Labour’s ‘worst nightmare’: New Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour takes swipes at opponents
Seymour described his party as Labour’s “worse nightmare” and New Zealand’s “best hope”.
The Left in NZ have horribly underestimated David Seymour and I’ve watched him use culture war political ammunition that our woke identity politics activists handed him to gain the power he now has, but it isn’t the Left who should be most fearful of Seymour, it’s National and NZF!
Social media hate algorithms have churned the electorate into an all tribe no village political landscape where polarisation and culture war revenge fantasies gloss over the corporate interest behind the scenes.
ACT’s unbridled abuse campaign and libertarian wet dreams appeal not to the Left or the under vote, they appeal to NZF and National voters.
ACT’s true danger is to National and this election ACT could easily climb into double digits with their reactionary rhetoric and naked greed.
The problem for the Right is that while ACT will cannibalise National and NZF vote, middle National voters will flee to Labour and those 200 000 pay parity workers who don’t bother voting suddenly have a reason to now.
ACT will continue to devour National vote as Luxon looks weaker and weaker.
ACT lashing out at Labour should frighten Luxon, not Chippy.
DAVID: I’m stabbing you while our eyes are locked
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Its all a set up, ACT are nothing more than National Party attack dogs. Under the present MMP system the best ACT can do is where they are now. Luxon is so weak and politically naive that he will just accept that the vote being split between ACT and National is “reality” but he will still be the CEO.
Yes …agree.
And Seymour and Van Velden are so stupid that they actually believe their own press..
How does the saying go.. ‘Self praise is no recommendation.’
At the end of the day 92 % of the population did not vote for Act.
There will undoubtably be an early election and Seymour will be gone… for good…bye bye and good riddance to that useless money sucking burden on the taxpayer.
He is the very thing that he accuses nearly everyone else of being!
yet if greens were in coalition with 8% you lot would be screaming they need more power.
Horn blower, that’s an admission you agree ACT are crap. The Greens stand on their own. ACT were gifted a seat in parliament. They are a con job.
Yes Phil and Grant, but not sure about an early election as it would have to be triggered by NZF and they are unlikely to do it as hit or miss if they get back in again. Winston will just tolerate whatever Seymour delivers. Act will not trigger an early election and not will National.
3.08% TPM – even Maori don’t want to them.
Martyn – Correct…ACT and Labour would not/cannot form a team together — except in a total emergency. They have too many differences between them.
It’s all competition. Fighting for supremacy over New Zealand. It shows up as Politics v Sport in the media. Which can be most popular? The boring correctness of serving the people who are paying you to do so is old-fashioned and doesn’t rate much media coverage.
Good birthday King Charles. You have grappled with limiting old rules and absurd behaviours to free yourself for years of stable, happier life. May we be able to get through our shackles, and draconian entanglements and find a way to live happily and manage our lives and our country as best for all the people without unreasoning and crippling rules.
Any firearms owners who voted National in the last election, will certainly be considering voting ACT after National’s lack of support for a new, sensible Arms Act. National are almost as bad as Labour in that respect. I’ll certainly keep supporting ACT on this issue alone.
Go to America…you’ll love it there!
David Seymour is one of New Zealand’s best politicians hence the attention the Left give him.Accordingly he will be an excellent Deputy PM.
Self praise is no recommendation…the left don’t give him any attention…
He is so insecure and needy hence his sucking up to, and trying desperately to, appease the wealthy, that he has a team constantly phoning up the media several times a day to try and get his face on tv…..shallow as a puddle.
It’s a serious psychological condition which will need attention after he is ousted from Parliament.
“It’s a serious psychological condition which will need attention after he is ousted from Parliament.”
Why Bob troll likes him, they both come from the same ward.
David Seymour is one of New Zealand’s worst politicians hence the attention the Right give him.Accordingly he will be a terrible Deputy PM.
ACT is just the front for hard right elements in Nazional.
The ongoing election rort in Epsom is proof of that cosy arrangement.
Notice how it’s all shoulder shrugs and “what can we do, we’re bound by the coalition agreement.”
Given that far right nutters like Willis and Bishop would be a comfortable fit in Act tells you all you need to know.
Luxon is as fake as those family pyjama party photos and simple doesn’t care.
The country is fucked. The completion of the Douglas-Richardson coup is at hand.
Took ’em a bit longer than they thought it would, but the sheep took longer to herd than expected.
If you believe both Willis and Bishop are ‘hard right’ you are going to love some of the backbenchers.
Both part of National’s “wet caucus”
Errrr ……what? Both have associations with far right groups like the New Zealand initiative and tax payers union.
Do your homework before commenting.
Yeah unfortunately all true. The Project 25/Atlas network nutters have played the long game since Regan and Roger Douglas and their chickens have come home to roost in US snd NZ in particular.
” Deputy Prime Minister says he’s Labour’s ‘nightmare’ ”
What Labour? Thanks to jumped up little fuck seymour and traitor-prime Big Daddy Douglas there is no Labour Left left.
And this useless scumbag bolger. Let’s not forget bolger who picked up Labour’s carcass then parasitised it with nationals neoliberalism.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/562804/i-ve-had-a-wonderful-life-90-years-of-jim-bolger
Here’s George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison’s book.
” We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable, like a natural law.
But trace back to its roots, and we discover that it is neither inevitable nor immutable. It was conceived, propagated and then concealed by the powerful few. It connects all of the biggest problems we face today: global heating, democratic backsliding, rising inequality, racism, gender violence, the mental health crisis and more. Our task is to bring it into the light – and to build a new system that is worth fighting for.
Neoliberalism. Do you know what it is? “
Great quote there KWTC
I don’t see any place for the bulk of ACTs policies. Their flagship ones are bullshit and purely designed to advantage a very select few. Left or Right common sense should be enough to say F off to ACT.
I certainly hope so and there’s not much support for ACT among people I know but I also know of a wider group that for some reason get excited by Seymours toxic ideas so I’m not making any predictions. If he lasts the next 18 months with Winston I will be surprised though.
Act have a lot of people who voted for them last election that will never vote for them again .They may pick the hard racists from NZF who will be gone next time .I live in a rural area and there are no one I know that will vote that way again as they are disgusted with the division they have bought to NZ .
Piss off Gordon
You seem to have conversations that tie in with what the topic of the thread is every time.
Made up conversations and chats to pretend you know what people are saying on the streets, if you live rural, you know not a lot of people , well the ones that don’t avoid you of course, which will be many!
Wow talk about toxic comment from I’m Right. Go look in the mirror asshole
They don’t allow glass or mirrors on the mental health ward Im rights on.
ACT being vocally Right frees up space in the voting marketplace for National to be solidly and safely center-Right, and that maximizes the floating centrists voting for the Right bloc.
It’s marketing 101.
ACT is New Zealand’s greatest party, led by New Zealand’s GREATEST Maori!
Yes Zelda.
No Zelda.
They said that about Hitler – with some changes.
Take your meds Zelda.
Zelda, you of all people, know what is in The Book … ‘ye shall have no other gods before me’.
That includes “New Zealand’s GREATEST Maori! ” A week or so ago it was ‘President’ Trump.
Stop worshipping idols and false gods.
You, of all people, well know what happens to such heretics…. it’s in The Book!
ACT is New Zealand’s worst party, led by New Zealand’s GREATEST racist.
Correction, NZs whitest Maori.
Yes…the latest Talbot Mills poll shows that Luxon ,Willis and Seymour’s management of the economy has created the worst pessimism in over 30 years.
They have managed this in just 18 months and it’s all down to their own hubristic stupidity.
The taxpayer majority will not continue lining the bank accounts of these useles egomaniac leeches.
They should be permanently banned from N Z. politics for being so utterly
uselessly incompetent.
We just can’t be tolerating this garbage.The trash gets to go!
Talnot Mills….hahahahahahaha
Talnot, that’s funny spelling…hahahaha.
That’s so funny Grant I love your comments,
Only David Seymour could say something so insincere, your comments reflect how shallow ACT is. The main problem is how your mobs racist fascist fuckwit brainfarts are costing the country dearly. Oh well not long to go before you lot are tossed out.
Brilliant and factual comment Grant. I love hearing them. Bob troll is proof that when the truth is told he has no response.
Facts can sometimes be funny… and… many a true word said in jest… however…
… there’s no hiding from the data… and the data…. ie; unemployment , return to surplus date, increase in wasteful spending and economic pessimism are all up significantly, and yet they haven’t even had to deal with a 1 in 100year world wide pandemic or any major natural disasters unlike the previous government.
Shows that Luxon, Willis and Seymour’s hapless , out of their depth, 3rd world ‘management’ of the economy has been like amateur hour at the comedy club…only…it’s not funny.
There will be an early election… Seymour will need to find a new job, but i think he might find that difficult. And if he does , it won’t be paying $320,000 plus per annum either. The real world will see straight through him.
N.Z. will not put up with any more of this crap. They were stupid 18 months ago , but that will not happen again.
It might be true, but it’s hard to fear someone who looks like Mr Bean on MDMA.
Certainly Cmore is smarter than Luxon, but there are crawling things in my garden that are smarter than Luxon.
Time to start building guillotines – it’s tough on the tigers, who deserve livelier prey, but guillotines are something no-one in the coalition has ever been – efficient.