Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 12/10/2026No one is arguing for FPTP. Peters has been in and around government in some form or another for most of the last 40 years, and hasn't lead a government yet. He is politically dead without MMP. 310
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Man who has been an elected MP 7 times since 1979, government minister no fewer than 6 times, played a role in 5 governments both National and Labour led over the last 36 years, finally admits he’s fucked it all up.rnz.co.nz'Not as attractive as it used to be' - Winston Peters on living in NZ todayAnalysis: Winston Peters is on a mission and says the idea that either Chris will be calling the shots once the votes are counted is a nonsense. 410036
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 11/10/2026With so much unemployment across the country. Criminal. 020
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Why is Tame so desperate to over-dramatise $1000/s? Such an arbitrary line. Do education, or healthcare? Or my mortgage? The point is the value and public benefit, never the cost. If we did this to everything we’d always opt to spend nothing. 120
Reposted by BarryMountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 11/10/2026'And economy was significantly deteriorating before the war in Iran' Not an exaggeration to say National crashed NZ's economy hard in record time #nzpol #kiwi 310131
Reposted by BarryJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 149148696405
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I wow, I walked right past there literally yesterday and still didn’t recognise the branding. 100
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The ONLY way they’re going to move economic growth and employment above the current flatline is with fiscal stimulus, and they’ve already announced even more cost and service cuts. Incoherent bullshit. 0150
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Even with Brooke going/gone, remember one thing when you vote, workers of NZ: ACT will always hate your guts 060
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A classic example of how wrong “leftist media bias” is. Headline should read “Near miss proves Greens point” but it doesn’t, does it? 210
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just in time for the pointy end of a global fuel crisis. Half of me wants this government to get back in so they alone get to face the music. 140
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Much like 2023 their massive pile of cash means their billboards are everywhere up and down the NI at least (just took a drive from the 09 to the central plateau). I want to believe that every single employee will look at them and laugh due to the workers rights they've demolished, but I'm fearful. 010
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You can say bad things about them without resorting to homophobic slurs. 000
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Trains are unbelievably awesome. I’m so proud of what you did there Auckland 🥹 040
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Any worker in NZ who votes act needs their brain examined. 000
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My current supermarket peeve is them putting muddy white potatoes into a bag labelled “brushed Agria” to sell them at elevated prices knowing you won’t know until you peel one and even then there’s no way to prove. These fuckers can’t get regulated soon or hard enough. 010
Reposted by BarryAndrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026That, I think, is why some of the attacks on Swarbrick feel oddly objectless. The danger isn’t just what she might do as Finance Minister. It’s what she might reveal about the people who have spent 40 years telling us the money is all gone. andrewdicksonnz.substack.com/p/chloe-swar...andrewdicksonnz.substack.comChlöe Swarbrick Nicked Luxon’s Cotton ReelLacan explains why the tough guys of fiscal politics are so emotional right now 48427
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Take heaps more of their money and funnel it all into harm prevention. 010
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Gosh how can we get this level of economic literacy to spread like wildfire 🔥🔥🔥 0288
Reposted by BarryGrant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚🇳🇿 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026#NZpol Saw this excellent quote-reply to Simeon Brown’s latest attack on Labour. Worth sharing. 514873
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Greens should be as evidence-based on this as they are with other things. 010
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 27/09/2026GOOD! Our biggest failing as a nation has been endlessly buying and selling our houses to each other for increasing amounts of mortgage debt. Yes a bunch of people got rich doing so, but we’re all poorer for it. 120
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Isn’t he doing plenty of incredible things that no other administration has ever had the balls to do? And in fact gaslit everyone into believing weren’t possible? 1921
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026But waitconsumer.org.nzA student on a mission: the dark side of smart appliancesHigh school student Liam Martin is asking the government to stop the sale of data collected by smart appliances in New Zealand homes. 000
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I mean, what do they make of how that worked out for them last election? 120
Reposted by BarryOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Happy 49th birthday, Jumping the Shark 1296
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026He found a way to make it about himself, him and his poor broken heart. 020
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is the real “the ai will kill us” — powerful idiots using it, trusting it, relying on it, for things it’s absolutely shit at. Which is most things. 010
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This from the government that cancelled EVERYTHING out of pure partisan spite because it wasn’t their idea? 040
Reposted by BarryMountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New Zealand is probably one of the only countries in the world where owning a supermarket can put someone on the rich list #nzpol #newzealandrnz.co.nzSupermarket owners shouldn't make the rich list – supplierNew Zealand is probably one of the only countries in the world where owning a supermarket can put someone on the rich list, a grocery supplier and distributor says. 56816
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026National, the party currently in power, could have done anything about the supermarkets in the last 3 years, and still could up until November. Fuck them. 4274
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026At radiologist and small child, who should be wearing a mask but isn’t, is coughing everywhere and I had to go outside before I said something bloody rude to his mum. 050
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I suspect the 30 years later Penlink is just to placate existing residents. And all it encourages is more single occupancy vehicles to the city. Can you tell I'm not a fan? Although I am looking forward to the new Stanmore Bay Bus Station — walking distance for me to one bus to the CBD! 030
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Building industry leaders say all of the shitty things this government have done to ease regulation and make it easier for them to profit are good, but this one time they’ve gone too far 🤬 010
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026These overripe nostalgia gigs are getting too much. First Frankie Valli's Vegas animatronics extravaganza, then David Lee Roth's Spongebob Squarepants impression, now they're Weekend at Bernie-sing Moscow Mitch? 010
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How much of a pay rise did they give themselves? Freeze deez nuts. 050
Barry @barryhannah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026How does any worker in their right mind vote for these fuckos. They've done enough damage to workers rights this term, we have to get them the fuck out of government. 010
