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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 34m

Have just been watching some speeches from the European Parliament about Gaza. Most were in English! Thank you Mr Farage for excluding the UK voice from this due to you deceitful Brexit. We could have been at the heart of Europe and not a cold rubber boat journey away. Shame on you. #brexit

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 3h

Willis borrowing? No! How can that be? She is fiscally prudent. Is she a closet ‘tax and spend’ girl? Will she be defecting to the Greens? The end is nigh.

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 4h

Ah John Major! He had to resign amid questions about his economic credibility and internal party divisions among the Conservatives. I wonder when National are going to start sharpening the knives?

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 4h

Whoops, that should be Currie. He must have thought her spicy!

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, instantly forgettable except, perhaps, by Edwina Curry!

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 4h

The unloved and instantly forgettably grey UK PM John Major started this in June 1992. It says a lot that the idea should be resurrected by Loopy Luxom as a vote catcher. Look what happened to Major, look what’s going to happen to Luxom. History does repeat itself!

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 8h

Crusher Collins Minister of War. Suits her.

PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 23h

The OCR slash of 50 points will not help the economy as it will take money out of the system. The interest paid on deposits will plummet and so will spending by some. #nzpol

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 23h

It is getting very difficult to find someone who will admit to voting for Luxom’s losers at the last election. #nzpol

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really excellent piece from Emily Writes, about genocide and incitement and political violence and victimhood.
#nzpol

sprung, springing @aimeew.bsky.social · 1d

Just leaving this here.

www.emilywrites.co.nz/dogs/

Winston Peters, the victim.

Winston Peters needs you to know that he's a victim. He's a victim. And his dog is a victim. His house is a victim. What he has been through is worse than anything anyone else has ever been through. W...

www.emilywrites.co.nz

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 23h

So the NZ OCR is down 50 points. It has halved in the past year. Really working well isn’t it? It’s time to scrap this geriatric system that makes a super tanker seem nimble. It doesn’t work (unless you want to wait years). Neoliberalism is shown to be dead. Bury it.
#nzpol

PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

Man how do you cope? Those persimmons look really pallid . Hope things improve soon. No doubt they will turn orange soon.

PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

Go Zak. Hope at last.

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

The NZ media outlets have been blaming the recent measles outbreak on foreign travel. No, the reason these kids have caught measles is because they were not vaccinated. So typical on NZ to blame anyone but themselves.
#nzpol #measles

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

I wish Willis would stop using the metaphor/idiom of the NZ economy as being the same as a sweetie shop or grandma’s budgeting tin when running the country.
The blaming of all on the left is straight out of the Trump playbook. Beware!

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

You have an important job then, educating the rest of the UK about a better path.

PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to Harold MacMillan for building the safe, warm , modern homes that so many of my relatives grew up in. Where did the Conservatives go wrong? Thatcher.

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, the UK had to put up with Clive James. Richie Benaud and Dame Edna for years without complaining. Comedians should be free to travel.

Andy @vicozandy.bsky.social · 1d

Why is he still being reported?
Is he still sucking the Aus taxpayer teat, or are our media hard up for colonial fuckwits to quote?

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

I do hope Clarkson is squirming in Diddly Squat.

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 1d

This Zionist has painted targets on the back of all Jews then he cries foul when some nutter takes up the challenge of target practice. I feel for my Jewish friends who have to put up with this man desecrating their religion. Antisemitism should always be fought but this monster is not a true Jew.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy? youtu.be/tFwmfxMP1hs?...

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy — mostly by cutting benefits for migrants and those with mental ill health. That isn’t prudence. It’s managed decline.

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t she be excused for using flowery language? After all isn’t here degree in literature? That’s probably why she does so well as a finance minister.

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 2d

He is our Minister for the 18th Century.

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PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 2d

I can see from the picture why farrowing crates were invented.

PensionerDave @pensionerdave.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/myNUVF_Kl7o?...

Britain isn't in a debt doom loop, whatever some people say.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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