Forbidden ball pit

Chris Hipkins apology to Tamatha Paul when?*

*man had no issues apologising to white lady Nicola Willis yesterday 🤔

giving National a win on a shitty fta in election year for basically no reason when the alternative is forcing a massive failure and blaming the instability between National and NZF which is CURRENTLY IN THE NEWS is FUCKING LUDICROUS

who is making these decisions?? absolute loser strategies

Better scrutiny – but a RoNS-sized loophole? - Greater Auckland Better information and advice about infrastructure projects is needed but it won’t do much if government ministers don’t listen to it. Some of the recommendations of the recently released National Inf...

Major infrastructure investment needs more scrutiny, says NZ's Infrastructure Commission – and the government is responding...

...but there's a Roads-of-National-Significance-sized loophole you could drive a fleet of trucks through, writes Matt Lowrie: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/04/23/b...

Yeah I don't care much for Star Trek either tbh.

Firstly Shane Jones sucks

Secondly, Seymour has no business criticizing anyone at all for lame jokes dads or otherwise.

Thirdly, Butter Chicken is not English, you're thinking of Tikka Masala, which is from Glasgow, which is not in England.

He means “You all knew what you were buying, lads, we’ve all spoken about this offscreen” but there’s no point saying that to these people, who are highly skilled at not seeing inconvenient things.

Hey are these Nat MPs who are saying 'it not me leaking' also saying 'any journo who has comments from me about the leafership in the last 6 weeks can consider those comments on the record' or is that just implied?

Some inside baseball on the Curr Bio paper on Kea pecking orders, reported in the Times : the senior author of the research, cognitive scientist Alex Taylor, is in Barcelona rather than New Zealand because we failed to retain him

Science-folks: If we run 100 experiments, we might find 1 or 2 of them may have results that can make many dollars.

NZ Govt: Excellent. We will fund those 1 or 2 experiments.

there are already some of these out there

theyve been integrated into the already quite extensive network of mass sockpuppeted and bot accounts that have been run in nzpol spaces for almost a decade, while not being investigated, or even acknowledged, by political reporters 🫠

The insurance companies are more aligned with the Greens view of climate change, adaptation, and the locked in effects than the current Government of New Zealand.

example after example of increasingly absurd lies by media in service of promoting NZF as a party for economic populism

this isnt just a trend anymore, folks

Peters is THE guy this election for media leadership and the gallery, ask yourselves why

WHERE is it circulating RNZ? WHERE was it posted? WHERE did Jones appear? Why should that platform matter, profoundly, for any critical appreciation of what he said? What has that platform seeded, and spread with regards to what Jones noted, and how? What's he signalling, to whom, & why? #nzpol

Question No. 2 Rt Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the Opposition) (14:07) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government’s statements and actions? Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON (Prime Minister) (14:07): Absolutely. Rt Hon Chris Hipkins: Does the Prime Minister continue to enjoy the unanimous support of National Party members of Parliament? Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Absolutely.

Interesting to see if this answer needs correcting:

No, but I do think the way the ecosystem works as an instability amplification machine is unhealthy.

They system, as designed, is that Luxon's unpopularity reflects this govt's decisions, and the caucus discontent reflects that unpopularity. But...

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Chloe is magnificent. And spot-on.

Again, imagine Greens co-leders Chlöe Swarbrick & Marama Davidson or any other woman on the left putting this kind of pout-and-flounce then the Press Pack NOT throwing it in their faces at every opportunity until the heat death of the universe.

You can't?

Sit with that for a minute.

#nzpol

He rolled out Strong and Stable yesterday so this was inevitable.

Embattled New Zealand prime minister survives leadership vote and blames media for ‘soap opera’ Christopher Luxon says caucus meeting ‘clearly’ proves he has party support ahead of November national election

EMBATTLED

IN A HEADLINE

IN THE GUARDIAN #nzpol

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Labour have the opportunity to do the funniest thing

So that's the second time in a few weeks the press gallery have told us Luxon's end is nigh and it hasn't come to pass. Starting to get the impression the press gallery might just be making shit up, rather than reporting on the actual issues.

Looks like caucus agrees with you about the alternatives.

Caucuses only behave like this when they are very distressed

We "just need to get to know him", all the while pointedly avoiding any discussion of his prior lobbying work.

Embattled leaders making demands that disgruntled subordinates either 'quit leaking or quit the party' are embarking on what might be termed a 'learnings journey about false dichotomies'

Hey Labour. If National can do the thing, so can you.

Man I need a political party in NZ to put out a media release that's just "That Simeon Brown is a little weirdo isn't he?"

Strong and Stable lol