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Apologies, I have been advised that my understanding that Rainbow is gay is incorrect.

He has a wife and 3 children so nominative anti-determinism it is.

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The smartest thing Hipkins can say in response to media questions regarding #NZGreens excellent tax policy is #NZLabour has its own tax policy which differs from the Green’s tax policy. It’s up to the #NZPol voters to decide in the upcoming election which policy they support.

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Btw, when I referred to the country Keir Starmer may love being #UK or #Israel I did consider #England as the country Starmer was referring to as the country he loves but then he was/is Prime Minister of the #UKPol kingdom, which, as you say, is not a single country.

Who knows, seems collapsing western empires appear to be in fashion these days.

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Coming from across the ditch where GST on all goods and services including any imported goods was first raised from 10% to 12.5% and later to 15% both times by #NZPol RW neoliberal Govt’s that raising GST has made the poorer pay tax on a far greater proportion of their income compared to higher earners and of course businesses can right off all GST it pays, against the GST it brings in and paying the difference or in cases of losses have the GST proportional loss refunded.

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According to Keir's resignation speech his next big job is spending time with his rock and with his wife although when he said "every decision I have made has been about putting the country I love first" I wasn't sure if he was talking about the #UK or #Israel although it certainly appears to have been the latter.

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Sorry to see you're leaving Ken.
All the Best - Chris Luxon

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That tells you just how threatened the #NZPol ruling class and their media shills are by the #NZGreens most excellent tax policy.

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I understand Luxon wishing Starmer well considering they both serve the same masters.

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Yes, hopefully that is now not such an issue. The right wing and largely cooperative NZ media have done a lot of work over the years to create an illogical narrative of fear when it comes to the Greens but I think more and more people are realising they are being pissed on and told it’s raining.

The more surprising thing for me is although the NZ Greens are currently the third largest party in parliament they have never been in government although have served in partnership and supply agreements with both Labour and National led coalition governments with ministers outside of cabinet.

I hope to see a strong contingent of Green ministers in the next #NZPol government, hell, in my wildest dreams I can see a Green PM leading the next coalition government.

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Living in Tāmaki Makaurau we’re well aware of having a RW central government force your councils to amalgamate which happened when the John Key led coalition government forced Auckland City, Manukau City, North Shore City, Waitakere City, Rodney District, Papakura District, and Franklin District to join forces as a “da da” SUPERCITY in 2009.