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This is not fair. If successful in qualifying, 41-year-old Laurel Hubbard will destroy the Olympic dream of either 19-year-old Feagaiga Stowers of Samoa or 20-year-old Charisma Amoe-Tarrant of Australia/Nauru. insidethegames.biz/articles/10899…

@Being_Kara @TerriWhiti @chrisluxonmp There’s none so blind….,

Dear Christopher Luxon, @chrisluxonmp This morning on NewstalkZB you were asked about Nigel Farage’s surge in the UK and the clear anti-mass-immigration backlash that just delivered a political earthquake in Australia. Your response? “That’s just a grumpy few… people are playing politics with immigrants.” As a lifelong National voter, I have rarely heard a more tone-deaf dismissal of legitimate public concern. Because the grumpy few you wave away are not fringe agitators on social media. They are the silent majority of Kiwis who have watched their country change at breakneck speed while being lectured that any unease makes them right-wing or racist. You and your colleagues have spent years telling us how “highly skilled” the new arrivals are and how lazy and unambitious Kiwis have become. Yet your own government’s figures, and the brand-new India–New Zealand FTA, now classify Domino’s pizza workers, yoga instructors, chefs, and AYUSH practitioners as “skilled” migrants eligible for dedicated visa pathways. Net migration is still running at tens of thousands a year, with India one of the largest sources. Housing, hospitals, schools and roads are groaning under the weight. Wages in retail, hospitality and trades are being undercut. And when Kiwis point this out, the official line is that we’re just not trying hard enough. That’s not evidence-based policy. That is propaganda dressed up as economic necessity. Worse, it is selective. You and your MPs have been photographed wearing turbans and paying respects at temples and gurdwaras in search of ethnic bloc votes. That’s not “celebrating diversity.” That is ethnic vote-bank politics of the kind you accuse others of. When a junior National backbencher last week screamed “foreign political interference” because he was merely quote-tweeted by an overseas account, the absurdity was complete. The only foreign interference National seems to worry about is the kind that doesn’t deliver you donations or diaspora ballots. Meanwhile, you lecture us about the dangers of social media while your government rushes through under-16 bans modelled on the EU’s Digital Services Act - conveniently timed before the election. Elon Musk’s purchase of X has been one of the most significant pro-democracy acts of the past decade precisely because it broke the stranglehold of legacy media and government-aligned censors. Yet your instinct is to regulate and restrict rather than trust New Zealanders to think for themselves. That tells us everything about where your priorities lie. The latest Poll of Polls gives the current coalition an extremely high probability of surviving November. That is not because of any great love for National. It is because enough Kiwis still fear a return to the Ardern-era madness. But loyalty has limits. A great many of us who have voted National our entire adult lives have reached them. We will not reward a party that sneers at our justified concerns about rapid, unmanaged immigration from one particular country while simultaneously courting that same community for electoral gain. We will not vote for leaders who dismiss the very real pressures on housing, wages, infrastructure and social cohesion as the whingeing of a “grumpy few.” So here is the practical reality, Prime Minister. Kiwis with a functioning brain will party vote NZ First - the only party in your coalition that has consistently treated immigration numbers as a serious policy lever rather than a virtue signal. In the electorates many of us will still hold our noses and give National the local vote to keep the left out. But the party vote is no longer yours by default. You have mistaken quiet frustration for automatic loyalty. That era is over. The “grumpy few” you mock are the backbone of the National Party’s historic support. Keep dismissing us and you’ll discover exactly how quickly a safe coalition majority can evaporate. Yours, in genuine disappointment, A former National voter

This is the one and only time she was pregnant!

@EltonMusk12 He’s been on Chat!!

Harry couldn't just say 'Happy Birthday' to Sir David Attenborough... He had to call him a 'secular saint' and an '"institutional pillar as essential to the national fabric as a cup of tea". Am I the only one who reads this drivel and wants to 🤮🤮🤮🤮

@toparlanvegitme Send them to Palestine- looks quite pretty!

Fransa’da Filistin’e Destek Gösterisi! Paris’te Filistin destekçileri, Gazze’de yaşananları protesto etmek için bir çeşmeyi kırmızıya boyadı.

Dear @chrisluxonmp you told Kerre Woodham that Labour didn’t deliver anything in 6 years?! Why lie??? Here’s proof of what they delivered and what you inherited STOP THE LIES ✋🛑

In a discussion with Gen Z fam members. We never drink these days as it always ends up on social media if we do dumb things. Listen to the kids!!

@MattCas04807118 Grotesque

@Wildnfree1984 Self sabotage… more from the Groan Party.

Oh dear god 🤦🏼‍♀️🥴🤦🏼‍♀️🥴 Green Party - Lauren Craig I am a proud transgender woman with a background in law, activism, & economic policy. I’ve taken the Govt to court, I was manager for Tory Whanau’s campaign , & recently led a campaign to reverse the ban on puberty blockers

@MaikiSherman Its always the women they go after. How many more will be sacrificed on the altar of patriarchy? 1. Own business 2. Honest reporting 3. Beholden to noone 4. Success

A statement from me…

Harry & Meghan pocketed nearly €10M from Invictus Dusseldorf

@ick_real Absolutely yes…. I had to ask someone to stop wearing a perfume at work that was giving me a massive headache

Does your boss have the right to tell you that your perfume is too strong and it’s offensive to others in the office and you should stop using it ?

@SeanPlunket Gosh…. That’s savage. Clearly not into free speech then. But honestly who are these people???

Just had a most disturbing conversation with the BSA complainant. He told me he hates me more than anyone in the world and hopes my heart stops. I invited him to discuss his issues live on air he told me to get f#%ked. I hope he has people close to him.

@Catholicizm1 Ah no. They are Jews.

Reminder: every single person in this photo is Catholic.

@lorrainesplace 🙄 never again

Noooo. Sitting here, and thought I'll watch the chase. It's Paul Henry doing the NZ Chase. No thanks. 🤢

@ShakeLS Even the Thai king & queen were there. Wheres Anne? She usually goes to this stuff

Almost all European families have gathered to Mark and celebrate King's Carl Gustav's 80th birthday. There wasn't even one representative from the British royal family. It says so much.

@VolodyaTretyak Goldfinger 2026

What is the name of such interior style? 🤔

@SandeChin I think its lovely-shows style and creativity

I don't believe this is suitable dress for parliament.