Budget 2026 Debt Monsters Are a Right-Wing Scam
The Right cuts revenue, creates the hole, then screams about debt monsters. Martyn says Budget 2026 is austerity theatre designed to protect private wealth.

The Right cuts revenue, creates the hole, then screams about debt monsters. Martyn says Budget 2026 is austerity theatre designed to protect private wealth.

TDB’s Election 2026 countdown is not an Electoral Commission ad. It is an independent media project to help readers enrol, vote and fight billionaire narratives.

They call it parliamentary sovereignty. Martyn calls it what it looks like: retrospective law to shield big polluters from a citizen using the courts.
The culture war screams about trans people, Māori and vaccines. Meanwhile Shane Jones is making it easier for oil companies to leave taxpayers with the clean-up bill.
Iran was supposed to be the distraction. Now Cuba is suddenly in the frame. Trump’s empire politics are starting to look less like strategy and more like panic.

The Bradbury Group turns one because the old show was punished for saying the quiet parts out loud: Israel, think tanks, media power and big polluter influence.

Banks get a token levy. Public servants get the axe. State tenants get higher rents. Budget 2026 is not balance, it is class warfare dressed as discipline.

RNZ gets Brent Impey, Paul Thompson heads for the exit and Maiki Sherman’s fall still says plenty about political journalism. Martyn is not pretending to be neutral.

Jools Topp was joy, protest, country music, yodelling and defiance wrapped into one. We mourn her because she represented an Aotearoa we are losing.

Banks get a joke tax. Landlords keep their loot. Beneficiaries, students, tenants and public servants get the bill. Budget 2026 is class warfare with spreadsheets.