Passionate social democrat impatient for the tide to turn.
Joined August 2025
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This is New Zealand today. We let homeless people be moved on by the police with no shelter to go to. We take the dole and independence away from young people in a time with massive unemployment for that age group and from those who suffer from illness. Despicable.
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Today, NZ starts kicking 18 and 19 year olds, including those with cancer, intellectual disabilities and other health conditions, off the benefit.
Chris Bishop kicked people onto the street. Goldsmith criminalised homelessness. They deserve worse than losing their seats.
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National's late campaign messaging of 'stick to the plan' is a strange choice when
a) what plan? Like, actually, what's the plan?
b) people don't like how things are going and how National's running things
Anyone surprised? Hipkins simply is 100% more trustworthy than Luxon on most issues New Zealand faces.
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Kiwis families can now be paying almost $6,000 extra per year compared to three years ago. New Zealand can’t afford another three years of National when they promised to fix the cost of living put more in everyone's back pocket in whats turned out to be a blatant lie and con job.
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Labour is ranking ahead of National on 19 of the top 20 issues on voters’ minds, including all the top 5. A good way to start the last week of the election campaign. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/e… #nzpol
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Must be boring being a billionaire. They can't have enough to do, so spend time dreaming up how to interfere in other people's lives so they can take advantage. They could do a mind blowing amount of good for humanity.
A succinct answer why Luxon won't go on Q+A.
By shifting the debt burden primarily onto the private sector (businesses and households), New Zealand has achieved a curious but somewhat devastastating record in the OECD. Somehow we always seem to be the major outlier.
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“This isn’t a competent government with a plan to fix the economy. Its record instead is of economic mismanagement, privatisation by stealth, crony corruption, climate denialism, expensive populist promises, abject incompetence in health & a still-rising cost of living.” @simonbwilson’s blistering indictment of current #NZ govt: simonwilsonhopetown.substack… #nzpol
Farmers Weekly commenting on the roll back of climate change policies. Farmers are finally realising the devastating impact of this roll back on our economic future and reputation (from FB).
Without substantive reform, the NZ tax system heavily favours the wealthy. The very wealthy in NZ pay just an 8.1% effective tax rate on their comprehensive income – less than half the 17.4% effective tax rate paid by middle NZ. Why do we put up with it?
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Incredible turnaround in #Brazil where voters came out to give #Lula a clear win in 2nd round of election. What a champion! This & #Serbian Student List win must give hope for parties of inclusion, sustainability, & decency everywhere. Next #NZ?
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Luxon blames 300,000+ Kiwis for not enrolling and blames the Electoral Commission, but takes no responsibility for changing the law in the first place. There's literally no gain.
The only outcome is disenfranchising 300,000+ Kiwis! They went out of their way to do this!
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Just a reminder that National and Act think freedom of choice means “do as you’re told or else.” They use this argument against collective bargaining. Most Kiwis will not push for higher pay or better conditions. Nat/Act know this.
Fair Pay Agreements will help fix NZ
Most OECD countries automatically register eligible citizens to vote using existing government records. Individuals simply show up at the polls with an authorized ID. The primary responsibility for voter registration lies with the state. BUT NOT IN NZ - A MAJOR OUTLIER AS USUAL.
"Real democracies make it easier to vote". Not in New Zealand, where the coalition govt forced a law changes to exclude many young voters from the election. Every National, Act or NZ First voter is complicit with this, and with many of the lies currently spread by this govt.
