Meatcider

A Guillotine, the solution.

Don’t sit this one out. The Regulatory Standards Bill is a direct threat to all of us.

It’s a gift to corporates. It favours privatisation & cuts to public services.

If there’s one thing you do this weekend, make a submission and get a mate to do one too.

Closes 1pm, Mon 23 June 2025.

#NZPol

Things that are not uncivil: A haka.

Things that are uncivil: Telling someone working OT they’re a fucking loser;Telling NZ residents born overseas to go home; Referring to emails from Indian people as a scam; Abusing performers at a event; Talking about blowing up a Ministry; Misogny; Racism.

Why isn’t there a “coalition of the willing” to stop the mass starvation and genocide in Gaza?

Imagine the western reaction if Iran had bombed a humanitarian aid ship trying to feed starving civilians.

Imagine if Russian forces were caught massacring medical workers in ambulances.

Imagine If China bombed an international humanitarian aid convoy in clearly marked vehicles.

I hope winston dies before the next election.

154% tariff on MAGA hats.

#NZPol

Just another perk for the billionaires.

It should’ve been this plane

Screenshot of an Instagram post by Chadleft. Then ACT party president [now former president] had name suppression during the last election while he was charged with abusing teenage boys. Used positions of power with access to teenage boys. There was a clear pattern going back 30yrs. Sentenced to 2.5yrs in jail

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Privatisation is such a scam. It’s just asset stripping. When NZ Rail was privatised the new owners made it ‘profitable’ by closing down lines and literally ripping up the steel rails and selling them offshore. Once they realised profits from asset stripping they sold the company back to Govt.

the shared values

Fucking 💯💯💯💯 this!!!

Stop voting for Labour hoping they will reverse neo liberal policy when they started this whole neo liberal shit show in the first place and have not renounced neo liberalism at ALL!!

Vote TPM or Green for fuck sake!

#nzpol

The Biden legacy

The only thing this lot are serious about is getting your money in their pockets.

"Kāinga Ora’s $1.2m Meadowbank apartments sit vacant for months" by Ben Leahy, 19 Jan 2025 "The agency earlier drew criticism for spending $11m to build the three, three-bedroom and six two-bedroom apartments in Auckland's Meadowbank suburb. Mark Todd, co-founder of developer Ockham Residential, had earlier been among Kainga Ora's biggest critics after the Herald revealed the cost of the apartments last October." $1.2m per apartment: New Käinga Ora apartments part of billion-dollar scandal, developer says" by Ben Leahy, 13 Oct 2024 "Mark Todd, co-founder of developer Ockham Residential, believed the project's cost-per-apartment highlighted the agency's "incompetence and lack of expertise" and called reports it racked up $12 billion in debt in five years a scandal."

Manufacturing consent with NZ Herald: get a private property developer to frame his state-run competition as incompetent & wasting taxpayer money, then do it again months later but act like it's another piece of evidence & not the same story with the same developer & journalist.

Sorry to hear that Baby Grand is to vanish; always felt like a bit of a hidden gem at that end of Bath Street. Great for pre/apres show pints and eats when visiting the King's Theatre.

I was once stuck in the Chunnel for eighteen and a half hours. I doubt we'd even get that level of quality here.

Wondering if this time next year I'll be thinking, "2024 wasn't that bad really..."

Merry Christmas, arsehole

A photograph of Nicola Willis and a lettuce with googley eyes referencing an opinion piece in The Economist that compared the expected brevity of Truss's premiership to the shelf life of a head of lettuce, with the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis occurring weeks into her tenure and leading many political commentators to opine that Truss's resignation was imminent. She announced her resignation as prime minister on 20 October 2022, before the lettuce had wilted; the Daily Star

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Give me those controls I used to run a frickin airline !! #nzpol

Cartoon depicts seven sinking ships torpedoed by a submarine labelled 'NAF' ( National, Act, NZFirst parties ). In the conning tower Nicola Willis: "We're saving so much money!" Captain Chris Luxon: "Full steam ahead and damn the cost of torpedoes." Sunk ships labelled: Irex Hybrid Ferries, Hopspitals, Public Service, 3 waters low cost water scheme, light rail,public housing, hospitals. Title: 'Sunk Cost Fools At Sea'. ( Rhyming with 'sunk cost fallacy' which does not apply to the above. ) Refers to coalition government cancelling successful projects mid way through, wasting billions of dollars.

Government waste #cartoon #nzpol #repost

Irvine Welsh to publish new sequel to Trainspotting Men in Love will pick up the stories of the original crew immediately after the close of the 1993 classic as they become serious in their quest for romance It has been just over 30 years since readers first encountered Trainspotting’s Mark Renton…

Irvine Welsh to publish new sequel to Trainspotting

Top NZ Herald headline, 29 Aug 2023, Thomas Coughlan: "Election 2023: National Party to release tax plan tomorrow, churches and charities to keep tax exemption" Bottom NZ Herald 7 Dec 2024, Thomas Coughlan: "She [Nicola Willis] used the week of scrutiny to give an almost unprecedentedly frank confirmation that the Budget is likely to include some form of tax on businesses operating as charities. Willis has never denied this was on the cards, and confirmed it weeks ago in the publication of the Inland Revenue Department’s tax work programme, but dropping the hint again this week could be seen as a clever effort to frustrate Labour’s so far effective effort to build a rhetorical bridge between the vast demands on public spending from the health system and its pledge to run on a progressive tax policy (probably a capital gains tax) in 2026."

Before the election, NZ Herald's Thomas Coughlan was telling his readers National wouldn't be taxing charities. Now his pal Nicola Willis has done a u-turn, his line is "it was always on the cards."

For some reason right-wing politicians are allowed to change their minds on tax.