Sensitive Mike

Sunny disposition. Loves politicians. Totally gets social media & woke people. Likes facts. Honest, despite being told I'm a "lying old politi-hack"

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@liamkernaghannz @ChrisPenknz @chrisluxonmp Clux clucks about 2 things only:
A) ensuring wealth transfer from the Rest Of Us to the already-rich, or
B) distracting The Rest Of Us from the fact that (A) is happening. #nzpol

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@ClintVSmith @MariaSherwood2 It was a good move. A calculated per diem expense bulked paid monthly. Time, money, low grade opportunity cost effective. Eg ministers always got their staff to do receipt reconciliation; Min Services had staff dedicated to administer: why should that cost be lumped on taxpayers?

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@KarlMindfulness @kaiviti_cam Woteva. Her government’s COVID policies saved the lives of 20,000 Kiwis. So quit whining.

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@JosephMooneyMP Are you promising that no brackets will creep under a putative National led government? Cos that’s what it looks like you’re saying. Does @NicolaWillisMP know about this?

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@JosephMooneyMP The only people interested in (agreeing with) this point are fascists.

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@kaiviti_cam That's utter bollox.
Vote Māori Development in 26/27 is $484.6m, down from 518.8m in 25/26. It is No. 23 in size of cake slices, well inside the tiny slices in this diagram (from https://t.co/XXF7uou6oz)

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@JosephMooneyMP

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@Liquid_Times It’s a very good qualification for leader of the National party.

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@BillyBrown1983 Nonsense, Billy. A politician doesn't need to have direct experience of anything to do well at directing policy. As an aspiring NZ First candidate, so you'll need to understand that. eg, your dear leader Winston is minister for Foreign Affairs but has never been an ambassador.

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@TonyStuart55 It’s called donutting. Every party does it including National. Stop clutching your pearls, Tony.

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@SmalieEmilee @PhillipCurran8 Even citizens?

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@PhillipCurran8 Because that is the law. If you want a law change, then I suggest Twitter is the wrong place for you to campaign for it. You will need to lobby your local MP and then work up from there.

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@TonyStuart55 National took out massive loans to pay for impoverishing themselves by cutting taxes for the already wealthy.

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@NZNationalParty How do you reduce debt is,
1 – do not impoverish yourself by cutting taxes for the already wealthy.

2 – do not take out loans to pay for the tax cut.

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@SimeonBrownMP @ChrisPenknz Yeah. So? You do it all the time.

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@SimeonBrownMP You borrowed a lot more.

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@NuZillund It wasn't really 'teaching candidates'. It was right at the end of a day-long online session and they were joshing around telling really bad jokes that would even embarrass their dads. Bad move cos they forgot the meeting had like loads of people dialling in - not exactly private

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@tmcnz101 @NMowbray23 Is there less debt under National? They borrowed to pay for tax cuts for people who didn't need tax cuts.

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@henrycooke @HelenClarkNZ OIA their memories.

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@Terryleg2G @bangonomics bollox

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@KarlM55102 @bangonomics Bollox