James
@terrasea.bsky.social
Political, opinionated, & I try to be a nice guy. Dual citizen (NZ/UK), Kiwi Brit. No enlightenment offered, opinions are own.
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
That's the problem when you elect bumbling fools like Johnson
Baroness Heather Hallett, "Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than the 23rd of March, the evidence suggests the number of deaths in England alone in the first wave, would have been reduced by 48%, that's 23,000 fewer deaths"
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
That's the problem when you elect bumbling fools like Johnson
You can bet none of this will happen. Particularly while people like him exist with their obscene wealth
Elon Musk, "AI and humanoid robots will eliminate poverty"
"In 10-20 years work Will be optional"
"Money will stop being relevant in the future"
"If civilisation continues, which it probably will, AI in space becomes inevitable. We shouldn't take civilisation for granted"
"In 10-20 years work Will be optional"
"Money will stop being relevant in the future"
"If civilisation continues, which it probably will, AI in space becomes inevitable. We shouldn't take civilisation for granted"
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
You can bet none of this will happen. Particularly while people like him exist with their obscene wealth
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
The bastards
Shocking Home Office documents - seen by
the Daily Express - reveal that asylum seekers at a former military base are allowed to ....
....WAIT FOR IT....
Play badminton three times a week.
the Daily Express - reveal that asylum seekers at a former military base are allowed to ....
....WAIT FOR IT....
Play badminton three times a week.
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The bastards
I agree
Gary Stevenson, "You cannot allow the richest people in your society to take a bigger share, in economies with almost no growth, and not expect ordinary families to get poorer"
"The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"
"The reason ordinary families and the gov get poorer year after year is because of this massively increasing inequality"
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I agree
They'll even try and milk bulls
When you’re such a shameless chance-vulture you’ll milk anything that even looks like an opportunity.
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
They'll even try and milk bulls
I take exception to the claim homelessness is a health issue. Primary cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing, high rents, poverty and inadequate welfare system. They might have drug and alcohol problems but who can blame them for seeking a way out
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
Emergency housing motels end in Rotorua - but has it just shifted the problem elsewhere?
At its peak, there were more than 240 families place across 13 motels. Now there are zero.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
I take exception to the claim homelessness is a health issue. Primary cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing, high rents, poverty and inadequate welfare system. They might have drug and alcohol problems but who can blame them for seeking a way out
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
"They don't realise that if you don't tax the rich, the rich will squeeze you out.
30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol
30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol
30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich
British economist Gary Stevenson tells 30 with Guyon Espiner fire engines aren't coming to fix the New Zealand economy.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"They don't realise that if you don't tax the rich, the rich will squeeze you out.
30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol
30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
#nzpol
Good on them and I wish them a happy future together. Congratulations
Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces engagement to partner Toni Grace www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces engagement to partner Toni Grace www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces engagement to partner Toni Grace
He first confirmed the relationship during his concession speech on the evening of the 2023 election.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Good on them and I wish them a happy future together. Congratulations
Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces engagement to partner Toni Grace www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces engagement to partner Toni Grace www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
The world must be be turning upside down. I'm finding myself thinking Mark Mitchell is coming across well on Q&A. That was until he started attacking the previous Labour govt.
November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The world must be be turning upside down. I'm finding myself thinking Mark Mitchell is coming across well on Q&A. That was until he started attacking the previous Labour govt.
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"Leftists are rigging elections!"
Girl... if we were, you'd have free healthcare, affordable rent, and a solar powered flying car by now.
Girl... if we were, you'd have free healthcare, affordable rent, and a solar powered flying car by now.
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"Leftists are rigging elections!"
Girl... if we were, you'd have free healthcare, affordable rent, and a solar powered flying car by now.
Girl... if we were, you'd have free healthcare, affordable rent, and a solar powered flying car by now.
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Even worse, they're making it worse. Homelessness has increased under this govts watch
Handy advice for New Zealanders, whose Government is toying with a policy to “move on” the homeless. While avoiding doing anything much about the causes of homelessness. #nzpol
Every time the government says it just can’t fix the housing crisis, point them to Austria & this article. It’s being fixed in other wealthy countries all over the world. Tks @abcnews #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Even worse, they're making it worse. Homelessness has increased under this govts watch
Hilarious
If you thought Badenoch was bad, consider that the Australian opposition leader is attacking the PM for having decent taste in music share.google/a00lPpJx9vPE...
Sussan Ley goes after Anthony Albanese’s Joy Division T-shirt as the Coalition tears itself apart, again
While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’
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November 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Hilarious
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Morning peeps! I’ve written a piece for @thespinoff.bsky.social on why I ended up taking legal action against my employer and a little bit about how it played out. The whole story needs a book to tell but this is a good start 😂 thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1... thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
Siouxsie Wiles: Why I’m crowdfunding despite winning my legal battle
'Between the ERA and the Employment Court, my husband and I have spent over $632,000.'
thespinoff.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Morning peeps! I’ve written a piece for @thespinoff.bsky.social on why I ended up taking legal action against my employer and a little bit about how it played out. The whole story needs a book to tell but this is a good start 😂 thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1... thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
No it's not about you but people like you. I don't think the Labour policy goes far enough, but I hardly think they are going to take lessons from Lux Flakes
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
Luxon fires back at Hipkins for 'attack' on his finances
"Why should he be able to make more than $600,000 in one year from flipping properties whilst the people who go out and work hard every day for a living pay tax?" Hipkins asked.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
No it's not about you but people like you. I don't think the Labour policy goes far enough, but I hardly think they are going to take lessons from Lux Flakes
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
#nzpol
Some people are as thick as two planks.
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some people are as thick as two planks.
It's better than nothing.
#nzpol Labour is proposing to create a Capital Gains Tax on property - excluding farms and the family home. That income will help make GP visits free for the majority of people. Is that a better policy than continuing tax-free profits on, say, someone's seventh property? Absolutely. A🧵
Release: Targeted tax to grow the economy and fund free doctor’s visits
www.labour.org.nz
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It's better than nothing.
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Zack Polanski says that Miliband used to talk about insulating homes that would create 4 million jobs, and they haven't done anything
October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Zack Polanski says that Miliband used to talk about insulating homes that would create 4 million jobs, and they haven't done anything
Zack Polanski is bold and, I think, very right.
Zack Polanski on renationalising water companies,
"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"
"Shareholders can't say stock not worth anything then expect payment to renationalise"
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Zack Polanski is bold and, I think, very right.
Yes the fabled National lead govt who are supposed to be better with the economy, are spending more than the previous Labour lead govt who at least had a pandemic to deal with, plus a couple of cyclones, as an excuse. National, are not what they are cracked up to be. I think ACT&NZF are just as bad.
John Key left NZ with ~$60 billion debt
Nicola Willis admits Labour borrowed ~$80 billion over 6 years w/ a global pandemic & post Covid inflation
And Luxon's National are on track to borrow $120 billion ($100bn with pay equity stolen) in less time & no pandemic #nzpol #kiwi
Nicola Willis admits Labour borrowed ~$80 billion over 6 years w/ a global pandemic & post Covid inflation
And Luxon's National are on track to borrow $120 billion ($100bn with pay equity stolen) in less time & no pandemic #nzpol #kiwi
Nicola Willis's Debt More Than Labour Incurred Over Full Term
YouTube video by Mountain Tui
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Yes the fabled National lead govt who are supposed to be better with the economy, are spending more than the previous Labour lead govt who at least had a pandemic to deal with, plus a couple of cyclones, as an excuse. National, are not what they are cracked up to be. I think ACT&NZF are just as bad.
I'm disgusted too
While I'm not really surprised this increasingly Christofascist government is applying their 'worthiness test' to acknowledged victims of state abuse, I am really disgusted. #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
A grubby, grotty attempt to shirk responsibility for decades of horror
OPINION: The Government’s move to make it harder for some victims of abuse in state care to access compensation is disgusting.
www.stuff.co.nz
October 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I'm disgusted too
Brownlee found to have double standards.
Speaker Gerry Brownlee not happy about Te Pāti Māori burning a copy of the Marine and Coastal Areas Amendment Bill on Parliament steps.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Māori #MarineAndCoastalAreasAmendmentBill
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Māori #MarineAndCoastalAreasAmendmentBill
October 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Brownlee found to have double standards.