National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic.
Labour saved 20,000 lives.
National are saving landlords and tobacco
Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol
Price index for imported and exported goods compared to CPI. What's going on here? From the 1980s, 'advanced' economies expanded private and public debt, extracted resources from the global south (who were effectively 'kept poor'), and benefited from manufacturing / tech efficiencies 🙏 [🧵 1/n]
Right-wing commentators were *obsessed* with what they fancied was the former Labour govt's control of the media. Yet now we have what looks like direct political interference with reporting that ministers didn't like. Far out. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/t...
Totally not of this government's making... #nzpol
I love how quickly New Zealand media gloss over that Jacinda Ardern is still the most popular politician according to polls measuring favourability, and she always was as Prime Minister as well which was always contrary to the dominant gallery narrative that she had become a figure of division
Having an ACT mp as minister of workplace relations obviously sets the norms for ministerial appointments in such a way as to necessitate a green mp as minister of agriculture.
I'm just saying the left needs to follow the right's lead on this stuff
3.2 billion divided by the 9000ish farmer shareholders means each one gets $355,000ish each.
Watch them still complain about not being able to afford making simple changes to their farms to stop them from flooding.
"Nah. She'll be right mate! Trev, throw another $100 on the fire! I'm cold"
#nzpol
So just to be clear Luxon wants Kiwi families to pay a new tax on their power bills to build an LNG terminal that we don’t need & that will cook the climate, so that Methanex, a company contributing 0 dollars in tax themselves, can keep sending their profits offshore. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/30/m...
Women do not owe you smiles.
Women do not owe you kindness, deference or demure complacency.
Women do not owe you attention or ego stroking.
Women do not owe you sex.
Imagine being asked about child sex trafficking and telling a female reporter to smile more?
Government continues to load huge costs onto local councils, while loudly declaring that local councils are bad with money.
National squandered $6B for climate resilience projects, using it to top up tax cuts for their mates, and now local councils are footing the bill instead 👇🏼
Incidentally, the Franks were a German refugee family who fled to the Netherlands in 1934. The moral challenges facing their Dutch neighbors were not entirely dissimilar to those facing Americans over whether to help a newly anti-refugee govt deport Somalis or Venezuelans to unsafe countries
[I am reposting as I have fixed an error in processing the csv file (in turning dates in Jan and Oct from text to date where Excel truncated year.month x.10 to x.1)
Visualisation of how much bread the minimum wage can afford to buy, which is well below 2016 when National were last in government.
If you're deliberately failing at climate and emmisions targets, then you are not "doing everything we can to help flooding victims"
A T-100 with a single teardrop & ‘terminator sorry’ written under it
$100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated
That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed
Another one of my charts of the year
The “master negotiator” couldn’t even line up his own ducks in a row, so it now suits him to be bipartisan - but wouldn’t uphold his end of bipartisanship when it came to housing or climate change. Useless is the only adequate descriptor for Luxon.
Boughs of Anthony Joshua holly about to deck the Jake Paul halls
Who cut the $1000 Kickstarter? National
Who reduced the minimum contribution to 3%? National
Who reduced the member tax credit from $1040 to $521? National
Who then reduced the same member tax credit from $521 to $260.72? National.
Don't believe National on Kiwisaver.
#nzpol
I like to rip them up into tiny tiny pieces before recycling. It does nothing much but makes me feel better.
Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.
"up to 10 minutes"
That's the maximum amount of time saved. Ten minutes.
How fucking WEAK are we that we cannot abide ten whole fucking minutes for the sake of the environment, road safety, etc etc?
Christ, this is a country of whiney piss babies
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
Despite all the evidence subsidies work perfectly well in practice, The Treasury knows full well they’ll never ever work in theory
#nzpol
Happy Friday to the super wealthy country where 150,000 children live in poverty. That's about 1-in-8 young kiwis. Obviously, there is simply nothing to be done about this.
Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch
Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch https://theonion.com/dolly-parton-shares-video-confirming-sister-a-shit-stirring-bitch/
[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword
[the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know
The 2023 IRD wealth study found that the richest 300 people in NZ pay tax on income of 9.4%, versus 28% for someone earning $80k. Luxon Govt is removing the clauses of the tax law that allowed IRD to collect the study data. They don’t want you to know. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
