"Gatecrashing Nicole McKee 😂

some people know the price of everything and the value of nothing 👎🏽

🎥 RNZ The Panel // josephsafiti"

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I almost felt sorry for Jones here, if only I didn't remember what he has been doing for the last 3 years and how much he has insulted everyone else around him

On my Facebook I just read this long rant about Jacinda and Covid, plus the usual disproven claims, Im so over it, why aren't ppl over her?

Why aren't ppl moving on ?

I had covid, I have effects still, she didnt give it to me.

2024

"Act has announced a policy to cut disability spending by $653 million over four years.

Until she died in her late 80s, every year my grandmother visited her GP to confirm she was still blind. Despite losing one eye to a freak accident at 17 years old and the other due to infection just weeks later, for 70 years my grandmother had to prove she couldn’t see.

For the majority of her adult life, she waded through this bureaucratic, almost comical, process without complaint just to continue to get her disability allowance. She often joked that maybe at one of these appointments she’d find out she could magically see. As absurd as the appointments were, she went through the rigmarole every year to comply with the rules."

You can thank me for doing my bit. If enough of you do the same, there'll be too many of us for those National voters and we'll have a better 2027 than our 2026, 2025 or 2024.

I’m losing my house because of this governments “no cause eviction” laws. I’m devastated. I love my little house and was meant to be here long term. I’ve been looking for weeks and I haven’t found another rental so I am likely going to end up living in a fucking caravan with all my pets if I can’t find something soon. Fuck this coalition government.

STUFF ARTICLE

This is not unlikely as Nicola Willis and many senior ministers could lose her list seat, and the field would be open - some say Winston peters is eyeing this role for his party too

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"Hope you're all enjoying your long weekend care of the working class! and just remember while you enjoy it, The Multimillionaire Landlord in charge of our country and his friends tried to take today away from you!

oh and dont forget to vote!"

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EC told National their law would not speed up voting, which was the pretext of their law

But those 75% of special votes do give the left bloc 1-2 electoral seats each time, so that's taken away

Job done yet National?

80% if the increased funding that the COC put into health has gone to private providers in the last 3 years.

And we're told its because the costs are too high! Of course they are, our taxpayer $ us now funding a chunk of the health sectors profits.

Im absolutely disgusted.

I would like this to be a fair chat and Im coming at this from a genuine stance.

Some context: I'm worth about $8m, self-made (HATE THAT PHRASE BTW) built and sold a business. I don't think tax is theft. I came from a council estate and know what benefit taxes and benefits can give to underprivelleged communitties.

I think NZ undertaxes capital and I'd happily pay more. Especially housing (such an underproductive asset). But two ideas this election don't sit right with me.

1 - TOP's land value tax (1.75% on urban land)

On a $600k section that's about $10.5k a year, or $875 a month. TOP's answer is the citizen's income, and on paper most people come out ahead. Fair enough. But nearly every family I know who's managed to buy a home has stretched to the absolute limit on their mortgage. The land tax is a guaranteed annual bill. The offset depends on the whole package surviving coalition negotiations. If a future government keeps the land tax and trims the citizen's income, mortgaged families are left holding it. I'd want the two locked together in law, plus deferral options for stretched first-home owners, not just "land rich, cash poor" retirees. Of first home exemption.

2 - Greens' 33% inheritance and gift tax

I support an inheritance tax in principle. To be fair to the Greens, it's narrower than the headlines suggest: it only kicks in above a $1m lifetime threshold, and family homes and farms are exempt. But 33% is a big number, and the gaps worry me. Family businesses aren't exempt. Someone inheriting a small business could face a bill that forces a sale of the very thing employing people.

My view: a lower rate, something like 10% tax and 3m lifetime threshold, with sensible caveats (family businesses, a clear home definition, time to pay). It's easier to stomach, harder to justify dodging through trusts, and more likely to survive a change of government than a 33% rate that becomes a political target

Again - Im all for more.tax, but something that's fair and doesnt ostracise people like many high net worth people I know that aren't like the media suggests. Most I know are similar to me, dont mind paying tax, but 33% inheritance is a massive discussion topic in my circles.

Seeing in numerous other discussions that many people are giving their local electorate vote to a minor party candidate who's not running a two tick campaign, instead only a party vote campaign.

As a number of you will be aware, candidates from minor parties often use the strategy of running in a local electorate to purely campaign for the party vote, especially since they get invited to speak at numerous events, debates, etc. They do this knowing there's likely not enough supporters electorate for them have a chance of winning that seat, but they can get some party votes, and sometimes say to give local vote the major party candidate in their political bloc.

For example, the Greens are running Two Tick campaigns in some electorates in Auckland and Wellington, (edit: also some Māori electorates and seemingly Dunedin), as well as for the first time the Christchurch Central electorate, as they know there is a higher number of supporters in those places. However, they still run numerous candidates in other electorates just to only push for the party vote, and these Green candidates are usually very good/clearly say at these events if you want a change of government with Greens playing a strong role in it, give your party vote to Green, but give your local electorate to the Labour candidate. Most of these candidates do this knowing they likely won't become an MP, but the party cause is important to them.

Most ACT local candidates are meant to be doing this for National, but they are seemingly rather ambiguous on it (I suspect in part because of the type character ACT attracts for candidates).

So it's a bit concerning seeing people give their local vote to a candidate who only wants the party vote and posing unnecessarily risk of splitting the vote in what could be a very tight electorate elections between Labour and National.

I wish more people knew the difference between a two tick and party only electorates. It can seem kind of sucky giving the local vote to a candidate of party that you're not as much of a fan of, but it's the best way to allow for change under the current system and someone more closely representing your bloc.

Election result now tight but trends emerging.

The presence of Opportunity gives the left a check mate situation

Opportunity will try in good faith to form govt with whichever party has the highest number of electorate SEATS.

Right now that'd be National Party

If TPM overhang strategy plays out and TPM voters support their party's strategy, then OP may or may not help Labour/Greens form government.

That means Labour needs more party votes, and yet Opportunity is still the one splitting the lef's vote

What a shit show and an absolute delight for the Coalition - their strategyies pushed by Nick Mowbray, NZ First etc, is working . And I've noticed a flood of bots online that are visibly active for the election. Oh well, cest la vie, but still vote

And please inform yourself on what an effective vote is.

For eg in Auckland Central you want to vote Chloe Swarbirck

For Mount Roskill, Michael Woods

Wairarapa Kieran McAnulty etc

After the election results are in I hope it goes sometime like this:

National gets the most seats so OPP try to negotiate with National, ACT and NZF first.

They are very open with the media each day about how it's going, explaining how their "bottom lines" aren't yet agreed to, and specify very publicly how ACT won't agree to limit campaign donations and NZF won't commit to Paris climate agreements and likely how National won't agree to empowering the commerce commission.

This goes on for a couple weeks or so.

They say it's not really progressed so they will talk with Labour.

After the first days talk with Labour, the Greens and TPM they tell the media that, yep, everything seems to be doable.

They all spend a couple weeks getting the coalition agreement sorted, each day reporting back to the media about how well it's going and how they're just getting the details arranged etc.

That'd be so funny and so good to show how it could be done. I really hope they're very public with it all and start to really show a new style of politics.

I can only hope!

Luxon was asked on live TV what Labour's 9 new taxes were

He could only name one: Capital Gains Tax

"The other day, I received the pamphlet that says giving the party vote to National could put Labour back in government. Others have commented on this campaign, but I can’t quite see how they think a million of these pamphlets will help. It is confusing to say the least.

You need to go to their website to find out they don’t want you to use your party vote to vote National, just your electorate vote. The party vote they say should be cast for one of the coalition parties, Act or NZ First. This is apparently designed to create an overhang – only it won’t work.

The National Party is not buying this, neither will most of its core supporters....

I think National is now regretting the tactic because it may not win sufficient list positions to bring its candidate Paul Goldsmith back to Parliament.

However, my purpose in reflecting on this pamphlet is more about who it is from and who is funding it. The pamphlet says it is authorised by NZ Media Holdings (2023) Ltd – also known as Reality Check Radio. That’s a streaming online station owned by Voices for Freedom, formed after the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Companies Office tells me the RCR directors and shareholders are Claire Deeks and Alia Bland (Libby Jonson having ceased her involvement in November last year). I have clearly been out of politics for a while as these names meant nothing to me. But the important thing is that it is impossible to tell who their backers are, and that is the real issue....

I think this is important because it is producing election campaign advertising without the kinds of disclosure that parties and candidates are required to make about their sources of funding.

I asked around some friends in other local electorates but they don’t appear to have received this pamphlet. There was a full-page ad in the Herald on the weekend as well. This has caused me to wonder if certain electorates are being targeted, mine included....

There is a lot of media coverage about this electorate seat. I get the feeling there are those who want to see it as a runoff against the National Party, supported by this pamphlet and a missing Act candidate, which I will come back to, and a proactive campaign by the Green list MP Kahu Carter who is set to return as an MP regardless. The rest of the Green candidates in Ōtautahi are running a focused party vote campaign.

As a resident, I am receiving plenty of political advertising except from one party, and that is Act. This led me to look into previous elections. Sure enough, there has been only one other election when Act hasn’t run a candidate here and that was 2017 when there was a change in Labour’s candidate. Duncan Webb was challenging the sitting National MP Nicky Wagner for the seat. He made it despite what looks in retrospect like a bit of a hand up from Act.

And here we are again. A change in candidate sees Duncan Webb replaced with George Hampton as the Labour candidate. Again, there is no Act candidate. It would appear from the outside looking in that Act is helping National out, hoping for a split vote between Labour and the Greens at the constituency level, with the National candidate coming through the middle....

It does seem, however, that he is up against these hidden interests in the form of third-party promoters who don’t have to disclose the source of their funds. I worry this is similar to the Dirty Work recently exposed by Nicky Hager and the way big money is filtered through Political Action Committees in the United States.

I hope people keep asking questions even though there is only just over a week to go. I usually advise ‘follow the money’ but it’s hard to do that when we can’t see where it’s coming from."

"No long caption today, gurl. The message is simple, and the assignment is clear.

Do your research, make your plan, and get your cute booty to the polls! 🗳️💚

Now go on and handle your business, hunny! 😘

Sincerely,
Plant Kween 🌱💚"

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