And to think the crisis is only just starting, at this rate most nat mps will be working from home .. gardening..

ACT up, Greens down, is insane in the current climate..

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Future New Zealand prime minister Sir Francis Bell was born on 31 March 1851

A slightly late #OnThisDay. On 31 March 1851 Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell was born in Nelson, New Zealand. He served as the 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1925 as a member of the Reform Party. #OTD #history #nzpol #nzpolitics #politics

I'm a man, aged 55-64, and with European ethnicity.

I have Level 2 or 3 qualifications, own my home mortgage-free, and live in an urban area.

I voted for National in 2023.

I place myself on the center of the left-right scale. #NZES2023 #NZPol

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Well, as we know, in just the last few days these vultures reiterated their intention to push Aotearoa down the track that makes “no economic sense”.

Look, *nobody* is going to survive such ideological madness cosplaying as responsible governance.

So do what you can to vote them ALL out.

Government backs down from work from home policy day before court hearing - PSA The union filed legal action after a MBIE policy restricting flexible work arrangements was introduced.

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Relevant to Aotearoa New Zealand. #NZpol

Government backs down from work from home policy day before court hearing - PSA The union filed legal action after a MBIE policy restricting flexible work arrangements was introduced.

If there's one at your workplace: join a Union 💪🏾 #nzpol

better than 1% is not much of a goal

i tend to prefer nigh impossible goals

like excise neolib christofascists

ya don't need to be a tranny to do that, but it helps

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Queue was mad at the local Z today.

Spent 30 minutes inching forward across the forecourt then gave up.
There's no way that I WAS GOING TO QUEUE A SECOND LONGER.
I didn't really need a car wash that bad.

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humanity just seems to love being average

— so you disagree, sōf?
— weeeell, i'm 🏳️‍⚧️ girl, sweetie
— so?
— 1% is hardly average

i expect better than average of my whānau, yes it's an arrogant position

i grew up with "you can be better"

not sure the shrinks understood what they were saying

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This crisis is really starting to bite

Oil companies are GUESSING what the price might be when we order the next load of 91 from Asia... And charging that price for all 91 already on nz soil, and in ships that haven't arrived yet.

And still no tax relief. While they roll in the extra GST. #NZPol

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a man with the words some things can 't be explained on the bottom ALT: a man with the words some things can 't be explained on the bottom

"Can't trust windmills when the wind doesn't blow,
can't trust solar on a cloudy day"

OK buddy.
Skip the science-y bit about how solar works.

Can't trust oil when Trump is alive. Ditto LNG.
Our gas is over. We still have coal.Yuk.
We export ours and import dirty shit in oil fueled ships.

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Writing a short, accessible piece is hard. But I would expect a Prime Minister to (a) be able to communicate effectively with the people they govern, preferably without revealing how much they loathe said people, or (b) get someone with a comms degree to do it for them. Oh, how we have fallen #nzpol

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RUC's originally were to prevent the UK situation where 2 types of diesel exist - road diesel which has road tax added to it and farm diesel with no road tax, but a dye to distinguish it. Get caught using farm diesel in your road vehicle and you get the book thrown at you.

it's an excellent thing about our society in Aotearoa that i understand that i should not strangle Chris Luxon, Nicola Willis, and various other MP's, in public, on the steps of the Beehive, it'd be counterproductive

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do i get suspended for this skeet, @moderation.bsky.app ?

The NZ government are so desperate to disparage the previous government's response to a global crisis - universally praised as amongst the best in the world - that they "busy" putting together a response to a different global crisis that will be universally recognised as amongst the worst.
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Sounds familiar #nzpol #kikorangi

How difficult would it be to mandate solar panels on the roof of every new build, and make the utility companys pay for electricity from the at a reasonable rate.
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Nighty Night. 🌙💤 #Toast #nzpol

Text from Helen Clark. Looks like the smear attacks and falsehoods aren't working.... #nzpol

Helen Clark sticking the boot in on Twitter.

I'm enjoying her no fucks left to give era. I'd like a few current lefty pols to follow her lead.
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Remember folks, govt action to ensure supply goes to those that need it most, like ambulances, food delivery, nurses getting to work etc, is communism according to Willis.

Everything old is new again.

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If it's in a govt vehicle, it's OUR gas.

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... Because of this, you could probably target per-truck only for the ones doing farm/food deliveries rather than those shipping spa pools around the country.

At the same time freeze RUC's on EV's to further encourage uptake?

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Problem is, reducing RUC's on diesel light vehicles will just encourage Ranger owners to burn diesel on the weekend towing boats around.

Maybe switch RUC's off for heavy trucks? Probably a lot easier to administer too because most of them are running on computerised RUC systems these days...
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So, which one are we thinking comes first? Fuel runs out or fresh rounds of COVID lockdowns?

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Porirua man granted Supported Living Payment after ongoing battle The man was deemed "no current capacity to work" due to diabetes complications, but Work and Income needed some convincing.

#nzpol Are we all going to have to ring the media to get a fair to get a fair hearing and decision out of MSD? 🤬

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