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New Zealand starting to feel the pointy end of the climate crisis
Even Auntie Audrey is stirring the pot.
https://archive.li/Ki7qM
”An even bolder option, the one that would muster a certain excitement, would be Willis as leader, Stanford as deputy and Bishop as Finance Minister.”
Yikes!
So, we trade a coalition of chaos for a triumvirate of tedium? Or worse: a troika of turpitude?
Meet the new bosses: same as the old bosses. Only somehow even more boring and less competent.
Willis is proving to be a financial failure, I watched a clip of her the other day she gave no excuses just whined about it being really hard, I think it's dawning on her right wing economic theory doesn't work.
Thats been obvious for at least 35 years. What's interesting is how much she's doubling down on it.
She is definitely a whiner.
Who would want Luxon and Willis leading the charge at the next election….compare them to Jacinda and Robertson and they look like nonentities.
If Luxon "fell under a bus or down a crevice [crevasse?]", Bishop wouldn’t be the answer.
The rostered on cheerleader goes for a lazy wander whilst they're probably asking the hologram what would he like published next. A personal attack or some fanning of those flames maybe.
So, what’s Winston’s play.
Does he:
1) Agree with ACT and pass the RSB wholesale
2) Try and amend the bill so take out the dangerous bits.
3) Walk.
Probably 2. If David gets on his high horse, Winnie can blame him if the coalition fails.
I think to answer that question, you have to ask: where are NZ First's votes most likely to come from?
It’s far more likely that a theoretical NZF voter is switching from ACT or the hard-right flank of National, not from Labour or the Greens. That suggests the better strategic move for Peters is actually the first option: doubling down on his anti-"woke nonsense" credentials.
At the same time, he can position himself as the more competent option: a steady-handed populist alternative for the alt-right-adjacent voter who’s starting to worry that Seymour and van Velden’s ideological purity is veering into politically self-destructive accelerationism.
I'm pretty they they've realised voting for National is a waste at this juncture. Because this government is all tail and no dog.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/566784/act-leader-blames-identity-politics-previous-government-for-setting-nz-against-each-other
David Seymour is using his usual defence mechanisms of projection and deflection against the previous Labour Government, and against academics and commenters who have identified the damage and divisions that ACT's policies have caused and are causing.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/23/anne-salmond-victim-of-the-day/
The disinformation, toxicity and abuse spread by the ACT party, their cronies and supporters over recent years reveals them as threatened by evidence and fact, and motivated by malevolence, envy and resentment of Labour, in particular of Jacinda Ardern.