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Mountain Tui

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Humans are like that.

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60% huh? Shoot. All bleak stuff, mate. And bizarre but then again it does sometimes feel like some alternate Twilight Zone timeline we're in at times!

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UK's election results aren't as optimistic as it seemed. 36% voted for Labour, but 25% still voted for the Tory Conservatives. And the pro-Brexit disinformation party got a whopping 14% .

On top of that the tabloids and dark money are completely waiting in the wings to attack.

Bleak.

#ukpoli

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Is the Govt paving the way for an apparent Thatcher-esque, Tory like, trickle down, neoliberal ideology approach in New Zealand?

I write about it here
mountaintuihere.substack.com/p/killing-th...

#nzpol
#kiwi

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Same think tank structures behind them #AtlasNetwork so not at all surprising unfortunately

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An ode to the British Tories - Bye bye bye!

#ukpol
#nzpol
#Tories
#NewZealand

mountaintuihere.substack.com/p/an-ode-to-...

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Pure pleasure

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Mountain Tui's avatar Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social
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It only took Brits 14 years to realise the absolute devastation the Tories wrecked on Britan through corruption, Brexit, sale of public assets, austerity, culture wars, and cuts to the public service.

How long will New Zealand take?

#nzpol

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This is just code for sell off the assets, and stop building so many houses, so my private developer friends can take over.

mountaintuihere.substack.com/p/knives-out...

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Jonathan's Daughter's avatar Jonathan's Daughter @contusion.bsky.social
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Very relevant image by Sharon Murdoch from last year
#nzpol

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Three top civil servants ‘won’t have contracts renewed’ – sources

In an accelerating clear-out of public sector leadership, the heads of Māori-Crown Relations, Education and the Treasury are expected to step down

Very "Project 2025" of the Coalition.

newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/04/t...

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See how all the attention is on Biden and not Trump being a rapist, convicted felon, fraud, traitor etc? Aren't the media great. I see r/leopardsatemy face incoming.

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Yes - very important. But who will hear it though? I do think those lists are essential and that's why I made it. Then tried to post it on Reddit as I thought it was a good public service but it was rejected. This country depresses me at times.

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It sucks to leave and I miss Reddit but will give social media a go :-)

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David Mohring's avatar David Mohring @nzheretic.bsky.social
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And New Zealand is only eight months in.

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