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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 14h

A beautiful Freudian slip there at 0:46

"We will not be delivering"

At least she was honest there. Increasing Crown debt by $27.7 billion in six months while cutting services, and not having a pandemic to worry about is definitely "not delivering"

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 14h

And despite all those claims in 2023 of being open and evidence based, "The prime minister says he's "really comfortable" with the public not knowing the reoffending rate for the coalition's pilot boot camp programme"

Time the PM read the Abuse in Care executive summary. And kept to his word

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 14h

This is the same PM who said:

"I don't care what you say about whether it does or doesn't work. We can have that intellectual conversation all day long, but we are, dammit, going to try something different because we cannot carry on getting the results that we've been getting (sic)."

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 14h

A comparison:

20% reoffending vs 70% reoffending
No prizes for guessing which one our PM supports

Our kids are too important to be political pawns. Our PM needs to realise that some of them may not actually move to Australia, and these are our future citizens

#nzpol #bootcamps

Iwi-led youth scheme outshines bootcamps in cutting reoffending
https://www.stuff.co.nz/te-ao-maori/360845064/iwi-led-youth-scheme-outshines-bootcamps-cutting-reoffending

Military style bootcamps: Seven of 10 participants reoffended but official says there were ‘successes’

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/military-style-bootcamps-seven-participants-reoffended-but-official-says-there-were-successes/ZT64KFHPJNAGNIS3V6ZJVN6JTA/

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes it feels like I am the only person Jeffrey Epstein never visited at home, never golf played with, never invited to a party, never shared a plane ride with. If only I could figure out what those people have in common...

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

ACT sinking to TPM levels in the latest Curia poll at www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Thoughts & Prayers for the Gibbs Family and the whole Atlas crew for wasting the hundreds of thousands they invested in ACT

They can't even trust David to manage the catering at the farewell dance

#nzpol

Party vote
Labour 31.2%, down 2.6 points
National 29.6%, down 3.5
Greens 12%, up 1.3
NZ First 10.6%, up 2.5
ACT 6.6%, down 0.1
Te Pāti Māori 4.4%, up 0.1

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Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey.bsky.social · 4d

PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia. Here’s my daily Chorus email newsletter, video and podcast. The newsletter is open to all, while the full video and podcast are for paying subscribers. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/pm-tells-j...

PM tells jobless youth to leave to find a job. So they are going. To Australia.

PM says: "If you want a job, you go where the jobs are." He points to 'plenty of jobs' in horticulture in Hawkes Bay. Hipkins says: "NZers are hearing that signal & leaving the country - 200 a day."

thekaka.substack.com

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

"It's an entitlement that I have and I'm just entitled to the entitlements that everyone else has. It's an entitlement. I'm entitled to my entitlements"
source: an anonymous PM

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 4d

Hey remember when Brooke van Velden pretended she was really shocked to be called a cunt about stealing women's money and made a big song and dance of it in Parliament? But it didn't work and none of us forgot that she stole our money?

Thinking about that for no reason in particular #nzpol

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 3d

In 1984, the Govt altered what Truth was through historical revisionsim, doublethink and the use of language and fear.

NZ is showing that it works.
The US is showing what happens

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely agree

Over the years, I have seen Winston Peters use Parliamentary Privilege and innuendo to attack public servants and ordinary kiwis. But I have never condoned that behaviour. But i think people need to resist the slippery slope, despite how Winston has behaved

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 4d

I can understand why he isn't saying that here.

It's kind of like his boss going overseas and complaining about the quality of NZ businesses

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 5d

For students , this doesn't work during a housing crisis. If they move for a short term job, they then lose somewhere to live during the term.

Of course, it's not the PMs fault there is a housing crisis. It's pure coincidence that it has grown under his watch. And we have stopped building houses

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 5d

Just don't try that outside Winston Peters house. It makes him angry. You won't like him when he is angry..

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 5d

It's all about paradigm. Consider it as a satire of news and I find it much more enjoyable.
The sad thing is that people (including my partner!!) actually tune into this stuff.

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Kay in the End Times 🏳️‍🌈 💗💜💙📚 @jennykaynz.bsky.social · 6d

If you will be 18YO by NZ Election 2026, or know anyone in this category, please remind them to enrol to vote. Make sure they have a say on NZ Govt proposal to remove social safety net of Unemployment Benefit for 18 + 19YOs.

Excuse is that parents can pay 🙄
#NZpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

‘The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

Only teenagers from “very low income” families will be eligible for the Jobseeker benefit, with Social Development Minister Louise Upston describing welfare for young people as a “trap”. But other in...

www.stuff.co.nz

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 5d

Its just a guess, but I am assuming Barry Soper talk about Building Earthquake Standards. If not, please don't listen. It was truly embarassing

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 5d

25,000 applicants is incredible! And such a sign of the time. It's so easy to see such a massive number as just a statistic and not think of the different stories of those thousands of families under stress.

Also, lazy bottom dwellers.

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 5d

I found the serious Brain Dead helped me understand some of what was happening

trakt.tv/shows/braind...

Trakt Web:

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 5d

"We are not embracing enough technology " (source: NZ PM Luxon)

"We've had no practice on the Parliament by Zoom" (source NZ Minister Collins, justifying why she traveled during pandemic lockdown, prior to becoming Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology)

#nzpol #goldfish

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 5d

"It's an entitlement and I'm well within the rules. I'm entitled to the entitlements that everyone else has"

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 6d

It worked for John Keys boy. Look how successful he has become based purely on his own abilities

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 6d

You can't fit thousands of job seekers into tens of jobs.
And while Luxon might call himself sorted, the country isn't, even if he doesn't want to do anything about it.

Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 8d

I am admittedly rage-posting now, but come the fuck on! Can we have an actual conversation about what we are doing as a country?

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PeteO @pete0.bsky.social · 6d

Musical Chairs sums up the stupidity of Coalition Govt beatifully.

"The world does't owe you a living" says the man who has killed off 10's of thousands of jobs. And then suggests teens need need to get themselves sorted. He is incapable of considering himself at fault

‘The world doesn’t owe you a living’: PM says 4300 teens will lose Jobseeker benefit next year

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360844583/government-cut-benefit-4300-teens-november-2026

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 7d

Wright Family Foundation receives over $300 million of taxpayers' funding & posts $41.6 million op. profit. The business was converted to a "charity" & pays no tax.
The Wright Family bankrolled Sean Plunkett & The Platform, which regularly attacks govt 'handouts' #nzpol
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Rich-lister controlled charity posts surplus after Govt funding boost to its childcare centres

BestStart is the largest operator in the early childhood sector, with over 260 centres.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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