Edmund Hart

This fucking POS needs to wind his neck in #nzpol

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

A retired community support, who spent his life helping others and the community, needs help. Bruce, is a fantastic human being, who has found himself fighting an aggressive cancer. Please, give a little to help Bruce afford unfunded medication. lm.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...

David (🌬💨🪞🪞🪞) Seymour

We are. We're in, The Lorax

A given

NZ's inflation 3.04% - outside of target band. That was fast. A reminder post Covid inflation was 8-12% around the world driven by global supply chains. This now is primarily domestic #nzpol #kiwi

Greedflationº nation

A billion dollars more than either the original Dunedin Hospital plan or a resilient Cook Strait crossing. And then there's Mill Road, which offers an even worse business case at similar (at least) cost.

YouTube video by Q+A with Jack Tame Can NZ's infrastructure cope with ageing population? | Q+A 2025

The infrastructure dilemma
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This guy is out of shape

Another myth that won't die... that unemployment was too low in 2022 and 2023 and this was key driver of higher wages and inflation. In actual fact, real wage growth was negative throughout that period. What actually happened? [🧵 1/n]

David Seymour hired a listeria, horse meat, scandal ridden British multinational to take out hundreds of Kiwi jobs delivering school lunches. Worse, he's given tamariki nutrition-less slop & transferred millions of costs onto schools while claiming "it's cheaper". Latest appears to be a screw #nzpol

Yes. They took money we wouldn't have. But that doesn't necessarily make them fascists. It likely, doesn't make them anything but flawed humans, looking at the cheque more than the hand giving it. But by attacking, beyond constructive criticism, we in essence 'cut our noses off to spite our faces'

Just as perfection is the enemy of good. Expecting the average person to be an angel, is the enemy of a broad church. Maybe, attacking people's failings, pushes people away, more than it encourages positive change in them

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE How to save the world from a fascist takeover | Yanis Varoufakis interview

We've got to stop 'pure temple' politics on the left. It only serves to drive people into the arms of the fascists. The recent criticism of Bill Burr, springs to mind. One dodgy decision and he's lambasted.... youtu.be/HvfrlJ749QM?...

Good on Kapiti. Pleasant surprise

YouTube video by MassiveAttackVEVO Massive Attack - Massive Attack x Young Fathers featuring Professor Guy Standing

It's time for change
It's time to stand
It's time to act
It can & must be stopped
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Unbelievably bad

1. The official cash rate has dropped Kiwibank chief economist Jarrod Kerr said the fact that the official cash rate had fallen to the level where it was stimulatory for the economy would be a gamechanger. "People often say to me 'there's been 250 basis points of cuts, it's not working'… it's like yeah because it only took it back to a neutral setting at 3 percent. [At 2.5 percent], now we've actually gone into stimulatory territory.

OK, due to popular demand, let's work through these five reasons to be positive...🧵
1. The Official Cash Rate has dropped, praise be! Now, people do not often say to me 'there's been 250 basis points of...' but let's explore this 'stimulatory territory' thingy. [1/n]

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

The notorious @thejuicemedia.com has just helped the Government of New Zealand with a new tourism ad and it's surprsingly honest and informative!

Not sure how they got it past Luxon, Seymour and Peters though, OMG!

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#nzpol

YouTube video by Big Hairy Network Ep24 Should we have publicly owned electricity?

Privatisation is a bad idea youtu.be/jBNhU5m9fCQ?...

Interestingly, both are reported to be 191cm.... Does that apply to metrics too?

Prince William and Trump

Would you believe both these men are 6ft 3in....

Are they passing the hopium pipe around again?

Repeal and replace the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.
Last chance to sign, petition closes today at 11:59
#EndProhibition
#nzpol

Net Govt interest payments on debt are back to typical levels - well under 1% of total Govt spending. Always worth cancelling out the interest Govt receives (and pays each other). The net interest payment figure ($1bn net) is very tiny compared to... [🧵1/n]

Thanks. Thought so

Annual job growth still stuck firmly in the negative - running just short of 30,000 below the same week last year. Misery compounds. (1/2)

Faeces thrown at police at Parliament protest Poo was pelted at officers during an early morning operation today to contain the protest at Parliament. The 3.30am operation caught the occupiers off guard with attempts to thwart the plan, resulting...

In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands.

This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol