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The Tamaki Makaurau by election
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The Tamaki Makaurau by election
I'm getting to the point politically that I'm open to which ever party gets the most votes is the leader of the house, and all the other parties are confidence and supply parties, and policy is always a matter of getting 60% agreement in the house, let's grow up and stop have sides, supposedly all politicians are in it for the good of the country.
A few years ago Nat and Lab were statistically the two most agreeable parties (90+%). And even now their differences are usually a couple (only!!) of big ticket repeals (ERA, Oil & Gas) everything else remains unchanged or slight tinkering.
When you got act nzf and tpm as coalition options , I'm starting to feel grand coalition is a better option, I voted and supported mmp but I'm becoming very blah about it.
Interesting shift in Thai governance:
So there you go Lux. All them empty shops up & down the mainstreets of cities and towns in Aotearoa could easily be filled with neon lights and cannabis products just like those in commercial centres overseas. Don't keep on waiting for the neolib tooth fairy lad – go for gold instead!
The Conversation publishes great stuff.
https://theconversation.com/what-is-prepping-and-how-does-it-work-in-australia-264481?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekender%20-%206th%20September%202025&utm_content=The%20Weekender%20-%206th%20September%202025+CID_eebf22685d592a69d56211dc9a6f84a6&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=What%20is%20prepping%20%20and%20how%20does%20it%20work%20in%20Australia
A lot of this probably applies here. Think of Tom Phillips.
Starmer's broom sweeps out the trash… https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-starmer-reshuffles-top-team-restore-authority-after-rayner-blow-2025-09-05/
How common is this sense? Well, the Conservatives screwed themselves so thoroughly in recent years that they ended up with a black woman as their leader. For British traditionalists to do such a thing, they really had to be desperate!! I wish her luck, btw, because she will need it to retain parity with Reform. So yeah, any British observer of politics is likely to see the Labour situation as equivalent to the Tory situation, and both as examples of common sense conspicuous in its absence.
Tempting fate… I think that I have the periodic overwhelming of the site by AI bots under control. Shorter functional lifetimes on spawned processes, more of them for loads and dropping long connections earlier seems to be working.
The bots appear to have a diurnal cycle and get really intense in our evening.
Interesting get together of what I would have thought were two diametrically opposing political views have now become 'bedfellows' (politically speaking of course). I honestly don't know what to make of N Z First apart from the fact that they – God forbid just may become a force to be reckoned with come this time next year. Just maybe ole Winnie may run out of puff before the election cycle gets into serious gear – no harm in being hopeful
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360815550/former-labour-mp-stuart-nash-guest-speaker-nz-firsts-annual-meeting
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572298/former-labour-mp-stuart-nash-not-closing-door-on-campaigning-for-nz-first
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572293/former-national-party-mp-harete-hipango-joins-new-zealand-first
The master of the back-stab, gives as good as he gets.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572298/former-labour-mp-stuart-nash-not-closing-door-on-campaigning-for-nz-first
It has always been all about him. I remember when he was the candidate for Epsom and wanted to run a "Nash" campaign rather than a Labour campaign. His LEC told him in no uncertain terms that they had no time for show ponies, that the Electorate's job was to get the billboards up on the major arterials, to maximise the Party Vote, and to get all the volunteers who were mobile working in surrounding electorates on Election Day while the older members showed their charming faces and their Labour rosettes as scrutineers.
Except that he's right.
That attitude is why I vote Green.
+100 SPC. Nash is is a complete A-hole.
I have this theory that people in NZ tend to be brought up to think for themselves. Certainly my two kids are like this.
It follows that we wont go down the Trump path, but will reject this for a more egalitarian, democratic path.
Seymour, Peters and Luxon (and Bishop and Willis and Jones and and and) are all slaves to Trumpism-they will lose next year.
I think the NZF shoes will fit Nash perfectly and he’ll walk in them with a Shane swagger.
Sure, it is a nice fit, social conservative provincial and that connection to sponsors.
He’s got connections to overseas sponsors.
Nash turned out to be border line corrupt and always suited national more, so nzf is the home for him.
And even hardened nat supporters in my neck of the wood s couldn't stand hipango.
The home of arrogant crooks is what nzf has become
That's it pretty well summed ….
The only people in my neck of the woods oblivious to just how fucking awful Harete is are the local party dipshits who selected her.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/harete-hipango-revealed-as-national-mp-who-faced-allegations-of-inappropriate-spending/
The recent amazon shenanigans was our warning that Luxon and co are going to allow these pricks to help themselves to enormous amounts of our electricity to power their oligarchy enrichment projects.
https://xcancel.com/RapidResponse47/status/1963776213945897399
https://xcancel.com/davidsacks47/status/1963975134257000694
Yep. And amongst all the amazon cheerleading there is this (I'm sure you already know all this..but for others..)
On the backs of..(amongst other)
And this…(which I didnt know so much about a year ago..: (
One hand on the Freedom Cup.
One has to recognise the competence the South African coach, he said his team would need to score 25 points to win.