Craig Neilson

@grandmundi @MorganGodfery @JoshVanVeen Are you ruling out Winston Peters? A majority is needed to form a government. If they need him for 1 seat, that's the "same amount" of leverage as it would be for 6.

@exquire @MorganGodfery @JoshVanVeen but that does not mean the same amount of leverage - he's not the kingmaker now, which is a very big difference.

@grandmundi @MorganGodfery @JoshVanVeen Is it? If they need him, they need him.

@MorganGodfery @JoshVanVeen Yes but Winston’s leverage is diminished to some degree compared with all the pre election hype.

@DylanReeve At least if NZ First is involved we get to do all this again in a few weeks.

@chazharris @StrayDogNZ Journalists we are READY for you to ask Luxon which Taylor Swift tells listeners to calm down

@StrayDogNZ I’m still not over him trying to quote a Taylor Swift song and getting the song title/lyric WRONG

Is there anything more condescending than Luxon repeatedly and smugly telling Hipkins to calm down and be respectful?

@BenUffindell Hello I'm running for Parliament and have rented this billboard only to put someone else's face and message on it. I'll leave my own name and party off. I am so good at my job.

Okay so now let's talk about this.

@AotearoaSam Surely the election is the trigger, right? I'm uninstalling the app as soon as we're done with this topic.

Twitter without headlines defeats the main thing that gets me to open the app - I come fror the news, I stay for the views. Be excellent if NZ media could start migrating to the other place soon!

For the true Treasury cognoscenti the Financial Statements of the Government for 2023 were provided today. It provides the real and audited state of the Crowns accounts. They are largely as expected, but a few things may be of interest. A short thread...

@bentorkington They walk among us and there's not really a nice way to talk about the problem

@Tim_Batt They might tell their parents they voted that away just cos it's not worth the argument! But what you tick in the voting booth is up to you.

Crack up that the anti-Vote At 16 crowd is like "THEY'LL JUST VOTE FOR WHO THEIR PARENTS VOTE FOR" and then the news goes to a rest home and interview multiple pensioners who vote simply based on who their parents voted for.

@SimeonBrownMP @drayeshaverrall There's no community notes on this now sooo...

Congratulations @drayeshaverrall on your community notes promotion to being minister for misinformation!!

@actuallosergal Yeah man, Julie Ann Genter is the real deal and would slay for Rongotai.

@actuallosergal Is it the bright, poppy colourful artwork on the cans!? Me too man, threw me across the room.

Report on one of the roads that had speed limits reduced showed 34 crashes avoided in a year and journey times increase by 3.6 minutes. Over a year this equated to $93m in benefits for about 1.3m in costs. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/el…

@essigna Yeah why didn't they send the much-younger Chris Bishop??

@JessTerraformE @LI_politico @jukic_d Yes just put two and two together! Nice you see you again, keep up the good work.

@JessTerraformE @LI_politico @jukic_d Well *that* sure earned you a follow!

@JohnSurico Gonna be so cool when there are like 40 million 90 year olds driving around 🫠

@actuallosergal It's a dumb take - on these numbers votes could shift between Labour and Green and one of them would win. The only threat here is National - he should be going after those votes.

@GoodBallSport @NewshubNationNZ And one of them is the back.

Does National's 32-page document stack up? Catch the full interview at 9.30 on Three and ThreeNow #NationNZ

@queencynethryth @ThisIsCorey Wow this would not fly in my policy analysis paper at uni. No wonder that can't find an economist to put their name to it.

Has anyone gone through the 32 page report and take the photos out to see how long it really is yet?