We've still got Nick in Nelson but the good news is there was a 35% swing from the last Maori Ward vote in 2012 so we get to keep the ward.
11.10.2025 06:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@clintfern.bsky.social
Inveterate tree planter
We've still got Nick in Nelson but the good news is there was a 35% swing from the last Maori Ward vote in 2012 so we get to keep the ward.
11.10.2025 06:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Really pleased that Nelson has told Simeon Brown and Hobsons Sludge to go and get fucked.
11.10.2025 02:58 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thanks. Great news on the Maori Ward but two new r-w cllrs (Skeggs & Austin) with only one left (Kerby).
Still at least Matthews & Baillie failed).
Where are you hearing the results? Brilliant if we have kept the Maori Ward.
11.10.2025 02:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My favourite bit was to paraphrase - Luxon's absolute trash who has to go but none of the rest of the caucus is any better.
11.10.2025 00:36 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0NZ Initiative Luke thinks this big noting is hated by his colleagues.
Everyone hates him.
Urban resilience
Community TODs
IAP2 participation
A call to building it right
Urban resilience
What is it and what do we need to do
What we have done from 1950 onwards no longer works (it actually never worked)
So time to get back to what is actually the basics!
Work together rather than dominate
Retrospective #6: 2008 - the death of Hillary
10.10.2025 20:52 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2 and what their job is โ political leaders especially.
(he) betrays a basic misunderstanding of what a politician actually is. Being a politician in a democracy such as New Zealand is, first and foremost, about persuading people you and your plans are worth voting for and then persevering with."
quietly talking about what might happen if he were rolled, keeping it hypothetical, safe in the knowledge that, at the moment, there is no other person who is a clear rival or successor around whom they can rally.
A big part of the problem is Luxonโs basic concept of what a politician is.." (2/3)
Malpass has abandoned the listing vessel Luxon and is heading for the lifeboats.
"His hyper-enthusiasm, brand awareness, and inability to take backwards steps or admit things arenโt great are wearing on both ministers and the wider caucus.
His caucus colleagues are.." (1/2)
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Morning!
Yeah I do โ๏ธ
I hand ground beans and made a coffee syphon and still those bloody Norwegians haven't given me the Nobel Science prize.
10.10.2025 20:04 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Pathetic & desperate. Luxon is drowning.
10.10.2025 19:40 โ ๐ 57 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 4"Hudson told Stuff his client wanted to be clear that he was not part of any protest activity outside Petersโ house"
So will Winston do the decent thing and apologise?
I'd say Peters has been agitating for the strongest charge.
To be clear, you are absolutely right and the police should be the ones to judge. the seriousness. Also obviously don't think either should be anywhere near 10 years / life.
Looking forward to Winston Peters taking full responsibility for this. That's how this works now, right? #nzpol
10.10.2025 00:55 โ ๐ 99 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Seeing as Winston Peters is seeking a 10 year sentence for a person that broke his windows I am looking forward to him calling for life imprisonment for the death threats sent to Benjamin Doyle.
10.10.2025 01:00 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0FBI boss Kash Patel gives NZ Govt Ministers 3D printed guns. Is thanked, even if present is subsequently destroyed.
19YO NZ man keeps 3D printed guns at home. Is arrested by #NZpolice and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm.
#NZpol
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Surely it would be cheaper for him to assist local 18/19yo to relocate to Queenstown?
Oh, then he wouldn't be able to exploit them.
Will Nash be welcome in either?
10.10.2025 00:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bus shelter poster saying โIf i could find a country that didn't take immigrants in I'd move thereโ Would you?
Iโm not saying racists are stupid butโฆ
09.10.2025 23:53 โ ๐ 129 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 0His being employed is one of the mysteries of the universe.
09.10.2025 22:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just hoping the early morning starts put him off.
If they choose him that'll be not tuning in again.
What we deserve : Mihingarangi Forbes / Mฤni Dunlop
What we'll get : Paddy Fucking Gower
No wonder they gotta clamp down on the teenagers what a
disaster govt
50,000 more unemployed, 400,000 people looking for more work, 130,000 kiwi's or more have *left*
Clown show of a government
#nzpol