Well it’s been a hell of a year. Catastrophic climate change storms while the Government wages a war on all environmental laws;

Vast abuses of power by our politicians as they strangle the common good for their donor’s interests;

600 000 Kiwis needing help from foodbanks each and every month;

An explosion of homelessness (manufactured from very predictable social policies),

A fake debate from a fake union between two of the biggest neoliberal economic vandals in a deadly nightshade vs poisonous hemlock cage match that is as intellectually shallow as David Seymour calling out his own name at orgasm;

Draconian welfare sanctions and culture war revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy;

Kneecapping paid parity during a cost of living crisis;

The despicable character assassination of Benjamin Doyle;

The ecstasy of the anti-treaty referendum bill protests followed by the heartbreak of the Māori Party implosion;

A fake cease fire in Gaza and appalling antisemitic atrocity in Bondi;

A forced surrender package for the Ukraine;

Another war crime genocide in Sudan;

.0001 of the population owning 3 times the wealth of the poorest 50% of humanity AND the final season of Stranger Things on Netflix.

What a year.

 

Biggest Gimmick – Road Cone Hotline

Remember the election? According to the right, Road Cones were the greatest threat to humanity and must be crushed to enable Tradies in Utes and rich pricks in BMWs to speed at 150km per hour every minute of the day.

Speed limits were for woke fem gays and vegan lesbians.

National weaponised your impatience and because road cones create an illusion of safety for the working men and women who work on the roads, dumping them was easy because the only people who were going to get hurt were working class men and women.

It’s far important that you get to where you want to 15minutes earlier than a working man gets to go home alive.

Barely 6 months of the ‘road cone hotline’ being established, they have dumped it because the ease with which Kiwis are manipulated into getting angry over bullshit is better served by attacking the homeless or the trans or the Māori’s these days.

You are so easily led you sleepy hobbits!

Biggest scam – iRex Ferries

So Nicky-no-boat’s Toyota Corolla has ended up up costing us $671m???

This was a virtue signal by Nicola when she first got in, it’s cost us over half a billion, we still don’t have any fucking Ferries and the ones they are looking at will be smaller without rail connectivity, remember the rail connectivity was the Government’s main means of  cutting emissions, and by dumping that we are likely to breach our Paris agreements which is exactly what the Government wants.

Don’t ever dare lecture the Left on wasting money again!

Worst Political Hate Crime – Gerrymandering Special Votes to steal 2026 Election

There are so many abuses of power this Government has committed over December and late November by ramming through controversial laws it is difficult to pick a worst one, but I believe this hard right Government gerrymandering the special votes so as to steal the 2026 election is the most dangerous.

Let me see if I can get this completely straight.

The Government is gerrymandering the rules on Special Votes, which always lean left, by disenfranchising the 200 000 voters who vote in the last 12 days, by disenfranchising the over 5000 prisoners from voting altogether and by raising the amount of money the rich can secretly donate to their rich prick mates by $1000 up to $6000?

This Government has become so desperate to hold onto power they are re-writing the rules for themselves by disenfranchising pro people WHILE enabling their rich mates to secretly donate.

If you are not incandescent with rage, you are not paying attention!

This Government can’t win a straight election, so they will cheat to win instead!

All of this has been done while you are distracted and not paying attention.

Weakest Politician 2025: Chris Luxon

His spinelessness when it comes to Seymour and Winston makes his claims of being the ‘great deal maker’ a total nonsense.

He is played month in and month out by those two and his perpetual smug rich prick Christian routine gives him all the charm of a road accident.

His response that parents angry their children are being fed slop should make a marmite sandwich highlights  how disconnected he is.

His ability to get a discount on his rates, his claim that Nicola Willis is the best Finance Minister NZ has ever had and his shallow analysis of everything makes him the least worthy Prime Minister in recent history.

Worst Political assassination: Benjamin Doyle

Give it up for alt-Right hate blog The Centrist, Winston, Ani O’Brien and Ian Wishart for the most cruel Political Assassination of 2025!

Benjamin was hounded out of Office based on allegations and insinuations that they were abusing their child and was actively promoting their child to other abusers.

Jesus fucking wept!

And the ‘evidence’ for such an extreme allegation and insinuation? A blue squiggly line that was supposedly pedophilic hieroglyphics and the word ‘bussy’.

That such a false insinuation could be made is a tragedy of hysteria fuelled by a malicious online Lynch mob.

Everyone who participated in that should be deeply ashamed of themselves and we should never allow it to be forgotten.

Cruelty Award: Kneecapping Pay Parity

You’ve got to hand it to the Minister for Handmaids, Brooke Van Velden, Girlfriend just wants it more!

As a woman who turns on other working woman, Brooke loves blood as much as your average hungry Great White Shark!

The details of how this hard right Government kneecapped the pay parity deal to literally rob workers so they could give a tax break to the bosses, has come out now and the dirty tactics involved to screw over our poorest workers were obscene…

Use of urgency to upend pay equity scheme decided after PM’s meeting with senior ministers

New documents reveal the Government’s use of urgency to rush through controversial changes to the country’s pay equity scheme wasn’t decided until after a high-powered meeting between the Prime Minister and senior ministers.

A document dump yesterday from several government agencies provides an insight into the Government’s shock decision in May to amend the Equal Pay Act, which ministers claimed created a fiscally unsustainable pay equity scheme as changes saved almost $13 billion over the next four years.

The changes, which stopped 33 live pay equity claims, raised the threshold for claims to be made and limited the job types workforces could use as comparators when arguing inequity.

The amendments announced by Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden had not been publicly forecast, and the Government used urgency to pass the bill through the House, meaning no public consultation was done.

Now, documents released yesterday showed urgency hadn’t been raised by officials in the months of preparation through 2024 before potential reform.

Urgency first appeared after Prime Minister Christopher Luxon met with van Velden, Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Public Service Minister Judith Collins between 9pm and 10pm on March 4 this year.

…the Government lied to you about the need for urgency and kept it secret to minimise our ability to fight it!

They robbed Paula to pay Paul!

It’s the exact opposite of Robin Hood! This Government steals from the poor to give to the rich and do it in secret so you don’t know!

Most delusional: Let them eat marmite sandwiches

Alongside getting his rates reduced for his luxury batch, the Prime Minister’s response to parents angry their children were being fed slop was for this parents to make them a marmite sandwich. How Christian.

Biggest Political Irony: Simeon Brown blocking puberty blockers

I absolutely agree that there needed to be more checks and balances on Puberty Blocker use…

…and the Cass Review successfully argued that there needed to be more research into puberty blockers, but the Cass Review also took into account the regret of those who had surgically transitioned and that’s just not something we have a hell of a lot of in NZ. Puberty Blockers alongside other treatments are the main ‘transitioning’ in NZ, where as the Cass Review had to take into account the growing number ion mostly young women who had transitioned surgically.

The reality is we don’t have the problems the UK had because we don’t have that many surgical transitions.

So yes, we need more research into puberty blockers and how they impact while limiting surgical transition to only those who truly require it, but what the Government has done here isn’t a medical decision, it’s a political one.

Only you, your guardian, your psychologist and your dr should be  involved in this discussion, what the fuck is the Government doing getting involved in medical care?

This is about using the resentment the middle class woke have generated and manufacturing that into a toxic culture war political attack on the trans community for the lowest gutter politics dog whistling.

This Government doesn’t give a shit about Trans Kids, they care about dog whistling to their reactionary right voters while pretending to care about Trans kids.

The irony of someone like Simeon Brown who looks like he is on puberty blockers banning puberty blockers would be funny if it weren’t all so sad.

Most predictable outcome 2025: Homelessness

It was announced based on August data that the vast number of Emergency Housing applications in NZ had been denied.

600 odd requests, over 400 denied.

Jesus wept.

This follows a clear pattern with the National Party.

 

Biggest u-turn – Winston on the sale of land to foreigners

Allowing rich prick foreigners to speculate in the NZ domestic housing market by buying houses worth over $5million in the hope of creating political growth is the most desperate thing Winston has ever done, followed by this quote….

Political Quote 2025: Winston Peters’ calling me a “Fat Retard”

The Right Honourable Winston Peters, the Foreign Minister of Aotearoa NZ, called me on Sean Plunkett’s Platform, a, and I quote, ‘Fat Retard’.

The Foreign Minister of NZ said that. A Fat Retard.

What a shakespearean word smith diplomat ole Matua Winston is eh? A true weaver of stories in the loom of the mind.

You race baiting, anti-trans, anti-vaccine, cross burning, lynch mob hanging, redneck jamboree, book burning, climate denying old fart you.

Merry Christmas Winston – you remind me of the old Māori proverb, ‘the silver hyenah gleefully drinks the blood of the young while desecrating Gia” – it’s a very old Māori proverb.

Worst judged political pile on: Tamatha Paul

When Green MP Tamatha Paul said not everyone felt safe with the Police, the pile on by ZB and the ZB Hate Trolls was never ending for a month. The the McSkimmings scandal erupted and all those ZB Hate Trolls went very fucking quiet didn’t they?

Biggest political lie: RMA reform

It’s being sold as helping the poor Kiwi battler build his deck without the Council getting up in his business, but the reality is that it allows big polluter interests to bypass environmental considerations so they can fast track their interests through while fucking over the environment and communities. That the media don’t expose this highlights how in the pocket to real estate pimps they are.

Political Heroes of the Year: Barbara Edmonds, Arena Williams & Duncan Webb

Barbara and Arena are two of the best Politicians in Parliament, they have both shone this year on the big issues and Duncan will be deeply missed as he is one of the best Labour have.

Most deplorable International Moment: siding with war criminals by refusing to recognise Palestine

Our collective mana has been damaged beyond belief by these scumbag cowards.

By refusing to recognise Palestine, NZ is on the side of Genocide and war criminals.

David Seymour has built an illegal settlement on the balls of the Prime Minister and we all have to pretend that’s an independent foreign policy.

Worst Music Critic: Chris Bishop

Chris Bishop was a right ‘Brooke Van Velden’ at the NZ Music Awards with his aggressive bottle in hand rant against Stan Walker’s performance, but it was the Bish’s bizarre desire to get rough and ready with beloved musical Icon Don McGlashan that has rally caught our attention…

Renowned musician Don McGlashan was seen on the video confronting Bishop, but McGlashan said he did not realise at first that it was the minister.

“I could hear an enormous amount of ranting, kind of against the whole thing. I didn’t get the full gist of it, but it was basically – ‘the hīkoi is ages ago, sit down everybody’ – so this geezer was just ranting away and telling everybody to sit down,” McGlashan said.

“After a while I turned to him and said ‘ah shut up you dickhead’ and I looked at him and I thought, oh I know that face. Then he said ‘what did you say to me?’”.

McGlashan said that he again told Bishop to “shut up you dickhead and he said ‘I could say the same to you’, and I said, well I wasn’t talking and you were. And then I realised I was talking to the leader of the house”.

…‘what did you say to me?’

‘I could say the same to you’?

Was the Bish going to start a fight with musical icon Don McGlashan???

The singer of  the angelic ‘Anchor Me’?

The Great MuttonBird?

Pulled along by love?

Halfway down a half way house on Dominion Road?

THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS! THE BEAUTIFUL THINGS! WE SEE THEM, WE WANT THEM, EVERY DAY!

That Don McGlashan?

Is this a new arts directive by National? Start fights with musical legends?

You won’t get NZ on Air funding if Chris Bishop pins you down for a 3 count?

Who will the Bish battle next? Dave Dobbyn? Neil Finn? Holly Smith?

Most hypercritical Free Speech Champion: ACT MP Simon Court

What a surprise…

ACT MP asks Parliament to limit use of ‘genocide’ when describing Gaza war

Simon Court seems himself as a free speech champion but like all right wing free speech champions, he is nothing more than a dirty hypocrite.

Here’s what he had to say about protestors…

…and he’s now lecturing on the use of genocide inside our parliament!

Simon is a free speech hypocrite and is nothing more than a zionist pimp who is constantly demanding NZ bends the knee to Jerusalem.

The Right have always faked their support for free speech and here he is trying to remove the right for Politicians to use the word Genocide to rightfully describe the terrible murder that the Israeli’s have perpetrated against the Palestinians.

Simon represents all that is hypocritical in ACT and he is a disgrace.

The Right champion Free Speech right up until to criticise Israels war crimes.

Most harmful Politician

Highly Commanded – Simeon Brown – His wilful vandalism of public health has reached new highs of madness with his recent claim that after all the damage he’s done, he still wants $500million trimmed form public health!

3rd Place – Shane Jones – The audacity of his venal corruption by taking donations from the Industries he then passes legislation on behalf of, from Fishing to Mining marks him out as a super predator for Pork Barrel politics.

2nd Place – Brooke Van Velden – Her war on workers as the Pike River Mine comes out and her attack on fellow women by knee capping pay parity was managed to be over shone by her faux complaints of being the victim because people were critical of her as a woman kicking other women in the face.

WINNER – David Seymour + Winston Peters + Nicola Willis – David’s desire to spark a race war should remove him from Office, Winston’s hatred of the Trans movement, vaccines and migrant MPs should disqualify him from ever holding public office and Nicola Willis is the person overseeing the vandalism of the Economy that is destroying so many.

Conclusion: 

In 2026 the economy will falter and society will become more polarised.

The best outcome for the Political Left in 2026:
Māori Party holds 4 seats and has a low party vote that trigger’s an overhang, the Greens reach out to Australia special votes and brings in the non vote while Labour holds the middle which = 51%. The Greens and MP form a united negotiating front and forces Labour to adopt a genuinely progressive Zamdani platform.

The worst outcome for the Political Left in 2026
NZF + National + ACT are re-elected and cement into place their 19th Century White Settler privilege and continue to strangle the common good for their donors interests. Massive State Sale Programme begins and permanently mutilates the State.

The most likely outcome for the Political Left in 2026
If the Greens lose their 3rd place Party ranking to NZFirst, Winston calls the shots and will form a Government with Labour while making the Greens slaves while becoming a handbrake on any public good.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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