Hipkins has said Edmonds will hold finance, but the fearmongering point is very true.

David Seymour as Finance Minister is more than "terrifying"

The National Party has dropped below 25 percent in the latest RNZ-Reid Research poll, while Opportunity has reached a new high and could decide the next government.

National has dismissed the result as "out of step" with other polls, just nine days before voting closes.

Christopher Luxon's party is on 24.8 percent, down 1.1 percentage points since the last RNZ poll three weeks ago. That puts National below its disastrous 2020 election showing, though still above its historic low in 2002.

Labour remains the most popular party on 30.6 percent, down 0.2 points, while Opportunity records the biggest gain, rising 1.7 points to 7.2 percent.

"This government tries to divide us but the People gave that the big finger ✊🏽🔥 maramadavidson tonight on the maoriplus Māori Leaders Debate. Te Tiriti 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 UNITY 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 💚"

Source IG nzgreenparty: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfB-ar4lPDi/

✅ Remember to vote and check in with your whanau on their voting plans.

I just saw a headline that this election might be decided by maybe 20k votes or so. It's that close. So every single vote counts.

🗒️ https://teweropoti.nz/ is a great website that makes it super easy to check in with your whanau to make a plan to vote.

• 💃 Hikoi to vote with your whanau for a ✨ 1 term government ✨.
• 🚗 If you want to do more to help, reach out to your local party to volunteer and help knock on doors, make calls, and/or drive people to vote.
• 🏡 Put up your party's sign on your window or fence.
• 😎 Wear your party's swag to increase visibility for your party and remind people to vote.
• ❤️ Like, comment, and share social media posts to boost your party.
• 🫡 Every single action helps.
• 🔥 A lot can change in 10 days. Remember only 20k votes. People power.

Every single person you can reach and turn out to vote will decide this election.

There might be 30k people in this sub- that's more than enough people to decide this election. So bring your friends, your parents, your sibling, your kids, your date, your ex, your arch-nemesis, your grandparents, etc, to vote.

If that seems daunting, jk, even 1 or just 5 people will make a huge difference. So use teweropoti.nz to make it super easy to send out all those texts to check in. ;) Drop a reminder in your group chats.

MANIFEST MONDAY!!! a ✨ 1 term government ✨

"Meffan's now the only doctor in the top of the south who can perform the large, complex surgeries for many kidney, bladder and prostate cancers.

He's been doing surgery during his leave time to ensure patients' cancers don't become terminal....

"I just think at the end of the day, what's a day or two of my holiday and someone's chance [of surviving]"....

He said in some cases patients are waiting up to a year in quite difficult circumstances....

"I really fear for the future of urology services in the South Island. We know that the services down in Southland have collapsed. We know that Nelson is on the verge of collapsing," Mulholland said."

Making it cheaper to spout bullshit eh?

"It's absolutely anybody's game. And the TV1 poll, the Verian poll tends to skew slightly to the centre-right, it's all within the margin of error between Labour and National....

It came down to mobilisation and turn out. They turned out to vote. They got people off the couch. Every vote's going to count. Younger voters in particular who are often disengaged- your vote's going to be more important than ever.

Here's the thing about opinion polls. Opinion polls build in assumptions about voter turnout in terms of the way they do their sampling. If you want to absolutely confound the opinion pollsters, change the turnout. Because if you get a higher turnout amongst people who have traditionally been under-represented in polling sampling, you can totally change the outcome of an election." - Chris Hipkins

Source Big Hairy Network: https://www.facebook.com/reel/5696073390617928 + https://www.facebook.com/reel/1104608869214199

Link to the entire episode here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nzpolitics/comments/1xgmgv6/bhn_leaders_special_chris_hipkins_new_zealand/

Brown didn't deny reports nearly 50% of the health budget, and 80% of all new health funding is going to corporate / private health sector

Brown also demands Labour provide coalition partner details, while refusing to do the same.

And runs the debt bogeyman line that works on right wing voters.

Fun facts:

• It was Helen Clark's Labour that ran 9 consecutive surpluses, paid down debt & started Super & KiwiSaver before Key left $60b debt. NZ Super is now one of the leading sovereign funds in the world with returns comparable to Norway
• Ardern ran surplus until Covid-19 when all governments pivoted to saving lives and preserving the economy and as global inflation hit 10%.
• The debt fearmongering is also completely dishonest:
• Germany, Singapore, Belgium all run high debt but corporate media in NZ consistently panders to the fearmongering. NZ has one of the lowest debt to GDP ratios in the OECD and govt debt is far cheaper than private debt.

Brown also backs Health NZ hiding health privatisation numbers as it emerged 50% of all health budget spend and 80% of all new spend was sent to corporate and private healthcare providers (which per above, he does not deny)

PS NIcola Willis is goneburger

"Public service chiefs were ordered to draw up plans for sweeping spending cuts during the election campaign, with proposals to help axe nearly 9000 jobs due as coalition talks are expected to be under way.

The Public Service Commission has written to all government department bosses asking them to model a 15% reduction in staff numbers, with proposals due in mid-November.

The request follows a Cabinet-approved target to reduce the core public service to 55,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions by June 2029. The cuts would begin in June next year.

The workforce stood at 63,912 FTEs at the end of June, meaning the target would require a reduction of 8912 positions - about 14% of the current workforce. However, official advice suggests the true cuts could top 11,000.

Wellington would be particularly hard-hit. The capital accounts for 41.2% of the workforce, according to the PSC’s latest regional data. If cuts were spread proportionally across the country, that would put about 3700 jobs in Wellington at risk....

Labour leader Chris Hipkins accused National of preparing further cuts to public services without telling voters which jobs or services would be affected.

“This shows the National Party is ready to hit go on even more cuts to our public services, all while hiding what this means for New Zealanders,” he said.

He said previous cuts had contributed to stretched services and longer waits, and warned further reductions could affect the people supporting hospitals, border security, schools and communities. “These aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet.”

The target was announced by Goldsmith and Finance Minister Nicola Willis as part of May’s Budget.

The Government claims by using artificial intelligence and digital technology that the reduction would help deliver $2.4 billion in savings over four years. The target excludes the large workforces of Health New Zealand, the police and the Defence Force."

"59 adverse patient deaths in the last 6 months. 54 new nurses in the last two years. Hospitals across New Zealand in crisis and at breaking point. Luxon has zero solutions to fix the problems he has created in our health system. Vote. Them. OUT!"

Source IG politicalbanternz: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfB7pAcDhRV/

✅ Remember to vote and check in with your whanau on their voting plans.

I just saw a headline that this election might be decided by maybe 20k votes or so. It's that close. So every single vote counts.

🗒️ https://teweropoti.nz/ is a great website that makes it super easy to check in with your whanau to make a plan to vote.

• 💃 Hikoi to vote with your whanau for a ✨ 1 term government ✨.
• 🚗 If you want to do more to help, reach out to your local party to volunteer and help knock on doors, make calls, and/or drive people to vote.
• 🏡 Put up your party's sign on your window or fence.
• 😎 Wear your party's swag to increase visibility for your party and remind people to vote.
• ❤️ Like, comment, and share social media posts to boost your party.
• 🫡 Every single action helps.
• 🔥 A lot can change in 10 days. Remember only 20k votes. People power.

Every single person you can reach and turn out to vote will decide this election.

There might be 30k people in this sub- that's more than enough people to decide this election. So bring your friends, your parents, your sibling, your kids, your date, your ex, your arch-nemesis, your grandparents, etc, to vote.

If that seems daunting, jk, even 1 or just 5 people will make a huge difference. So use teweropoti.nz to make it super easy to send out all those texts to check in. ;)

MANIFEST MONDAY!!! a ✨ 1 term government ✨

Yesterday I had two classes of Year 10 students (14 and 15 years old) vote with materials provided by the Electoral Commission. The day before they used a simpler version of Vote Compass I made to help them figure out the issues. The results from yesterday have me wishing they could actually vote 😃
Votes from one class would have given us a coalition led by TOP with Labour and NZ First (TBF we didn’t go into whether that’d actually work!) Voted from the other class gave full 48% to the Green Party with Labour and TOP next highest. National and ACT had fewer than 5 votes from a total of 40 votes. This is in a fairly conservative part of the country and some of them are old enough that next election they will be able to vote. In the meantime here’s hoping that the real results somewhat align…

(Any teachers etc who want to try the simpler Vote Compass let me know…with all the caveats about how it’s not a perfect tool etc)

✅ Remember to vote and check in with your whanau on their voting plans.

I just saw a headline that this election might be decided by maybe 20k votes or so. It's that close. So every single vote counts.

🗒️ https://teweropoti.nz/ is a great website that makes it super easy to check in with your whanau to make a plan to vote.

• 💃 Hikoi to vote with your whanau for a ✨ 1 term government ✨.
• 🚗 If you want to do more to help, reach out to your local party to volunteer and help knock on doors, make calls, and/or drive people to vote.
• 🏡 Put up your official party's sign on your window or fence, and remember to take it down before election day starts!
• 😎 Wear your party's swag to increase visibility for your party and remind people to vote.
• ❤️ Like, comment, and share social media posts to boost your party.
• 🫡 Every single action helps.
• 🔥 A lot can change in 10 days. Remember only 20k votes. People power.

Every single person you can reach and turn out to vote will decide this election.

There might be 30k people in this sub- that's more than enough people to decide this election. So bring your friends, your parents, your sibling, your kids, your date, your ex, your arch-nemesis, your grandparents, etc, to vote.

If that seems daunting, jk, even 1 or just 5 people will make a huge difference. So use teweropoti.nz to make it super easy to send out all those texts to check in. ;) Drop a reminder in your group chats.

MANIFEST MONDAY!!! a ✨ 1 term government ✨

Source IG lomalomusic: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dcwbn3fRqFT/

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

Look, unless you are a millionaire or better, the current government has been fucking us for three years.

The first thing that they did in power? Give 2.35 BILLION dollars to landlords, with the promise that rental prices would lower.

Then, they had the audacity to claim they had no money in their coffers due to the previous government. Seriously, what the actual fuck?

2.35 Billion is so much more than most people realise and there was literally no justification for this output of taxpayers money. Unless you consider the

fact that over 60% of the current people in power in the Beehive are multiple homeowners, which makes them, wait for it; LANDLORDS!

There are so many shitty things that these people have inflicted upon us since then: Removing pay equity claims for women, axing jobs in services like Healthcare, gave money to tobacco companies, etc.

The list goes on and I won't bore you with details you already know.

I would like to give a special mention to the rapist apology party, ACT. Could they be any more racist and devisive? Can Seymour be even more of a bigger arsehole/paedophile than people already think he is?

My question is, do you think we've been fucked enough or are we asking for more?

Personally, I've run out of lube and would like to try other people's policies for three years. Maybe parties who care about the people who are voting? Maybe someone else who actually gives a shit about the people who are at their lowest?

Because they are us, we are all in this together, but we need the equity of a true Waka. One that carries us all forward together.

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

He could only name one: Capital Gains Tax

Like the title says. As with the majority of this sub (barring the daily brigading from CK-homeless waving OPP banners), I am sick to death of the government of the day. Fingers crossed they get voted out.

Local MP: Labour - Shanan Halbert
Party vote: Green

It's been a long 3 years of total lies and nonsense from the coalition government that it's hard to remember them all.

If there are any that you can think of, especially those that may have been forgotten or tried to been covered up, great of you could list them.

We can make a long list that is hopefully used for other things and spread awareness!

It seems to me that the general effect of most of the policies promoted by NACT are really just reruns of the trickle down theory.

The trickle down theory was a big thing about 30 or 40 years ago in NZ, promoting the idea that enriching big business and the wealthy would create better economic conditions, and good things (money) would trickle down to everyone else. Of course, it was thoroughly debunked because benefits to the wealthy just worsen inequality leading to serious social harms.

Many of the policies being promoted this year seem to be along the same lines. For example, less tax on kiwisaver accounts disproportionately benefits the wealthy as they have bigger salaries and larger kiwisaver accounts. But the reduced tax take affects everyone through reduced government services.

Reduced taxes (eg investment boost) of is greater benefit for businesses and people with higher taxable income, but the reduced tax take means reduced government services for everyone, which disproportionately impacts lower income people.

Reduced minimum wage rates and reduced worker protections benefits businesses at the cost of workers.

NACT says this is to benefit the economy with the implication that this is good for everyone, which sounds like the trickle down theory being restated.

So, are the NACT parties still using trickle down economics to justify their policies in 2026? And why aren't they called out for this when interviewed by journalists?