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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · Aug 4

Every country has its big lie moment. This was the right's - the economy.

National inherited a AA+/AAA credit economy, one of the lowest OECD debt to GDP ratios, “better than expected” finances & positive growth expectations.

Importantly Treasury always forecasted inflation drops & no recession.

My Friend, Christopher Luxon

Is it time to say Goodbye? Plus: The Big Lie told by the right wing parties and media that helped Luxon and his Coalition partners win in 2023.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2h

Take asset / compensate. Pretty simple

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2h

Why not? ;)

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2h

YES THIS

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2h

He's a fecking liar, excuse my language, who will say whatever he thinks will get him his way. Also he's usually talking to the choir so to speak ie his Newstalk listeners who have been fed certain narratives and are still mildly enarmoured with them

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2h

Regulatory Standards Bill will expose the SPCA to penalty if they remove abused animals; it will expose taxpayers to compensate suspected criminals for confiscated assets; farmers can do as they want; Peter Thiels can build bunkers anywhere. A terrible bill with > 98% opposed. #nzpol

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2h

#nzpol Video from 3 month ago: "Labour will repeal Regulatory Standards Bill within 100 days" @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social confirms again today

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2h

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Chris Hipkins: Labour will repeal Regulatory Standards Bill

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Chris Hipkins: Labour will repeal Regulatory Standards Bill

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3h

Typical @#$)*R - the 1News had a segment but it was on a Friday night and Chris Bishop was his usual evasive self and didn't splash on any headlines.

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3h

I really like him. Thanks for confirming

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3h

Hell hath no fury like an attorney-general scorned

Sir Geoffrey Palmer and Chris Finlayson offer praise for the Waitangi Tribunal – and damning criticism of the coalition Government. Sam Sachdeva reports.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3h

He's not wrong #nzpol

They fear the future, they dream of a world that never was and never could be, they're exclusionary, they're humourless - they're this coalition

Chris Finlayson

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 3h

Oh shit - so that's even worse. Thanks. I actually remember the number from a 1News report a little while ago but could not find it. Your summation wouldn't surprise me

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Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social · 1d

Our response to the Government's change to our methane targets:

www.labour.org.nz/news/release...

Release: Luxon backtracks on climate commitments

www.labour.org.nz

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 4h

LMAO

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 4h

Need a source for that !!

Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 6h

Breaking news: PM Luxon and his National Ministers are dumb clowns who pretend to not know unions are the teachers, doctors, nurses, dentists, first aid responders and fire fighters speaking together, collectively, in solidarity #nzpol

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Steve @kiwistevemc.bsky.social · 8h

I’m sick of RW govts trying to separate “the unions” from their members.

“The unions” can’t take strike actions without balloting members. “The unions” aren’t forcing members to strike; they can’t. Members are voting to strike, because of shite offers from this govt.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon blames unions for ongoing strike action

"I think people are getting sick of unions prioritising the politics over patients," Christopher Luxon says.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 7h

Reminder that here in NZ our most-read news site published a piece yesterday that said there is no genocide going on.

Fuck my poxy country and its captured, snivelling media. #nzpol

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 10h

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 7h

National/ACT Coalition government spends over $100,000 a year on a road cone hotline that increasingly hardly anyone uses - with each call leading to less than one road cone removed.

And they took this funding from real worksafe work

WTAF #nzpol #kiwi

After 5 months of the heralded ‘tipline’, just 204 road cones are confirmed gone

In Whanganui, information from the Government’s own Road Cone Tipline had actually led to more cones being put out than taken away. In Wellington, 110 complaints resulted in just two cones being remov...

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 7h

Chris Lynch, who I never read or listen to, but responded to this morning when he attacked someone for calling our his Elon Musk suckery, has now blocked me #nzpol LMAO

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Chris Lynch endorses overseas tweet that haka is "mental" then gets upset when called out on it. Mental

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Andrew Geddis @acgeddis.bsky.social · 9h

Just to note that this legally-bound-to-fail opposition cost the ratepayers at least $100,000 ... . I wonder if the "hate speech" was along the lines of "look, you egg, stop being such an egg!"

Latest mayor to be ousted claims he’s a victim of ‘hate speech’

Whangārei mayor Vince Cocurullo, who looks to have been tipped out on the latest vote count, says he's suffered "quite a strong hate campaign" driving away his voters. He hasn't been targeted because of his race, or gender, or sexuality – he claims it's because he opposed fluoride in the town water supply.

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 9h

So Chris Lynch from CL "Media" is mocking someone for calling out his Musk retweet that the haka is "mental". Lynch said he's "just" engaging with Elon Musk but does he know what is mental?
Also what's with all these Kiwis siding with overseas critics of something of national pride? #nzpol

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Bean Crusty @beancrusty.bsky.social · 10h

Sir Brian Roche gets paid approximately $600,000 annually to punch down on teachers and nurses #nzpol

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