“New Zealand, Latvia, Slovenia, Lithuania, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Togo and the host of Cop29, Azerbaijan, had all decoupled [GPD growth from fossil fuel expansion] before 2015, but their growth has since again become dependent on fossil fuels.” #nzpol #National #ACT #NZFirst
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/11/economic-growth-no-longer-linked-to-carbon-emissions-in-most-of-the-world-study-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#NZFirst
"Now what happens to Winston Peters doesn't matter. But what happens to the people does."
#WinstonPeters, Juggernaut 2, ep 2, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
It's hard to believe now given the smiling crocodile he's become. Political principles up for auction, doing whatever is best for Winston Peters and bugger anyone else. I think at the time he really meant this.
His corruption is perhaps the saddest political story of NZ corporatism.
Another one from the 'oooh, that didn't age well' files;
"This year we are fortunate that New Zealand First will be the strongest has ever been and that will present a chance to change the system away from pure neo-liberal ideals which have let us down and collapsed most of provincial New Zealand."
Comment by "Jon R", 2017
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2017/02/26/hey-shamubeel-why-are-you-rewriting-our-history/
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Sitä huomaa, ettei #UusiSeelanti enää ole Jacinda Ardernin ja Työväenpuolueen johtama, vaan oikeiston ja äärioikeiston (kuten huomaa ettei Suomikaan enää Marinin ja täkäläisen sisarpuolueen.).
Uusi-Seelanti ilmoitti, ettei tunnusta Palestiinan valtiota. Ilmoituksen teki ulkoministeri #WinstonPeters, äärioikeistopuolue #NZfirst.
#politiikka #äärioikeisto #oikeisto #Palestiina #palestiinalaiset #Gaza #kansanmurha #sotarikos #sotarikokset #sota #YK #yleiskokous #Peters
Not forgetting why Stuart Nash was sacked from Labour's cabinet.
Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier found that Nash had breached Official Information Act by improperly withholding emails in which he "discussed confidential Cabinet briefings with two donors"... no wonder he has a found a home in #NZFirst #Corruption #NZPol
Failed National Party MP and chronic cooker Harete Hipango has joined New Zealand First.
It seems her philosophy (cooker plus) no longer aligns with National's values (!) and lucky for her, NZ First will take almost anyone. Especially cookers.
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/former-national-mp-joins-nz-first-rnz
Larry came out of the #NZFirst meeting in a state of euphoria stating he had found the aroma of Polident intoxicating.
Shane Jones arrived wearing a rather gay powder puff blue suit, surely an unspoken symbol of his ongoing solidarity with rainbow people.
The atmosphere in the audience gave off a tangy mix of Grecian 2000 masking unjustified disappointment, tinged with the lightly burnt odour of unfulfilled dreams.
While there was none of that woke masking nonsense and only a single cooker wore a Maga hat, the average IQ in the room could easily be defined by the fact that these people have a shared belief that Shane Jones is some sort of gifted thinker.
What's the cost of a KiwiRail directorship?
For Scott O'Donnell, a director of Dynes Transport in Tapanui, just twenty grand to NZ First has bought him a board position.
Plus Shane Jones threw "an $8 million loan" to Dynes, to advance plans for an inland port at Mosgiel, competing with Calder Stewart's already fully-funded inland port at Milton.
For certain NZ politicians, corruption is a way of life. It's just how things are done.
NZ First list MP Tanya Unkovich is resigning her seat in Parliament "to focus on her work in the private sector."
Tanya who?
Apparently she was "a life and business coach" before entering parliament. It's a tribute to her dedication to public service that she's managed to grab a decent salary for two years whilst achieving absolutely nothing.
Sorry.. she did introduce a Member's Bill called the "Fair Access to Bathrooms Bill".
She's another horrible terf. Good riddance.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360738083/nz-first-mp-tanya-unkovich-stands-down-politics
I agree with Tracey Martin about #DavidSeymour being rattled. "Something has rattled him".
Might I suggest Seymour's reaction to Mihingarangi Forbes' questions about his history with #AtlasNetwork that led him to deny any knowledge of the Atlas Network and label Mihingarangi a conspiracy theorist crackpot despite the fact that David's association and training with Atlas Network when in Canada is well recorded, is the reason for his illogical almost panicked approach to #NZPol #NZMedia
Great insights from Tracey into the tactics being used by #NZFirst and #ACT in their battle for the same racist, selfish, cooker voter base.
Tracy Martin for NZ First leader!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360662568/peters-says-new-members-bill-will-be-catching-rest-world
NZ's soon-to-be-former deputy PM Winston Peters has been sucking up the Trump cool aid. He wants to wipe out ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ & remove “woke DEI regulations”.
“This Bill would put an end to the woke left-wing social engineering & diversity targets in the public sector. NZ is a country founded on meritocracy not on some mind-numbingly stupid ideology.”
Old man throws toxic scraps in the general direction of his cooker voters.
NZFirst are channelling their inner-Trump & doubling down on Shane Jones' attack on immigrant MPs.
Winston Peters reckons Green MPs Lawrence Xu-Nan and Francisco Hernandez should "show some gratitude" for being in New Zealand. Negativity, meet ignorance.
And where's our PM when he's needed? Is he terrified of criticising his coalition partners, or is he just way out of his depth again?
Xenophobes Peters & Jones truly are yesterday's men.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/540319/nz-first-refuses-to-back-down-over-xenophobic-comments
Here’s how I interpret this #NZFirst slogan…
This government’s moving some of the country forwards and some of the country backwards simultaneously. Quite the observation by Winston. The increasing economic and social divide in the centre represents the growing inequality between the haves and have nots.
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