A Treasury report has pointed out that government spending is still near its peak during the pandemic.
This comes after finance minister Nicola Willis said her government won’t repeat the previous government’s mistakes.
Former finance minister Ruth Richardson told Heather duPlessis-Allan that ‘[Nicola Willis] needs to face up to what the Treasury is telling her.’
I would like to see a graph with the correlation of this cunt popping up again and Nats going down in the polls? Like I am not telling her to go away, I want them to tank. Increase the thing Ruth you absolute Huckery Moll!
09.08.2025 05:29 — 👍 41 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1
haven't heard huckery moll in a very long time, still think it's an excellent slur, thank you Foxy
09.08.2025 05:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Winston Peters now demonstrably past his use by date
— should i refer to other FVEY notables, sweetie?
— nah, that's already been done to death, sōf
— shame they still haven't actually died yet, sweetie
— eeek zombies, sōf
#nzpol
08.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the only path where Aotearoa survives, short of violent insurrection, is GREEN and TPM utterly trouncing our oppostion, with LAB under strict bounds while we drag them back to their roots
even then our planet might not survive, we've taken substantial damage already
#nzpol
08.08.2025 14:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
we can't play them at their own game, they hold the entire deck and will only deal us a losing hand
playing fair with fascism is simply absurd
no negotiation, no compromise, remove them entirely
if Chris Hipkins and his inner circle don't get this they're already bridesmaids
3/3
#nzpol
08.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
will assume all my skeetuals know the phrase "always the bridesmaid, never the bride"
i understood it intuitively long before i heard the term
a tranny child surviving adjacent to power is an experience
we're simultaneously reviled and ignored
yup both can happen together
2/3
#nzpol
08.08.2025 13:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How influential NZ schools hastened the demise of NCEA
Analysis: As New Zealanders digest the news about government plans to scrap NCEA, we should also consider the role prestigious schools plyaed.
i'm not perplexed about what's happened with all the vile machinations of this government, predators have seen an opportunity and committed all their not insubstantial resources to causing pain
that's their bottom line, it's what they thrive on
just one example
1/3
#nzpol
08.08.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
#nzpol
08.08.2025 13:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
friends called me as Antonia Prebble's Loretta, but i'm not bitchy enough, Claire Chitham's Aurora was tragically close, apart from dying which i haven't quite managed yet
08.08.2025 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
oops *Aotearoa
08.08.2025 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by 4AM
Outrageous Fortune TV show - Opening title sequence
correct, Tāmaki Makaurau Boganland here
that's AKL Westie for the international skeetuals
while i'm not a westie by birth, Outrageous Fortune's Aurora was uncomfortably close psychologically
incidentally my kids loved the series too, not my doing, they found it independantly
08.08.2025 12:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
it's really easy to fix
the PM can ask the GG to call an election
that's within the rules
so have ya got a pair, Chris Luxon? call an election and let Aoteroa decide about ur manliness
*giggles*
— what, sōf?
— not gonna happen, sweetie
— 'cos no balls, sōf?
— didn't say that, sweetie
#nzpol
08.08.2025 11:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Okay, which one of you did this? #nzpol #VoteYesToMāoriWards #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti #Aotearoa #NZ
08.08.2025 11:04 — 👍 49 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1
i like a very specific style of mask, the Korean tri-fold designs fit me well
combine that with pretty pink flower patterns, i'm happy, well happy'ish
08.08.2025 11:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Same. Last time i was out in town i saw several maskers outdoors. Surgical and cloth. But still like 3 in short space of time
08.08.2025 11:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
that's good
osmotic awareness so to speak
legislation is difficult, social "contagion" is very effective
now we just need fashionable masks to become a thing again, it started at peak covid, then got killed off
08.08.2025 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
gonna reskeet that for my bb 🏳️⚧️ whanāu 'cos bsky feeds tend to lose threaded things
when you'll probably be safe, be you, it's a good thing psychologically
always trust ur spideysense though, taking off my jandals and running like hell has saved me a few times
08.08.2025 11:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
yes, that makes me happy, jic my cis skeetuals were wondering
🏳️⚧️ girl isn't subject to cis het male normativity rules
we write our rules
08.08.2025 11:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
not even a real terven risk, the physical result of pregnant estradiol levels for some time now have seen me become quite "compact"
08.08.2025 11:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
do i enjoy masking everywhere in public?
no, i loathe it almost as much as wearing knickers
but sōf with no panties under her micro-mini is only a psychological health risk for tervens
sōf with no mask is a mutual physical health risk for everyone
don' like that? bite me, i'll block ya
#nzpol
08.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
obvs our irl interactions never cross, otherwise there'd be two of us masking
08.08.2025 10:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
i was nonplussed
08.08.2025 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
LAB don't need a complex suite of policy statements running up to the next election
if NAT ACT NZF did it, that will be reversed under urgency
just one piece of legislation, then redefine urgency to require, say, 80% majority
their rules, not ours, suck it bitch
#nzpol
08.08.2025 10:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
saw maybe a couple of dozen people wearing masks — albeit surgical not n95's — when i went for a walk this evening
wtf? have i missed something important or are a lot of people suddenly deciding not to believe flat-earth anti-vaxx ACT NAT NZF cookers
i'm usu the only one masking
#nzpol
08.08.2025 10:40 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
i'm not gonna like yer skeet there Luis, it implies too much even accidental goodness on the part of chaotic trolls
open to discussion
also open to nuclear block from either side
#nzpol
08.08.2025 10:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Matthew Hooton only makes sense in every political climate 'cos bitch swings with the wind, no moral compass, only "pay me"
i wish English had a word for whore with no ethics or morals
— it does, sōf
— que, sweetie?
— a hooton, sōf
that was /s, reality is ur call
#nzpol
08.08.2025 10:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
yes, i do realise this works both ways
i love the complexities of my native language
and hope my skeetuals took the "not a bigot" inference
#nzpol
08.08.2025 07:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the standard want me to kill them meme with added text as a title.
additional text reads as that one friend who is crazy as fuck but will always have your back.
08.08.2025 07:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe Luxon can get American Corps to pay in beads or smallpox blankets again, for our critical ecological areas…
If this goes through:
A) Watch as vast tracts are sold for next to nothing in return for political “donations”
B) Labour must state right now that all will be reversed
#nzpol
08.08.2025 07:27 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
oops, my mistake
*mindless ACT NAT NZF twats
have turned off auto-fuckup so that typo is entirely on me
#nzpol
08.08.2025 07:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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