Pete Husky

Are these NZ figures or from the UK / elsewhere?

Complete nonsense. Works great in NZ and fine in UK too

It’s called a Reliant Robin in the uk - have travelled in one there

Solar and onshore wind are at least 60% cheaper than LNG Electric generation. Add battery storage, they are still at least 40% cheaper.
Security? No one's lining up to bomb them.
Make New Zealand Affordable again. 💚💚💚 #nzpol

Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the market

“The pollster Peter Kellner has calculated that if the referendum were rerun today, instead of a leave win by 1.3m votes, remain would win by 8m. There’s no historic parallel for the injustice of that.”
#Brexit disaster
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This is the most quintessentially kiwi politics thing I can remember #nzpol

The people who told us austerity was crucial, Brexit would be brilliant, Boris Johnson’s amazing and Liz Truss is an economic genius, are now insisting the country should join an illegal war

#BBCLauraK

When Israel targeted Gaza’s water supply, people rightly called it out as a war crime, denying civilians the most basic supplies.

Agree re his view of Iraq - but that still doesn’t explain the error of categorising Bush and Trump as comparable or the Iran and Iran war objectives and legal process as similar.

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

Note for those outside New Zealand - this counts as a busy beach

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

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However, in an unexpectedly brilliant twist a pro EU German media group has just acquired the telegraph! #nzpol #ukpol

Liam Dann: Iran conflict could sink economic recovery ... and Luxon A badly timed supply shock threatens to spike inflation and sink our fragile recovery.

It already sank Luxon when he ditched EV subsidies, ditched transit, rail and active mode projects, cancel every public works project there was which spiked our unemployment then decided to think 4 lane highways and LNG terminals which are very prone to fossil fuel price shocks would be wise

This is more worrying to me. Consumption debt and house price inflation debt are bad signs. Business debt which could be investment is anaemic

Banner advertisement from Opportunity Party opposing the Government's plan to build a terminal to import natural gas, as apposed to more investment in renewable energy sources.

Contact your local MP and tell them you oppose the LNG terminal. Public pressure will turn this around. You can find your MP here:

www3.parliament.nz/en/mps-and-e...

#nzpol #KiwisDeserveBetter

Just envision that a Government came to power and cancelled a whole raft of essential programmes which would reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels, only for there to be a once in a century oil crisis.

Kāinga Ora loses $2m on scrapped social housing site Agency boss “comfortable” with the $900k-plus GST sale price.

Thanks to Chris Bishop
#nzpol

We're 3 months out from the FIFA World Cup and the host nation, headed by the FIFA Peace Prize winner, is at war with one of the other qualifying nations.

Is there a distinction between business and consumer borrowing?

Conservative peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.

The VIP lane was rotten to the core.
A national scandal.

Petrol station sign board with various types and prices including $00.00 next to a bicycle symbol

Worried about petrol prices hitting your pocket? Try this simple hack! 🚲 #costofliving #nzpol

🧵 This has to be the funniest Brexit moment yet.

The Brexit-loving brigade spluttering into their cornflakes as they discover The Telegraph has been sold to a German media company.

The irony is spectacular.

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

These headlines should always read “New secondary moderns set to return”, since that’s where most kids will go under that system.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

During the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill, MP after MP got up to point out what's missing from it: fixing the voting system.

The problems with FPTP can no longer be ignored - and neither can the growing calls for PR. 📣

Here are just a few highlights:

Reform councillor Graham Eardley has been suspended for behaving so aggressively towards a female volunteer that security had to escort him out. That’s at least 63 Reform councillors gone in ten months – nearly one in ten!

Strong Doctor Who 'Doesn't she look tired' vibes in that headline.

@forestfocuspod.bsky.social 👀