Mark Illingworth
@millingworth.bsky.social
Peace Squadron & Red Squad Onslow rd veteran but not quite done yet, aye.
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If only NZ was as ambitious as... any country other than Iceland.
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If only NZ was as ambitious as... any country other than Iceland.
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Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
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The audience applauded as Luxon asserted that the 400,000 people wanting work or more work would actually fit perfectly into the 20,000 available vacancies.
He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?
He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?
October 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The audience applauded as Luxon asserted that the 400,000 people wanting work or more work would actually fit perfectly into the 20,000 available vacancies.
He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?
He then urged young people to have some get up and go. Parents looked worried by this comment - how would they afford to get their kids to Aus?
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Palestine is not Hamas any more than Ireland is the IRA or Aotearoa is ACT
September 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Palestine is not Hamas any more than Ireland is the IRA or Aotearoa is ACT
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You mean like the University you studied, the support you got, the social housing that was available at the time, the airlane you used to go places, the health system that was available to you and now you want to take away from everyone else you tosser!
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/24/s...
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/24/s...
Seymour pushes for privatisation: 'Govt hopeless at owning things'
"We need to get past squeamishness about privatisation," the ACT leader says.
www.1news.co.nz
September 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
You mean like the University you studied, the support you got, the social housing that was available at the time, the airlane you used to go places, the health system that was available to you and now you want to take away from everyone else you tosser!
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/24/s...
www.1news.co.nz/2025/01/24/s...
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You could safely bet that the people screaming and making death threats against councillors are the same people who furiously opposed Three Waters. They're stuck with the bad solution they loudly demanded. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571...
September 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
You could safely bet that the people screaming and making death threats against councillors are the same people who furiously opposed Three Waters. They're stuck with the bad solution they loudly demanded. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571...
Oops ...might have accidentally bought some new speakers for the hifi
August 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Oops ...might have accidentally bought some new speakers for the hifi
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New Zealand lost its AA+ rating under Key, and regained it under Ardern. If political journalists were willing to include that sort of context it would be much harder for Nicky No-boats to lecture the left on fiscal responsibility. #nzpol
August 19, 2025 at 2:28 AM
New Zealand lost its AA+ rating under Key, and regained it under Ardern. If political journalists were willing to include that sort of context it would be much harder for Nicky No-boats to lecture the left on fiscal responsibility. #nzpol
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"Labour fiscal policies are unsustainable" they cried as they set fire to Labour fiscal policies, major investment, jobs, and economic growth, sobbing that Jacinda made them do it because she's a witch
Misogyny is a hell of a drug
Misogyny is a hell of a drug
Christopher Luxon was elected in large part on a promise to fix the economy, yet 18 months later business leaders increasingly suspect the National-led coalition has no grand plan.
Business leaders sour on Luxon government, but fear lack of clear successor
A winter of economic discontent has brought flashing warning signs and mounting pressure on the PM, with boardroom concerns now spilling into public view.
www.thepress.co.nz
August 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
"Labour fiscal policies are unsustainable" they cried as they set fire to Labour fiscal policies, major investment, jobs, and economic growth, sobbing that Jacinda made them do it because she's a witch
Misogyny is a hell of a drug
Misogyny is a hell of a drug
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Look we’ve just got to have faith in the PM. It’s a matter of Truss.
August 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Look we’ve just got to have faith in the PM. It’s a matter of Truss.
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Whole damn thread nails it. We should be talking very clearly about what a debacle this is, and how it will almost certainly cost us more than the $671m in money.
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Whole damn thread nails it. We should be talking very clearly about what a debacle this is, and how it will almost certainly cost us more than the $671m in money.
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David Seymour says that NZ's politicians shouldn't wear clothing or accessories that suggest they favour one side in a 'conflict' over another.
A) it's not a 'conflict', it's genocide
B) Fuck Off, Seymour
A) it's not a 'conflict', it's genocide
B) Fuck Off, Seymour
August 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Seymour says that NZ's politicians shouldn't wear clothing or accessories that suggest they favour one side in a 'conflict' over another.
A) it's not a 'conflict', it's genocide
B) Fuck Off, Seymour
A) it's not a 'conflict', it's genocide
B) Fuck Off, Seymour
Dirty Great big London Plane tree in the back yard has unfurled her 1st leaf declaring her intention Spring has arrived. It would be churlish to argue with a tree
August 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Dirty Great big London Plane tree in the back yard has unfurled her 1st leaf declaring her intention Spring has arrived. It would be churlish to argue with a tree
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So, this government's entire policy is simply "Labour spent too much/invested too much/created too many jobs, so we're going to undo all that" and, yet, they still say it's Labour's fault that this has created a financial fuck-up that will last for years and years?
August 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So, this government's entire policy is simply "Labour spent too much/invested too much/created too many jobs, so we're going to undo all that" and, yet, they still say it's Labour's fault that this has created a financial fuck-up that will last for years and years?
Oh great, now the Orange treasonweasel shitgibbon is threatening nuclear war with Russia as a distraction from his pedo rapist past in the Epstein files
August 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Oh great, now the Orange treasonweasel shitgibbon is threatening nuclear war with Russia as a distraction from his pedo rapist past in the Epstein files
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#NZPol
Fails to mention Nact firing thousands or stopping hundreds of inflight and planned construction projects. Fails to mention corporate price gouging. Not only these vast oversights but also implies things are turning around. They’re not, it’s still getting worse.
Please do better RNZ.
Fails to mention Nact firing thousands or stopping hundreds of inflight and planned construction projects. Fails to mention corporate price gouging. Not only these vast oversights but also implies things are turning around. They’re not, it’s still getting worse.
Please do better RNZ.
'Brought to its knees': Why NZ can't shake the recession
'Brought to its knees': Why NZ can't shake the recession
New Zealanders were told to "survive til 25" for the economy to pick up - but now one major bank economist says it's probably going to be 2026 before any real improvement happens.
www.rnz.co.nz
July 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#NZPol
Fails to mention Nact firing thousands or stopping hundreds of inflight and planned construction projects. Fails to mention corporate price gouging. Not only these vast oversights but also implies things are turning around. They’re not, it’s still getting worse.
Please do better RNZ.
Fails to mention Nact firing thousands or stopping hundreds of inflight and planned construction projects. Fails to mention corporate price gouging. Not only these vast oversights but also implies things are turning around. They’re not, it’s still getting worse.
Please do better RNZ.
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Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature
June 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature
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Just witnessed from a bus Destiny church people assault a man carrying a Palestinian flag on Queen St, Tāmaki Makaurau. Their march was hate filled and anti immigrant. Free Palestine! End the killing and the hate
June 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Just witnessed from a bus Destiny church people assault a man carrying a Palestinian flag on Queen St, Tāmaki Makaurau. Their march was hate filled and anti immigrant. Free Palestine! End the killing and the hate
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These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in.
Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.
You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.
#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol
Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.
You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.
#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol
Kāinga Ora halts hundreds of housing developments, sells vacant land
The projects would have included 3500 homes, as the state housing provider also sells a fifth of its vacant land.
www.rnz.co.nz
June 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
These Ministers aren’t fixing the housing crisis they’re cashing it in.
Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.
You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.
#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol
Selling off state land while our people sleep in cars isn’t policy. It’s a political hit job on vulnerable whānau.
You don’t build homes by gutting the agency that builds them.
#HousingCrisis #TePātiMāori
#NZPol
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#nzpol Minimum Wage increased 1.5% this year. Data just released by Stats NZ shows:
- Food Prices up 4.4.%
- Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3%
- Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7%
- Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4%
- Rent up 2.8%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
- Food Prices up 4.4.%
- Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3%
- Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7%
- Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4%
- Rent up 2.8%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
Selected price indexes: May 2025 | Stats NZ
Food prices increased 0.5 percent in the month of May 2025, and increased by 4.4 percent in the 12 months to May 2025.
www.stats.govt.nz
June 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
#nzpol Minimum Wage increased 1.5% this year. Data just released by Stats NZ shows:
- Food Prices up 4.4.%
- Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3%
- Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7%
- Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4%
- Rent up 2.8%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
- Food Prices up 4.4.%
- Beef up 16.2%. Lamb up 20.3%
- Cheese up 17.3%. Milk up 13.7%
- Electricity up 8.7%. Gas up 15.4%
- Rent up 2.8%
Laser focussed on the cost of living
www.stats.govt.nz/information-...
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Trump thought he'd be watching news coverage of his stupid North Korean style military parade. He thought American would cheer him and his fascism.
Instead tonight he's watching every city in America, every town, rise up against him.
Happy Birthday, Asshole.
Instead tonight he's watching every city in America, every town, rise up against him.
Happy Birthday, Asshole.
June 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Trump thought he'd be watching news coverage of his stupid North Korean style military parade. He thought American would cheer him and his fascism.
Instead tonight he's watching every city in America, every town, rise up against him.
Happy Birthday, Asshole.
Instead tonight he's watching every city in America, every town, rise up against him.
Happy Birthday, Asshole.
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I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?
June 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Sound familiar?
Sound familiar?