Soleil Taffard

[Soleil Taffard @MarkCorlet6309]

@0xLuciferCore 2400

[David Farrar @dpfdpf]

The Greens would have got 11.2% rather than 13.3% if their support hadn't quadrupled in the Māori seats. They would have 14 MPs, not 16. And Swarbrick has the cheek of attacking CR parties for vote splitting.

[Soleil Taffard @MarkCorlet6309]

@MarkTepperSWP @Varneyco New report just in on Jensen

[Soleil Taffard @MarkCorlet6309]

@farman4x 65

[Soleil Taffard @MarkCorlet6309]

@SHD766 Who cares

[NickMowbray @NMowbray23]

Yesterday’s election confirmed what so many already knew -National’s list MPs were never getting back in. The maths never lies. The writing had been on the wall for a long long time. Losing talented people is incredibly sad and i'm gutted for some of them.

But strategic voting helped National win electorates and create an overhang to counter the left’s almost flawlessly executed overhang strategy. Without it the centre-right would have little chance of forming the next government. The left used the rules of MMP. The right had to do the same to have a chance.

The numbers show a 20% increase in vote splitting on the right from the last election. The message clearly gained traction and thankfully has given the centre-right a real chance of forming the next government.

Yet 706,000 party votes still went to National without adding seats beyond its electorate wins. Essentially wasted votes.

I do wonder whether @NZNationalParty should have understood that maths and been more upfront about it with voters. Once the list seats were out of reach the success of the right bloc should have become the priority.

We can be sad about losing good people and still recognise why strategic voting made sense. The maths doesn’t change to suit party loyalties.

For me this comes back to the future we want for New Zealand.

We should remember the damage history shows socialist and communist economic policies have done when they crush incentives to build and invest. They shrink the pie and drive out talent and capital. Then politicians act surprised when productivity falls and living standards go backwards.

Sometimes I think the left forgets how much our living standards depend on businesses creating jobs and wealth. You cannot keep promising to spend more without backing the people who make that possible.

At ZURU we employ hundreds of people here and plan to grow that to thousands over the next decade. Around 99.5% of our projected revenue of more than $10 billion next year will come from overseas. We are fighting to bring more of that wealth home and create opportunities for talented Kiwis to build careers and eventually businesses of their own.

We need more companies doing that. More investment. More well-paid jobs. A bigger tax base to pay for better hospitals and schools. Higher living standards for everyone and better support for our most vulnerable.

I want young people to see a future here and families to get ahead. That takes a country willing to back people who build things and create wealth.

That is what I care about. Far more than any one party.

At the end of the day I want NZ to kick ass.

[Fran O'Sullivan @FranOSullivan]

@HelenClarkNZ Many of us have split our votes for years - best electorate candidate and the party we support. I you want to suggest the result was gamed, let's start with TPM's engineered overhang. Not just billionaires.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Te Pāti Māori got 13,845 party votes. 0.57%. Five MPs. The movement that claims to speak for all Māori could not get one percent of the party vote.

[Wim Cannell @Maelstrom1974]

Final warning ⚠️
Hipkins isn't any different from Jabcinda 🚨

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Imagine if after a year of Opportunity propaganda bombing they don’t make the 5%.

[Cam Slater @kaiviti_cam]

Opportunity's updated constitution, Rule 11.5: any governing deal "must be approved by a 75% majority vote of the board." Not caucus. Not members. If they're kingmaker on Saturday, their board picks the government. Nobody voted for the board.

[Walt @Walt79336993263]

Make NO MISTAKE, this is what it`s about, vote wisely, there`s no turning back once red takes the reigns.
New Zealand gone forever.

[Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi]

🇵🇱 ALL EYES ON POLAND!

Donald Tusk’s government has moved to OUST the country’s top constitutional court judges, with police deployed to the court.

He calls it ‘restoring democracy’. But this looks more like an EU-backed COUP.

[Soleil Taffard @MarkCorlet6309]

@Fanty593 Led Zeppelin

[Soleil Taffard @MarkCorlet6309]

@Gibson_mel83 AI. Never ever seen a random member of the public walk into an operating theatre

[New Zealand Taxpayers' Union @TaxpayersUnion]

The Greens have now said the quiet part out loud, but it didn’t take Chlöe Swarbrick admitting they’d lower the wealth tax threshold for everyone to know that their tax would expand.

With 89 cents in every dollar of the Greens’ spending promises completely unfunded, it was always obvious they’d need to come back for more.

[The Salty One @the_salty_one_]

This is what leadership looks like this election.

Get in and give your party vote to @nzfirst or @actparty and electorate vote to @NZNationalParty

The calm and composure of this man is remarkable. Sure he isn't perfect, but we need 15%+ this election from this party.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Simple works.

Pretty high-impact ad running in The Post today, courtesy of the Sensible Sentencing Trust.

[ānaru @ZooNealand]

I’m thinking very seriously about joining TPM and becoming an MP

I’m already a fucking idiot, so I may as well get paid $200,000 for it

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