ChezPayne
chezpayne.bsky.social
ChezPayne
@chezpayne.bsky.social
X Escapee....a pragmatic Socialist with Libertarian tendencies. Dual NZ/UK Nat & currently Politically Shattered.
I arrived there too...& Tony Blair's role was pivotal & hitched UK "Democracy" to this decline. Without Blair, it's just another US military misadventure, like Vietnam.
U can draw a line through Brexit,Boris to rise of Farage...all built on Lies that took us to a pointless War.
December 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Career ending...?
Party ending...?
Democracy ending...(as we know it)?

Starmer's PM term may be all 3?
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A white man, born & raised in apartheid South Africa, moved to America, became the richest man on earth.......& set about starving impoverished black Africans.
What times we live in?
December 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Just when Grant Robertson had the recovery dialled in & chugging along, these idiots came in & stalled the f'ker. What esp hurts is anyone with vaguest econ knowledge could see damn well that's what they were doing.
December 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Wow...the reverse of that would be to suggest Anders Breivik(Norway mass killer at Labour youth camp) & The ChCh Mosque Shooter are ACT Party kindred spirits, which would be outrageous.......likely true, but outrageous.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Yes...& The Apartheid 2.0 Brigade (surrounding Trump) out of South Africa.
December 13, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Certainly Leverson 2... skewer the Russian influence...direct & proxy via the White House.
December 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Indeed....& once other World "Leaders" have established their "on knees" position it's going to be very hard to relate otherwise.
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Is it Diplomacy or just plain Fear that keeps other Leaders so silent on Trump? How are they serving their countries by not calling Trump the Racist, Ignorant , Corrupt threat to Western Civilization that he so clearly is....which World Leader's gonna declare the "Emporers" stark bollock nakedness?
December 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If you count Russians as Europeans (they are), +Hungary,+the 20% of the general population who are irredeemable f'ktards(yes U Reform etc)...he may be right?
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I'm trad Labour voter in both NZ & UK. UK Lab have blown it completely by effectively abandoning the Left flank, I'm seriously considering Zaks Greens.
I can't help but feel NZ Lab on same course as Starmer.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The "War on Hol's" is such a weird turn....who the actual F takes 8 weeks off, other than Hosking? It's SUMMER for fecks sake...Luxon saying he'd be back at work on Jan4 in US...of course he would...& he'd still have a summer break too...the twat.
December 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My hood as a child...played many times around (& in) the Mangaone when Cloverlea was still largely farmland (we lived on Tremaine & went to (formerly named) Highbury school. Very much, my old manor.
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Europe(EU) needs to expand or die. Canada has already got one foot in...strong links need to be made with the TPP(Trans Pacific Partnership). UK must align with EU.. Aust&NZ could swing either way, but will likely follow UK.
It's (MAGA) US that must be isolated...until they come to their senses.
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
In fairness, the "Cup" they've given Trump looks like a piece of shit.
December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
So said the Vampiric Cuntess.
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
They can't,they won't.
It's one of several traps being set for Lab by this Coalition...they've faarked the books so so much Labour Rule (in any meaningful form) is going to be nigh on impossible.
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We bricked my mum's iPad doing this..Password rejected (all her passwords written in a book, so I know it was correct). Apple call centre insisted on talking to mum to unblock( she was largely non-verbal in a care home,at this point)
Result..bricked iPad.
A sad end to mum's 20years as loyal Macuser.
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
If this whole sorry episode doesn't end with Trump, & enaldlers, imprisoned the US will, hence forward, be a FAILED STATE!
November 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
You and your pesky FACTs.
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The right response, but I fear more motivated by Nats not requiring an Immigrant "bogyman"...they have Maori filling that role. Besides, those Immigrants have a propensity to become Nat voters...but if the politics dictates, they'll readily throw them under a bus.
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Local decisions done...from on high.
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM