@grandmundi@MorganGodfery@JoshVanVeen Are you ruling out Winston Peters? A majority is needed to form a government. If they need him for 1 seat, that's the "same amount" of leverage as it would be for 6.
@BenUffindell Hello I'm running for Parliament and have rented this billboard only to put someone else's face and message on it. I'll leave my own name and party off. I am so good at my job.
For the true Treasury cognoscenti the Financial Statements of the Government for 2023 were provided today. It provides the real and audited state of the Crowns accounts. They are largely as expected, but a few things may be of interest. A short thread...
Report on one of the roads that had speed limits reduced showed 34 crashes avoided in a year and journey times increase by 3.6 minutes. Over a year this equated to $93m in benefits for about 1.3m in costs.
https://t.co/8pMyYUvdUu
@actuallosergal It's a dumb take - on these numbers votes could shift between Labour and Green and one of them would win. The only threat here is National - he should be going after those votes.
@queencynethryth@ThisIsCorey Wow this would not fly in my policy analysis paper at uni. No wonder that can't find an economist to put their name to it.