Oh yeah. Except, of course, if Te Pati Maori do it to Act, NZF, or Nats - then it's "personality politics".
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#NationalNotFitToGovern
February 4, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Oh yeah. Except, of course, if Te Pati Maori do it to Act, NZF, or Nats - then it's "personality politics".
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Well worth reading, I'm pausing and considering messages and reminders about preparedness.
We must vote for a government that has science and evidence behind the decisions made.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
We must vote for a government that has science and evidence behind the decisions made.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
I'm on the Coromandel Peninsula, and what else is there to do when unable to leave but write about the weather and climate change:
drbex.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
drbex.substack.com/p/climate-ch...
Climate change impacts are here now
We need to plan and act
drbex.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Well worth reading, I'm pausing and considering messages and reminders about preparedness.
We must vote for a government that has science and evidence behind the decisions made.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
We must vote for a government that has science and evidence behind the decisions made.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Nikki noboats should resign.
But she wont. She'll blame [insert word salad here] instead.
Its never Nationals fault, sez the party of personal responsibility.
#ResignNicola
#NationalNotFitToGovern
But she wont. She'll blame [insert word salad here] instead.
Its never Nationals fault, sez the party of personal responsibility.
#ResignNicola
#NationalNotFitToGovern
January 22, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Nikki noboats should resign.
But she wont. She'll blame [insert word salad here] instead.
Its never Nationals fault, sez the party of personal responsibility.
#ResignNicola
#NationalNotFitToGovern
But she wont. She'll blame [insert word salad here] instead.
Its never Nationals fault, sez the party of personal responsibility.
#ResignNicola
#NationalNotFitToGovern
The cost of rebuilding after the storms will be in the millions.
Much of this will be govt expenditure.
So what will the govt cut elsewhere,to fund repairs and rebuilds?
They WILL cut,to balance Nikki Noboat's fragile budget.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Much of this will be govt expenditure.
So what will the govt cut elsewhere,to fund repairs and rebuilds?
They WILL cut,to balance Nikki Noboat's fragile budget.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
January 22, 2026 at 7:28 PM
The cost of rebuilding after the storms will be in the millions.
Much of this will be govt expenditure.
So what will the govt cut elsewhere,to fund repairs and rebuilds?
They WILL cut,to balance Nikki Noboat's fragile budget.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Much of this will be govt expenditure.
So what will the govt cut elsewhere,to fund repairs and rebuilds?
They WILL cut,to balance Nikki Noboat's fragile budget.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
"Build the future"?
What about the present? What about now?
Why is it always about something happening in the future?
And how long will the wait be?
#NationalNotFitToGovern
What about the present? What about now?
Why is it always about something happening in the future?
And how long will the wait be?
#NationalNotFitToGovern
January 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM
"Build the future"?
What about the present? What about now?
Why is it always about something happening in the future?
And how long will the wait be?
#NationalNotFitToGovern
What about the present? What about now?
Why is it always about something happening in the future?
And how long will the wait be?
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Funny. Luxon didnt listen to feedback when it came to scrapping 33 Pay Equity agreements?
Or the vast majority of submissions opposing Act's Regulatory Standards Bill.
Mr Luxon has selective hearing.
We see you, Mr GrowthGrowthGrowth.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
(2/2)
Or the vast majority of submissions opposing Act's Regulatory Standards Bill.
Mr Luxon has selective hearing.
We see you, Mr GrowthGrowthGrowth.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
(2/2)
January 20, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Funny. Luxon didnt listen to feedback when it came to scrapping 33 Pay Equity agreements?
Or the vast majority of submissions opposing Act's Regulatory Standards Bill.
Mr Luxon has selective hearing.
We see you, Mr GrowthGrowthGrowth.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
(2/2)
Or the vast majority of submissions opposing Act's Regulatory Standards Bill.
Mr Luxon has selective hearing.
We see you, Mr GrowthGrowthGrowth.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
(2/2)
"Lacks the language"?!?
WTF!?
Come on. He's a grown up. Surely he can use the entire English lexicon aside from talking points like "growth,growth,growth","laser focused", and "what I say to you".
He has the words, he just doesnt have the spine to use them.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
WTF!?
Come on. He's a grown up. Surely he can use the entire English lexicon aside from talking points like "growth,growth,growth","laser focused", and "what I say to you".
He has the words, he just doesnt have the spine to use them.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
January 20, 2026 at 8:43 PM
"Lacks the language"?!?
WTF!?
Come on. He's a grown up. Surely he can use the entire English lexicon aside from talking points like "growth,growth,growth","laser focused", and "what I say to you".
He has the words, he just doesnt have the spine to use them.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
WTF!?
Come on. He's a grown up. Surely he can use the entire English lexicon aside from talking points like "growth,growth,growth","laser focused", and "what I say to you".
He has the words, he just doesnt have the spine to use them.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Simeon is completely oblivious to the fact that all the firefighters are wearing t-shirts from their union, & it has made my day. Well played Howick firefighters, well played. 👏👏 #direemergency #NZPFU #workersunited #Nationalnotfittogovern
January 20, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Simeon is completely oblivious to the fact that all the firefighters are wearing t-shirts from their union, & it has made my day. Well played Howick firefighters, well played. 👏👏 #direemergency #NZPFU #workersunited #Nationalnotfittogovern
At this point, Jenny, I'd vote for old old childhood stuffed toy chum,Mr Snugglebunny, to get rid of Luxon, Seymour, and Peters. Another 3 years of those men and their toxic policies would be disastrous for Aotearoa.
#VoteMrSnugglebunny
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#VoteMrSnugglebunny
#NationalNotFitToGovern
January 19, 2026 at 5:06 AM
At this point, Jenny, I'd vote for old old childhood stuffed toy chum,Mr Snugglebunny, to get rid of Luxon, Seymour, and Peters. Another 3 years of those men and their toxic policies would be disastrous for Aotearoa.
#VoteMrSnugglebunny
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#VoteMrSnugglebunny
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Memo to Chris Bishop: you've lost your mind if you think losing over 17,000 homes is acceptable!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#NationalNotFitToGovern
January 19, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Memo to Chris Bishop: you've lost your mind if you think losing over 17,000 homes is acceptable!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#NationalNotFitToGovern
17,400 homes lost... to quote another Bluesky user; WHAT SHITFUCKERY IS THIS!?!?
National is hellbent on wrecking things!!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern
National is hellbent on wrecking things!!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern
January 19, 2026 at 2:16 AM
17,400 homes lost... to quote another Bluesky user; WHAT SHITFUCKERY IS THIS!?!?
National is hellbent on wrecking things!!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern
National is hellbent on wrecking things!!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Those effing ✌️green shoots✌️ our economics commentators keep rabbiting on about?
Weeds.
Morely likely Fiscal genius Nikky Noboats' cold clammy hands strangling our communities.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Weeds.
Morely likely Fiscal genius Nikky Noboats' cold clammy hands strangling our communities.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
January 15, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Those effing ✌️green shoots✌️ our economics commentators keep rabbiting on about?
Weeds.
Morely likely Fiscal genius Nikky Noboats' cold clammy hands strangling our communities.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Weeds.
Morely likely Fiscal genius Nikky Noboats' cold clammy hands strangling our communities.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
...profit motive.
Secondly, eliminate our reliance on overseas fossil fuels by going full-electric using renewals.
It's basic stuff.
I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY PRIVATE DETAILS WITH CORPORATES.
F**k you National, you are utterly hopeless.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
(4/4)
Secondly, eliminate our reliance on overseas fossil fuels by going full-electric using renewals.
It's basic stuff.
I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY PRIVATE DETAILS WITH CORPORATES.
F**k you National, you are utterly hopeless.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
(4/4)
January 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
...profit motive.
Secondly, eliminate our reliance on overseas fossil fuels by going full-electric using renewals.
It's basic stuff.
I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY PRIVATE DETAILS WITH CORPORATES.
F**k you National, you are utterly hopeless.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
(4/4)
Secondly, eliminate our reliance on overseas fossil fuels by going full-electric using renewals.
It's basic stuff.
I DO NOT WANT TO SHARE MY PRIVATE DETAILS WITH CORPORATES.
F**k you National, you are utterly hopeless.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
(4/4)
Horrifying footage from Kyiv shows the moment a residential building in the Pozniaky district was struck during Russia’s latest combined missile and drone attack. Pozniaky suffered the heaviest destruction in the capital overnight, with entire sections of the high-rise torn apart.
January 9, 2026 at 5:44 PM
We have a reality tv, mentally unstable, syphilis brain, rotted felon, fraudster, insurrectionist, child sex trafficker, war criminal, grifter. #dementiadon
#NationalNotFitToGovern #impeachconvictremove Take away grandpa's day pass
#NationalNotFitToGovern #impeachconvictremove Take away grandpa's day pass
January 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
We have a reality tv, mentally unstable, syphilis brain, rotted felon, fraudster, insurrectionist, child sex trafficker, war criminal, grifter. #dementiadon
#NationalNotFitToGovern #impeachconvictremove Take away grandpa's day pass
#NationalNotFitToGovern #impeachconvictremove Take away grandpa's day pass
Well, af least he's not telling us that we just don't know him. That one wore out so he needed another Go To...
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#NationalNotFitToGovern
December 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Well, af least he's not telling us that we just don't know him. That one wore out so he needed another Go To...
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#NationalNotFitToGovern
... to sack Richsardson?
When the Middle Class quietly refuse to comply, that must send shivers down whatever passes for political spinery.
#ResistTheRight
#NationalNotFitToGovern
When the Middle Class quietly refuse to comply, that must send shivers down whatever passes for political spinery.
#ResistTheRight
#NationalNotFitToGovern
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
... to sack Richsardson?
When the Middle Class quietly refuse to comply, that must send shivers down whatever passes for political spinery.
#ResistTheRight
#NationalNotFitToGovern
When the Middle Class quietly refuse to comply, that must send shivers down whatever passes for political spinery.
#ResistTheRight
#NationalNotFitToGovern
Ditto,P. I had a fledgling business (a small bistro) in the early 90s.Her "mother of all budgets" knocked 30% of my turnover and killed it by August '92.My staff and i all ended up on the dole.
F**k the Tories,they are no friend to either workers or small/medium businesses.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
F**k the Tories,they are no friend to either workers or small/medium businesses.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ditto,P. I had a fledgling business (a small bistro) in the early 90s.Her "mother of all budgets" knocked 30% of my turnover and killed it by August '92.My staff and i all ended up on the dole.
F**k the Tories,they are no friend to either workers or small/medium businesses.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
F**k the Tories,they are no friend to either workers or small/medium businesses.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
...when he & his National mates scrapped the nascent superannuation scheme in 1975.
Nicola "Noboats" Willis continues the fine Tory tradition of incompetence 50 years later. #NationalNotFitToGovern
"THE WORST DECISION BY A NZ POLITICIAN,EVER"
-Sam Stubbs,14.6.2021
www.stuff.co.nz/business/mon...
Nicola "Noboats" Willis continues the fine Tory tradition of incompetence 50 years later. #NationalNotFitToGovern
"THE WORST DECISION BY A NZ POLITICIAN,EVER"
-Sam Stubbs,14.6.2021
www.stuff.co.nz/business/mon...
Stuff
www.stuff.co.nz
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
...when he & his National mates scrapped the nascent superannuation scheme in 1975.
Nicola "Noboats" Willis continues the fine Tory tradition of incompetence 50 years later. #NationalNotFitToGovern
"THE WORST DECISION BY A NZ POLITICIAN,EVER"
-Sam Stubbs,14.6.2021
www.stuff.co.nz/business/mon...
Nicola "Noboats" Willis continues the fine Tory tradition of incompetence 50 years later. #NationalNotFitToGovern
"THE WORST DECISION BY A NZ POLITICIAN,EVER"
-Sam Stubbs,14.6.2021
www.stuff.co.nz/business/mon...
Put 1000s of civil servants out of work.
Tax revenue drops.
Force 1000s to flee to Australia.
Tax revenue drops.
Force 1000s of businesses into liquidation.
Tax revenue drops.
Go figure.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Go figure....
#OneTermGovernment #MostMockedGovt #NationalNotFitToGovern
Tax revenue drops.
Force 1000s to flee to Australia.
Tax revenue drops.
Force 1000s of businesses into liquidation.
Tax revenue drops.
Go figure.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Go figure....
#OneTermGovernment #MostMockedGovt #NationalNotFitToGovern
Government finances worse than expected as tax take falls
Treasury figures show a bigger deficit than forecast.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Put 1000s of civil servants out of work.
Tax revenue drops.
Force 1000s to flee to Australia.
Tax revenue drops.
Force 1000s of businesses into liquidation.
Tax revenue drops.
Go figure.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Go figure....
#OneTermGovernment #MostMockedGovt #NationalNotFitToGovern
Tax revenue drops.
Force 1000s to flee to Australia.
Tax revenue drops.
Force 1000s of businesses into liquidation.
Tax revenue drops.
Go figure.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Go figure....
#OneTermGovernment #MostMockedGovt #NationalNotFitToGovern
I dont think she knows what shes talking about. Just meaningless sound bites, essentially saying "We're doing nothing, because we dont want to"
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#NationalNotFitToGovern
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I dont think she knows what shes talking about. Just meaningless sound bites, essentially saying "We're doing nothing, because we dont want to"
#NationalNotFitToGovern
#NationalNotFitToGovern
"The Ministry of Justice found 80.2 percent of submitters opposed the bill, with 0.5 percent supporting it."
O.5%? It seems even Act voters didnt support it.
This is voter suppression writ large.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
O.5%? It seems even Act voters didnt support it.
This is voter suppression writ large.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"The Ministry of Justice found 80.2 percent of submitters opposed the bill, with 0.5 percent supporting it."
O.5%? It seems even Act voters didnt support it.
This is voter suppression writ large.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
O.5%? It seems even Act voters didnt support it.
This is voter suppression writ large.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
The takeaway from this is that even when a National govt sets an ambitious target,the next Nat govt can subvert or scrap it.
Ambitious Nat govt policy announcements should be viewed with deep cynicism. Theyve proven they cant be trusted.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
Ambitious Nat govt policy announcements should be viewed with deep cynicism. Theyve proven they cant be trusted.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
Why New Zealand failed to reach its Smokefree 2025 target
In 34 days we hit the deadline - but to reach that goal we'd need 120,000 people to quit smoking pretty much immediately.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The takeaway from this is that even when a National govt sets an ambitious target,the next Nat govt can subvert or scrap it.
Ambitious Nat govt policy announcements should be viewed with deep cynicism. Theyve proven they cant be trusted.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
Ambitious Nat govt policy announcements should be viewed with deep cynicism. Theyve proven they cant be trusted.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedeta...
So basically, this rotten govt decided to opt for punitive measures because it would be red-meat for their conservative, bash-a-bene base.
Not evidence-based - all just for votes.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Not evidence-based - all just for votes.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Ministers were warned against teen welfare crackdown, documents reveal
Officials said the changes could actually increase long-term benefit dependency.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
So basically, this rotten govt decided to opt for punitive measures because it would be red-meat for their conservative, bash-a-bene base.
Not evidence-based - all just for votes.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Not evidence-based - all just for votes.
#NationalNotFitToGovern
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
So our corrupt govt is going to abolish Regional Councils!
The only arm of govt that specifically protects our clean water & the environment on a regional basis.
They are critical to our survival.
Another appalling attack on nature!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern #nzpol
The only arm of govt that specifically protects our clean water & the environment on a regional basis.
They are critical to our survival.
Another appalling attack on nature!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern #nzpol
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So our corrupt govt is going to abolish Regional Councils!
The only arm of govt that specifically protects our clean water & the environment on a regional basis.
They are critical to our survival.
Another appalling attack on nature!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern #nzpol
The only arm of govt that specifically protects our clean water & the environment on a regional basis.
They are critical to our survival.
Another appalling attack on nature!!
#NationalNotFitToGovern #nzpol