Trefor

Photographer,lives in Aotearoa. Keeping my options open on Mastodon. [email protected]

[Kaz M - #kickthepricksin26 @KarinMary1]

Yahoo News in Australia have chosen a great picture of Jones for their article

[Deano H73 @Deano13131373]

@MarinaPurkiss its even worse than that when you look at the actual figures..think the only one the won was by 6 votes🤣🤣

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

First Caerphilly…

Then Gorton and Denton

Now Makerfield

Even with the press and billionaires firmly on your side, you lose

We don’t want your division, rage and riots

Hope that’s clear now 🇬🇧❤️✌🏽

[Joan @Feijoa_Chutney]

John Minto donates his $10,000 payment for unlawful arrest to the PSNA. Dame Jacinda donates her $3,000 from Ockham Book Awards to a literacy charity. Shane Jones overspends his travel expenses by $30,000 and makes excuses.

[QuinnjinWilliams @quinnjin2009]

Andrew little didn't okay the funding for this Immigration facial recognition AI tech boondoggle when he was minister for immigration, because he didn't feel the business case was in order.
@EricaStanfordMP did - and then passed the buck when it turned out to be a waste of 30 million dollars.

- Still a drop in the bucket compared to the 11 Billions this government wasted with its slash and burn approach to Labour Infra projects, many of which had to be negotiated - Because they were necessary.

This @NZNationalParty led government are fiscally incompetent, economic vandals.

#OneTermGovt
#nzpol

[Maxine Gay @GayMaxine]

It is indefensible
"The original trip was budgeted and approved by Cabinet to cost $33,000 but ended up blowing out to $63,000." https://t.co/8NoSSkvEsl

[Nick Rockel @nickarockel]

Winston says the MBIE people should go to jail, even though there is no suggestion that individuals have benefited privately. By contrast, Shane Jones has taken $30,000 from taxpayers above what was approved. Maybe Jones is the one who should go to jail?

Open to all ⬇️

[Mountain_Tui @Mountain_Tui]

Selling off and or opening up to privatisation 60% of NZ's conservation land is pretty short sighted. Tourism is one of NZ's biggest earners, and mining only gets us royalties of 2% while being on the hook for billions of clean up costs, while they suck our resources dry

[Mountain_Tui @Mountain_Tui]

Is anyone surprised that Shane Jones spent $63,000 to upgrade to business class, told a private limo to wait 24 hours & didn't care that he exceeded his approved budget by $30,000?

Luxon is a lackey & Jones is the same guy who had no compunction charging porn to taxpayers #nzpol

[Trefor @treforward]

Absolutely no reason that anyone should trust this lazy, lying grifter.

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Nigel doesn’t want you to know this.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

Here they go again: #NZ National Party wants to review NZ’s 4 decades-old #nuclearfree policy. The last time they proposed it would be “gone by lunchtime”, they were roundly defeated. Their effort to drop nuclear propulsion ban in past was also beaten back https://t.co/1jSUV8Jqv3

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks.

During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses.

But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.

No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Embarrassing for the PM.

Luxon swears we need expensive LNG fossil gas imports to boost electricity generation.

But now the Meridian Energy boss says yeah, nah, don’t need it.

Time to cancel the plan?

[KT "Special MI6 Operation" @KremlinTrolls]

Trump's name permanently ripped off the Kennedy Center - is the ultimate humiliation of @realDonaldTrump 😇

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SIR ALAN BATES - THANKS GOD FOR THIS MAN. EH.

In 1998 Alan Bates and his partner Suzanne packed up their lives in West Yorkshire and moved to a small town in North Wales.

They put everything they had into a post office. Every penny. Every hope. A future they had planned together.

Two years later the software started lying. Money appeared to be missing. He called the helpline 507 times. He kept going. He kept records. He kept asking.

The Post Office's response was simple. It wasn't the software. It was him.

In 2003 they sent him a letter terminating his contract. No reason given. He lost £65,000. Everything he and Suzanne had invested, gone. Their private notes about him, revealed at the public inquiry decades later, described the situation with devastating corporate elegance. He had become unmanageable.

That is what they called a man asking why the numbers were wrong.

So he did what any reasonable person would do after losing everything to an institution that called them a liar.

He spent the next 25 years fighting back with nothing. No legal fund. No media empire. No government support. Just a burning refusal to let them win.

He wrote letters promising his continued and increased resolve to bring this to people who would have no choice but to act, regardless of how many years it took.

It took 25.

While he was fighting, at least 13 people who had been through the same thing took their own lives. People who couldn't hold on long enough. People who needed someone to believe them and found nobody there.

While he was fighting, the Post Office and its lawyers billed £265 million in legal fees between 2014 and 2024. Making sure the truth stayed buried. Making sure men like Alan Bates ran out of road before they ran out of fight.

He didn't run out of fight.

He rejected three compensation offers he considered insults. He watched an @ITV drama turn his life into a television event. He watched politicians suddenly discover outrage they had been too busy to feel for two decades. He watched the country cry at a story it had been ignoring since 1999.

In June 2024 they gave him a knighthood. Twenty-five years after calling him unmanageable.

In November 2025 he settled his compensation claim. He received 49.2% of what he was owed.

No executive has been charged. Fujitsu (@Fujitsu_Global) still holds government contracts. The Post Office (@PostOffice) is still standing.

This country failed Alan Bates for 25 years. It failed every person who could not hold on long enough to see what he saw. It handed him a title instead of justice and called itself generous.

He deserved better. They all did.

Teach this man in every school in Britain. Not as a feel-good story. As a warning about what happens when ordinary people trust institutions that were never built to protect them.

And as proof that one person, with nothing but the truth and the stubbornness to keep saying it, can make an entire country look at itself in the mirror.

Even if it takes 25 years to get them to look.

Sources: @ComputerWeekly | @BBCNews AND many others

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament

Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...

https://t.co/fsxzTKkL4Z

[Trefor @treforward]

Two ticks red.

[Becs 🍉🌈 @Becs]

We have MMP now. If you used your party vote you voted for list MPs.
The party lists are right there prior to & on election day.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'.

Please RT this until the BBC gives this story the same level of blanket coverage - as it would for the leader of any other UK political Party.

[Trefor @treforward]

Couldn’t have said it better myself!

[Ayn Randy @AynRandy666]

Dear Pete Hegseth,

You can fuck right off.

Then you can fuck off some more.

Then you can fuck off again.

You fucking retard.

Lots of love,

New Zealand Xxx

PS Fuck you

#nzpol