If you are disheartened by the first image, then look at the second image and then tell your mates to enroll to vote and then bully them into voting for greens ✌🏽

This has aged worse than sour milk. "Luxon rejected suggestions that a Defence Force flight allowed greater flexibility." #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Christopher Luxon commits to flying commercial if elected

Opposition leader Christopher Luxon says he will not use Defence Force planes to travel internationally if elected as prime minister.

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At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 19h ago

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

Well now I’m confused. If a tank comes rolling past will it mean there’s an invasion or just Luxon on his way to a fundraiser?

Not for *government duties* for his role as leader of the National Party for a party *fundraiser* for the *election* Surely this is outside the bounds of what the Air Force should be used for?? Seems like an enormous breach of his access to public assets! www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Christopher Luxon defends using Air Force flight to attend National Party fundraiser

Christopher Luxon is defending his use of an Air Force flight after attending a National Party fundraiser, saying he has a "busy job" and "full schedule".

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#nzpol Seymour calls a focus group for his #SeymourSlop

Lauren M@elenem.bsky.social · 20h ago

Fucking SIGH

First-degree burn from the crowd that looks like melted action figures drawn from memory

Too tired to make dinner, so I made a ice cold fruit salad that required a delicate blend of fresh lime, quinine and juniper berries. (if you catch my drift)

The major party in govt not being "legally" allowed to share a bill with another major party in parliament in order to get their support to pass it, has to be the most stupidest excuse I've ever heard. Oh look, and it came from our Education Minister... #nzpol

National wants to show Labour the social media ban bill, but 'we can't', education minister says

The education minister says she hopes to get a copy of the social media ban bill to Labour's caucus this week, after previously saying legal reasons were preventing her from doing so.

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The assholes who want to go back to the past, really have no idea about the past do they.

Northern & proud 👊@gazlancs.bsky.social · yesterday

French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡

All the talk that NZ got this resilient abundant power supply for data centers... facepalms with the first dusting of snow in ... Winter.. #nzpol

Every election cycle National spreads fear about what the Greens and TPM will do in coalition. Remind me again, when have Labour's partners ever threatened to bring down the Government? Will media push back against NACT when they spread the same nonsense this election? I'm not holding my breath.

I have learnt so much about economics by reading @musicalchairs.bsky.social threads. Such a pity politicians and pundits aren't reading them too #nzpol

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · yesterday

[🤓post] This is the pile of financial assets that RBNZ is holding for the purpose of 'liquidity management'. See the big red hump? That's Govt bonds that RBNZ bought during Cvid (aka QE). RBNZ's been selling them off for a few years. 'Green' is the low interest cash sprayed at banks (FLP) [🧵 1/n]

My unpopular 2 cents about latest Roy Morgan polling, and just in general actually. #nzpol #Kikorangi

In today’s NZ Herald

There’s been a lot of talk about children this past week - how to punish them, how to breed them, and how business people are like them - but none of it about child welfare. My #cartoon today #NZpol

[🤓post] This is the pile of financial assets that RBNZ is holding for the purpose of 'liquidity management'. See the big red hump? That's Govt bonds that RBNZ bought during Cvid (aka QE). RBNZ's been selling them off for a few years. 'Green' is the low interest cash sprayed at banks (FLP) [🧵 1/n]

Back in the day, when we built stuff, RBNZ gave Govt special accounts so Govt could spend millions building houses etc without selling bonds to investors. RBNZ basically just gave Govt an overdraft. The ghouls hate this shit - where's the rent in RBNZ financing state houses for public use? [Ends]

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

i understand this is a stupid question but can anyone who understands #nzpol more than me explain what TOP's deal is? on face value a lot of their policies seem to superficially align with the Greens, but they're not the Greens because...?

Vote. Them. Out.

Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa@sanjanah.bsky.social · 2d ago

Huh? #nzpol @openpolicy.bsky.social

Accidentally. Sure

Ms Hooper@mshooper.bsky.social · yesterday

Two out of three log-in options for the country’s digital election enrolment system were temporarily removed last weekend, preventing people from switching rolls for several hours in the final days before the deadline. #nzpol

This is why we can't trust the seabed miners. They're not giving up - and neither are we - we need to get a BAN ON SEABED MINING in place as soon as possible. Sign our petition, ask questions at candidate meetings... www.kasm.org.nz/ban-seabed-m... #nzpol

At least we have the media conductor Thomas Coughlan's excellent opinion piece to laugh at #nzpol

You should all be using Claude, Luxon told Rotorua businesspeople. So we did

You should all be using Claude, Luxon told Rotorua businesspeople. So we did

We fired up the AI chatbot to assess the prime minister's comments in response to what he called a 'negative view' question....

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#NZPol

Yet another shitty move Disenfranchise voters ✅ Count how many ❌

Hayley@writagal.bsky.social · 2d ago

“The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren’t on the printed roll and who say they’re unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected.” So nice to see democracy in action, nothing to worry about here, love NZ’s accessible and clear election process.

Winston et al have seen the way it works. They know this bullshit guarantees airtime.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d ago

We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

It seems the rest of the world can’t tell which hat Winston is wearing when he does racism

Socialist Equality Group NZ@segnewzealand.bsky.social · 2d ago

NZ First Party leader Winston Peters’ racist tirade against Green Party MP Lawrence Xu-Nan was aimed at demonising Chinese people in order to divide workers and further align New Zealand with US-led war preparations. #nzpol #NewZealand #nzelection www.wsws.org/en/articles/...