@LewSOS

Chopper of water, carrier of wood, reader of the fucking article, devourer of fools

 Ōtepoti / Dunedin
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Joined July 2010
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People who for employment must write a certain number of words about a topic of their own choosing every week tend towards speciousness
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Benchmark comparison for this week's Verian poll. Subpar for National and Labour, very good for ACT. Technically "bad" for Te Pāti Māori (had to double check that really was 0.1% and not 1%) but largely moot given their reliance on electorate seats.
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Lefties should be stoked about that poll, which shows the last two weeks of fulmination about gangs has had no practical impact Everyone has priced it in. The extent of the strategic error was a foregone week of talking about how the economy sucks and a Labour candidate pratfall
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The real cost of the Kerrin Leoni shitshow is really only going to come due if she wins, so no need to worry about that yet All still to play for
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Only adds to 99.8%, people who only started thinking about maths last week are going to be ropable
Jack Tame@jacktame6h
Replying to @jacktame
Results to one decimal point are: National = 28.9% Labour = 27.3% Green Party = 14.8% ACT = 12.4% NZ first = 10.0% Opportunity Party = 6.3% TPM = 0.1%
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Lew retweeted
A@AlecMuses6h
Replying to @HelenClarkNZ @CitizenBomber @SamSachdevaNZ
Finally worked! Phew. Now to wait for official results on 27 November for it to be added to the tally
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A@AlecMuses23h
Very cool and very normal. Utter failure @ElectoralCommNZ with multiple attempts being made to submit uploaded voting papers only to receive this error. Email assistance replies asking for a submission ID when no such ID is provided. Do you see the problem? #nzpol
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Lew retweeted
Jack Tame@jacktame6h
Here are the party vote results from the latest 1News Verian poll.
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Type of guy who pretends he can't tell the difference between people who don't want to vote, and those who want to vote but can't because the govt changed the rules on them
Mark Stewart@MarkStewartNZ10h
Replying to @vincristine @DrZiggymorph
And there were 220,000 unenrolled in 2023, about the same in 2020 and 272,000 did not enrol in 2017. But these numbers pale against the number of enrolled voters who don't bother voting - 2023 - 829,396 enrolled voters didn't vote. 2020 - 655,094 2017 - 692,155 Suppression?
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National haven't finished fleecing us yet.
Trevor Mallard@WainuiTrevor12h
Tens of millions to spend on advertising and the National Party portrays kiwis as sheep that they want to continue to fleece. This is so incompetent that I reckon it is Luxon’s work.
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Yeah would be really bad for Ireland if that happened... – at Auckland, New Zealand
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Consolation prize for a guy whose only job is to carry teams, but who couldn't carry his national team
BBC Breaking News
@BBCBreaking12h
Harry Kane becomes first Englishman in 25 years to win the Ballon d'Or - football's top individual prize bbc.in/48j8ESI

Ballon d'Or 2026 LIVE: Winners, times & updates from ceremony in London

Follow live text commentary of the Ballon d'Or ceremony in London as the best men's and women's footballers of the year for 2026 will be crowned.

bbc.com
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Replying to @LewSOS @PronouncedHare
Much past 1993. Mostly similar, but there are edge-case limits present in the current law that take us back about ~80 years.
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Replying to @PronouncedHare
Odd that the government would abandon all of those positions when asked to account for it in proceedings in the High Court.
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If the government wishes to argue that justifies its policy, it will be welcome to try, but it is a little late.
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bold play from leoni to promise two more rangitoto but probably a necessary pledge now given her position in the race
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Nightmare situation for Labour: they need her to form govt rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…

Kerrin Leoni will sit as an independent MP if she wins Tāmaki Makaurau electorate

Kerrin Leoni says she will sit as an independent MP if she wins the Tāmaki Makaurau electorate.

rnz.co.nz
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remember, there is no hiring freeze in health
bread 🟥🟩⬛️@_breadcapital15h
“A brand new intensive care unit at Auckland's Waitākere hospital sits empty, fully equipped, but with no money budgeted to run it yet” rnz.co.nz/news/health/217398…

Brand new Waitākere Hospital ICU unit sitting empty

A brand new intensive care unit at Auckland's Waitākere hospital sits empty, fully equipped, but with no money budgeted to run it yet.

rnz.co.nz
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All strategic vote-splitting proposals, no matter how perfect they appear on paper, are obliged to contend with the reality that they rely on this type of guy to understand then and give effect to them
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Some of you aren't going to like this one:
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Almost the worst part is that the Electoral Commission will not be recording how many voters are turned away on the day because of the government's law change The playing field is tilted AND there is no real audit trail showing the precise extent and partisan impact of the tilt
bread 🟥🟩⬛️@_breadcapitalOct 26
When Electoral Commission releases figures, Luxon needs to be asked continuously why he took the right to vote away from some Kiwis. He hasn’t given an answer. The most unpopular PM and first term Government in history should not be making changes to lower voter participation.
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