James Russell

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

My pick for PM following the leadership spill tomorrow: Anthony Albanase.

Long past due NZ stops pretending it's a serious country able to play with adults.

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

So does this mean he'll finally address NZ Super, the #1 expense for NZ government?
Na, he'll just mouth off and then go open the new wing of the embassy in Oslo

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

As Churchill once said “for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like someone standing in a bucket and trying to lift themselves up by the handle.”

Increasing or creating new taxes will not solve our country’s productivity and growth problem.

Political parties who want to increase or introduce new taxes are doing nothing but showing they are content on managing the country’s decline.

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@PronouncedHare Govt policy could rbe to eintroduce Sunday closing? That might have a positive effect

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

Defenders of socialised healthcare have clearly never been to Palmerston North Emergency Department.

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@Tunisia_1943 Montgomery dedicated a chapter to the logistics of each of his campaigns in his memoirs (he called it "administration"). He was extremely well served by able logosticians above and below him as well.
Rommel paid logistics off initially and then blamed his quartermasters in defeat

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@StephenClarkeNZ @UNSWCanberra @UNSW @AustralianArmy @SMH_Historians @AWMemorial Best lecturer I ever had. And a very kind man as well.

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@winstonpeters He's not wrong though? Someone needs to fix the country after YOU and your ego put the most left wing, woke, and economically illiterate labour party we've ever seen in power.

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@PronouncedHare @IGottaNumBum Quelle horreur

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@MHReddell Indeed.
A construction imbued with moral judgement about defence spending - not necessarily defendable as an ethical proposition.
Certainly not justification for any political party making hay on the current rankings!

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@MHReddell We could easily bump up over 2% with some pretty wasteful spending though. Considering capabilities instead of a raw GDP % figure makes good sense, particularly with the Defence Bureaucracy taking up a fairly large chunk of time, effort and $: https://t.co/ZksbMKEvup

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@dpfdpf Phobia - any scepticism of a subject I don't want criticised

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@cmalietoabrown No. It has gotten boring and repetitive with too many complex rules.
A simple change to SR would be to reduce the number of games to one round only. Quality over quantity imho.

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

Green MP wants to ostracise the Jews and keep them separate in their own living and working quarters.
Pretty sure we've sent that before somewhere... #GreensAreTheNewNazis

[Simon Court @SimonCourtACT]

Green MP Teanau Tuiono appears to think Israel moving its embassy into a Wellington office block is somehow comparable to Hamas using civilians as human shields.

Do the Greens seriously believe Israeli diplomats are using Wellington office workers as a human shield?

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@PronouncedHare Not looking forward to being gaslit by NZF cultists again...

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@PronouncedHare Israel Folou would like some retractions made by the media...

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@nzfirst Which you created

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@PronouncedHare That would have the additional benefit of much smaller electorates and MPs closer to their voters.
I mean, look at Rangitikei - from waiouru to Shannon! How can anyone truly do that justice?

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

@NuZillund Also keeps the attention away from Hipkins' ex wife's allegations... Which amount to very very serious questions of character

[James Russell @JamesRussell_NZ]

Having a go at the media who have decided they are to be active participants in politics is the least the PM will be wanting to do. And the only people he will upset is the media...

[Tim Murphy @tmurphyNZ]

Who on earth advised The PM to go out of his caucus meeting and … have a go at the media?
Maybe it was Winston.
Or the National MP who wants to win the next leadership vote