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Christopher Bishop

@cjsbishop

5 years

Fuck off.

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

My wife was giving birth to my son so forgive me

A bit left, A bit right

@AndySoleNZ

2 years

Always amazing how @cjsbishop goes dead silent when a really niggly issue pops up. He doesn’t want to lose votes or popularity so goes slips into quiet mode #nzpol

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

Bit of news … Merry Christmas!

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2 years

I want to acknowledge the resignation today by @AshBloomfield from his role of D-G of Health. He has worked extremely hard over the past couple of years in a very challenging role. He has given steadfast service to New Zealand and all Kiwis should thank him for his work.

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2 years

At some point we should reflect on why it is clearly easier to enter NZ as a DJ than a specialist ICU nurse

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2 years

Special visitor at @NZParliament today :)

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3 years

89,000 vaccines yesterday. Brilliant. 200,000 new bookings made. Also brilliant.

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5 months

Great first (proper) week of new @NZParliament . Ute tax gone. Fair pay agreements gone. Reserve Bank back to focusing on inflation. Government getting on with the job of getting NZ back on track.

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4 years

Bloody hell just catching up with fact I was live on tv last night staring into the abyss. Had no idea! Oops!

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3 years

I’m not a doctor is the main one

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2 years

90% fully vaccinated. You bloody beauty. Great stuff New Zealand.

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3 years

Everyone can get vaccinated from 1 September. Please do so. The vaccine is safe, it is free, it protects you and your family, and it will help reconnect us to the world.

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3 years

89,000 vaccinations done yesterday! Outstanding.

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2 years

Waitangi Day pub crawl in London. ‘Dress up like something Kiwi’.

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Christopher Bishop

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10 months

A) it’s not forced b) it’s a bond, the money goes back c) rents are up $175 per week under your useless government d) if you want to talk about stupid projects how’s your TVNZ/RNZ merger going?

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10 months

This is the dumbest idea National have come up with yet, and they have come up with some pretty stupid plans. Forcing young people to rob their future to pay for the increased living costs now isn't a solution, it's a bandaid on a huge problem. #nzpol

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

A statement.

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Christopher Bishop

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7 months

“They [National] are not going to have it easy. We are going to keep our foot on their necks every single day.” Imagine the reaction if a National MP had said this about Green MPs/councillors.

Green light for long-held red seat

A massive grass roots effort sees a sea of Green whip the red carpet from under Labour in Wellington Central.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Christopher Bishop

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5 years

National supports the firearm changes announced by the PM today. #nzpol

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Christopher Bishop

@cjsbishop

2 years

6137 new community cases today. 8 at the border. End MIQ. Right now. Let Kiwis come home.

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

12,000 community cases of Covid-19 today. 19 at the border. 3 people in MIQ have contacted me after applying for early release. They’ve been denied. Outrageous.

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Christopher Bishop

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7 months

A genuine contender for worst take of the election campaign, in a campaign in which there were some particularly shithouse takes

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Christopher Bishop

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9 months

Quite a bit of lefty Twitter obsession with so-called ‘disinformation’ being some critical and pervasive threat to democracy but Labour MPs are just outright lying on a daily basis about the National policy and everyone seems to be letting it go through to the keeper.

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Christopher Bishop

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4 years

I did my job as an MP. Labour’s smear to hide their own incompetence should be seen for what it is.

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Christopher Bishop

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3 months

All of Parliament is in shock at the sad passing of Efeso Collins MP. The House will sit today at 2pm when party leaders will make brief remarks paying tribute to Mr Collins. The House will then adjourn until Tuesday 27 February as a mark of respect.

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Christopher Bishop

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11 months

Utterly disgraceful behaviour from Kelvin Davis. Attacking National and Luxon in urgent debate about awful alleged offending in Oranga Tamariki facilities. He should apologise, and this tired, useless, inept government should be thrown out of office.

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Christopher Bishop

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5 years

How often do you see batsmen without helmets these days ? Or even caps/hats? #AUSvInd #AusvIndia

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Christopher Bishop

@cjsbishop

2 years

Chris Hipkins just told Parliament he doesn’t comment on individual MIQ cases. That will be news to Charlotte Bellis

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Christopher Bishop

@cjsbishop

6 months

Bit of final day hallway cricket as we move out of Parliament and into the Beehive. Delighted to have been asked by @chrisluxonmp to serve in Cabinet as Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, RMA Reform and Sport and Rec as well as Leader of the House and Associate Finance.

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

Sometimes it's the little things. Just had a guy stop me at a cafe to tell me he'd just donated a kidney, and thanks to my Compensation for Live Organ Donors Act, he'd been able to be paid while he had the op and the recovery, and it made life a helluva lot easier. :)

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Christopher Bishop

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3 months

How about if you don’t like who is playing at a festival… just don’t go.

Petition to have Ziggy Marley removed from Womad

A petition is calling to have Ziggy Marley removed from the lineup of New Plymouth’s Womad festival due to concerns over his stance on the Israel–Hamas war.

www.stuff.co.nz

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2 years

Excellent decision to reduce booster gap from 6 months down to 4 months. I encourage everyone to to go out and get boosted ASAP. #covid19nz

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11 months

Bit of carefully selected editing of @chrisluxonmp at Nelson public meeting today. Here’s what he went onto say - the fake outrage factory needs to stand down.

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Christopher Bishop

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4 years

Welcome to the @NewConservNZ candidate for Hutt South. Interesting decision to stand in front of an Australian not NZ flag

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Christopher Bishop

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4 years

A good day.

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Christopher Bishop

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5 years

Victim Support Givealittle page for those who’d like to donate to the victims of the appalling terror attacks in Christchurch today.

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1 year

Wow. Hipkins just told Parliament that the Jacinda Ardern’s office knew about the Stuart Nash leak of confidential Cabinet information to donors back in 2021. #nzqt

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Christopher Bishop

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3 months

Very sad to see Ginny Andersen spreading lies about cuts to the Wainuiomata High rebuild. I have checked with the Ministry. The rebuild has not been cancelled nor has the school been told that. Also not subject to a review. The project scope was reduced in 2020… under Labour.

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Christopher Bishop

@cjsbishop

4 years

When twitter dot com gets dropped in your car window

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

The lengths some people will go to to defend this government are mind boggling

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

Useful thought experiment for the people loyally defending the government re Charlotte Bellis debacle. Ponder what you would say if John Key was PM and his government stopped a pregnant woman in Afghanistan from getting an emergency spot in MIQ. Be honest.

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2 years

Today is a big victory for Kiwis offshore who couldn’t return because of the lottery of human misery.

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Christopher Bishop

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4 years

Vandalism, Lower Hutt.

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Christopher Bishop

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1 year

This is nuts. RNZ is 100 percent government funded. The only way it would collapse would be if the government stopped funding it. PM has turned the spin cycle up to maximum

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

1 year

PM Ardern floats possibility Govt-funded RNZ could 'collapse' without public merger

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Christopher Bishop

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8 months

Statement.

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

Lunch today

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Christopher Bishop

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5 months

@simonbwilson I see you the Christmas and new year period isn’t holding back your relentless faux-journalism campaigning

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

2500 new community cases. 17 at the border. So good we are protecting NZ from those ‘cumulative risks’ (PM’s words) AKA Kiwis trying to come home.

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

Very sad to see Louisa Wall MP announce her resignation from Parliament. Louisa achieved more as a MP than almost all Ministers from the party she is a member of. I admire her spirit, her enthusiasm and her passion. I will miss her and I think the Parliament will too.

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Christopher Bishop

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1 year

Key question: Why is Nanaia Mahuta getting technical advice about how to entrench something the day before a vote… if Cabinet had explicitly agreed not to pursue entrenchment?

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Christopher Bishop

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1 year

Lecturing people to take the train on the day they aren’t working properly is a special kind of stupidity.

'Just trying to feed my kids': Wellingtonians unleash on protesters blocking busy street

The protest, the sixth in a month, has now been cleared.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

BREAKING: the number of fully vaccinated travellers from Australia to NZ from August 23 to December 6 who have tested positive for Covid is…. Zero.

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Christopher Bishop

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7 months

Yes this is definitely why Labour lost 🙄

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Christopher Bishop

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4 years

Just for the haterz

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Christopher Bishop

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11 months

Labour in disarray. Justice Minister Kiri Allan punching out government press releases on iPhone notes that directly contradict her Police Minister. Labour might be all over the show but @NZNationalParty isn’t. Gangs are a blight on society - and we’ll do something about it.

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Christopher Bishop

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3 years

Got my first COVID-19 vaccine today in the Hutt following an invitation by @chrishipkins . I encourage everyone to get one. Getting as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible is critical for our future. #covid19nz

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Christopher Bishop

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8 months

Sorry is this for real? 🥿🥿🥿🥿🥿🥿

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8 months

This is just nonsense - Chris Hipkins has Covid! The only person pulling out of a Leaders’ Debate is Chris Hipkins. We’ve offered up Nicola Willis to debate Kelvin Davis. Radio silence from Labour so far.

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

The public health advice was not to apply vaccine passes to cafes and restaurants on the grounds it would risk social cohesion… but the government did it anyway. Spare me the confected ‘we just follow the advice’ rubbish

1News

@1NewsNZ

2 years

Ardern: Mandates will end on public health advice, not protests

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Christopher Bishop

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7 months

Thank you to the people of Hutt South for electing me as their local MP. After special and overseas votes were counted my majority increased to 1332 (which was a pleasant albeit unexpected surprise). Congrats to Ginny Andersen on being re-elected as a List MP.

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2 years

What a charming email

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1 year

Chris Luxon pre-Coronation drinks in London. Huge support for @NZNationalParty from expat Kiwis.

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2 years

BREAKING: the number of kids living in cars is up 350 percent under Labour

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Christopher Bishop

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4 years

Okay. Putting this out as an idea. On Mon I formed a private Facebook group for my street in Petone and someone on my behalf letterboxed the street. So far we’ve had 25 ppl join and someone who can’t leave the house has had help arranged for them, plus others have offered help

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Christopher Bishop

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7 months

Hold fire guys just going back to check something that happened in the semifinal to see if it’s a try #NZvRSA

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

14,941 community cases of Covid today. Just 41 at the border. Yesterday it was 13,606 in the community and 6 at the border. On Friday, it was 12,011 in the community and 19 at the border. Why are we making people from overseas isolate for 7 days when they arrive?

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Christopher Bishop

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3 years

First they blamed National. Then foreigners and people with Chinese sounding names. Then it was Winston. Now it’s the public!

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@1NewsNZ

3 years

. @jacindaardern says public bears some responsibility for housing crisis after failed taxation attempts

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1 year

Hipkins leaves the country. Deputy PM indicates a capital gains tax coming after the election if Labour win and insults ute owners on the way through, Wood launches a new tax, and a Minister announces they're defecting to the Maori Party. And it's just been 24 hours!

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Christopher Bishop

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3 years

Hey @Kieran_McAnulty I’ve left you a long black outside your office. I hear you pulled an all-nighter for the @BLACKCAPS like yours truly

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Christopher Bishop

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1 year

If Hipkins did a pub meet and greet in London the only people to turn up would be furious expat Kiwis who would lash him over the lottery of human misery that was MIQ

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Christopher Bishop

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11 months

So which Labour MP went to the Mongrel Mob election hui in Dunedin?

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Christopher Bishop

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4 years

Good to see we’re all having a good time on twitter dot com

Kurt

@KurtMatthes

4 years

Chris Bishop getting knocked off is the salted caramel topping on this incredible evening. Get fucked you absolute cunt

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2 years

It is hard to overstate how excited I am about this announcement. So good.

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3 years

Bit galling to hear PM lauding vaccination as the greatest tool to fight COVID. She's right, but she spent most of this year saying it was unethical or immoral for New Zealand to vaccinate ahead of other countries. Government incompetence on vaccine procurement is why we're here

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2 years

The fact people are telling me I’m lying about unvaccinated NZ permanent residents being barred from entering NZ probably tells you all you need to know: people just assume it isn’t true. It is.

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7 months

Labour continuing their relentless campaign of lies and misinformation. If you are in your late 50s or early 60s you are completely unaffected by National’s plan to raise the age of super to 67 in 2044. It’s 21 years away. More lies from a desperate party on its last legs

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4 years

😬😬😬😬

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2 years

What is the point of Marama Davidson being the Minister of Homelessness? Just asked her how many kids are growing up in emergency housing and she said it's not her responsibility so she won't tell me. This is KIDS. IN MOTELS. HOMELESS.

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2 years

Latest doozy from Poto Williams is that rents being up 150 bucks a week under Labour is because of… Ukraine. #nzqt

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2 years

No it really doesn’t.

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2 years

Labour has blocked my motion expressing no confidence in Trevor Mallard from even being debated.

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11 months

Good to have that clarified.

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8 months

Outrageous.

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1 year

National will move to recommit the 3 Waters legislation back to the committee of the whole stage so that Labour and the Greens’ constitutional skullduggery can be excised from the legislation. Let’s hope they take this opportunity.

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2 years

BREAKING: The preliminary view of the Ministry of Health was that the South Island, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay and Central regions could enter the traffic light system at GREEN.

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8 months

Another day, another desperate CTU hit job on National. All Labour and their mates in the CTU have is desperate lies about National. After six years they have no track record to defend and no plan for the future. Just negative attacks. Pathetic really.

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4 years

Supermarkets really should put the reduced cream next to the Maggi onion soup packs.

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4 years

What a morning.

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2 years

That moment when you mansplain to someone much smarter than you and she destroys you

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3 years

Historic day as @nzlabour and @NZNationalParty join forces to speed up housing supply

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2 years

Astonishing that this didn’t merit a press release from government. Just dumped out onto the MIQ website yesterday. Good move.

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2 years

Another fun day on Twitter dot com, simultaneously being called a labour plant / Jacinda lover by anti-vaxxers and a negative asshole who is undermining our public health response to Covid. Merry Christmas all.

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2 years

I suspect I'm not the only one who finds the endless self-congratulation at the start of these 4pm press conferences grating. Slowest vaxx roll-out in OECD. Wasted COVID Fund. Slow on vaxx certs. Fewer ICU beds now than April 2020. Two "preventable" self-iso deaths

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1 year

Marama Davidson announced $75 million for homelessness in last year’s Budget. A year later, $900,000 has actually been spent. This is her excuse. Just staggering incompetence.

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Christopher Bishop

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3 months

Today the Coalition government is introducing a Bill to Parliament to establish a one-stop-shop fast track consenting and permitting regime for regional and national projects. It’ll cut through the red and green tape holding NZ back. Time to get rid of the obstruction economy!

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4 years

Quick note from me. Very tough night, absolutely gutted. Given my all for the Hutt over the last 3 years but when the swing is on, it’s on.

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3 years

Just a few hundred to before we hit 130k… it’s not 150 but it’s an incredible result

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Christopher Bishop

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2 years

In short, hopeless.

Willie Jackson

@WillieJLabour

2 years

How good was the Boss on Q+A this morning?

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Christopher Bishop

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3 years

Why are the restrictions not tied to targets? Give Aucklanders a percentage to go for.

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@cjsbishop

3 years

One thing I’ve learned in the past few days is Labour folk REALLY don’t like being reminded of these quotes from Ardern. Vaccine roll out ‘wasn’t a race to be first’ and that we had ‘taken our rightful place in delivery of vaccines’.

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Christopher Bishop

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3 years

"High vaccination rates will undoubtedly be a game changer for New Zealand" says the Prime Minister who spent most of the year saying it wasn't a race to be first and other countries need vaccines more than we did. I mean honestly this is world class spin

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