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Tony from Welly

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Please support our Health Service because they saved my life❤️ Proudly born in Wellington, Aotearoa NZ You know that country that is always left off world maps

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Horus @guynermie62.bsky.social · 51m
“ElECtiOn BrIBeS are BaD!”
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Bruce Buckman @brucebuckman.bsky.social · 12m
The government’s austerity ideology and its atrocious overreach into local body funding is creating a bleak future to which the only counter the govt has is to point at a spreadsheet and declare “look, number go down” like a toddler pleased with its finger painting. www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
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'Nasty decisions' for Wellington councillors looking to find $60m in savings
Funding for Te Papa, opening hours for galleries, the city's new years' eve fireworks display, and school swimming subsidies, are on the chopping block as Wellington City Council tries to meet rates c...
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 2h
there are STILL nearly 450,000 - yes, nearly 10-12% of elligible voters are NOT registered yet. Only 19 days left to register! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE speak to everyone you know that should be elligible to vote to please ensure they are registered. IT'S CLOSE. EVERY VOTE IS GOING TO COUNT! #nzpol
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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 2h
This is going to be one of those debates where Luxo is a total egg and then the commentators will be grading on a curve like "he did so much better than I thought he would, the HEAT IS ON for Chippy" or some shit and I don't think I can bear it #nzpol
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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 2h
Hell yeah it is #nzpol
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That's not my name @endoubleu.bsky.social · 2h
As a cancer survivor, I bitterly resent the catch all “cancer” being used as a political football. There many different diseases under the umbrella. If they really wanted to do something, it’d be early detection, prevention, and swift diagnostics. Remove MSD work requirements during treatment.
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 1h
Yeah, imagine if at the biggest hospitals they didn’t completely shut down on weekends. Imagine people getting CVADs and assessed for home IV on weekends for example. People get stuck in hospital waiting for Monday to arrive so they can see the professionals they need for Dx.
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Chris Miller @thelittlepakeha.net · 2h
omg yes like cancer is the only thing worth funding. NZ is rife with respiratory illnesses, how about funding to prevent those? you could radically reduce them with fairly cheap interventions, and that would also reduce post-viral conditions that are on the rise.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 2h
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Pam Beesly: Yep You Got It - The Office
ALT: Pam Beesly: Yep You Got It - The Office
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Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social · 3h
Always with the cancer promises, like other illness or conditions don’t exist. But it’s the one people are scared of so sounds good.
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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 3h
National recycling old promises into new lies
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The full timeline of National’s broken cancer drugs promise | The Spinoff
How a key campaign pledge came undone.
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 3h
When do we get the Liz Truss lettuce treatment for Luxon? #nzpol
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 3h
This is bullshit. Why doesn't National do these things while they are in Government instead of promising to do it at the next election? Absolute muppets #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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National pledges to increase Pharmac's budget and extend free cancer screening
Follow the election campaign live.
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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 4h
Maybe, just maybe, the more and more people get Simeon’s worldview shoved in their faces, the more it repels?
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 5h
For all the money National are spending on electioneering they are really in the shit. Hahahahahahahahahaha #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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National falls below 26%, Opportunity kingmaker in new poll
Follow the election campaign live.
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Chantalle Smith @chaneyz85.bsky.social · 19h
Just introduced the 8yo to this ad after he kept saying things were “on the floor” 😂 youtu.be/NyRWnUpdTbg?...
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Sky TV ad - On the floor
YouTube video by Greg Hornby
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David Farrier @davidfarrier.com · 04/10/2026
still odd how giant new zealand outlets like 1NEWS report on a story like this, going out of their way to minimize webworm's involvement. to be clear: we led the reporting, & there WOULD BE NO REPORTING if we hadn't broken the story after a year of research: www.webworm.co/multiverse/
one news report from last week
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Potato enthusiast 🇵🇸🥔 @br3nda.bsky.social · 19h
Please vote for trains... I really want those trains.
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manuwai.bsky.social @manuwai.bsky.social · 16h
The TVNZ Vote Compass should be banned! It is FULL of subliminal messaging. So obviously bought & paid for by National money! Isn't that illegal??? Note how EVERY screen is blue. Labour & Greens need to investigate. #NZPOL
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 15h
If countries got rid of Airbnb and greedy landlords we could also make NZ a better place to live and where everyone has a roof over their head.
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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 21h
I'm beginning to see why most Kiwis tune out to politics. The amount of bullshit being flung this election is getting almost unbearable. #nzpol
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 16h
no taxes? I’d rather NZ political parties dealt with the fact we have 1) NO rules around lobbying 2) NO disclosure of targeted digital campaigns 3) NO limits on party donations
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Ganesh Rajaram Ahirao @ganeshahirao.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#nzpol There's a reason there's a populist streak ... 'cos supermkts have lost their social licence. Call it woke, but there is heaps of literature about value of social licence. And, if lost, no amount of bleating will help. Bluntly, no one trusts you anymore🙏🏾. www.1news.co.nz/2026/10/04/p...
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'Populist' streak in supermarket break-up plans - Foodstuffs boss
Chris Quin said the plans had alarmed the owners of the co-operative's stores.
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SpecsChic: Show me cats! I love real specs, not perve glasses! @specschic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Debt of National's Incompetence
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McKeen Photos (I shoot people and things for money. And fun.) @mckeenphotos.bsky.social · 19h
Can you imagine* the vision that a torrent of toys on a government cough Member cough would look like across global media? Especially Steven Oliver et al *I certainly can
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Grumpy Cat: It's Raining Sin!
ALT: Grumpy Cat: It's Raining Sin!
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 18h
I suppose with the huge increases in fuel the Coalition Idiots will be ramping down their electioneering junkets around the country. #nzpol
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JohnO NZ @johno49nz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s the synchronised nodding heads I can’t stand - from any of them! It’s like the swivelling clown heads at the Winter Show - except their mouths aren’t open - waiting for the ping pong ball.
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When do we call these new roads the "Debt of National Significance" #nzpol
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Tax Wealth not Wages @progallthethings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Look. What I say to you is this. Our plan for the economy is to prop it up with billions in wage theft. But only from women. Party vote National is you agree women are worth less. Vote these misogynist bastards out. #nzpol
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
National Party electioneering song just dropped Enjoy 😉 #nzpol youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA?...
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Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (Official Video)
YouTube video by Talking Heads
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AJ Hunter @brianoblivionnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Got that right.
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Which MP is going to get the Steven Dildo Joyce treatment this election? #nzpol
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One thing I have noticed with RW electioneering is that they shove the less known candidates behind the leaders. Every picture you see Luxon, Willis and others in front and the candidate (ushers) behind. Lefties treat everyone as equals. #nzpol
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The National Party electioneering bus Back on track😂 #nzpol
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Busround Bus
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The National Party electioneering bus driver #nzpol
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Ol’ ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I reckon the Nats are so certain Labour won't be able to deliver because they know they're lying about the govt books. #nzpol
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not surprised they used AI here, National hate real artists, have cut funding to Ministry of Culture/Heritage, Te Papa, Creative NZ, Heritage, Film commission etc #Nzpol
NZ National party AI advert
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope Nicola Willis loses her list seat. Worst finance minister ever. I might send her a text to say "your contract has been terminated" #nzpol
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manuwai.bsky.social @manuwai.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yet National expect the firefighters to sort it but IGNORE their claims for fair pay!
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Ol’ ɔıN @hazmat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I absolutely do not trust that the party that spent half a billion on 0 boats is giving accurate numbers coming into an election. #nzpol
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Notice there's no bullshit promises coming from the blue maga party regarding the Mt Victoria tunnel All those wasted signs😂 #nzpol
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
National MPs took the piss with the accommodation allowance and now the trough is being slowly emptied. #nzpol
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Disenchantment: Man Falls into Pigsty
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wayne Brown was not the hero Auckland asked for but the hero Auckland does need In telling Luxon to fuck off yet again
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A little too late to stop the rotten accommodation allowance. #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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Authority cracks down on ministers’ $52,000 accommodation allowances
But ministers who own their Wellington homes mortgage-free will still be able to claim the accommodation allowance.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 03/10/2026
I opened Facebook and immediately died of cringe.
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From Christopher Luxon 
Text: "All taxpayers aboard!"
Image: still frame from video of Christopher Luxon boarding bus pumping both fists above his head. Text on the video reads: "Day 1 on the no new taxes bus"
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wow I don't know Michael Cheika was assistant coach at the Roosters
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Oli - something or other @olimnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What has this government been up to? Brad knows. Brad's been keeping a list (over on FB)... #nzpol
Over the last three years, I’ve been keeping a list of the rubbish this Government has done. 
Stopped work on Auckland light rail.
Stopped all work on the Lake Onslow renewable battery project.
Disestablish the Ministry for the Environment.
Scrapped the smoke-free law to fund tax cuts.
Scrapped Fair Pay Agreements.
Gave $3 billion in tax cuts to landlords. 
Tired to paid himself $52,000 to live in one of his own many properties, on top of his half a million dollar salary.
The so-called party of infrastructure ... cut Cook Strait ferry deal, then paid $8 million for consultants to tell them they need new ships. $700 million wasted in total. Still no ships.
Stopped the Clean Car Discount, after Luxon took an $8,000 discount himself.
Blocked statistical reporting on who does and doesn’t pay their share of tax. Think about that!
Broke its election promise and didn’t scrap the app tax.
Scrapped Three Waters, pushing costs onto ratepayers and increasing rates.
Used $4,150 of taxpayers’ money to pay for his te reo Māori classes after saying, “People in the real world should pay for it themselves.”
Halved the crayfish take for locals, but cut the commercial take by only one-fifth.
Gutted freshwater protections so cruel intensive winter grazing could continue to pollute water ways. 
Took $80 million from hospitals.
Cut DOC funding by $125 million.
Scrapped the First Home Grant.
Gave half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money to their mate Bill English to do a "review".
Blew $8 million on consultants for a proposed tunnel under Wellington.
Wasted $4 million on a six-person advisory group to talk about crime and reduce youth offending. They achieved nothing.  
Gave big tobacco a $216 million tax cut.
Refused to reinstate Jobs for Nature while unemployment soared.
Reduced the qualifications needed for relief teachers.
Introduced new road tolls.
Deprioritised police responses to mental health and family violence call-outs.
Slashed $107 million a year from school lunches, costing…
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“LANDLORD IS NOT A JOB” Auckland, New Zealand, 2026 @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
“LANDLORD IS NOT A JOB”, graffitied in white pen on the railing of a footbridge over Auckland’s Northwestern Motorway, between Arch Hill and Eden Terrace.
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Tony from Welly @tonywelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Finance Minister that said the NZ economy was like a household budget says what #nzpol www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361...
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Nicola Willis lays in to Labour’s fiscal plan, calls it a ‘misleading fantasy’
The Labour Party has released its fiscal plan, and is promising it will immediately boost care and support workers’ wages if elected.
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Simon O'Neill @sjponeill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The only way former National MPs should be building roads...
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