morgan godfery

Mr Luxon is one of those very rare people whom its impossible to apply a theory of mind. Can you imagine his inner life in any form but its absence? The only books he reads are self-help. He cannot maintain an exchange of complex thoughts. Every interview descends into banalities within minutes

Just envision that a Government came to power and cancelled a whole raft of essential programmes which would reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels, only for there to be a once in a century oil crisis.

Of course it’s RNZ lol. Completely hopeless

I actually have really hot polls, but you wouldn't know them, they're from the UK

No it’s fine you see we have contracts and no one would ever go back on a signed contact

If my previous skeet on this was too sarcastic, let me be clear: in a multipolar world, every import is a potential banana skin unless you're a big dog. New Zealand is a fucking chihuahua but our current policies (esp. around fossil fuels) pretend we're a big dog and it's reckless and dumb #nzpol

Classic New Zealand error to forget the entire economy and society is underpinned by a) nitrogen fertilisers and b) rivers (for both effluent disposal and hydro energy)

The local impacts of the war in Iran are completely foreseeable, except to the New Zealand government for which the easily accessible and common sense information below will come as a total shock as soon as disruptions hit April’s scheduled deliveries

If He survives past Tuesday, His government won’t last past November

I'm so old that I can remember when this guy had a mystique that excited the pundit class - not yet even in Parliament, but already spoken of as a potential future PM, who is now destined to be remembered as little more than the David Brent of #nzpol

Replacing Mr Luxon may arrest the slide, but all the relevant circumstances - imported inflation and interest rate rises, energy constraints, Mr Peters - are outside of the direct control of the incoming leader, and all available actions are outside the tiny parametres of their ideology

Post Roger and Ruth, the Clark and Key governments were able to refound (or refund) the social contract on milk, property, and China.

That ran out in December 2019. Nothing has replaced it.

The Covid pandemic was extraordinary because it was Jacinda Ardern’s personal authority and charisma, not State capacity, that underpinned the successful response. When State capacity was required - vaccine procurement, roll out, enforcing sovereignty on Parliament’s own damn lawn - it was wanting

A very unfortunate situation to be in when the medium term needs were seen so clearly back then. I think the rolling annual “state of emergency” weather events really reinforce the need too

I expect Labour will lead the next government, which if they do is certain to also be a one term government

Mr Luxon and Ms Willis will not make it to the election, but it hardly matters when the doctrine of “do nothing, ever” is bipartisan.

Richard Harman reports David Skilling’s advocacy for state capitalism was considered “heresy” among many at the 1980s time warp known as the Treasury. The lessons of the Covid pandemic largely did not result in structural changes to the economy and society. To the contrary, we even closed Marsden Pt

October 7 was a clarifying and radicalising moment for all decent, thinking people. And in New Zealand none of its warnings were heeded: there were no moral corrections and geopolitical realignments; no urgent action to secure energy independence and a measure of supply chain resilience; nil

TVNZ board chair rang senior minister to discuss negative coverage Justice minister won't reveal exactly what the public broadcaster's board chair said, while police minister doubles down on concerns about bias.

Right-wing commentators were *obsessed* with what they fancied was the former Labour govt's control of the media. Yet now we have what looks like direct political interference with reporting that ministers didn't like. Far out. newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/04/t...

Ok does anyone else remember how Luxon said that as PM he was going to ring all the Chief Execs of Govt Departments and arms length organisations each day to get progress updates? It was ridiculous and the media nodded and said "ooh isn't he Business" despite it being madder than a hat for tits.

Another odious addition to the most odious column in New Zealand

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I love how quickly New Zealand media gloss over that Jacinda Ardern is still the most popular politician according to polls measuring favourability, and she always was as Prime Minister as well which was always contrary to the dominant gallery narrative that she had become a figure of division

(By OK I mean “WTF”)

The social media remnants of Woke 2.0 arguing a) we should ban disabled people from public life because of an unfortunate event at an awards ceremony in England and b) we should not only accommodate but encourage anti-social behaviour on mass transit, and any suggestion otherwise is fascistic. OK

Eek I’m reading that now and, aside from now realising I overegged it myself, landing on the same side as The Post on WCC issues is also a sure sign of being wrong lol

Hedging with “appeared”. As far as I can tell progressive majorities on WCC didn’t seem to engage (or maybe didn’t have the numbers) on these questions possibly assuming that throwing money at the problem was enough by itself

The Wellington Water disaster is also a useful demonstration of how increased investment in and of itself is insufficient. The operational model (insourced vs outsourced, etc) and governance model (governed directly or via devolved boards, etc) are just as important, and appeared to be ignored

The fractured information ecosystem is fuel to the fire that wealth and income inequality lit. Frightening