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[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

@NzFubar It's an anti Luxton Vote. Voted national all my life. Not this time. NZF will not let the woke take over.

[Sande Chin The Underinfluencer @SandeChin]

Please spread this far and wide

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

@Suitandtie9999 @jacktame Fact is he was utterly useless and nothing has changed. Never mind shares. That's a moot point.

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

@Wildnfree1984 Not really sending the right message 😕

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

Very Good 😂

[Denise 🇺🇸 @NoDMsPerfavore]

1. If you were to strip naked and run around in a circle at the speed of 186,282 miles/sec (the speed of light), it would theoretically be possible for you to screw yourself.

2. However, since you are not physically capable of achieving that speed at your age, you can also accomplish the same result by:

Voting Democratic in the November election.

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

Yes Yes and Yes

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

Must take note 💯 I don't blame Winston for 1 second to tell this one to go home

[The Redbaiter @TheRedbaiter]

Green list MP Lawrence Xu-Nan was recently in the news for heckling Winston Peters in parliament and receiving a response that he and many of NZ's wokerati found distressing.

Coincidentally, he appeared on taxpayer funded show Q and A at the weekend to promote his member's bill.

Larry reckons we need to fix our immigration laws so they comply with human rights obligations.

In particular, if would be immigrants have a family member with mental or physical disabilities, or who needs constant medical care, this should not be a barrier to entry.

Well sure, but migrants are meant to bring a positive economic benefit to the host country. Wouldn't this put a extra burden on our already struggling tax system?

"No" says Larry. NZ has a "fundamentally unfair and outdated" tax system which means they will be paying their fair share. He explains further-

"Whereas the super rich in this country are paying half the effective tax rate of many of these migrants, so the claim they will be a burden on our tax system is fundamentally untrue".

Only a commie could think that was any kind of rational explanation.

Good grief! Who on earth are the people who vote these clueless Marxist grifters into our parliament?

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

It's a fact. 💯% Tax by stealth.

[Simeon Brown @SimeonBrownMP]

Sell nothing, earn nothing, change nothing. The bill still turns up.

Nearly every tax you have ever paid came from something happening. You earned money, so you paid tax. You spent money, so you paid tax. You sold something, so you paid tax. Something moved, and the taxman took a cut.

What Labour's mates want is different. Nothing has to happen; you just have to own things. Add up what you own, and if that number is big enough, a bill turns up every single year. You could have had the worst year of your life, and the bill still comes.

They will tell you not to worry, because they have drawn a line, and you are safely underneath it. So watch where that line has been. In 2023 both the Greens and Te Pāti Māori campaigned on it sitting at $2 million. It was still $2 million in Chloe Swarbrick’s alternative Budget last year. Now, months out from an election, the Greens have shifted theirs, and Te Pāti Māori are still keeping theirs secret.

But here is the part that should really stop you cold. They never have to touch it again. They can leave the line exactly where it is and simply wait. Your land value goes up, the value of your shed goes up, your farm value goes up, and the value of your shop goes up. The line sits perfectly still, and one morning you look up and find you are standing on the wrong side of it.

You spent your whole life being careful with your money, and now that same carefulness gets you an annual bill.

And think about who could end up caught. Not just some bloke with millions sitting in the bank, but a farm that has been in the same family for three generations, a small business with the building on the books, and a sparky who owns his yard, his vans, a shed full of gear, and one rental unit he bought to see himself through retirement.

Remember too, you were already taxed on that money once. You earned it, they took a cut, and you saved what was left instead of spending it. Now the saving itself is the offence.

Do not let anyone tell you this could never happen, because Labour needs them to govern. They also need the money to fill their $18 billion funding gap.

That is the real choice this November. National believes what you have built is yours. The other side reckons it is a number to be taxed, every year, for as long as you hold on to it.

Share this if you reckon what you have built is your own business and nobody else's.

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

YES

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

The world should be grateful Elon Musk bought Twitter.

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

@MurfittTauranga Good work. WTAF is this Fraud? .....

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The last overseas shearers Britain intends to let in are on the fells right now, working out the final weeks of their leave.

The door shut on 30 June. No vote, no debate, no announcement, just a date passing quietly in a summer when everyone was looking elsewhere. Those still working the Borders this week are here on leave that expires on 1 October, and when they fly out that is the end of it.

Understand what is walking out.

Six New Zealanders spent three months in one Northumberland valley last year and sheared nearly 90,000 sheep. Fifteen thousand head each, across farms from the Scottish Borders down to County Durham. They have been coming into Coquetdale for over thirty years. Since 2011 a concession has let up to 75 of them in each spring, and between them they take the wool off one and a half to two million British sheep in a window a few weeks long.

The Home Office rejected the application on 2 February. Twenty-six days of farmers writing to their MPs got it reinstated on 10 March for one final year, with a line about the sector having had fourteen years to train British workers and now being expected to transition to domestic labour.

Here is what that sentence is standing on. British Wool trains over 800 people a year, most of those courses are basic level, and most of the people on them are sheep farmers learning to do their own flock. Training was never the bottleneck. A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes, calm hands, no panic in the animal, hundreds a day for weeks on end, and reaching that standard takes years of conditioning and a place in a global trade that follows the season around the planet.

Fourteen million breeding ewes. A few weeks to do them all. A sheep left in fleece gets eaten alive by maggots, so the job is not optional and the date is not negotiable.

Next spring those farms make phone calls that nobody answers.

Seventy-five shearers, once a year, and a government that could not find room for them.

[Simeon Brown @SimeonBrownMP]

On Saturday, Andrea Vance at The Post ran a big story pushing Labour's claim that National isn't hiring nurses. What she didn't tell her readers is that the facts and figures she had before she published said the exact opposite.

So here are the numbers The Post had in its hands and decided readers were better off not seeing.

When Labour left office, there were 2,632 nursing vacancies. Just two years later under National, there were 1,344. That is 1,288 fewer empty positions, a reduction of nearly 50%.

The nurse workforce has grown from 31,739 to 35,342. More nurses are on the wards, fewer are walking out the door, and there is no hiring freeze.

And the party shouting loudest about it today – the Labour Party – is the very party that owned every one of those worse numbers. They left the vacancy problem nearly twice as bad as it is now, and here they are calling the clean-up a scandal. You could not make it up.

Then there is Labour's favourite line of the whole story, that the Government "saved" $200 million by deliberately leaving health jobs empty. It sounds shocking, until you find out what that money actually was.

It was money already set aside to pay nurses and doctors the moment their new pay deals were signed. The deals had not been signed, so the money had not gone out the door. It was not saved and it was not pocketed. It was sitting there waiting to be paid, exactly as planned.

Calling that a "saving" is like pocketing an unpaid invoice. The money is committed, it just hasn't left the account yet.

We spelled all of this out for Andrea Vance before she published. She published Labour's disinformation anyway.

Then look at what Andrea Vance reported. Labour's framing led the story, right there in the headline where every reader's eye lands. The figures showing things are better under National, the ones handed over in writing, were left out altogether.

That cannot have been an accident. That was a choice.

Let me be clear about one thing. There are still vacancies to fill, and we even pointed Andrea Vance to my Letter of Expectations directing Health New Zealand to move faster to fill them. But leaving out the improvement and telling readers things are going backwards is not balanced reporting. It is the version Labour is selling, and The Post chose to run it.

New Zealanders deserve to know the healthcare system is improving. What they do not deserve is a scare story the facts do not support. Facts The Post had in front of it the whole time.

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

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[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Bad optics now for Labour.

So the coalition is now all squared away— meanwhile Chris Hipkins still hasn’t even ruled out working with the chaotic and incompetent Te Pāti Māori despite their atrocious behaviour, chronic poor attendance, and infighting.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A man who spent thirty years reviewing sports cars has taught this country more about its own food than every minister, union and campaign of the last fifty years combined.

Here is what five series of Clarkson's Farm put in front of the public, and not one line of it is opinion.

- A thousand acres, worked flat out for a year, made a profit of £144. Under forty pence a day.
- By year six the same farm was losing money, weather and prices turning a projected £37,000 into a five grand loss.
- A crop can drown in the field after months of work and take everything with it, and nobody is coming to help.
- The farmer is the only man in the food chain who sells at a price he does not set. The supermarket sets it. He takes it or he takes nothing.
- The council can shut his restaurant, refuse his car park and stop him selling his own food off his own land.
- The subsidy he was told to lean on can be closed overnight, the big estates first through the door, the small farms locked out.
- One outbreak of bovine TB can lock a farm down for months, banned from buying or selling a single cow, through no fault of its own.
- Rear pigs with real care and the butcher's maths can still make them a loss, so the animals go and the loss stays.
- The margins are so thin that a rich man buys farmland not to earn from it but to shelter money that earns elsewhere. The shelter exists precisely because the farming does not.

Now hold that against the story you were sold. Greedy farmers. Subsidised for doing nothing. Wrecking a countryside they are somehow also the custodians of.

There is no profit. That was the reveal. A show that set out to be funny accidentally filmed the slow strangling of the people who feed us, and the country watched it happen and finally understood what its cheap food actually costs.

Clarkson has now admitted the plainest part out loud: it is the television money keeping Diddly Squat alive, and most farms do not have a television show. Britain grows about sixty per cent of its own food and the average farmer is past sixty. That is why both numbers are heading the wrong way.

It took a Lamborghini tractor and a man doing it for a laugh. Fifty years of earnest campaigning could not manage it.

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

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[Simon Anderson @SimonRAnderson]

Indian Vape Shop Doctors and Engineers

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

Who made this? Right on the money. 💯 😉

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Mad Marx: A Terrifying Glimpse Into Our Future Under Socialism

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

Importing Muslims = No free speech, No freedom of thought & No freedom of expression.

Islam or Freedoms?

You can’t have both

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

@Suitandtie9999 I wonder in these journalists ever regret what they have done ?

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

Mic drop Right there 🎤

[Damon Imani @damonimani]

When Joy Behar said Elon should give his fortune to other countries because he won’t live forever…
I had to jump in:

[Andrew @CaptnScarlet]

@saltyreigns