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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 6h

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 9h

There are a few things here: allowing the media to steer Labour towards their potential coalition partners and away from truly more important stuff, while making it look like that’s also Labours focus. My annoyance with Labour right now is less what they’re doing and more what they’re not.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 9h

No need to avoid the question, say “it’s clear there are some challenges and we hope Te Pati Māori can continue to work on them, BUT, is it really more important than this crippling recession? Or that in cancelling our excellent ferry deal this government have cost us all so much money and time?”

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 9h

“We’re far more interested in talking about how there’s no jobs for young people and how repugnant it is that Simeon Brown has suggested they should just go get a paper run.”
I dunno it doesn’t seem that hard 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 10h

Just why are they more focused on highlighting things wrong with their potential left bloc partners, and not all the other obvious elephants on the other side of the room?

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 10h

Are making money and ethics, morality, virtue, mutually exclusive?

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 10h

If he ever ends up at Kiwibank I’ll depart immediately.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 10h

These “debate me!” assholes are all the same when their arguments get utterly refuted.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 13h

The irony, the sheer gall of them. To crush employment, directly cause the highest rate of unemployment in a decade, only to then tell kids who have to compete with thousands for a single job at a supermarket to “get off the couch,” with a shitty video MADE USING AI 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 15h

That “get a paper round” remark should be shouted at him wherever he goes hounding him for the rest of his days.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 16h

Endlessly selling our houses to each other for ever increasing amounts of mortgage debt. The only ones getting rich from this are the banks. It’s impoverishing New Zealanders. Even the ones with fat bank accounts from lucky timing have to live in our broken country.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 1d

All because these petty partisan fuckheads couldn’t stand the idea that “the other party” had done a decent deal for New Zealanders.

Fucking coalition of losers. LOSERS.

Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 1d

Hyundai should take the Coalition muppets to the cleaners for breaking the contract.

#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

New Cook Strait ferries to be built by large Chinese shipbuilding company

The two new 200m ferries will accommodate 1500 passengers, and include both road and rail decks.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 2d

Also “manipulative” guy can’t open his mouth without denigrating lots of people. Those poor workers being tricked by their unions 🙄

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 2d

“…I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients, or kids in education and parents being mucked around,"

No Christopher Luxon, people are getting sick of YOU prioritising your fiscal policies on your already wealthy mates, rather than on healthcare and education.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re on the side of scotus at this moment in time, you’re on the wrong side.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

Hey Dashun Wang. Fuck off.

Reposted by Barry

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 5d

I made a video on exactly how the opposition can win, based on strategies from Labour's own 2017 messaging strategist Anat Shenker-Osorio that helped Jacinda win in under 6 weeks. If she doesn't know how to win an election no one does. youtu.be/4UHUg7u8Dtg?...

#nzpol

How to beat the Atlas Network - The power of effective messaging

YouTube video by Kaimataara

youtu.be

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

She holds us all in contempt. We "can't afford" the health spending we desperately need because her budget went on tax cuts she was repeatedly told were unaffordable.

So the truth to her equation is, the sale of arguably our most critical state funded asset should be used to pay for her tax cuts.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

Nobel Peace Prize.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! It’s the fact that they torched all the things in the name of the economy and guess what — it’s still fucked. We need to laugh these assholes out of town.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

They’ve let many businesses fold because of privatised power, many jobs lost and many small towns losing their major employer. This would be no different. Assholes.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

Telecom, prisons…
3 or 4 people got unbelievably rich from the sale of Telecom. Received knighthoods. Lauded as exemplary business successes.

We. Value. The. Wrong. Things.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

🤮😂

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

We fucking paid for that fibre. Its value to us is IMMEASURABLE. Far beyond what they could ever sell it for. It’s crucial national strategic infrastructure. It should NEVER EVER EVER be privatised.

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Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 5d

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

FUCK NO.

Government mulls possible sale of Chorus

The Finance Minister says with the completion of the ultra-fast broadband fibre initiative, there's no longer a policy reason for the Crown to own Chorus.

www.rnz.co.nz

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