An assault on academia, an assault on education, an assault on knowledge…

The ratio is quite something to see. The appalling bad taste and lack of empathy is remarkable. What’s more remarkable is that he has yet to delete it. No wonder he’s left Twitter.

Our “best economic managers” appear to really suck at being…economic managers.

Once upon a time ACT called for an end to corporate welfare, like, I guess, subsidies for oil and gas exploration. Now they’re against people being offered ice creams while they queue to vote. And changing the order of language on passports. Great to see their priorities sorted

I’d vote for him

Nearly forgot the weekly jobs release. Here you go. Grim and getting grimmer. Another winter of steady descent.

If they hadn’t canned 3 Waters, councils wouldn’t be having to hike rates by so much. So yeah, let’s put a cap on rates increases that are going to pay for infrastructure maintenance that we haven’t been doing because we’ve been keeping rates artificially low for decades. 🤦‍♂️

Going to pay for things councils have to do, like road maintenance, because we’ve underfunded councils to do those things. Duh

It’s obvious what the new FBI office in #NZ is aimed at, & is yet more proof that NZ Govt is walking away from the longtime careful positioning of NZ’s independent foreign policy under successive governments. NZ should work to reduce regional tensions, not buy into them.

Want to learn just how duplicitous and undemocratic this government is? Just read this in the Past Equities Bill that just passed under urgency… Project 10: How the government kept the pay equity law change secret rnz.co.nz/news/political…

This is a good result and a good one for the Waitematā Local Board members who fought to improve the proposal. (Reelect the City Vision team who made this possible!)