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

#NZPol #NZFirst

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.

https://youtu.be/lKFlRjkdX4w

According to Shane Jones he's been given a mandate to mine NZ.

Apparently 6.5% is a mandate. #NZPol #NZFirst

https://youtu.be/74_qGHX4vI8

Tracy Martin for NZ First leader!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360662568/peters-says-new-members-bill-will-be-catching-rest-world

#NZPolitics #NZFirst #TracyMartin

@BigD

The fact that Winston Peters was actually celebrating the recent Trump tariffs is very telling of just how much of a boot-licking fascist friendly party #NZFirst and its leader Winston Peters have become.

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.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/winston-peters-new-zealand-first-follows-donald-trumps-anti-dei-path-with-new-bill/UMEW5HLVR5DFBE5AE726EH7NEE/

#NZPol #NZFirst #Cookers

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

#NZPol #NZFirst #ShaneJones

@ArrestJK @BobLefridge

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.

@ArrestJK

I really don’t have much fear of the legislation passing into law but I do have a fear of the damage it has and will continue to do to the wairua of #Aotearoa if it is supported, as promised, by #Luxon #National and #NZFirst to its second reading.

To quote that historical wizard of #NZPol

https://youtu.be/M0RVyZTPq3E?si=_A9FqvDROAkzXU-Y

Winston Peters is at the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in attendance & issued a "global SOS to Save Our Seas" from rising sea levels, calling it a "crisis entirely of humanity's making" and "a worldwide catastrophe putting this Pacific paradise in peril".

Winston is the *only* climate denier in the room. The cooker coalition has embarrassed NZ on the world stage, yet again.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/winston-peters-downplays-human-made-climate-change

#NZPol #NZFirst #ClimateCrisis #Cookers

Alternative headline. Instead of

"Costello brushes off revelation tobacco giant Philip Morris targeted NZ First"

how about "Costello stubs out big-tobacco corruption claims". 🚬

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350388811/costello-brushes-revelation-tobacco-giant-philip-morris-targeted-nz-first

#NZPol #NZFirst #Corruption

Our associate health minister Casey Costello is a bobble-headed clown.

RNZ has discovered that in 2017, Philip Morris targeted NZFirst (the weakest link) seeking favourable terms for its heated tobacco products. Former Taxpayers Union chair Costello duly obliged, setting NZ's smokefree plans back by years.

Like most of the coalition cabinet, Costello is out of her depth and up to her armpits in corruption.

And evil. I almost forgot evil.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/525918/costello-brushes-off-revelation-tobacco-giant-philip-morris-targeted-nz-first

#NZPol #Tobacco #NZFirst

Shane Jones is a blustering fool. In a May meeting with his seafood industry mates, Jones demeaned High Court Judge Cheryl Gwyn, who has awarded Customary Marine Titles to Māori. Jones called her a “Communist Judge”.

The Cabinet Manual states that ministers should not express any views... reflecting adversely on the impartiality, personal views, or ability of any judge.

Luxon "doesn’t believe it is a Cabinet Manual matter".

Meh!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350386759/minister-calls-judge-communist-meeting-seafood-lobby-over-maori-rights

#NZPol #NZFirst #ShaneJones

The #Aotearoa Liberation League
INSIDE: Kaipara Council on #Māori Wards.

#NZPol #NZFirst #ACT #National

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aJkRMzgY3I

See what I mean about #ShaneJones #NZFirst

#NZPol #BHN

It has been said that #NZFirst MP Shane Jones plays the stereotypical corrupt politician.
Thinking of which infamous villain character Shane Jones most reminds me of I find myself thinking of Aloysius O' Hare from The Lorax.

#NZPol

Being budget day for our #NZPol government we will see more of our country’s wealth be redistributed to the richest people and further austerity measures being used to punish the poorest. It’s important to understand this is #neoliberalism working as the #AtlasNetwork, #TPU #NZInitiative, #Act, #National & #NZFirst intend. I recommend watching this interview with George Monbiot to better understand what neoliberalism is.

https://youtu.be/Rz3mZeKRCEI?si=zWkrhZ2pYE5pBGbM