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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Goose? Gander?
The Coalition 🤡🤡🤡 are ❄️❄️❄️
#nzpol

Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1d

Nats clutch their pearls and sanction Chloe in the house then call everyone a snowflake when they spout shit #nzpol

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Another Lux-flakes 🤡 dog whistle to divert addition from his failing economy. Bloody lazy, young people!

Craig Renney ""We're seeing more and more people want more work and can't get it .. the number of unemployed 15 to 19 year olds had risen by 10,000 in two years, to 37,200."
#nzpol

How many job hunters are there for each job ad?

Finding work may not be as easy as "getting off the PlayStation", data on jobs and job hunters shows.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 6d

What's up?
What's down?

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 6d

Simplistic and blunt force Keynesian thinking by this Coalition of 🤡🤡🤡 has made a rod for their own back by hollowing out AoNZ of jobs and the associated spending.

"The scale of public sector cuts cratered the job market, especially in Wellington, and exacerbated the brain drain." #nzpol

Some of the government’s earliest decisions are coming back to bite it

Hindsight is 2020, and that was five years ago.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 8d

WOW, what a great soldier he must have been!

Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 8d

So, there you have it, plenty of cash reserves but nothing for workers in health, education and other essential services (who btw are often females trying to help support their kids and family).

".. the move was designed to end any doubts that the government would not stump up extra cash." #nzpol

Government stops short of major energy shakeup, rejects asset sale

The government has indicated it is willing to back major electricity projects with fresh investment, though the questions of what, when, or how much remain unanswered.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 9d

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you money.

Discarding your principles to try and appease Trump will cost you money. This Coalition 🤡🤡🤡 are running scared and don't know how to stick to their principles because the Lux-flake❄️Nats are being run around by Seymour & Peters.
#nzpol

Films, now forests? Trump launches another surprise tariff on key NZ industry

As Trade Minister Todd McClay responded to threats of a “100% tariff” on films, US President Donald Trump launched another tariff for a key Kiwi industry.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 9d

The other side to the Coalition's dog whistle 🤡🤡🤡

All legal systems are, by definition, shaped by their own histories and values. In AoNZ that meant a legal system grounded in both tikanga Māori & the common law tradition. Far from being a weakness, this is a source of strength & legitimacy #nzpol

Māori lawyers reject Goldsmith's comments over tikanga Māori court rulings

Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith said he was worried New Zealand was developing a "bespoke" legal system that incorporated concepts of tikanga Māori.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 10d

The 🤡🤡🤡 aren't bothering to hide their right wing, racist ideologies.
If it's the case that tikanga Māori or some treaty clause in law will cause overseas investors to go elsewhere, we don't need them if it's going to cause them grief.
I bet there's no such company that will react that way. #nzpol

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith warns government prepared to remove tikanga Māori from court rulings

The minister claims New Zealand's "bespoke" legal system could discourage overseas investment.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 12d

Another nonsensical announcement to divert attention away from the Epstein Files that has his name in them.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 12d

Another nonsensical announcement to divert attention away from those Epstein Files with his name included.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 13d

But the question remains, why, toward the finale of the 2016 election campaign. for what reason did @jamescomey.bsky.social have to announce a sham investigation against Trump's opponent, causing people to forget the "Access Hollywood" tape & doubt Hillary Clinton's honesty.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 13d

But the question remains, why toward the finale of the 2016 election campaign did @jamescomey.bsky.social announce a sham investigation against Trump's opponent, causing people to forget the "Access Hollywood" tape & doubt Hillary Clinton's honesty.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 14d

A global taonga in our own back yard - Te Waikoropupū Springs.
Please sign this petition and put a stop to destruction being sought by this Coalition of Vandals through their fast-track schemes, supposedly in the interests of getting them and their rich mates 'back on track'. #nzpol

Save Our Water Conservation Orders

Te Waikoropupū Springs have some of the clearest water ever measured on earth. In 2023, the Springs were protected by a Water Conservation Order (WCO). The WCO gives a special cloak of protection that...

community.greenpeace.org.nz

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 15d

Absolutely, the veto powers for sure for China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 15d

Lux-flakes 🤡 "Bodies like the UN are very important, but I also agree that the UN needs serious reform and that's something that we've talked about for a long time here in New Zealand, as well."

What are these serious reforms WE'VE talked about for a long time in AoNZ? Anyone? #nzpol

Luxon says ‘UN needs serious reform’ after Trump’s fiery attacks

Live coverage form the UN General Assembly.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 15d

Cruella von Veldon and her heartless mates in the Coalition of 🤡🤡🤡 keep sticking it to our most vulnerable work force, and especially our good female work force who mix working part time with raising their young families.
Just another dagger for the less fortunate. But, hey, she's sorted. #nzpol

Part-time workers to get less sick leave as law changed

The Workplace Relations Minister says sweeping changes to the Holidays Act make the system fairer.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 15d

Another nonsensical announcement to divert attention away from .. issues that matter ... and releasing the Epstein Files.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 16d

I'm sure you can't get 100% discount, but I thought it quite arbitrary that he got 3% discount following a $50,400 charitable donation.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 16d

Correct my math if you will Capt. but if he donated $1,629,600 he could have got a 100% discount from this judge. Wealthy but not wealthy enough to get away with having 'extreme' child abuse material.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 16d

Another nonsensical announcement to divert attention away from releasing the Epstein Files.

Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 16d

Another nonsensical announcement to divert attention away from releasing the Epstein Files.

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Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 16d

Another nonsensical announcement to divert attention away from the Epstein Files.

Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 16d

Another nonsensical announcement to divert attention away from the Epstein Files.

Les Edwards @makolesedwards.bsky.social · 16d

It's almost 2 years since the NZ election and the arrival of the Coalition of 🤡🤡🤡. Almost every key indicator is performing worse than June 2023.

Infometric's Gareth Kiernan, "Part of the reason the economy has been weak has been the particularly tight fiscal approach"

www.msn.com/en-nz/news/n...

MSN

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