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Clint Smith

4 years

my big idea on tackling speculators. and it isn't even a tax. It's removing a tax deduction that's effectively a billion dollar a year subsidy to investors.

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4 years

We can make homeownership a normal reality for families again, and it needn’t cost the government a cent – @ClintVSmith has an idea

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

record 46,400 new homes built last year incredible. seeing the results in falling house prices, flat rents 184,000 homes built under Labour in just 5 years. 1 in 11 homes in the country were built since Ardern become PM. Biggest building boom in history

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1 year

jokers used to dismiss Ardern by saying she's "a good communicator" (ignoring her huge list of substantive achievements) as if crisis communication is a cheap parlour trick and unimportant. Turns out, it's quite important.

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4 years

New Zealanders supported removing abortion from the Crimes Act and modernising the law by 3 to 1. So, Muller is already on the hard side of New Zealand conservatism in voting against it. But his votes on abortion were far more hardline than you might realise (1/9)

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2 years

people keep saying 'it can't happen here' - like white terrorist didn't murder 51 muslims, like anti-vaxxers with nooses didn't occupying Parliament grounds, like we don't have National MPs mimicking the language of the US Right, promising a 'great awakening' & God's vengeance

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1 year

National: don't teach kids about climate change, teach the debate Climate change: debate's over

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Clint Smith

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2 years

5 years as PM. Leads NZ through our worst terrorist act, the White Island tragedy & 3 years of pandemic. Oversees 250,000 more jobs, 175,000 more homes, 67,000 kids out of poverty. Record building, wage growth & low unemployment. Still gets this misogynistic 'stardust' framing.

nzherald

@nzherald

2 years

Govt prospects for 2023: Do Labour and Ardern have enough stardust to win another election?

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5 months

is it time to talk about how Luxon -bought a 3brm family home (mortgage-free) in the middle of the housing crisis -converted it into his electorate office -charges taxpayers $45k/yr rent for it, highest of any electorate office -rather than just renting a nearby existing office?

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2 years

Luxon's cost of living policies: - oppose the Winter Energy Payment - oppose the minimum wage hike - oppose the benefit increase - oppose Fair Pay Agreements - increase public transport prices - $2 tax cut for typical Kiwi taxpayer - $18,000 tax cut for him

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

I can't believe it's 2022 and newspapers are still printing cartoons with racist caricatures of Maori, and portraying them as greedy thieves taking from Pakeha From the Greymouth Star (Maori wont take or own the water. 3 Waters won't deny anyone water. it'll make water cheaper)

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

4 years

"Actually, my trust owns it" - Collins talking about her second home, and losing the debate in one sentence.

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@ClintVSmith

3 years

a number of anti-vax protesters leaving parliament grounds and walking down lambton looking worn out, defeated by Wellington's secret weapon - the surprisingly intense sun on one of our twenty (20) good days a year

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4 years

A reminder that National put Muller, Barclay, and Walker on unlimited leave when they had their issues, but they want workers to have to work while sick or take unpaid leave to look after sick kids, rather than give them 5 more days sick leave.

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4 years

A woman leads a 3 party Govt that won 50.4% of votes, leads the NZ through multiple crises, lifts her Govt's support to record levels - gets told she didn't really win & is just a good communicator A man reads out a prepared speech, presenting no ideas or vision - gets praised

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

the gall of National - to oppose everything and anything to do with Māori recognition and rights, to vote against the Matariki Holiday, to mock using the Māori name for the constellation - and then put up a video celebrating the holiday.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

8 months

Kieran's 'no-bullshit' style is so good. Short, to the point sentences. Each point building on the other. Easy to follow and undeniable. It screams honesty and trustworthiness. No fancy words or tricky phrasing. Just straight up. Every public speaker should take note.

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@StrayDogNZ

8 months

Good to see @MattyMcLean holding National to account for standing aside and letting Winston spread his conspiracy theories unchecked. "Just saying what a lot of New Zealanders are thinking" is a piss poor response to amplifying unmitigated lies.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

67000 kids out of poverty 20000 lives saved during COVID 184000 more homes Record low unemployment record wage rises Best Start Fees Free Winter Energy Payment 26wks PPL Abortion decriminalised Fair Pay Agreements 34% iminimum wage boost decarbonisation fund Matariki EU & UK FTAs

Newstalk ZB

@NewstalkZB

2 years

Christopher Luxon: There was an inability to just get things done

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

1 month

Canning the new ferries, without any alternative plan, for the sake of landlord tax cuts, will be in the hall of fame of National economic vandalism Up there with Muldoon canning the Super scheme, Richardson's benefit cuts, English starving the Super Fund, Bradford power reforms

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Clint Smith

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1 year

it's funny that having some shares, which have been declared in the pecuniary interests register for over a year, is "increasingly untenable" but having five rental properties while proposing tax cuts for landlords is not a conflict.

1News

@1NewsNZ

1 year

'Increasingly untenable': Luxon on Wood's airport shares 'error'

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

3 years

how many parents do you reckon are saying 'damn, I wish that anti-vaxxer was still teaching my kid with their conspiracy theorist mindset and spending 6 hrs a day potentially exposing them to COVID'

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@ClintVSmith

2 years

Nanaia Mahuta & her family were persecuted for months with coverage insinuating corruption, even with no evidence of impropriety Barbara Kuriger used her role as MP to try to influence officials & allege corruption. No 'breaking news' articles. Nothing Why the difference?

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

1 year

When you vote against Matariki & oppose the Māori Health Authority & oppose Māori wards & make up conspiracy theories about He Puapua & oppose Māori voice on water & oppose te reo Māori in govt agency names & road signs it's not coincidence. It's a concerted anti-Māori campaign

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

3 years

Bishop used the example of a "lawyer in London who wants to come back to have some beers with old mates on the beach" as a reason for rushing border reopening today... I don't think a jettsetting lawyer in the middle of a global pandemic is the sympathetic example he thinks it is

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

3 years

will never not be funny to see a group of protestors walking freely down the road of the capital chanting 'freedom, now!' Like, you're soaking in it, dickheads.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

Brian Tamaki's mob: *holds a fake trial at Parliament, finding our democratically elected leaders 'guilty' of crimes against humanity Most Kiwis: There's no place for these facist losers in politics. We mustn't normalise this National MPs: now, hold on, let's hear them out

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 months

don't recall him saying this about Groundswell

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 months

So, a few things about Willis' 'get a job' answer to her benefit cuts: 1) there aren't enough jobs to go around. *someone's* always going to unemployed & unemployment is rising 2) 70% of people on benefits aren't unemployed. They're disabled, sick, or sole parents

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@liedmyway2top

2 months

Here it is folks. Straight out of the National Party rule book. Beneficiaries all you need to do is get a job. Simple as that. Get out of your wheelchairs, get rid of your disability and your pain and just Get A Job!

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@ClintVSmith

2 years

Luxon has confirmed his tax policy would give him an $8000 a year tax cut on his MP salary plus tax cuts on his rentals, while giving nothing to the 1.1m people on under $14,000 a year & just $2 a week to the 1.7m on $14,000 to $48,000 a year A tax package squarely for the rich

Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

All up removing the top tax bracket, restoring landlords' tax breaks, retrospective tax bracket adjustment & removing ARFT would cost ~$3b/yr Nearly all of that would go to high income earners & landlords which might look pretty good for Luxon, on $296K/yr & owning 7 properties

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@ClintVSmith

2 years

Jacinda to the Parliament squatters: "Everyone is over COVID. No one wants to live with rules or restrictions but had we not all been willing to work together to protect one another, then we all would have been worse off as individuals, including lose people we love.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

10 months

Who are the Kiwis National wants to take $2b off? -74,000 sole parents, 91% women, losing $6,600 each on average -166,000 people w disabilities or health conditions, 73,000 w mental health issues -9,000 of their carers -99,000 'Work Ready' Jobseekers (down from 135,000 in 2020)

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

3 years

new email from Les Mills: "Once the new COVID-19 Protection Framework is in place, should you not wish to produce your vaccination certificate you will no longer be able to access any Les Mills club." Good stuff.

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@ClintVSmith

1 year

From 1 April, a fulltime minimum wage worker will be earning $14,500 more a year than when Labour came to office. that's a 44% increase, vs 20% inflation during the same period.

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1 year

if you ever wanted an example of how there's different limits on 'acceptable behaviour' for different groups.. A bunch of rich white guys play cricket in a protected building & *put it in an ad* Whereas a Māori woman gets hounded into giving up her dog after bringing it to work

nzherald

@nzherald

1 year

‘Emotional hit’: Wellington mayor Tory Whanau’s dog evicted from office, will leave town

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

4 years

Judith Collins doing a photo-op meeting with workers worried about losing their jobs, but it turns out they're really her MPs.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 months

McAnulty's right. this is dodgy. a $500,000 stitch up of a report, arranged via text without any formal process. And full of factual errors. All just an excuse to slash government home building from 6000 a year to 375, and pave the way for privatisation.

Revealed: The simple texts between Sir Bill English and Chris Bishop that led to Kāinga Ora review...

Chris Bishop said he "absolutely" followed proper processes in appointing Sir Bill.

www.newshub.co.nz

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

10 months

Something to think about: In 2020, Lab+Green+TPM's election result out-performed the final TVNZ and Newshub polls by 4.5% & 6.4%, respectively. The Left only needs to out-perform last night's polls by 4% to win. It's all to play for. So, vote.

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1 year

National: Labour hates farmers Labour: spends over $350m to eradicate m. bovis (which National didn't even try to do), and delivers.

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1 year

voted against making Matariki a public holiday. voted against 10 days sick leave. voted against Fair Pay Agreements. complained the minimum wage boost was making his takeaway coffee more expensive. wants you to wait to 67 to get super. Now, this. Not exactly pro worker.

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

1 year

National leader Christopher Luxon vows to review Easter trading laws if elected

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

4 years

I just think getting all panicky about the economic cost of our successful lockdown is a bit like getting bent out of shape about the cost of replacing your airbag after it saves your life.

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1 year

"I loved them since I was a little boy" He was 26 when the Crusaders were established.

NZ National Party

@NZNationalParty

1 year

Crusaders support does not stop during National Conference 💪 #NatConf2023

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Clint Smith

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3 years

A very good point from Jacinda: obsessing over ICU bed numbers misses that the real goal should be to prevent large numbers of people getting into ICU in the first place. We have just 7 people in ICU today and we haven't needed our surge capacity. That's the success.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

Still can't get over National declaring today that the "free ride" is over for sick and disabled people on benefit. The same day they confirmed they want to give massive tax cuts to people on over $180,000. So out of touch.

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Clint Smith

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1 year

Luxon: we've got a third of NZers to refix their mortgages before Christmas Dann: It's not a third of Kiwis. Only a third of Kiwis even have mortgages. It's a third of a third, much less than you're representing It's like this with every number he uses

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Clint Smith

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3 years

Birthing Centre rejects Chris Bishop's attempt to use their plight for political point scoring... and they go pretty hard

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Clint Smith

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5 months

if there's going to be less money than expected, wouldn't cancelling the billion dollars a year in tax cuts for landlords help balance things?

'I want to be upfront with New Zealanders': Finance Minister issues surplus warning

Finance Minister Nicola Willis warns the Government could likely miss the proposed 2027 surplus forecast. The Government included this deadline as a key go

www.newstalkzb.co.nz

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

10 months

A National government means - higher rates, according to Auckland's mayor - higher interest rates, according to Goldman Sachs - cuts to income support for solo mums & disabled people, according to National - more expensive petrol and EVs, according to National quite an offering

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1 year

This graph, or more truthfully the 10,000+ Kiwi lives saved it represents, is Jacinda's greatest legacy as PM. Next would be the 67,000 kids her policies lifted out of poverty, and the 1 in 11 homes in the country (184,000) built during her five year watch.

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Clint Smith

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1 year

All these signs are in English. They just don't want them to be in te reo, too. Kiwis have moved past anti-Māori racebaiting. Most people think te reo should be a core subject in schools. We're not afraid of some te reo on street signs.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

$7 per Kiwi on the most important communications campaign in NZ history, which has helped deliver one of the world's highest vaccination rates, and thereby saved many lives and saved massive health costs. absolute bargain, eh?

Govt's Covid advertising tips past $35M in last year alone

Te Pāti Māori and the ACT Party are questioning why the Government’s Covid advertising is costing tens of millions of dollars.

www.1news.co.nz

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

before he was National leader, Luxon sent Jacinda Ardern a list of major infrastructure priorities for NZ, including 3 Waters reform.

Christopher Luxon

@chrisluxonmp

2 years

That’s a promise.

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2 years

big move, calling the woman and her father liars in their account of Uffindell's actions. I guess this is all well evidenced in the report and look forward to reading that... oh, wait.

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2 years

Luxon: the average Maori earns $10,000 less than the average New Zealander yikes. Maori =/= New Zealander?

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1 year

Why did Luxon call the Treaty of Waitangi a "little experiment" at Waitangi? He needs to get this habit of condescending put downs under control.

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2 years

new stats show we have over 2m homes in NZ for the 1st time. A record 12,000 additional homes completed last quarter. Total of 161,000 since Labour came to office - that means 1 in 12 homes were built in just the last 5 years Just 157,000 homes built in 9 years under National

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2 years

it's quite funny seeing National trying to talk down the economy, even as it stubbornly produces full employment, notches up record wage growth, produces stronger than expected government books, and refuses to go into recession.

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4 months

If we want NZ to be like Estonia: it has free tertiary, free GP visits, free public transport etc. paid for by 39% tax wedge (NZ's is 20%), incl a 33% social security payroll tax it also has 82% home ownership (a legacy of distribution of homes post-USSR)

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wants New Zealand to be Estonia | Newshub

"We are here to improve the country by these targets and as a result, we look at whatever is working around the world."

www.newshub.co.nz

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

Todd Muller is pushing National's tax package on Facebook - but when people ask him why people on high incomes get $9,000yr & people on median incomes get $2wk, his response is to post advice from the Budget Advisory Service. He gets a tax cut, you get told to tighten your belt.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

5 months

"I couldn't live there if I wanted to" - Luxon on Premier House Turns out he spent two nights there mere weeks ago and hosted a party for 25 family members. ... but he couldn't pocket $52k from the taxpayer if he lived there, eh?

Luxon hosted 25 family members for Xmas Day at Premier House

The Prime Minister spent two nights at Premier House over Christmas last year and hosted his extended family for festive celebrations.

www.stuff.co.nz

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@ClintVSmith

2 years

When you're in Samoa, but you wish you were back in Te Puke

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11 months

oh no. and will he be taking the 100 homes he owns with him?

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1 year

77,000 kids out of poverty. 184,000 new homes built. 20,000 lives saved during COVID. 250,000 jobs created. But a great leader's legacy is more than numbers. The example Jacinda set during some of our hardest days will never be forgotten.

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2 years

With National planning to take $50,000 of your super payments by moving up the retirement age, and take away the Winter Energy Payment, and stop Superannuation Fund payments, seniors groups need to gear up for a campaign to Save Our Super

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4 years

4 months ago, Goldsmith told Jacinda to "stick to her knitting" when she named and shamed the Warehouse over taking the wage subsidy then firing staff. Today...

Newstalk ZB

@NewstalkZB

4 years

#LISTEN Paul Goldsmith: Name and shame approach to companies who profit off wage subsidy

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Clint Smith

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4 months

Van Velden says the COVID response 'may have saved a few lives but it's hard to know'. Nope. real experts, using age-mortality data & intl comparisons, say 20,000 lives. One in 250 Kiwis. Can't ignore the facts to please the cookers.

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

4 months

Minister clarifies comments suggesting 'we completely blew out what the value of a life was' during COVID

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2 years

this story about how this couple were "locked out" of NZ for two and a half years by COVID restrictions kind of falls apart when it notes they did come back for three weeks and left again, which, as NZ citizens, they were always able to do.

'We've been forced to be Australians': Dame Rosie Horton is finally coming home

Dame Rosie has been living in her second home in Sanctuary Cove, Australia, since 2020.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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1 month

In my political advisor days, if an MP had said something dumb (like, say, dissing business leaders while on a trade mission with them) I would've advised apologising & not doing it again Claiming you didn't say the thing you're clearly recorded saying just makes you a liar, too

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2 years

watching the Right react with horror to the fact we have full employment, so it's hard to fill additional jobs & wages are rising, reminds us their goal isn't a prosperity for all They just want an easy supply of cheap workers on call Plenty for the few. Poverty for the many

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2 years

'How can crime be down when we're constantly seeing all these stories in the media about crime?' - hosts of breakfast programme that's been part of a six month long crime scare.

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11 months

Jesus Christ. Encouraging violence against our Pasifika community. He needs to resign from Parliament. We had 51 members of one of our communities murdered by a person egged on by exactly this kind of violent rhetoric. We can't just endorse this stuff as 'harmless jokes'

Aaron Dahmen

@dahmenaaron

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In an interview with @NewstalkZB this afternoon, Act Party leader David Seymour on abolishing the Ministry of Pacific Peoples: “In my fantasy, we’d send a guy called Guy Fawkes in there and it’d be all over.” He says it was “clearly a joke."

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2 years

National's tax package: $160 a week for Chris Luxon (+6% of amy other income hi makes, +tax cuts on his rentals) $2 a week for a fulltime minimum wage worker $0 for parttime workers or beneficiaries on under $14,000

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@ClintVSmith

2 months

the $280m cancer drugs policy could have been paid for just by delaying the beginning of the landlord tax cuts from 1 April to 1 August, when the other tax cuts kick in. The govt decided landlords getting their tax cuts early was more important than keeping their cancer promise.

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2 years

Luxon on RNZ refusing to rule out working for Brian Tamaki's new party. These guys held a 'trial' and accused the government of crimes against humanity on Parliament lawns yesterday. Repeated, clear and simple questions, and Luxon point blank refused to rule it out

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3 years

watching Chris Bishop attacking the government over the decision to lower alert levels, after Collins attacked them for raising the levels, my conclusion is that National's COVID policy is simply: whatever the Government is doing is wrong

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3 years

Collins told media she hasn't been tested and she doesn't know if her MPs who are showing up at Parliament have been tested. Just a basic, basic thing that she sorted have sorted.

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@ClintVSmith

2 months

they had the choice. they decided tax cuts for landlords were more important.

Newstalk ZB

@NewstalkZB

2 months

"We just don't have any choice": David Seymour on the lack of funding for cancer drugs

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2 years

Luxon now says he's against employers being able to have vax mandates or require vax passes in their own businesses Strange reduction in businesses' choices. Employers need to provide safe workplaces & if they determine vaxxing is required for that, they need those powers

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4 years

Michael Woodhouse asks the Government why they spent so much time and money investigating his made up claim about homeless man getting into quarantine. Godsmacked, Hipkins replies they investigated it because it was a serious claim made by a Member of Parliament. The gall.

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2 years

There's something deeply wrong with how National keeps selecting these born-to-rule types with serious behaviour problems: Todd Barclay, Hamish Walker, JLR, Andrew Falloon, Jake Bezzant, Sam Uffindell.. And, worse, they knew the issues with some of them before selecting them.

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@ClintVSmith

3 years

Nothing says 'Chris Luxon, man of the people' like a multi-millionaire on a $150,000 a year taxpayer salary complaining that the cost of his coffee will go up a few cents so that the minimum wage worker making it can earn an extra buck an hour.

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2 years

the right spent 20yrs going from 'climate change isn't real' to 'it's real but natural' to 'it's real but there's no alternatives' to 'it's real but we're too small to make a difference' & are now moving to 'it's real but too late to do anything' decades wasted by obstructionism

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8 months

hmm. the 'first action under the 100 Day Plan' - isn't listed in the 100 Day Plan - is required under the law Labour passed - was already in the government books before the election

1News

@1NewsNZ

8 months

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has kicked off his 100-day plan by announcing an increase to Working for Families, boosting Family Tax Credit rates from $136 per week to $144 per week.

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1 year

don't reckon I would call standing down a minister over a paperwork mistake "soft and weak" if I still had Kuriger and Uffindell in my caucus

1News

@1NewsNZ

1 year

Luxon: Hipkins 'soft and weak' over Wood's shares scandal

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

8 months

Hard to accept cuts to vaccinations and other programmes in the name of a supposed 'fiscal crunch' when the Government is planning $900m a year in tax cuts for landlords. If there's not enough money, drop the landlord tax cuts before cutting health programmes.

Thomas Coughlan

@coughlthom

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Funding for Covid vaccination programme runs out next year. Govt. not saying whether it will fund universal access as it does now, or whether it will move to a targetted approach like with the flu

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5 months

Luxon just claimed that the average person on Jobseekers has been on it for 13 years. 13 years? Really? In the latest stats I can find median person on Jobseekers - Work Ready had been on it for 389 days, and that was falling.

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2 years

Luxon: "someone on $55,000 to $80,000, they are the median sort of incomes in New Zealand" No. Not even close. The median income in New Zealand is $770 a week, or $40,000

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7 months

Not part of 100 Day plan Not campaigned on Not even bothering to claim a mandate for repeal without consultation Repeal under urgency to avoid publishing a report (which will already be written) on the tax system's fairness Extraordinary abuse of process

Government to repeal Taxation Principles Reporting Act under urgency

"Additional annual reports would take extra resources at a time when our focus should be on higher priority measures," the Revenue Minister says.

www.rnz.co.nz

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@ClintVSmith

1 year

Maori don't get extra votes But Chris Luxon was able to vote in 2 local council elections last year - Auckland & Wellington (for the apartment he rents to the taxpayer for himself to live in). ..if we're talking about 'one person, one vote', let's talk about the ratepayer vote.

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2 years

Luxon is now criticising Jacinda for going on overseas trade missions too much, like it's a holiday. You can't make this up - they were criticising her for not travelling enough last week. Same old misogynist crap. She's either parttime PM, or a publicity hound

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@ClintVSmith

5 months

my sympathies to the press sec who will have impressed on Luxon, in the strongest possible terms, the importance of not saying "I'm entitled" during his media stand up.

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

4 months

wow

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

4 years

There is *another* $2b error in National's Alternative Budget, bringing the total errors found so far to $10b You see, the SuperFund is the country's largest taxpayer. The less money you put into it, the less profit it makes & less tax it pays National forgot/didn't know this..

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@ClintVSmith

2 years

Luxon asks if a person on $60,000 is a middle income earner In fact, the median income is $40,000 Basically two-thirds of voters, those earning under $48,000, get erased from the conversation by Luxon.

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1 month

so now there suddenly is money for new ferries? & their plan is to take months to work out how they'll buy them, let alone the actual contract & build time? How Willis & Brown aren't already on a plane to South Korea to grovel to Hyundai is beyond me.

KiwiRail chair early retirement ‘unrelated’ to Aratere grounding

The Aratere was successfully refloated at high tide about 9pm on Saturday. It set anchor for the night at Picton. What do you think should happen with the ferries? Have your say in the comments...

www.thepost.co.nz

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@ClintVSmith

2 years

not sure why Luxon is accusing the govt of being asleep over summer when they have an Omicron plan ready to go and it took him over a month to remove his petition calling for an end to MIQ by xmas. he backtracked on that on 21 December.

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@ClintVSmith

3 years

Luxon just claimed on RNZ he voted for safe areas around abortion providers in the 2nd reading False There hasn't been a 2nd reading vote yet There's only been a 1st reading vote and Luxon voted against them Don't know why he lied. It's all on record

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3 years

For those of you struggling to keep up, National's COVID policy is simple: oppose MIQ, vax passes and vax mandates, and the traffic light system. Constantly call to end restrictions. Until something goes wrong as a result of relaxed restrictions. Then blame the government.

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@ClintVSmith

2 years

Luxon is now suggesting kids are going truant from school & then waiting till they turn 18 to go on a benefit. That's just his prejudice that the poor are 'bottomfeeders' Kids are sick The number of 18-24yr olds on jobseekers has dropped by a quarter in the past year

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@ClintVSmith

4 years

Collins and Brownlee: Jacinda's only so popular because she's getting so much airtime in press conferences responding to COVID! Also Collins and Brownlee: *hold a 30min press conference on COVID & utterly destroy their own credibility* It's not the airtime. It's the competence

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Clint Smith

@ClintVSmith

2 years

So, Luxon didn't say how many young people would get job coaching, how many job coaches there would be, how it would differ from MSD's current help, how much it would shorten times on jobseekers.. ..and it wasn't costed Back of a paper napkin policy to excite the anti-poor base

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3 years

Chris Penk just referred to "Aotearoa New Zealand" in the House and Simeon Brown beside him just about spontaneously combusted

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