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Te Tai Tokerau to the rescue

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Screenshot from The Guardian describing Christopher Luxon as "embattled".

It's official. He's embattled. #nzpol

A brown and white cat sits outside staring in through a glass door To the right is a cat flap

Tuesday

wait, are we meant to be able to sing well?

quite

If the oil crisis turns into a full blown food crisis and national disaster in the next few months, the National Party will be wiped out at the next election and will never recover. So yeah, this might be a good time to get out

#nzpol

TVNZ seems to have done an excellent job updating the back end of their TVNZ+ to allow it, a public broadcaster, to charge for stuff & to make the user experience worse in every single respect than the previous version of the app.

Including buffering for the full minute before playing anything.

Could always be worse, I guess

ah, so I have had some

Yes, he knows the implications of what he is doing

But Goldsmith is only consulting the Iwi Chairs Forum, as he said (in a Cab paper) select committee submissions and earlier advisory group consultation should be “sufficient” to ensure any views are “considered”. Officials advised this would have an “adverse effect” on the Māori-Crown relationship.

The advisory group said they had given their advice on the proviso the government properly engaged with Māori once Cabinet made preliminary decisions - including engagement with iwi & hapū relevant to each Act, as well as Iwi Chairs Forum.

Can't believe they are legal to sell retail.

I'd say he's just an interested member of his caucus in this case

Down By Law is a gem

The Speaker is not a meaningful role in caucus

better

never

He'd want to see the dynamics for himself

No tiebreaker role though

Luxon read a short statement and walked off refusing to take any questions He says if media continue to ask him about speculation, he will not engage.

Bitch please

Luxon surviving a confidence vote is less about his fitness for the job and more about the unfitness of his caucus, who lack even the minimal amount of spine needed to roll the most inept PM we’ve seen in my lifetime.

While I appreciate this man's dedication to reading ...

Have you encountered the wankers with kits that make them backfire on demand?

oiks

Or they could just go straight to Ministers on everything; sideline him as an unauthoritative source.

Luxon’s attempt to refocus the media is constitutionally misplaced. Confidence is the lifeblood of government. And the media have a legitimate interest in interrogating changing dynamics in confidence.

Just a subset