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This was blindingly obvious to anyone with 2 working brain cells, but apparently not to Nicola Willis.

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You can't refine air, Shame Jones. Crude isn't going out so it wouldn't have mattered if we had the refinery open.

Yep, of course. We all know there are only two genders (/sarcasm alert).

I hope all people who are not currently of the 1%ers will use their voting power wisely. Being aspirational billionaire doesn't count either.

McAnulty seems to master it. So maybe it's time for Hipkins to do an Andrew Little.

It do wonder why he is so good at these #BHN interviews but falls short on MSM. It could be that MSM isn't giving him 30 minutes worth of interview or simply cut what he says so it will fit their agenda. I would expect a seasoned politician like Hipkins to know how to handle it.

I'm doing my best to ignore the misogynistic undertone. "Who is offering the Precarious Left something more than the cultural politics of the Educated Progressives?"
The Greens and TPM!

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I'm open to discussing which is the better method of funding as long as no private money is involved and the effect is of leveling the playing field.

That's a shame because Chippy was great on #BHN last night.

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For the parties n the left it wouldn't make a difference. We are used to campaigning on the smell of an oily rag. But it will cripple ACT, Nat & NZF's ability to bullshit bombard us with billboards all over the motu.

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Political parties elections campaigns need to be funded by the state. Decide on a reasonable expense amount per MP and they will get according to the number of MPs they currently have. If they can't win with it, tough. It means your message is not appealing to the public.

So they are trying to pretend they donate to all the parties so they can claim they are not trying to buy policies that will favour them.
Right.

Are they real?
"Meanwhile, Act’s finance spokesman...said his party was concerned the proposal could amount to double taxation “once when the loan is deemed taxable, and again when the shareholder has to use already-taxed income to repay the loan”.
We always pay loans from our taxable income!
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🤣 sorry, but the govt insisting we are too small to do anything meaningful on the world stage is all of a sudden looking how it can threaten big oil?

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Who would have thought that more staff and longer operating hours would cut the wait list. It's a mystery, really.

Fund our health system properly!

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Why would any Nat decide that now is the time for leadership roll, when an economic mayhem is about to be unleashed. They agreed their policies are the best thing since soft butter, so can't justify a U-turn. They sense an election defeat might as well let Luxoff take the blame.

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Not wealthy enough? NOT WEALTHY ENOUGH?!?
He sits on a $500k salary + perks. If he can't manage a most comfortable life on that, then he should not be telling beneficiaries to do better budgeting.

Nat voters showing yet again they do not understand that all those things under the "Economy" label is the fucking economy!

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I boycott everything I can identify as coming from the US and now that Fonterra sold their brands to overseas ownership I avoid those as well and but produce from small organic farms.

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They have no idea. About anything in fact.

"yet somehow I managed to get an education."
Well, that is debatable.

Same vibe as 'we didn't have to wear seatbelts in my days and we all turned out just fine' (except for those who didn't).

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Aotearoa will become the dumping ground of the world. We will be world leaders in pollution!

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Funny how when you say we need cycleways like in Amsterdam or density like in many other countries the response is always - but we are not Amsterdam and NZ is different, yet when it comes to these apartments for the uber wealthy they forget that we are not like other countries.

Fireworks on steroids.

I'm at the 'we need to ban religion' stage of my life.

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He was so good at avoiding conflict he instigated the hate that got a PM murdered.

When are we going to demand that women's lives be valued at least at the same level of the corner dairy?

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In February we bought 18% at peak time & exported 14%. If we all had rooftop solar + battery there will be lower demand even at peak time & these batteries can be the storage for dry day.
But all of this is too long term thinking for this govt if they do any thinking at all.

This could be such an easy win for Labour. Require the gentailers to re-invest ALL of govt's dividends in rooftop solar subsidies. You have 51%, you call the shots as to what is done with that money.

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Preventing logic from flowing into his brain.

If your goal is to replace an oppressive, illegitimate theocracy with a functioning democracy, then you quietly work with the secular grassroots activists on the ground.
You do not bomb the life out of the same people you pretend to care about.