brunchreviews

brunch-ing around eating pancakes and reading books

[Mr. Kiwi @MrHilariouskiwi]

Craig Renney eviscerates Frickola with just one example of bad spending decisions:
#ditchthepricks

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@NZJamesS @PronouncedHare Or maybe he realized what’s actually needed for a society to flourish 🤷‍♂️

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Versus the quiet austerity that have defined this government.

[Simeon Brown @SimeonBrownMP]

BREAKING: Labour has just released its fiscal 'plan' which is all about spending more, borrowing more, and taxing more.

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Look it’s not exactly inspiring - but I’m glad that labour aren’t following the ridiculous 30% of GDP BS that national are spouting.

[henry cooke @henrycooke]

Big points:
- Spending at 33% of GDP not 30% (Nat target)
- Net debt measure not core crown debt
- Return to OBEGAL surplus (not OBEGALx) at same point as Tsy projection
- Employment mandate back at RBNZ

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@jofromgreylynn Isn’t it good that we are on it eventually?

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@eilishsilie They’re not actually angry at Taiki Wai specifically they’re just misc angry in general and it is an easy target 🤷‍♂️.

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One leaders debate 🤦‍♂️.

@chrisluxonmp is such a chicken 🐔.

[Jack Tame @jacktame]

Here’s the plan for TVNZ’s election debates this year.
https://t.co/b2W4gA2rmg

[bread @_breadcapital]

How Opportunity Party supporters voted in 2023:

National: 23%
TOP: 21%
Labour: 18%
NZ First: 11%
Green: 9%
ACT: 6%
Didn't vote: 6%
Te Pāti Māori: 5%

50% of their support has come from the coalition.

32% comes from opposition.

28% is their own base + non voters.

40% want them to side with Labour, 40% don’t give a shit and 20% want them to side with National.

45% of opportunity voters want Labour to win the election. 15% want National.

https://t.co/oy0UXNd3wk

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@Becs She didn’t like it when public servants told her what she wanted them to do was illegal 😵.

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@liamvincent26 My favourite is when people lambast “AI data centers” as if they are something massively different from an allowed form of data center 🙄.

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@ShortStoryTell @PronouncedHare @bryce_edwards Yeah a revolution launched by the minister of defence.

Seems newsworthy to me.

[Flex Tape @statssstudent]

Da left-wing mainstream media (Penk)

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@Pete20221 The call is coming from inside the house Pete… https://t.co/qSqNPeSQQr

[Bob Miller @BobbyMiller202]

Strange, I was just at Liquorland Kumeu and thought I saw Chris Penk at the counter asking if he could get a refund on a case of Mumm Grand Cordon Champagne.

Wonder what happened.

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@TheZeitgeistNZ Sure but that’s clearly not what happened here https://t.co/qSqNPeSQQr

[Lew @LewSOS]

No doubt all the media bias hawks who thought there was no spull will tender abject apologies to all the journalists who they accused of being full of shit about the spill, now that the Prime Minister himself has confirmed it

https://t.co/Je41d4gHtE

[Nick @blogboynick]

Ffs sick of the media inventing things

[NZ Art Parallels @NZAHParallels]

Post-cabinet presser // Alien 3, dir. David Fincher, 1992.
(Image: Samuel Rillstone @rnz_news )

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The criticism of the media in this farce almost immediately ages badly…

https://t.co/qSqNPeSQQr

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Now this is total rubbish unless Penk has had a personality transplant since I last saw him.

[Lew @LewSOS]

This is just wrong

The fact of National MPs telling journalists that moves are afoot against the PM is a fact regardless of whether it ultimately succeeds

Everything else that has occurred flows from that essential fact and the extraordinary public interest in it