GingerNutz

Wearer of many hats, proudly right wing, humour may offend.

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

The airport has reached out and said they are not happy with my posts naming staff and will involve lawyers.
I have informed them I have freedom of speech and bring it.

I am sick of unelected government employees destroying property rights.
Government employees are accountable for their actions.
I think this fight being public is important.

I have nothing to hide and I am the private citizen.
They have everything to hide and are the government.

See the problem.

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

There is no tax more disgusting than an inheritance tax.
A parent should be able to work and hard leave something for their children.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Many left of centre people are calling Opportunities Party a centre-right stalking horse to attract teal voters.
They are trying to sound smart, but are clearly retarded.
The GM of the party is Iain Lees-Galloway a former Labour minister, who shares a business with Hipkins' fiance, Toni Grace. One of their candidates, Kayla Kingdon-Bebb, is a co-author of the He Puapua report that Labour tried to keep secret.
You are warned. https://t.co/xwWShQ7kTk

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

This is utterly inexcusable.

Yesterday, HDPA revealed that Chloe Swarbrick wrote directly to the European Union’s Trade Commissioner, complaining that New Zealand is not cutting emissions sufficiently and asking him to launch a formal investigation into whether we have breached the Free Trade Agreement.

Her actions risked exposing our economy and exporters to the very real threat of sanctions — or even worse.

That Swarbrick and the Greens attended the National Agricultural Fieldays in Hamilton without disclosing any of this to farmers or the media, even though she held a stand-up directly mentioning Free Trade Agreements and export markets and called on the govt to be honest and transparent — is nothing short of disgraceful and deeply hypocritical.

It simply beggars belief that the media aren’t all over this.

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

I am just sending below now

21 June 2026

Commerce Commission
PO Box 2351
Wellington 6140
New Zealand

By email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Dear Commerce Commission,

**Complaint regarding misleading use of the word “free” by the New Zealand Labour Party**

I am writing to raise a concern about the New Zealand Labour Party’s public advertising and promotional material using the word “free” to describe services that are not, in fact, free.

On Labour’s website, Labour describes several policy promises using the word “free”, including:

* Free Doctor’s Visits
* Free prescriptions
* Free Maternity Scans
* Free Cervical Screening

The concern is simple.

These services are not free. They are paid for by taxpayers.

In Labour’s own material regarding doctor’s visits, Labour states that the policy would be paid for by a targeted tax on certain property profits. That means the cost is not removed. It is transferred.

One group of New Zealanders pays through tax. Another group receives the service without paying directly at the point of use.

Calling that “free” is, in my view, dishonest and misleading.

A more accurate description would be “taxpayer-funded”, “publicly funded”, “subsidised”, or “paid for through taxation”.

The ordinary meaning of the word “free” is that there is no cost. But in this case there is a cost. It is merely hidden from the person using the service and imposed on other people through the tax system.

I ask the Commerce Commission to consider whether the repeated use of the word “free” in this context creates a misleading overall impression for the public.

I also understand the Commission may need to consider whether political advertising falls within its jurisdiction under the Fair Trading Act or other legislation. If the Commission considers this outside its enforcement scope, I would appreciate confirmation of that position and guidance on which agency or complaints body should review this issue.

My concern is not with the political policy itself. Political parties are entitled to advocate for taxation and spending. My concern is with the accuracy of the language used to promote it.

A product, service, or benefit funded by compulsory taxation is not free.

It is paid for by someone else.

Yours sincerely,

Matthew Horncastle
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

[GingerNutz @Steve29126099]

Ok free stuff for all then ... but who pays? In case you haven't noticed, we're broke.

We can't afford the luxury of a fat, lazy, unproductive, and in some cases ideologically captured bureaucratic class. Cut the numbers in half, and then we might start getting somewhere. This isn't punching down, it a misuse of our hard earned tax dollars.

[GingerNutz @Steve29126099]

@rosey_nz Great idea ... should also apply to the Reserve Bank governor.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

This is farcical.

True to form, Labour has once again demonstrated staggering incompetence by announcing a $65 million public transport fare cap without any modelling on how many passengers will actually take enough trips to exceed it.

Transport spokesperson Tangi Utikere was asked a straightforward question.

“What proportion of commuters will take enough trips to exceed the cap?”

Utikere: I think a number will… it’s unknown at this stage”

Unbelievably, there is zero modelling on this critical detail.

Typical Labour incompetence. Announce the giveaway, skip the basics.

[Commander DC @nzpoliticsgroup]

RED ALERT: LABOUR MPs ARE ABSOLUTE BUMS 🚨🚨🚨

DID YOU KNOW that the MAJORITY of Labour MPs have NEVER held a single real job outside the bubble of politics in their entire lives ?

STOP. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ONE SECOND.

These are not leaders — they’re clueless, entitled career parasites who’ve never sweated in the real world, never run a business, never met a payroll, and have zero clue what ordinary Kiwis actually go through.

THEY ARE DANGEROUSLY OUT OF TOUCH BUMS !!!

There is NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON in New Zealand — not one — who should be voting for these absolute clowns. And I mean that with deadly seriousness.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Fleur Fitzsimons has used her position as PSA National Secretary to send an email to their 95,000 members to urge them to oppose the Definitions Bill.
Similarly, Grant Robertson has sent an email out to Otago University students.
This is what we are up against. When I talk about institutional influence and power it is this kind of thing. Activists embedded in positions of power and not ashamed to abuse their power.

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

If this is true I give up on New Zealand. You cant be helped !

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Pretty disgraceful.

Fresh off Chris Hipkins suggesting Nicola Willis needed medical help, Barbara Edmonds has been caught on audio describing her as a “duck-faced horse.”

“Every week I have to stand up in the House and ask a duck-faced horse questions,” Edmonds says. “I have the dubious glory of being able to question her, debate her in the House, and take her on in the media.”

Given media’s coverage of the National party recently, the press gallery should apply a full-court press on Hipkins — especially after someone in the Labour Party leaked the audio directly to the media, just two weeks after he pledged that Labour would run a clean campaign.

Clearly Hipkins has lost control.

[GingerNutz @Steve29126099]

@NMowbray23 Totally agree, but with Labour riding (undeservingly) high in the polls here, that must be a warning sign that similar policies will be enacted in NZ if the coalition isn’t reelected. NZ Labour are a huge risk.

[Kara 🇳🇿 @Being_Kara]

Dear Christopher Luxon @chrisluxonmp

Yesterday’s Australian budget just handed New Zealand one of the biggest talent magnets we’ve seen in years.

By slashing the capital gains tax discount and tightening negative gearing, the Albanese Labor government has made it significantly more expensive for Aussie founders, entrepreneurs and high-earning tech builders to cash out their successful businesses or property investments.

We have none of that here.

No CGT on shares, no CGT on business exits, no punitive exit tax on the very people who take risks and build real wealth.

The message that should be going out loud and clear is: “G’day Aussie founders, come jump the ditch.”

This is a golden, once-in-a-generation opportunity to attract exactly the highly skilled, ambitious Australians we should be rolling out the red carpet for - the ones who create jobs, grow companies and pay serious tax. We may even be able to encourage highly skilled Kiwis to move back home.

Prime Minister, this is low-hanging fruit.

Streamline visas for proven business builders. Shout the no-CGT advantage from the rooftops. Make it faster and simpler for Australian talent to set up here than it is for them to stay home and watch their exits get hammered.

The outdoors, the lifestyle, the timezone advantage for US markets.

Now is the moment to open the door to high-value Australian migrants who share our values and actually build productive things instead of just consuming housing and infrastructure.

We’ve spent years arguing about the downsides of unmanaged migration. Here is the upside, served up on a plate by our closest neighbour. Don’t fumble it.

Lifelong National voters are watching to see whether this government has the nerve and the nous to seize a genuine competitive advantage when it lands in our lap.

Yours, in genuine hope mixed with frustration,

A former loyal National supporter

[Kara 🇳🇿 @Being_Kara]

Dear Christopher Luxon,

@chrisluxonmp

This morning on NewstalkZB you were asked about Nigel Farage’s surge in the UK and the clear anti-mass-immigration backlash that just delivered a political earthquake in Australia.

Your response? “That’s just a grumpy few… people are playing politics with immigrants.”

As a lifelong National voter, I have rarely heard a more tone-deaf dismissal of legitimate public concern. Because the grumpy few you wave away are not fringe agitators on social media. They are the silent majority of Kiwis who have watched their country change at breakneck speed while being lectured that any unease makes them right-wing or racist.

You and your colleagues have spent years telling us how “highly skilled” the new arrivals are and how lazy and unambitious Kiwis have become. Yet your own government’s figures, and the brand-new India–New Zealand FTA, now classify Domino’s pizza workers, yoga instructors, chefs, and AYUSH practitioners as “skilled” migrants eligible for dedicated visa pathways.

Net migration is still running at tens of thousands a year, with India one of the largest sources. Housing, hospitals, schools and roads are groaning under the weight. Wages in retail, hospitality and trades are being undercut. And when Kiwis point this out, the official line is that we’re just not trying hard enough.

That’s not evidence-based policy. That is propaganda dressed up as economic necessity.

Worse, it is selective. You and your MPs have been photographed wearing turbans and paying respects at temples and gurdwaras in search of ethnic bloc votes. That’s not “celebrating diversity.” That is ethnic vote-bank politics of the kind you accuse others of.

When a junior National backbencher last week screamed “foreign political interference” because he was merely quote-tweeted by an overseas account, the absurdity was complete. The only foreign interference National seems to worry about is the kind that doesn’t deliver you donations or diaspora ballots.

Meanwhile, you lecture us about the dangers of social media while your government rushes through under-16 bans modelled on the EU’s Digital Services Act - conveniently timed before the election.

Elon Musk’s purchase of X has been one of the most significant pro-democracy acts of the past decade precisely because it broke the stranglehold of legacy media and government-aligned censors.

Yet your instinct is to regulate and restrict rather than trust New Zealanders to think for themselves. That tells us everything about where your priorities lie.

The latest Poll of Polls gives the current coalition an extremely high probability of surviving November. That is not because of any great love for National. It is because enough Kiwis still fear a return to the Ardern-era madness.

But loyalty has limits. A great many of us who have voted National our entire adult lives have reached them.

We will not reward a party that sneers at our justified concerns about rapid, unmanaged immigration from one particular country while simultaneously courting that same community for electoral gain.

We will not vote for leaders who dismiss the very real pressures on housing, wages, infrastructure and social cohesion as the whingeing of a “grumpy few.”

So here is the practical reality, Prime Minister.

Kiwis with a functioning brain will party vote NZ First - the only party in your coalition that has consistently treated immigration numbers as a serious policy lever rather than a virtue signal.

In the electorates many of us will still hold our noses and give National the local vote to keep the left out. But the party vote is no longer yours by default.

You have mistaken quiet frustration for automatic loyalty. That era is over.

The “grumpy few” you mock are the backbone of the National Party’s historic support. Keep dismissing us and you’ll discover exactly how quickly a safe coalition majority can evaporate.

Yours, in genuine disappointment,

A former National voter

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

We should never FORGET labour. Just a small fraction of their wasteful ways. @NZNationalParty @actparty

1. 18 wallabies — $2.7 million
A eradication programme costing $153,000 per wallaby and 26,000 hours of labour. Cheaper to fly each one business class back to Australia.
2. Three Waters — $1.2 billion torched
Spent on a policy nobody wanted, that was immediately scrapped. Included $14,500 to write a single job description for a CEO who never existed.
3. RAT tests — $531 million sitting in warehouses
Costing $100,000 per day just to store. Most never used. Private businesses could have managed this themselves. RATS were also approved over a year too late.
4. Mongrel Mob meth rehab — $2.75 million
Including $239K on catering, $157K on Marae hire, and $100K hiring a van.
5. Virtual job expos — $835,000
Over two years. 126 people attended. That’s $6,626 per person to attend a Zoom call.
6. Shorter shower campaign — $2.8 million
Printed in 7 languages. To tell people to have shorter showers.
7. Health recruitment ad campaign — $514,000
Launched globally to attract health professionals. Result: 3 interviews.
8. Overseas recruitment ad for Kiwis — $10,000
Spent promoting Australian citizenship to Kiwis already living in Australia.
9. Wig tour — $73,000
Taxpayer money to fund the Arts Minister’s husband’s “Ulu Cavu Wig Tour of New Zealand.”
10. Abandoned China immigration office — $3 million
Kept paying rent on an office that had been closed for over a year.
11.) 2.Auckland Harbour cycling/walking bridge — more than $50 million spent before the project was cancelled
12.) Auckland light rail 229 million spent wjth not a single meter of track put in the ground before scrapped. ( over 1 mil a week )
13.Workforce Development Councils 65 million a year for bodies critics said delivered little tangible value; subsequently disestablished.
14.)RNZ/TVNZ public media merger — about $20 million spent before the merger was abandoned
15.)Let’s Get Wellington Moving — around $35 million spent on consultant fees while only about $250,000 went to actual construction before the programme was wound down
16.The Taliban publicly praised the NZ Labour government after receiving a $3 million donation framed as humanitarian aid.
17.)11. $842,000 to research ethnic women in NZ politics
Nearly a million dollars to study the experiences of ethnic women as politicians within NZ’s political system. A topic that could’ve been handled with a university research grant for a fraction of that
18.).... could keep going and going.

[Mr Na @ocarolant]

Richard,
As a middle-aged Kiwi taxpayer who's been quietly paying your bills for decades through my taxes and TVNZ funding, I finally got around to reading your take on the Maiki Sherman situation. Labelling irate New Zealanders a "lynch mob" after a journalist quits after a five-day suspension for breaking press gallery rules? That's not insight - that's the Wellington bubble talking.
A huge chunk of us tuned out years ago precisely because the industry came across as insular, left-leaning, and completely disconnected from the real pressures ordinary Kiwis face every day - housing, bills, crime, and a media class that often seems more interested in protecting its own than holding power to account.
You've had 55 years inside the system. Fair play for the longevity. But maybe that's also the problem. When the "real world" for you is mostly other insiders, select committees, and subscription readers in the beltway, it's no wonder public frustration looks like a mob instead of what it actually is: exhausted taxpayers who are sick of the club protecting the club.A bit of humility and self-reflection from the veterans wouldn't go astray. The trust numbers don't lie - most of us have already walked away.
Keep the change from my taxes.

[NZ and the MRNA @HopeRising19]

I CRIED TODAY....AND I AM SO GRATEFUL TO YOU NZ HERALD JOURNALIST DEREK CHENG....

I cried today

Hot, wet, salty tears that sprang from my eyes without warning and caught me by surprise.

I have built a cage around my heart, as an act of survival, after 5 years of living a life filled with relationship with New Zealanders maimed and bereaved through the (MANDATED) Pfizer mRNA in New Zealand.

Occasionally the "heart cage" withers and a flood of emotion rushes in, despite my best efforts at self protection....to allow me to continue to do this (quite literally) heart breaking advocacy work.

Today was that day.

After five long, relentless and seemingly futile years of trying to engage their interest....New Zealand's most widely read newspaper FINALLY published (in print and not behind a pay wall) a true story about the reality of Covid vax harm and ongoing suffering.

Not a single ad hominem attack upon the injured person.

Not a single, sly byline insinuating their story is misinformation, or the machinations of a half baked "cooker" anti vax conspiracy theorist (there words not mine).

Journalist Derek Cheng knows who I am...he knows about the work of The Health Forum NZ. I wrote to him and told him, several weeks ago. I also sent a number of Official Information Application responses and other resources.

I did not hear back from him....but something, somewhere along the way has connect with both his mind AND his heart.

This is for you Derek Cheng....

For you this is just another story

For us....and for the THOUSANDS of New Zealanders whose lives will never ever be the same again, as they battle to live a worthwhile life with chronic Pfizer mRNA injury....

Your decision to become the first New Zealand journalist to actually practice the art of Investigative Journalism.....to write the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth....with ZERO crushing, gaslighting ad hominem destruction heaped upon the Pfizer injured.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts

May this open the flood gates.

Silent No More
Silenced No More

NB If YOU have a child or teenager in New Zealand who was "forced" to take two Covid shots to obtain a vax pass to continue living life, or as a result of employment mandates

PLEASE SEND YOUR STORY TO DEREK CHENG

Let's show him that Ashley's story does NOT stand alone

Email:
[email protected]
Lynda Wharton
The Health Forum NZ
https://t.co/wwmskPjk3i
email: [email protected]

April 18th 2026

IF YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO PUBLISH YOUR CHILD/TEEN PFIZER INJURY STORY ON OUR SOCIAL PLATFORMS -

email [email protected]

@RCR_NZ @nzdsos @nzherald @TheTributeNZ @KiwiAly @MurfittTauranga @c_plushie

[The Tribute NZ @TheTributeNZ]

The NZ Herald has published the story of a young Covid jab casualty today: Ashley Beulink who is diagnosed with vaccine-induced pericarditis, and one of the 1740 successful ACC claims for vaccine-related injuries.

Her mother told Derek Cheng: “It does make me angry. It took a real toll, on Ashley’s health and my mental health as a parent, and it could’ve been avoided.”

“I personally don’t think they were justified in including that 12 to 17 age group in the vaccine passes. The Government wasn’t transparent with that information. I believe they were just more concerned about getting their vaccination rates up.”

Cheng also interviewed Professor Peter McIntyre of the Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 Vaccine Technical Advisory Group, who acknowledges:

"It wasn’t just 12- to 17-year-olds who might have been in some kind of paid employment [and affected by workforce mandates]. We were hearing reports of children being denied participation in sport – that kind of thing."

“In that environment, my memory of the views on the CV Tag is: ‘Although the vaccine is safe and effective, a mandatory two dose-approach is not appropriate for 12- to 17-year-olds, because if otherwise healthy they are at low risk of severe illness from Covid, and there is some suggestive evidence that the low risk of myocarditis and pericarditis may be higher in younger age groups, especially boys, and following the second dose’.”

“I personally think it’s unequivocal that the vaccine requirements were a bad idea. And it’s absolutely 100% gold-plated that they were a bad idea for 12- to 17-year-olds. To justify that, you need really good evidence. Was that evidence there? That it was going to increase coverage to the level that was going to provide significant additional community protection? No."

“The predictable harm to social interaction and educational opportunity from exclusion of this age group far outweighed any uncertain benefits to individuals in this age group or the community."

Thanks to Derek Cheng and NZ Herald
#thetributeNZ

https://t.co/jEAe5RBiGA