Henry Mere

@maxdnharris Wouldn’t it be more help to the working poor if, say, there was no tax on the first $14K then start feeding it back in at $48K income so that by $72K it’s fully levied? Those incomes align with current tax brackets. That way no tax break for high earners and the IRD do the math

@mcnaughthelen1 A credit rating only rates a country’s ability to pay back a loan. Those two wrecked our economy to the extent that the ratings agencies downgraded our ability to repay.

"Grant Robertson & Jacinda Ardern achieved a significant credit rating upgrade for NZ in 2021, the first for any country during Covid.."

@roonsopo @damienmgrant His private life was plastered all over women’s magazines and social media when it suited him to make it our business. His ex wife showed us a side of his private life he wanted kept hidden. The tears at the presser weren’t crocodile tears, they were tears for himself.

⁦@damienmgrant⁩ I won’t be putting down my ineffective gravel, I’ll continue to lob it at this unlikeable little man , a “man” who doesn’t know what a women is . If he wants to carry on like a 16 year old who has just had first kiss and do it in the media, he cops it.

@SeanPlunket @kaiviti_cam Eid is an excuse to slaughter animals in a less than humane way. Trust me.

Why on earth do politicians bother posting such disingenuous virtue signalling rubbish to prove their dei credentials?

@LesserMegadeath @kiwimike123 @hellomotorbike The point of battery power is that you accumulate power for your own use. If it’s depleted so that others who don’t have batteries can have power then you don’t. Its purpose is defeated.

@RealHenrymere @kiwimike123 @hellomotorbike there's already been a pilot using house batteries and guess what?

National fail to do anything about weaning NZ of fossil fuels because they see it through the purely ideological lens of 'user pays'. The rest of us see the value to NZ in shifting to electric where possible. Killing the clean car discount was a failure of vision for them.

@365MickeyBlue The scene towards the end on the railway station platform is a slam dunk Best Supporting Actor slam dunk award in my view.

Watched Nuremberg movie - Russel Crowe was brilliant. Disgraceful that they didn't win Oscars, but shows how woke Hollywood really is. They really weren't trials rather a message to the German people "don't do it again"..... Also shows how Europe has fallen and how weak Europe has become to allow Biden to cause Ukraine war and Iran to become threat.

@Microinteracti1 Ask yourselves the question; “Why does a supposedly peace loving nation like Iran develop a missile with this order of range?” When you answer that you also have the answer to why Israel and the US have attacked. PS: FYI Iran is not peace loving.

Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia this week. That’s a tiny British-American dot in the Indian Ocean that most people couldn’t find on a map, which is precisely why it matters. The range was 4,000 kilometers. Four thousand. To put that in perspective, 4,000 kilometers from Tehran gets you to Rome. Athens. Cairo. Southern Europe is well within reach. London and Paris are further, but don’t sleep too well either. This is not what Tehran told anyone their missiles could do. So either they’ve been lying, or the intelligence community has been spectacularly wrong. Possibly both. One missile failed mid-flight, which is the kind of thing that happens when you build intercontinental weapons in a country that can’t keep the lights on. The other was shot down by a U.S. warship with an SM-3 interceptor, which Trump has already counted as winning the war. For the third time. Now here’s the bit nobody wants to say out loud: the strike came hours after Britain’s Keir Starmer gave Washington permission to use Diego Garcia to bomb Iranian missile sites. So Iran bombed the base we lent them. With a missile nobody knew they had. The war just acquired a completely new dimension. And the man in the White House is busy declaring victory. Iran decides when this stops. Not him. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@LesserMegadeath @kiwimike123 @hellomotorbike “evs and home batteries can feed back at this time” Tell ‘im ‘es dreamin’.

@kiwimike123 @hellomotorbike NZ has a problem on peak in dry winters. evs and home batteries can feed back at this time nz had vast potential to generate more electricity without fossil fuel solar and batteries are plummeting in price evs can charge at home off peak

@terciops @Platypuss_10 Great answer, thank you.

The most common reason you will see a delayed gear retraction is that one or more brake units deactivated. This is an acceptable condition for a limited number of flights, but has obvious stopping penalties and the take off performance penalties associated with leaving the gear down for minutes (depending on type) longer than normal to allow the affected wheel(s) to stop rotating by friction alone. Before the gear is retracted the wheels are normally braked to a stop or the torque forces due to precession on a fast turning wheel / tyre assembly during gear retraction can cause damage to bearings and gear support structures. If you understand that, you don't need to read on. Precession translates the force on a rotating wheel through 90 degrees and as the wheels are fore and aft and retract inwards, the retraction force will impart a twisting moment if the retraction takes place when the wheel is spinning. This is not a small thing as aircraft wheels are heavy and spinning very fast just after take off. So they must be left down to stop naturally. The nosewheel retracts fore and aft, so there is no problem and it is braked once retracted by a snubber bar on the tyre, or even just left to rotate and stop naturally on some types.

This UPS Boeing 747-8 performs a steep takeoff while keeping the gear down during climb-out. 747 pilots - why keep the gear down up to that altitude after takeoff?

@kaiviti_cam @winstonpeters The real reason they call themselves the GREEN Party is because they’re too thick to spell COMMUNIST.

@winstonpeters said “They are not a Green Party anymore.” “They don’t talk about the environment anymore.” “They care more about gender, wokeness, unicorns, and a geopolitical war happening on the other side of the world that they know nothing about.”

@tukakimatt It’s the parents of the children who can’t be arsed to feed their children who look bad, not the system.

There is something seriously wrong when schools are being made to feel like criminals for giving away surplus lunches to people who actually need them. Let’s be clear about what we’re talking about here. Leftover food. Food that would otherwise be thrown out. Food that could help a whānau get through the day. And somehow, that’s being framed as if it’s the same as shoplifting? That’s not just misguided — it’s completely out of touch. We are living through a cost-of-living crisis where petrol is through the roof, food prices are climbing, and more families are doing it tough. Every day, I see it. People are stretching meals, skipping meals, and making impossible choices just to get by. So if a school has extra lunches at the end of the day, why on earth would we not want that food going to those who need it? Most New Zealanders would say exactly the same thing — better in the hands of a whānau than sitting in a bin or being fed into pig buckets. Instead, we’ve got a system that is more worried about rules than about people. This is what happens when decision-makers lose touch with the reality on the ground. Common sense should prevail here. Feed people. Support whānau. Stop criminalising compassion. Because right now, it’s not the schools that look bad — it’s the system.

@RightOfCentre15 @NZNationalParty Handouts, as you call them, are best if they’re targeted. Universal handouts become welfare for the wealthy. Unless targeting becomes more expensive it’s pointless.

@RealHenrymere @NZNationalParty So you would rather a taxpayer handout that excludes the wealthy who already pay most of the taxes?

If @NZNationalParty want to be re elected they should remove tax & GST on fuel immediately. This would be deflationary & signal fiscal responsibility rather than a fiscal largesse policy that a Labour government would adopt which would be inflationary

@saltyreigns How did Struan Little advise Robertson when he casually increased our debt/GDP ratio as it was less than other countries?

NZ has “one of the largest structural deficits among advanced economies”, treasury’s chief strategist Struan Little said, saying this govt & future ones may need to make difficult choices, like spending cuts, tax rises & asset sales Plugging the maori grift is never mentioned

In The Herald’s on line feed today. The click bait tag line bears no relationship to the article. The Herald’s editors are biased without a doubt. “Why Luxon has explaining to do as he visits Samoa, Tonga for first official engagements” nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/pr…

@PouTepou Meanwhile Iran is trying to produce weapons grade uranium and ignores diplomacy, as demonstrated over the past 30 years by successive US administrations. Yeh, but, keep up the mantra.

Reflecting on our history: There was a time we’d say, “Wherever England leads, we will follow.” But in 2026, it’s the USA we’re looking to. This war is a folly, and we should’ve opposed it from the start. Let’s prioritise peace and diplomacy over conflict. It's not too late

@FullTwatforward @aniobrien Reuben go skewered last week in parliament.

@aniobrien Nothing to know about Reuben. He's never done a single thing 🤷‍♂️

Labour Reshuffle thoughts: Camilla Belich and Vanushi Walters are good promotions. Ginny Andersen is getting very overloaded with portfolios. Willow Jean Prime is lucky still have a portfolio given how poor her performance has been. Looks like Damien O'Connor is sticking around if he has trade. Don't know anything about Reuben Davidson but his questioning about TVNZ last week irritated me. Strange that reshuffle appears not to have affected rankings.

@PhillipLaings Which all fed inflation.

People forget the last New Zealand Labour Party govt delivered things many Kiwis now rely on: free prescriptions, Winter Energy Payment, 26 weeks paid parental leave, Healthy Homes standards, school lunches, and higher minimum wages. That was so positive and people based.

@MaximusNortius Or you could try reading the Covid enquiry report released today.

@RealHenrymere What non COVID spending?

This is why we can never risk having a RW government during a pandemic. Money before lives is the catch cry of this fuckwit government! Covid-19 response inquiry finds government's response effective but late, poorly communicated rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

@MaximusNortius If you need to ask that question you were asleep at the time.

@Suitandtie9999 @FullTwatforward Woke bastard.

The Crown Solicitor says it is not in the public interest for the case to go before a jury. Charges against activist Te Wehi Heketoro Ratana relating to Te Papa’s Treaty of Waitangi exhibition have been dismissed after the Crown withdrew the prosecution ahead of a scheduled jury trial. “While prosecutors said there remained sufficient evidence to proceed with both charges, the Crown Solicitor ultimately determined it was not in the public interest for the case to go before a jury.”