Clint Fern

We can just invoice Shane Jones for this, right?

#nzpol

Imagine the delay, cost, confusion and disruption they could have avoided by amending existing legislation like a normal government.

IMHO, this whole Ruth Richardson vs Willis debate is a beat-up designed to make Willis look more moderate and to give her an excuse to make even bigger cuts to public servants and social services. They are not to be trusted, and this is manufactured meddling.

Only way Luxon might get a half decent cabinet.

Bishop talks about urbanism and, in his capacity as Housing and RMA Reform Minister, he has introduced several policies that build on this. But he has not undone any of the critically important transport reforms introduced by Brown. It was Brown who defined the official approach to transport with his Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport, released in June 2024. The GPS put the Roads of National Significance (Rons) at the heart of transport planning. It foreshadowed a range of other policies Brown would go on to introduce, including an end to the Road to Zero safety programme and the targeted lower speed limits introduced by the previous government – especially around schools. The GPS also signalled higher public-transport fares and prevented new or expanded roading projects from including cycleways. It announced there would be no more incentives for cleaner cars. And with its focus on roads at the expense of alternatives, it encourages suburban sprawl and reinforced car dependency. None of this should have survived the advent of an urbanist as TransportMinister. But it’s all still in place. Why? My reading is that Bishop can’t change this even if he wants to because he doesn’t have the numbers, either in his caucus or in the Cabinet. Bishop might be the minister, but he is doing Brown’s work. It’s almost like Bishop is Brown’s sock puppet.

I suspect Chris Bishop won't like being described as Simeon Brown's sock puppet 🙂

Cartoon. Title: Groundbreaking Four panels. Luxon is in the first holding a report that says 'IMPORTANT INFO INSIDE'. He says, "Erica... we have official advice on the Treaty in the curriculum..." the next panel has him holding the report up in his hand about to throw it to Erica, "AND... you know what that means!" Third panel: Erica Stanford catches the report and shouts, "I SURE DO CHRIS!" Fourth panel: Erica is standing by a green wheel bin holding the lid open with a whole load of expert reports inside it - "We file it away with all the other expert reports!"

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

If you type '𝗚𝗼𝘃𝘁 𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲' into google you get a whole shit ton of articles - by the current lot.

#Cartoon #NzPol #Caricature #Luxon #Stanford

Are NZ summers too long? The PM says we’ve got to keep moving The summer shutdown is coming but should the Kiwi summer holiday still stay sacrosanct?

Look what I'm saying to you is, Amanda and the kids refuse to do more than their contractual 48 hours of happy family photos so I'm going to have to do my tiktoks elsewhere. So you serfs can't have more days than me.

$3200 for lunch, $227k for advising role: Labour questions retail crime chairman’s work Sunny Kaushal has defended his work, accusing Labour of 'playing politics'.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!! HOW VERY DARE YOU QUESTION THIS?!!! 🙄🙄🙄😑 #nzpol

$3200 for morning tea, $227k for advising role: Labour questions retail crime chairman’s work

The question is is did he have the Teletubbies and Mr Blobby on high rotation because he wanted to lower his score or because he relates to them?

He was looking for a better cabinet.

The school board pushbacks confirm my theory that the so-called liberal MPs’ job experience - often limited to working for the Party, and placed in Party-friendly companies - has left them uniquely ignorant of how much the rest of our society has moved on. It’s not 2005 anymore, and Brash still lost

C39, C60, C90, C♾️ go!

Govt warned new methane target aligned with 'catastrophic' warming Newly released documents reveal the Govt's new methane target is associated with 2.7C of warming – a level labelled 'catastrophic' by the UN.

Scoop: A trove of briefings and Cabinet documents released under the OIA reveals the Govt was advised its new methane target is only consistent with warming of 2-2.7C (and possibly up to 4.5C).

Climate scientists have said 2.7C would represent 'unprecedented peril'.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/04/g...

It would be great if the extremely overrated film maker Quentin Tarantino would shut the fuck up.

In today’s NZ Herald

The judges are unanimous… in today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics

Glyphosate ruling creates a herbicide limbo Analysis: Food Safety has decided to leave residue limits for Roundup unchanged, raising questions about future enforcement efforts.

Link to the glyphosate issue.

Quote from Arbuckle "we are confident the proposed limits would not have presented any health risks to consumers" - this a was for a 100 times increase in the current level.

He seems to have a van Velden regard for the publics health.

Your going to be amazed* that the guy that has covered for Seymour is an old white guy who wants us to ingest more glyphosate with our food.

* - not amazed.

A photograph of Vince Arbuckle from the Ministry for Primary Industries. He has done remarkably well to reach his position as he's from the group under represented in management positions, an old white guy.

I suspect we're going to be hearing a bit about this Vince Arbuckle character over the next few days.

His conclusion that the school was the likely suspect in serving the mouldy food rather than horse-meat burger company Compass seems remarkably convenient for minister Seymour.

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Cartoon. Title: “Twist” Image in two frames. First frame: a girl with other children in the background, holding a tray of mince meat, with a green growth on top that spells “MOULD”. She’s saying, “Please, Sir, I don’t want any more” In the second frame David Seymour’s surprised eyes, and saying “WHAT! You refuse to eat your greens?!”

Olivia Twist and the School Lunches.
A Dickensian tale for our times.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #children

He's also the guy wanting us to have more Glyphosate in our food.

Seems pretty comfortable with taking risks with other people's health.

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A photograph of Vince Arbuckle from the Ministry for Primary Industries. He has done remarkably well to reach his position as he's from the group under represented in management positions, an old white guy.

I suspect we're going to be hearing a bit about this Vince Arbuckle character over the next few days.

His conclusion that the school was the likely suspect in serving the mouldy food rather than horse-meat burger company Compass seems remarkably convenient for minister Seymour.

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If Arbuckle has concocted this story to protect Seymour he needs to be sacked for gross negligence.

No pay out, just booted out.

Today we have a young woman calling for a culture of accountability in policing, a minister blaming a female public servant for taking her health and safety obligations to children seriously, and another menz claiming he is the victim of a female MP doing her job.

Police to audit internet use of every senior officer after Jevon McSkimming scandal The Commissioner says he's asked for a "closer look" at the police watchdog's scathing report.

Be interested to see how many senior cops decide they need to spend more time with their families all of a sudden.

Police to audit internet use of every senior officer after Jevon McSkimming scandal www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Simon says cap your rates – how will councils respond? The Govt says councils must live within their means – but overseas evidence on rate caps is mixed, while local authorities fear a loss of 'critical investment' in infrastructure

“We do not buy bananas, toilet paper, nappies – we buy asphalt, steel and concrete … those inflationary increases and those specific projects don’t always, don’t always align with what we see with normal household CPI.”

- Rehette Stoltz, Gisborne Mayor and LGNZ vice-president.

Nelson’s mayor campaigned on a 5% rates increase cap but the long term plan already had increases under that and he also refused to answer questions on how long term infrastructure investment and maintenance could be kept within that cap

It’s illogical to just have a cap but no implementation plan

As a committed Christian, Luxon is celebrating the birth of his Lord and Saviour by acting as Jesus would, aka, telling the poor, hungry, and homeless to fuck off out of his sight.

For all that missed it Hipkins has announced his bold plan for tackling climate change.

"We will give free umbrellas to all the populace."

#nzpol

A photograph of insufferable prick Luxon. He is wearing a dinner jacket, bowtie and bloomers. He thinks he is being funny but he comes across in his usual way.

Not sure if you actually want it but I tracked this down.