Wired-one

@_MaccaNZ Lovely home. Congratulations.

A year ago I was halfway through the paperwork to move the whole family to Australia 🇦🇺 Life had other plans…and on Friday we’re moving into our first home right here in NZ! 🏡 Excited, nervous, and everything in between 😄

@michaelwoodnz If you want an EV, get one. But taxpayers should not be subsidizing that choice.

The clean car discount was making New Zealand’s vehicle fleet cleaner, cheaper to run, and helping us to be more resilient in an unstable world. Its cancellation was a massive own goal by the Luxon Government and is now seriously costing New Zealand.

@Mountain_Tui @anni3ru0k @aniobrien So, are you categorically denying you are Richard Fanselow?

@anni3ru0k @aniobrien It's very odd, but also disturbing. She's literally making things up, engaging with individual, and then claiming it's me as she doxxes a private citizen. Any troll can be blocked immediately. The fact she has so many messages shows she chose not to, to "prove" something is sad

@aniobrien is trying to dox a 2nd time in breach of Netsafe. I find it ironic she blocked me on X yet claims "Mountain Tui" contacts her on "every platform". I don't. Every single comms is her trying to get my attention while doxxing a private citizen that she could easily

@ChantelleBakerr What someone does with their own body is not for you or others to decide.

Brook Van Velden may have good intentions but her legacy is one of death. Supporting the Euthanasia Bill and the most extreme abortion laws in the world. Killing them as babies and as elderly. This isn’t progress.

@the_salty_one_ South Island independence!

Anyone else keen to create our own country with our own borders in New Zealand? Hmmm

@rosey_nz @NZNationalParty @actparty @nzfirst Sadly, they won't do anything.

JT's Waipareira Trust, Willie Jackson's MUMA, & Matahaere's Te Kāika: elitist Māori grifters robbing taxpayers to feather their nests while those they claim to help suffer with zero accountability. Corruption thrives in NZ! So what will you do @NZNationalParty @actparty @nzfirst?

@TaxpayersUnion This must be fake news. The government has assured us they have stopped the waste of taxpayers money.

𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃: $𝟑𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐚 𝐋𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐫? The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that the Ministry for Ethnic Communities funded $30,000 for Asturlab Cultural Centre to run a nationwide advocacy campaign, using taxpayer funds to promote pro-Palestinian narratives on the conflict in Gaza. This funding comes from the Ethnic Communities Development Fund which distributes $4.2 million of taxpayer money each year and follows a select committee report finding the Ministry has no clear evidence of achieving any meaningful outcomes. Taxpayers Union Investigations Coordinator, Rhys Hurley said: “OIA documents show $30,000 was handed to the Asturlab Cultural Centre in Christchurch to run the ‘4 for 40 Stop the Silence Campaign’ - a Gaza advocacy campaign aimed at shifting public opinion toward a ceasefire and accusing Israel of genocide.. How does a government body funding an explicitly political campaign support our ethnic communities?” "We've all seen posters around town accusing Israel of such things. Not in a million years would anyone expect them to be taxpayer-funded." “The fund’s own rules say it does not support political objectives, yet this application was approved within days, with a Ministry advisor even helping tweak it to get over the line.” “Looking through the full list of funded projects, you see everything from swimming lessons for Pakistani women to events like Wellington’s CubaDupa festival. When the Ministry has already been found to have no clear achievements, taxpayers deserve to know what exactly they’re getting for their money.” “New Zealand already has multiple agencies funding and advising on community development, social cohesion, and diversity. Would it not be far cheaper to wind up these demographic ministries and have the work picked up by existing bodies like the Human Rights Commission?” nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/po… assets.nationbuilder.com/taxpayers/page…

Ok, I’ll give EVERYONE $50 a week extra for fuel but we have to do something first

@opsteperous @aniobrien You don't know what you are talking about. Ex MPs do not receive life long benefits after leaving parliament.

@Wired__One @aniobrien in your own words what and who is a woman and why? maybe really the issue is that we are so used to underperformer, that we are almost ecstatic when one does their job. She is 33, and is now living of the tax payer for the rest of her life, which could be 50+ years. Meh.

Sad to hear that Brooke van Velden is leaving politics. She is a smart and high-performing minister. The youngest Cabinet minister in history.

@goingbykate You'll have no issue linking us to that quote then, eh?

i'll never forget when brooke van velden likened beneficiaries to stubborn, thick, lazy donkeys and cast herself as the donkey driver waggling a carrot around to incentivise them to work.

@Shane58637790 I struggle to distinguish her policies from what a Labour minister of finance would deliver. So, no.

Has she been a good Minister of Finance???? Comment

@bobble05132522 Bag Moth?

Anyone know what this bug is?

@rtaonui Yes, you are right. The government shouldn't bother at all. Especially when it will never be enough for entitled twats

Getting the sense that a) the fuel relief plan will amount to bugger all for a lot of the poorest of the poor, and b) its going to be relatively cheap for the govt who will be taking more GST - not less as Willis claims. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

@GregPresland @thestandard "Hates poor people." Seriously bellend, STFU. 45% of the country doesn't contribute to the tax take once handouts and entitlements are factored in. Like all recent governments, this government panders to the bottom half.

The Government will today announce its response to increasing pressure on household budgets cause by the oil crisis. And poor people who are not working will be excluded from its effect. Why does this Government hate poor people? thestandard.nz/why-does-this-… via @thestandard

I hope you realise @chrisluxonmp is just as responsible for Fuel prices as the last Labour government as he is pushing the same *Net Zero* bullshit as they did! He has no intention of reversing Labours sabotage of our Oil industry and refinery! So Lets not pretend Luxon is any better vision for our future that the hopeless communists Labour and Greens. He fundamentally agrees with them on Carbon tyranny.

@Shane58637790 There aren't two sides to the coin. Our parties are all on the same side. Our decline and drift to the left continues on unabated.

National just made the decision to not vote really easy today👍 I'm out

@secondzeit Was that before or after he was praising Hezbollah?...

I interviewed Max Harris nine years ago. Looking back, he was talking about a politics of values and "love" just before Jacinda Ardern. stuff.co.nz/national/polit…

@NicolaWillisMP How about shrinking the size of the state. Living within your means. Running government as lean and efficient as possible. Ending the ever growing handouts. Ending race based anything. Allowing Kiwis to keep as much of their own money as possible. Getting back to basics.

We know that the conflict in the Middle East is adding pressure to hardworking New Zealanders. We are delivering temporary, timely support that is targeted to low-to-middle income working families with children. It is a $50 per week boost for eligible households (those earning up to $89,000 for a family with one child, $112,000 for a family with two children, and $135,000 with three). It's temporary support from the start of April for 12 months, or until the price of 91 drops below $3 a litre for four consecutive weeks. We cannot control global oil markets or international conflicts. And we also can’t risk repeating Covid mistakes, where too much spending more than doubled debt and pushed inflation and mortgage rates too high. Kiwis are still grappling with the effects of that today. But we can get the balance right - softening the impact on working families who cannot easily avoid higher fuel costs in a responsible and well-targeted way.

@bobmccoskrienz She won Tamaki because she won more voters than the other candidates. The equal pay act is utter BS. No woman is getting paid any less than their male counterparts for doing the exact same job. As for euthanasia, you don't get the right to decide how I die. Fuck off.

ACT deputy leader Brooke van Velden is standing down at the election. She won the Tamaki electorate at the last election because the then-National MP Simon O'Connor dared to fight for the rights of the unborn baby (including young girls). How dare he! 🙄 Ironically, van Velden then oversaw "government's overhaul of the once 'world-leading' Equal Pay Act - retrospectively stripping nurses, teachers, carers and other female-dominated workforces of the right to pursue pay equity claims under the existing law." (as the media report it!). [Bet ACT voters in Tamaki are feeling a little awkward right now!] But van Velden's voting record was poor. BEFORE BEING AN MP ⚫️worked with David Seymour as a staffer on the dangerous euthanasia law VOTED FOR: ⚫️Allowing gender ‘identity’ on your birth certificate rather than birth sex. ⚫️'Conversion therapy' law - criminalising counselling and support around unwanted sexuality and gender issues. ⚫️Prayer for unwanted sexuality and gender issues to be criminalised under the 'conversion therapy' law ⚫️Bans prayer vigils and offers of support and counselling to women near abortion facilities (so-called 'safe zones' but not for the unborn child - or the pregnant mum) ⚫️Law allowing the ‘testing’ of drugs, despite them still being illicit and harmful. ⚫️Easter trading (remove all restrictions on Good Friday and Easter Sunday nationwide.) On the positive ✅Supported Three Strikes Law ✅Opposed 'hate speech' laws ✅Supported some amendments to the 'conversion therapy' law including parental consent & parent / child talks, and protection for health practitioners - but ⚫️ still voted for the flawed law despite the fact that it takes away free will and determination to live according to your own values. Just a reminder that in general, ACT are fiscally conservative (less government) but not socially conservative. Source: valueyourvote.org.nz/candidates/bro…

@NZNationalParty Bloated government, public sector, race based grift, high taxes, and wasteful spending are adding more pressure. What are you doing about that?

We know that the conflict in the Middle East is adding pressure to hardworking New Zealanders. We are delivering temporary, timely support that is targeted to low-to-middle income working families with children. This support is temporary. It will last up to one year, or until fuel prices ease, to help with household costs without pushing inflation higher or adding to government debt. We cannot control global oil markets or international conflicts. And we also can’t risk repeating Covid mistakes, where too much spending more than doubled debt and pushed inflation and mortgage rates too high. This is a measured response to help the squeezed middle that is careful not to increase inflation or government debt.