymore," he said. "This is about whether billion-dollar corporations can use their political access to shut down legal challenges they do not want to answer."
1news.co.nz/2026/05/24/a-c…
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@liamvincent26 BS
Tame is no challenge to a higher intellect. He may have destroyed Hipkins but that’s easy. He was no match for David Seymour’s adult approach to policy
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David Seymour’s Q&A interview is just him getting offended at being asked basic questions about the policies he ran on.
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@eduk8rdv8r Total BS
Seymour is articulate, calm and measured. Tame showed up as inferior and amateur in his so-called research and framing of questions
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Watching Jack Tame on QandA. David Seymour is getting redder in the face. He does not like being challenged on lack of sensible policies.
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@EarlFargofbu2a @365MickeyBlue I'd like to know why any council staff member gets paid such extreme wages care of ratepayers and how are they justified. I would like a complete audit, for fraud,over exaggerating payments, all contracts, affiliates etc on every council in New Zealand. A DODGE AUDIT. NO LESS.
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Does anyone have the figures on what this lefty idiot pays his staff for his Climate Change department? What about his Māori department? Or his various Cultural departments. Or, his Marketing department that markets to us even though we have no choice of who we use?
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NZ First for government with Winston as PM.
Jennie McKeown@KiwiPatriotGirl
@gaye_ess They have the experience and people to finish the job, people of calibre and principle. The only party with a doctorate and experience in economics to be a great minister of finance and help make great financial policy
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@AucklandIsland And Flippy chippy is always right??
Depending on which side he flips to I guess. Can’t wait until his November resignation!
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RNZ CE going.
'Seymour has effectively instructed the board of RNZ to remove its chief executive because he disapproves of the organisation’s editorial decisions. Let’s be clear about what that is: it’s an abuse of power,” Hipkins said.'
stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360982…
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