Clare Forrest

School librarian, mum, book lover, Hurricanes supporter, cupcake creator, IT fan

[Martyn Bradbury @CitizenBomber]

Hegseth’s attack on us spending $1.5billion on military proves we need an Independent Foreign Policy

Hegseth is a full blown alcoholic Christo-fascist white nationalist who is so inanely dumb he recently quoted the fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction to families at a prayer breakfast!

How dare he denigrate NZ and how dare we respond by cowering to this thug by suggesting our nuclear free policy could be up for negotiation!

NZ has supported America as an ally on numerous wars. We have paid our price in blood. We freeload on no one!

In light of his derogatory statement, NZ must consider a truly Independent Foreign Policy.

#nzpol
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[MarkArtist @MaximusNortius]

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the armpits and underwear of the people who opposed 3Waters which would have saved us from this shitshow 💩Wellington residents find faecal matter, sanitary products on street amid heavy rain https://t.co/zgOqN0MXCE

[AotearoaNZDeb @Daffwena]

@Pazienza82 "A Fonterra manager with no scientific background was announced as a member of the PM's science and technology advisory council in May. Documents released under the Official Information Act show she had sent Christopher Luxon a text message to tell him she was keen for the gig."

[Catherine - Toitū te Tiriti ❤️🖤🤍 @CathKakariki]

Stolen from YouTube

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[Serena of Aotearoa 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 🇳🇿 @SerenaTNZ]

So when Ms ‘I spray my kids with cold water when they get their x tables wrong’ Stanton was using her personal email for work it was with lobbyists for curriculum changes . Guess what? Those changes are now in place. 🤷‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Senator Bernie Sanders exposes the massive AI scam. He confirms big tech oligarchs literally stole humanity's collective knowledge, art, and research to build models without permission.

The elite class is executing the greatest wealth theft in human history!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Ms Rachel: “Why don’t people care about kids who were born in certain places? You could have been born there. Your kids could have been born there.”

[Dr Gary Payinda @GaryPayinda]

Just got a message from a very successful and recently retired Whangārei businessman lamenting the fiscal path the #Coalition has taken.

He reminded me that #NewZealand is not broke, but is underbuilt, underinvested and has made some bad fiscal choices lately that mean things are harder for Northlanders than they ought to be.

My take?
This govt's priority has certainly not been the average New Zealander. The generosity, tax breaks, and the better part of 20 billion taxpayer dollars have flowed upwards, leaving the average person facing austerity without a social safety net.

The net has been pulled out from under our trapeze and given to help the tobacco companies, oil&gas companies, property investors, and big donors profit.

The Coalition has cut into a weak recovery, cancelling or slowing the very things that lift productivity — housing, hospitals, apprenticeship and skills training, infrastructure, climate resilience investment, and science.

It's not lost on me that 450 #Northland families would have #KaingaOra social housing coming on line now had it not been cancelled.

Or that the Apprentice Boost programme was eviscerated, and the Maori Trades and building training program was eliminated. What better engines are there for Whangārei youth to rise out of poverty than Trades and Vocational training?

Two major financial ratings agencies have assessed the situation, and put NZ on a negative outlook, which means higher borrowing cost for NZ, costing us all in the long run.

The dollar remains weak despite booming export prices for Northland meat, kiwifruit, and dairy. Families are paying the price of bad leadership through higher borrowing costs, higher import costs and fewer jobs.

Homelessness is hitting an all-time record. An *all-time high*.
It's just words, but there are real people's lives at the end of those words...
While the emergency housing budget was cut by something like 75%.

Business closures and youth unemployment are surging, hitting the highest levels in decades.

This Coalition govt is the worst govt in 40 years not just for its atrocious social policy, but because it has been the most economically damaging for the average person.

Whangārei is slowly realising the truth: this Coalition govt is blowing out the national debt, not to respond to a global pandemic, or to help people, but to help the big 'Owners and Donors'. The austerity they push, and the forced decrepitude of our public services, isn't accidental.
They are borrowing from our kids' futures, to ensure that public wealth gets transferred into the private corporate sector.
The effect has been crippling for our small businesses.

As your local GP practice gets sold off to a corporation, as your electricity prices skyrocket, as your savings get spent filling up your petrol tank, realise one thing:

When Prime Minister Christopher Luxon tells you he's a CEO, listen to him. He's running this country for the benefit of a few owners.
At this point, that should be pretty clear to everyone who actually works for a living.
...and to all the people taking out hardship withdrawals from their Kiwisaver savings while their National/NZFirst/ACT coalition government *still* continues to give literally billions in taxpayer assistance to tobacco companies, oil companies, and property investors.
Hard times for Whangārei working families.
But there is hope. We can rise, but not under a CEO Prime Minister who views people, public resources, and public services only as a source of corporate profits.

Whangarei will vote for the Labour values that built NZ: the values that 100 years ago brought us the old age pension, the 40-hour work week, Public Healthcare, and Public schools. Labour is what built this country.

People first.

Join us as we build something better for Whangārei. And New Zealand.
Dr Gary Payinda - Whangārei Labour

Email:
[email protected]

https://t.co/OQSCfzUcuG

[Catherine Delahunty @greencatherine]

@sallypatricknz Rewarding racists who attack Māori and Te Tiriti in education curriculum is right on brand for this Govt

[Mary-Ann De Kort - Flick the pricks in 26 @matroked]

Unless you've got money to pay to write policy for our govt to rubber stamp, you'll go backwards
Taxpayer money isn't being used to improve our lives, it's paid to enrich the greedy

[iNeanderthal @PublicationsPro]

@radionz @nzherald @newsroomnz @1newsnz @newstalkzb The ineptness of NICOLA WILLIS is on display here. Another black cross against the untrustworthy, slippery and devious governing coalition government of National, ACT, NZ First.

[Served with Andy Roddick @Served_Podcast]

A brand-new Quick Served is out now covering Zverev’s strategy shift and the survival of the fittest as Roland Garros heads to the quarters.

Catch the full conversation now! Link in bio! 🔗

[Sharon Mackey @SharonM88707096]

@GaryPayinda Yup... I was un-enrolled. 😳 So I enrolled again... and was put on the general roll. 🤬
3rd time lucky... am back on the Māori roll... like I have been for over 40 years! 🙄

[Little Tones - ❤️Reposts @Eastandbays]

Strategically splitting votes to achieve an overhang can help to ensure we get rid of the right in the coming election. This video explains how it works.

https://t.co/kGO9yjAhBq

[Eftwyrd @eftwyrd]

Seymour did want to get rid of the Ministry for Pacific People...plan B is to defund it.

[Ko Raeven toku ingoa 🇳🇿 @RaevenNZ]

Get out in support e te whānau.

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

So when Nats cut RNZ funding it helps NZME. This helps National in turn because NZME is aligned to National through ideology and key personnel. The attacks on RNZ by Seymour as Deputy PM put further disruptive pressure on RNZ and were followed by the resignation of RNZ CEO.

[@heroesatwork @heroesatwork]

3 amazing warrior women who would hate what Luxon has done to our country - Jools would have led marches against this Coalition and everything they stand for