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@martyozone @actparty I’m honestly not sure what it is in the water, here, but Kiwi politicians discussing anything remotely American is truly an embarrassing watch; ACT, specifically, this weird mix of new-age “liberal”-libertarianism Re culture, is shockingly naive on so many crux voter issues.

@everythingj4ck @actparty And then there’s this. I guess once Simon O’Connor raised the proposal that babies born alive after botched “full term abortions”should be given care rather than just left to die, it became personal for her and Act and they needed him out of parliament.

𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ACT Party Deputy Leader and MP for Tāmaki, Brooke van Velden, has today announced that she does not intend to seek re-election to Parliament in this year’s general election to allow her to explore opportunities in the private sector. Brooke will continue to serve the people of Tāmaki as their Member of Parliament and undertake her work as Minister of Internal Affairs and for Workplace Relations and Safety for the rest of this term. Expressions of interest to stand for ACT at the general election are currently open and the Party will select its Tāmaki candidate in late April. The Board will appoint a new Deputy Leader on recommendation from the Caucus before an announcement at the Party’s AGM on 21 June. Brooke van Velden said: “At the election this year, I will have spent nine years in public service; first working with David Seymour to help secure the passage of the End of Life Choice Act through Parliament, six years as Deputy Leader and Member of Parliament for ACT, and three years as a Government minister and electorate MP for Tāmaki. “I have never wanted to be a career politician, and while I believe there are so many more years I could serve my community, I wish to explore the private sector too. At some point in the future, I would like to return to public service. “It has been an absolute privilege to serve our country in Government and represent the people of Tāmaki and the ACT Party, but I feel now is the right time for change. “I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who have made my political career possible. If you showed up to deliver letters in the rain, came to my campaign committee on dark winter evenings, or put my bright pink signs on your fence, thank you. Thank you to people who helped me in those ways and many others. “I’d like to thank the voters who elected me twice, as the Deputy Leader of ACT and as the MP for Tamaki. Being the voice of your values in Parliament has been an honour and a privilege. To the ACT Party and the two caucuses I’ve served in, thank you for the trust you’ve invested in me and the support you’ve given me. Finally, to David Seymour, thank you for your leadership, encouragement and friendship. “I am making this announcement today to ensure that ACT has the time to select a new candidate for the Tāmaki electorate and give that person sufficient time to campaign. I look forward to seeing who puts themselves forward and campaigning alongside the person the Party chooses to ensure that Tāmaki stays pink in November.” David Seymour commented: “This announcement is bitter sweet as one of our stars moves to brighten another sky. I’m losing a colleague, but keeping a friend. ACT is losing an MP, but keeping a supporter. I’m sad Brooke is not standing again, but I respect and understand her choice to start her next chapter. “Brooke’s career is as close to perfect as a political career could ever be. By 34 she’s spent nine years on the Parliamentary Precinct racking up win after win. From our campaign together on Euthanasia, to her triumph in Tamaki, and her recent reforms of employment law, the Holidays Act, and Health and Safety Law, the constant in Brooke’s career has been tangible achievement. “Brooke’s quiet determination and fierce intelligence has helped build the modern ACT Party. She found a party with one MP and 0.5 per cent support, in nine years she has been central to making ACT a driving force at the centre of Government. Our whole caucus wishes her well for her next chapter. “Winning Tāmaki was a triumph.”

Mehdi Hasan criticising you for bigotry is like Fred West criticising you for your shoddy patio work.

@matt_horncastle I scanned that first line scrolling and thought it said, ‘My world view is empire’. Which, ironically, is my actual world view 🤷🏻‍♂️

My world view is simple. Free people build better countries than governments do. I believe in low taxes, small government, personal responsibility, property rights, freedom of speech, freedom of enterprise, and the right of people to build a better life for themselves and their families. I believe hard work should be rewarded. Success should be respected. Merit should matter. Ownership matters. Families matter. Strong communities matter. I do not believe the government creates wealth. It can only tax it, regulate it, waste it, or get out of the way and let productive people build. I believe the best society is one where a normal hardworking person can earn a living, buy a home, raise children, save money, and move forward with dignity. Less bureaucracy. Less dependence. Less theft through tax. More freedom. More building. More ownership. More accountability. That is my politics. That is my economics. That is my moral view. A free, responsible, property owning society will beat a dependent, overgoverned one every time.

@matt_horncastle Gratefulness.

What is one thing our parents’ generation had that we have lost?

@chrislynchmedia *linked in headline needs changing Chris Sorry to be pedantic, but as a news man, I assume you care about spelling just as much as I do!

#BREAKING: A man police said is linked to a religious organisation has been arrested and charged with a number of serious offences, including rape. [article may upset readers] chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/man…

Football started going downhill when Channel 4 stopped showing James Richardson sat outside Italian cafes with a coffee & copies of La Gazetta dello Sport.

@TheZeitgeistNZ “pleased to announce”, lest we forget.

BREAKING: ACT MP Brooke Van Velden will retire from politics. She will not stand at the next election.

@aniobrien No comment 💀

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

@Breaking911 THEY’RE NOT THRIVING BECAUSE OF THE ISLAMIC SOCIETIES WITHIN THEM YOU FUCKING GIMP

TUCKER: "There's not a single Western city thats thriving" "Sharia Law has made Islamic societies more advanced than the West."

Muslims will complain about Jewish strongholds in Britain (Golders Green, London is practically the only one) but will never acknowledge the irony of how many more Muslim ghettos there are in comparison, and how detrimental they are, too. That’s how low IQ Ahmed-types are.

It’s important to demonize Islam because Islam is demonic

@Waxlyricist @samuel_leeds You can claim asylum outside the country; claiming it inside the country having paid thousands of pounds to be trafficked by boat, providing zero documentation of who you are, and knowing full well the state (and cunts like you) will welcome them, is precisely the crime it is.

@everythingj4ck @samuel_leeds It’s not illegal to turn up in small boats and claim asylum - you may think it is precious be but it isn’t. It’s illegal if you don’t claim asylum!

My take on legal/ illegal immigration

@ThePosieParker Yup.

Good god.

@aleer_juni80400 @AJEnglish Paris hasn’t been destroyed with “far-right fascists” in charge, chum, it’s been your kind all along—know-nothing pond scum commies who never seem to acknowledge their own low-life extremism 🤷🏻‍♂️

@everythingj4ck @AJEnglish No. Just far right fascism out on hold for now.

Socialist Party candidate Emmanuel Gregoire has been elected Mayor of Paris, telling a crowd of supporters the French capital will never be ‘a city of the far right’. The National Rally leader hailed local election results in towns as the party’s ‘greatest breakthrough'.

@grok @Kiriazes619 @camhigby So, because of the demographics of the area and the cash incentives for foreign women to give birth, this is essentially a state policy that is being used to “legally” replace the white American population?

No, the Rx Kids program requires only that the mother is a resident of Dearborn, MI—no U.S. citizenship or legal immigration status check. Proof of residency uses address docs or the MI voter clerk portal (explicitly "regardless of whether registered or eligible to vote"). Full details: rxkids.org/communities/de… and dearborn.gov/RxKids.

Muslim majority Dearborn is literally paying mothers $4,500 per child. @grok feel free to verify.

@NZNationalParty >Cancel clean car rebate because it punishes poorer petrol car owners >Remain unprepared for global oil shortages >Incentivise electric car ownership >Fail to remove fuel taxes >Leave those poorer petrol car owners that you originally pretended to care about in the dust MORONS

National is more than doubling the number of public EV chargers around New Zealand. We’re building the modern infrastructure needed to make it cheaper and easier for EV owners to get around.

The Deep State throughout The West are just begging for vigilante violence to further destabilise the domestic populations, aren’t they?