Cannot cross water on ghost ships
Cannot tie up ghost ships at ghost wharves
Cannot spend ghost savings
CAN vote out ghost government www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
We dumped $671 million in the toilet ditching iRex, so add that to the $1.8 billion this wasteful vandalism has cost AND YOU GET TO ABOUT WHAT IREX COST IN 2023. AND THE WORK HASNT PROPERLY STARTED YET. AAAAAAAAAAGH
WE WOULD HAVE A CENTURY PROOFED PORT AT PICTON AND WELLINGTON BY NOW. TODAY. RIGHT NOW. TWO BIG ASS RAIL FERRIES PURPOSE BUILT FOR THE COOK STRAIT SWELLS. NOW. HIGH QUALITY QUAKE PROOFED PORTS FOR OUR SHAKY ISLES. BUT NO. NO. WE DON'T GET "MINIMUM VIABLE" UNTIL TWENTY TWENTY FUCKING NINE!
How this government can look at the cook strait, the Dunedin Hospital or anything they've fucked up because they needed to scrape cash for a landlord tax cut and tell NZ they're the infrastructure guys is shocking, their heads should explode from shame.
The two new ferries will be smaller and cost more than the original ferries and be delivered three years later. The port upgrades still need to be signed off and ratepayers both sides are stumping up for the govt fucking around? And that's for less than the iRex plan. Years later. Costing more.
...... basically the NZ government cancelled a project and replaced it with a proposed smaller shittier one. Only to realise they actually need to do most of the original project to reach their stupid ass minimum viability when the original project was gold standard century future proofing.
AAAAAGH they're still going to have to replace the entire Picton Portside because it was munted and that's what iRex was doing, they're still going to have to build temporary buildings while they do that and that's what iRex was doing, they're going to need mor shit at Wellington and that's what iRe
Winston Peters and David Seymour aren't interested in facts but every media outlet in this country should be calling them out for deliberately spreading disinformation #nzpol
$1.9 Billion doesn't include the $670m flushed on iRex. Not even a deal on port infra yet
Which was going to costs less than $3bn
Willis math
#nzpol
#NZPol FUCKING USELESS BRAINDEAD SHITCUNTS!
Australia has shown how subsidising solar works. It’s not a concept, it’s already been achieved in the real world. Yet NAF coalition govt.? “Nah, LNG imports mate”. Who voted for these people? Seriously? Talk about BAD decision making 😳. Their economic mismanagement will reverberate for years #nzpol
Every decision they have made in the last two years in power have exacerbated the impact of the inevitable and utterly predictable conflict that trump started.
There's no way this is mere incompetence. This is willful destruction of our country.
They must never be allowed in power again.
#nzpol
TOP is being funded by a far, far right white supremacist.
Appropriate today. #nzpol
National's misrepresentation of the Covid Royal Commission's findings is some of the most pathetic, dishonest, and irresponsible campaigning NZ has seen. #nzpol
Oh no! How terrible that we might have a better and more functional public service!
The Post asked Hipkins’ office why he had ignored health officials’ advice, if he accepted Aucklanders endured restrictions for longer than necessary and if in hindsight, he would have done anything differently. A spokesperson contested that Hipkins had ignored official advice. The spokesperson said Cabinet papers ‒ generally written a week in advance ‒ contained preliminary advice and the director-general would give the final public health risk assessment the day Cabinet met. “The most up to date information often came in a couple of hours before Cabinet,” they said. “The director-general’s post-Cab transcript from that day sets out his advice: ‘So our view, and our advice, is that another week in alert level 4 in Auckland gives us our best chance to really finish the job off here.’”
So the main point that Nats have gleaned to kick Hipkins/Labour with from the Royal Commission into Covid is that Hipkins/Labour ignored official advice to keep Auckland in lockdown a week longer isn't even true? lol #NZPol
Exactly this. Anything is else quite plainly corruption in my view. #nzpol
Came here for this!
From Kassie, Nadia and the team at ActionStation
#nzpol 🧵
Over the past week, the leadership of Christopher Luxon has been called into question in the polls and the media.
Aotearoa is no longer buying what his government is trying to sell us, and here’s 99 reasons why:
Deserves a #nzpol tag
Cartoon. Title: “Energy Drink” Picture shows Methanex president and CEO Rich Sumner sucking the dregs out of a can labelled “NZ” and saying, “Just a minute - nearly done” On the can, in small print it says, “Consumes 45% of NZ’s Natural Gas. Pays $70m to Canadian Owner. Receives high ETS subsidies. Too broke to pay taxes”
Fuel shortages and rising prices. A proposal to import expensive and dirty LNG and impose a gas levy. And then there’s Methanex, sucking up 45% of our natural gas.
My #cartoon today #NZpol #Fuel #FossilFuel
In the 2023 general election, Luxon promised to stop "wasteful spending" AND help ease the cost of living
Luxon has failed to deliver on BOTH
Now the reality of their failure is something National, ACT, and NZ First want you to forget.
Never forget. #nzpol
Once again it's fucked that leftist Wellington councillors are proposing this week of all weeks to do less bike lanes #nzpol
You’re nearly there, Newsroom…
Now ask:
“So why did we do all this a SECOND time at all this expense?”
Bonus round:
“Why did Luxon, 8% Melted Rimmer, and their chucklefuck MP’s keep demanding Labour STOP doing the best COVID response in the world thereby damaging public trust in it?”
#nzpol
Indeed. A reminder
#nzpol
A US porn techbro export is funding our coalition governments election campaign
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
The Leaders of NZ - Luxon, Peters, & Seymour lie loudly and unashamedly - amplified by the media - to try and drown out the actual facts of the NZ covid response. It’s not their first post truth rodeo, it’s how they roll. #nzpol
Essential read on this govt’s reckless gaslighting:
“It’s election year, I get it. But implying science & health advice was routinely being ignored fuels the distrust that erodes social cohesion—something the report is at pains to emphasise must be restored.” #nzpol
thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...
