Mike Munro

Former Taranaki cheesemaker who ended up inside the Beltway

[Mike Munro @MikeMunroNZ]

Luxon’s day in DC completely overshadowed by the bloke who plugs Nespresso coffee pods. Oh dear

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Aging ferry aground, national grid pylon falls over, air force VIP jet breaks down, schools’ operational funding fails to keep up with inflation - getting back on track seems to be going well

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@tmurphyNZ Winston clearly told nicola to fuck off, and she meekly did

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I’ve never seen such disintegration so early in the life of a govt, but inevitable given its competence and credibility issues

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@barryebert57 @tauhenare It’s Luxon’s equivalent of China’s 100-year plans

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@tmurphyNZ On a day when police pay is a leading news story, it’s inexcusable that Luxon wasn’t prepared for a question like this

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@ClintVSmith Breaking News: PM announces that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow, thanks to his leadership and to the country being under new management

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The unbelievably trite lead story in The Post today has taken that newspaper’s campaign against Tory Whanau to new depths

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Latest child poverty numbers are a worry but shudder to think where they’d be now without last govt’s $5.5b families package in 2018, raising benefits 3 years in row, minimum wage increases, indexing of benefits to wage growth, big boosts to Working for Families etc

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@philquin Polls cost big money so there would’ve been panic at 1News when the numbers came in showing no material change for the principal actors, ie the govt and PM. Hence the fake news angle re a threat to Hipkins

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What a lame effort from Maiki on 1News poll - govt support hasn’t moved since election, Luxon miles behind numbers that Ardern/Key/Clark got after becoming PM, yet Sherman focuses on the Opposition leader as a new govt bumbles thru its first 100 days..

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Tova’s nights must be long and lonely if she’s counting Labour’s press statements by day

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I love the way Williamson almost looks embarrassed to acknowledge a century, even after 32 of them. The guy’s humility is without parallel

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Great news that NZ school of music is close to getting a new home as part of a national music centre in central Wtn, 15 years after a shortsighted Nat govt cancelled a $10m grant the Clark-Cullen govt put up for same purpose..

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@AlanWilkinsonNZ Ok. Curious then that it’s not on the govt or MFAT websites

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Unprecedented for duty ministers to go missing in action over xmas hols - nothing to say about disasters in key trade partner Japan, not even customary PM congrats to NY honours recipients

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@JohnJCampbell @ShaneMills11 Excellent piece John. You utterly wreck this notion of ambition that is being pedalled by the PM

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@tmurphyNZ Sorry Tim but Willis’s lame effort has nothing on Cullen’s eviscerating putdown of the Nats at the tail end of a torrid urgency session to repeal the ECA

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@moanatribe @Mihi_Forbes It’s ‘fewer than’ 3 issues, not ‘less than,’ rookie grammatical mistake

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@LloydBurr That tree was saved during Gerry Wall’s speakership in the 1980s..