robbo spence

@wright95609 @MattKingNorth Wrong, the government sold the 31% shareholding in the late 1980's. It was fully owned by the oil companies at time of closure.

@robbo_spence @MattKingNorth Government was a major shareholder in said refinery and were part of the decision, read their cabinet paper

This NZ Labour cabinet were responsible for the single biggest act of economic sabotage in our lifetime allowing the shutdown of the Marsden Point oil refinery.

@nzpoliticsgroup Luxo and Nicorette have no clues

NZ is DOOMED 🚨🚨🚨 Fitch puts New Zealand AA+ rating on negative outlook over rising debt nzherald.co.nz/nz/fitch-puts-…

@Leonard73714140 Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

@nzpoliticsgroup Our navy can't survey a reef, the Iranians can do a bit more than shouty hurty words and the trigger happy yanks will mistake them for a threat, other than that a sound idea DC.

NZ frigate - Luxon and Iran Imagine NZ helping out the US with a frigate through the Straits 🚨🚨🚨 It’s not going to happen and if did you would not see that frigate again✅ Luxon might be a bit naive and gullible but he’s not that stupid.

@OdohertyI64991 Auchtung spitfuer!!!

Commando comics were great. A generation grew up thinking the German language consisted entirely of 'schnell!', 'nein' and "gott un himmel!'"

@JamieWall2 @martindevlinnz Tana's football sides have not been that successful.

Can we now presume Tana Umaga will be added to the All Black coaching staff? @martindevlinnz

@tony_calvin He scored about 10m in from touch an international goal kicker should be getting those kicks

Don't know where to start unpicking that game last night, but this was ludicrous from Chessum. Heading for the posts is one of the first things drilled into you as a young kid.

@matt_horncastle Love it when people with zero oil and gas experience make grand pronouncements. Marsden pt was uneconomic only supplied 60% of NZ diesel and it required a major injection of CAPEX (2 billion), $4-5 per litre anyone?. Crude is sourced from the Gulf which is the pinch point.

Most New Zealanders have never heard of Marsden Point. They should. Marsden Point was New Zealand’s only oil refinery. It could take crude oil from anywhere in the world and refine it into petrol, diesel and jet fuel right here in New Zealand. At its peak it processed about 135000 barrels of crude oil per day. A large share of the country’s transport fuel passed through that refinery. It was not just an industrial site. It was strategic infrastructure. If global supply chains were disrupted, New Zealand still had the ability to refine fuel ourselves. In 2022 we shut it down. The refinery was converted into a fuel import terminal. Instead of refining crude oil here, we now rely entirely on importing finished petrol and diesel from overseas refineries. The argument was simple. Refining fuel locally was slightly more expensive. Environmental pressure also played a role. So the decision was made that New Zealand would simply import refined fuel instead. That logic works in a perfectly stable world. But the world is not stable. There is now a major war in the Middle East, the region that produces a huge share of the world’s oil and sits across some of the most important energy shipping routes on Earth. New Zealand no longer has the ability to refine crude oil. We rely on tankers arriving from overseas. If those supply chains are disrupted we do not simply turn Marsden Point back on. It is gone. Energy security used to be something serious governments understood. Countries built refineries, maintained fuel reserves and planned for worst case scenarios because modern societies run on energy. No fuel means no trucks. No trucks means no food distribution. No aviation. No construction. No functioning economy. Civilisation quite literally runs on diesel. This is a reminder that the real world still exists. Serious countries make serious decisions about strategic infrastructure. Sometimes those decisions are unpopular. Sometimes they are not fashionable. But adults understand that ideology does not power a country. Energy does. And energy security matters.

@chimerajaxs Tartare sauce

Need recommendations: what complements beer-battered blue cod… but not chips?

@meco78526 You forgot the massively subsidised super scheme that all pollies get.

52k accomodation allowance 8k labour's clean car subsidy $8100 rates relief on luxury Waiheke holiday home $4100 of taxpayer funded te reo lessons. Rolled back bright line test to avoid tax on his $600K profit from house flipping Botany electorate office, he owns it & claims $45k

@rugbyphilosophy Southern hemisphere just doesn't get it - a weekend away after a 1 hour flight to some of the greatest capitals and grounds on the planet preceded and followed by loads of pints and great banter.

Dear 6 Nations fans, I want to give you an insight into the mindset of Southern Hemisphere (albeit New Zealand) rugby fans. For years, there’s been this sentiment down under that 6 Nations rugby is rubbish compared to the Rugby Championship. Admittedly, it turns out this rivalry is pretty one-sided. Apparently, you guys don’t really care much about the North vs South thing, while down here, we care deeply. Like a little brother making up a competition just so he can beat his older brother. But I want to give you some insight into where this perception has come from and why we think this way. 6 Nations fans love their rugby because it produces some of the most exceptional rivalries, and high pressure moments in the international rugby. Highly pressurised, back and forth, leave-nothing-on-the-field, pressure cauldrons. Each team duking it out with each other, landing blows, trading penalties, until one team finally wrestles momentum to score the match-winning penalty with seconds left on the clock. BUT... they were trading penalties. Every moment one team gave an inch, the other team would capitalise in the form of a penalty. To us New Zealanders, we’d wake up on a Sunday morning, pop on the highlights, and watch a 3-minute penalty compilation. "Boring!" we’d shout, and go back to drinking our milo and eating our marmite toast. What we missed were the stories. The moments, the pressure, the devastation of loss and heartbreak at a mere penalty changing the balance of an 80-minute encounter. "But we want tries," we’d say. Most Northern Hemisphere fans would think we meant try-fests, or defenceless muckabouts where it’s basically like watching 7s. No time building pressure, no moments of teams beating each other to try to force an inch of difference. But that was far from what we meant. It’s not just more tries because of poor defence. It’s tries because teams and players are so exceptional in their skillset that they are able to exploit the smallest error for a try, rather than focusing on the big giveaways that result in penalties. And that final game between England and France perfectly encapsulates what we’ve been saying all this time. Rather than a tit-for-tat of penalties building to massive moments, it’s a tit-for-tat of incredible tries. It was the same beautiful, powerful, pressured rivalry. The same storied history. The same never-say-die attitude, the same moments of pressure, the same giving everything on the field, but now the moments, the inches given, are capitalised on not by penalties, but by tries. Two powerhouse teams giving their all, exchanging blows and capitalising on each other's mistakes with TRIES. Beautiful, glorious, spectacular tries! Just look at this shift: France (2022): 17 tries and 12 penalty goals. France (2026): 30 tries and 3 penalty goals. England (2022): 8 tries and 17 penalty goals. England (2026): 21 tries and 6 penalty goals. This latest game is the exact opposite of what we’ve critiqued about 6 Nations rugby in years gone by. It's exactly what we've been talking about! It's the kind of rugby that keeps us awake at 3:00am. And if this is the new 6 Nations, then the old 'North vs South' grudge is officially moot. That was world-class rugby, and we can't get enough of it.

@KiwiFrontline Meridian set the precedent -$100 million to Ngai Tahu as hush money for not contesting RMA

FARMERS WILL BE EXTORTED BY THE IWI MAFIA - Rural NZ is under siege...MAFIA STAND OVER TACTICS....Farmers in Gore are staring down a new reality....Now it's PAY Ngai Tahu to assess whether your earthworks harm the SPIRITUAL ESSENCE OF THE SOIL.....> breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2026/03/elliot…

@nzpoliticsgroup @chrisluxonmp @dbseymour @winstonpeters Yes but Luxo is sorted, he got his subsidised vehicle then shut the gate on hard working Kiwis.

Buy an electric vehicle and avoid all the problems of needing oil and having carless days. 🚨🚨🚨 Both Labour and National have quite rightly been pushing it. They should be encouraging more people to buy EVs now ! @chrisluxonmp @dbseymour @winstonpeters

@GregPresland @thestandard Luxo is on some bible retreat speaking in tongues - too busy to lead.

Jacinda Ardern led the country through some taxing international crises. How would she deal with the potential oil shock caused by the Iranian war and how does this compare to Luxon’s response? The oil crisis - What would Jacinda do? thestandard.nz/the-oil-crisis… via @thestandard

@PrimeWalsh Got to be gaelic football - huge at home

@IrishAotearoan Onslow would never haver worked. Should have subdidised domestic solar for all and put a tunnel to transfer water from West Coast to Lake Pukaki.

If we’d started on Onslow a few years back we wouldn’t need to worry about the price of coal, oil or LNG imports and if there wasn’t any to import that’s fine too. Instead…..

@lady_valor_07 Nic Cage

Steven Seagal.

@kaiviti_cam Nats are full of religious nutters, NZ will be relying on Win to hold it all together.

11/ Sources in the Beehive say that the PMO has divided into two factions, those who are advocating staying on at all costs and those wanting to offer Luxon a bottle of whisky & a revolver Typical of National they are all too fearful to really say anything in public, but there is a viscous battle going between the two factions

🧵How screwed is Luxon? Well, in short, very screwed. Look, everyone keeps saying he mis-spoke. He didn't mis-speak, he is just dead set useless and doesn't know what he is doing.

@goodlobster1 Womans cricket is up there

Women’s tennis ✅ Women’s golf ✅ Women’s athletics ✅ Women’s netball ✅ But seriously. I reckon I could put a team of over 50 yr old mates with beer bellies together and beat the Football Ferns Women’s football is terrible in NZ Fight me 🤷‍♂️