I confess I set my sarcasm dial to 11.
I've been since 1993 & this is the first time I've seen such a move against a first term PM. AFAIK, it's unprecedented in AoNZ and the only other example that comes to mind is Kevin Rudd in Australia in 2010?
(Apologies if I'm taking you too literally)
Preach brother. I am disappointed I can only like and repost this once.
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
"The matter is now closed" #nzpol
It's not newsworthy because first term sitting PMs are rolled/challenged regularly.
No-hoper saved by circle of doom
Embarrassing & infuriating. We get talentless incompetence because these blokes always choose each other and it’s endemic. They’re pandered to and coddled their whole lives and the racism and misogny they sit atop of blocks talented competent people from political, business and public service roles.
Really hard to guess. It might be that the very rapid rise in prices last month was on a worst case basis and now they have more confidence in supply. I'm a pessimist though, I think this could yet get worse. (IMO the best case scenario relies too much on Trump chickening out)
Here's the transcript of the April 10th podcast which discussed IRD's ramped up crypto-asset activities and in sports news how Iran and the All Whites might have a bigger opponent in the form of the US Internal Revenue Service.
www.interest.co.nz/public-polic...
Photo at sunrise of field of crosses at Windsor Reserve Devonport, each cross has a poppy and the name of a local who went away to war and didn't come back. Most are from WW1 and WW2 but IIRC there's also a few from Korea and later. 7.09 am ISO 20 F1.8 1/338s
Sunrise, Windsor Reserve, Devonport. Lest we forget.
#nzpol Gull watch 21st April, 7.45 - 91 and 95 unchanged, diesel down three cents/litre. Maybe stocks are holding up better than anticipated.
I see Shane Jones appears on far-right network that regularly platforms, & promotes Christchurch terrorist's violent extremist ideology (rebranded as 'remigration'), & amplifies the same anti-Indian racism, & xenophobia through his "butter chicken tsunami" framing. Dangerous, & disgusting. #nzpol
And you my find yourself in an office on the ninth floor And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a whole nation And you may find yourself behind a wooden podium, answering a 400th round of questions about your leadership And you may ask yourself, 'Well how did I get here?"
As seen on Twitter.
#nzpol
The thing that makes me really TRULY furious about the likes of Luxon is that he's undeniable proof that any talentless dickhead can achieve power and money if they're White Male Cis Able-bodied and kiss the Right arses.
He's an absolute fuckwit, yet somehow he's still PM.
Fucking embarrassing.
Māni Dunlop is so good at this. And the photo editing. #NzPol
People who demanded two former PMs and a Deputy PM (two retired) front a show trial about events from five years ago that they answered for in a Royal Commission and at the ballot box
... are now outraged that journalists are asking the current PM about the stability of his govt
77mm in one hour in Berhampore. That’s just an incomprehensible rain intensity anywhere at any time, let alone in Wellington in Autumn. We used to use 7mm an hour as a threshold for “heavy rain”, and this was more than 10 times that.
Luxon does not want to talk about how he cancelled Labour's climate resiliance fund, or how little he's spending on protecting us from the weather his donors are causing.
I don't read polls. I rely on traditional ways to know if a prime minister is embattled.
As discussion of an urban extreme weather event/infrastructure fail grows longer, the probability of someone blaming "woke" bike lanes approaches one.
Luxon repeatedly saying there's 'no risk'of him being rolled and then saying there's 'no risk' of fuel shortages does not inspire much confidence hey
Yes, it does seem odd
Photo from Cheltenham Beach looking towards sunrise. Low cloud overshadow s Waiheke and Motuhie islands with blue skies and pink tinged clouds above. 6.57am ISO 25 F2.4 1/992s
Mōrena whanāu, a fresh but still start to the day as the Sun rises above low cloud over Waiheke and Motuhie. Kia pa tō rā!
#nzpol Gull watch 20th April 7 am - 91 and 95 down another two cents/litre and diesel drops five or 20 cents in the last week.
Sir Geoffrey has replied! He says:
What I said was "New Zealand is an irredeemably pluvial country." Of course because of climate change it is even more pluvial now than when I said it.
All the best,
Geoffrey
Ha! Chronically drunk FBI Director Kash Patel is NOT going to like this new LEGO video. Of course, that assumes he sobers up enough to watch it. 🍺🍸🥃
Calling us irredeemably pluvial implies that there's some sort of redeemable pluviality. What would we reddem our pluviality for if we could?
Over the past ten years NZ has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, NZ averaged only 13.4 days per year.
Consider the implications of central government continuing to refuse to believe in climate change.
