There is no woman who has time for not one, but two whole entire affairs You notice women never have secret second families. Like, another set of people to schedule, feed, clothe and care for??

IMO people give Mowbray and the billionaires too much credit. If we go by donations, then the left would never stood a chance, but we did. Labour IMO has to take responsibility for running poor electorate campaigns throughout the country. #nzpol

I don't know WTF Gerry is on about . Overhang is EXACTLY what is wrong with FPP: that the seats aren't proportional to percentage of party vote received. If you want to get rid of overhang, get rid of electorate seats altogether. #nzpol www.farmersweekly.co.nz/politics/ele...

Election result could revive First Past the Post debate, Brownlee says

An 11-seat parliamentary overhang has sparked questions about MMP, with Gerry Brownlee and Chris Hipkins raising concerns over the election result.

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Assuming specials go for Labour and Greens and increase their party vote, AND the 2 marginal electorate seats both go to Labour, then the right block will NOT have a majority, and must need TOP for support: in the scenario, NAT+ACT+NZF has only 40+12+11 = 63 seats in a 130 seats Parliament. #nzpol

The coalition STILL won Auckland, by about 80k votes in total. Here is the quick sum based on data around 12:45pm. If you don't win Auckland, you don't win at all. #nzpol

I caution against hoping special votes will swing the result. In this election, these votes are from people voting out of their electorate, AND they were too late to change address before enrolment deadline. The number is likely to be small and there is no guarantee it will swing Labour. #nzpol

Good news! Nicola Willis and Gerry Brownlee are gone! #pyrrhic-victory #nzpol

As of 11:40pm, there are 2 electorate seats that can realistically go to Labour instead of National: Hamilton East and Wairarapa. In this case, assuming party vote percentage remains more or less the same, it will be a 128 seats parliament, but NAT+NZF+ACT will still have 65 seats majority. #nzpol

IMO Labour pouring resources into "winning back" Green/TPM electorate seats is classic friendly fire. They should have focused on unseating the Nats. #nzpol

As of right now, National can still lose 4 electorate seats with razor thin margin and remove 4 overhangs - Hamilton East, Mt Roskill, Takanini, Whangarei. Then it will be a 126 seats parliament. Then it will be a hung parliament with LAB+GRE+TPM+OPP having 63 seats. Unless OPP swing right. #nzpol

Getting ready to monitor 72 tabs tomorrow night. *flex*

IMO anything from TPU-Curia should be discounted. They are more interested in creating opinion rather than measuring opinion. #nzpol

Michael Law's non-apology is just that: a non-apology. "If I have offended, I unreservedly apologise". 🙄 VS a whole hearted apology such as: I have realised what I said is wrong, therefore I apologise. It should have been no ifs, no buts. #nzpol

Surely this is Luxon’s walk the plank moment? #nzpol #election2026 #sheepinpolitics

I’ve realised I’ve been remiss in posting about #Seymour’sSlop this week so you’re getting three days worth at once, starting with Rich Gravy on Beef Rissoles & Potatoes, Chicken Pasta with Ricotta, and finishing up with Chicken Pasta Salad. Extra comments are in ALT text. Vote them out #nzpol

Paul Goldsmith, in despair over his chance of getting back into Parliament. #nzpol

I just love the infighting between coalition partners (i.e. ACT and NZF picking over the caress of Nats) trying to engineer overhang for Nats. The worst case scenario is that National gets zero overhang, instead Labour got the overhang, while Nats lose party vote to ACT and NZF. #nzpol

RIP Patrick Stewart. Picard 4 life. 😢

#Seymour’sSlop of Chicken Meatball Rice Bowl gave us a reprieve today from carrot for beans. Still a meh and I like beans #nzpol

Don't let this government's attempts disenfrancise you. You can vote! And if you think you might need some extra help, more info here www.greens.org.nz/vote_2026

www.bbc.com/news/article... Wait, Mao Zedong isn't a dictator in a very loose sense? It is all about not wanting to offend PRC and/or sponsorship in China deal and/or Chinese people. But not all Chinese people are enamoured with Mao Zedong, and caving in to some keyboard warrior in PRC is worse.

Mbappé sorry for 'ill-judged' Mao remark after backlash in China

The France star had referred to the former Chinese leader as a "dictator" during an interview about memes.

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So, up until today, with every #Seymour’sSlop lunch, kids had the option of taking a small snack of something like chickpea crackers. That stopped today with an apparent increase in size of the meal. How do you like the look of sweet & Sour Chicken with Rice today?? #nzpol

Now for something a bit random: annual "Defense of Japan" white paper just dropped by Ministry of Defense in Japan, for 2026. Yes that is the cover. www.mod.go.jp/en/publ/w_pa...

Labour orders its Auckland Central candidate to toe the party foreign policy line, as Naisi Chen made foreign affairs promises to Chinese-speaking voters that are absent from its own foreign policy spokesperson's speeches. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3611...

Labour reins in electorate candidate on foreign policy

Naisi Chen claimed to Chinese-speaking voters that Labour would “fix” relations between New Zealand and China - a pledge that is missing from party spokesperson Vanushi Walters’ speeches.

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You can vote to say no more #Seymour’sSlop like today’s offering of a Cheesy Beef Pasta Bake. I’m expecting heartburn to kick in later #nzpol

Y'all saw Chlöe Swarbrick challenged Nicola Willis to a (verbal) duel on finance, right? Right??? #nzpol

Children in poverty cannot eat a surplus

www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... idk, maybe after $1mil spend, he would have considered running his own stack and spending on his own hardware, instead of just spending more on tokens. $9 million, even in this market, can get you a LOT of hardware. This is what zero-accountability looks like.

OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month

Good thing it's somebody else's money

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newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/20/s... Former NZSC Justice Arnold is taking up appointment in Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal. The court in HK is nowadays being used to routinely prosecute civil right activists. Many former UKSC judges had already left. Maybe Arnold should join the exodus? #nzpol

There are just six days left to enrol, but we are about 130k behind where final enrolment got to last time - when people could still enrol all the way through election day. It is becoming very hard to see this gap really closing in such a short time.