A brief review of the week

At the start of the week there was a big noise about Winston Peters drawing comparisons between co-governance and Nazi Germany which eventually became an international embarrassment for New Zealand and Luxon was useless at disciplining his Deputy.

Luxon tried to make out Labour and TPM were just as bad as Winston and he would not have used that language - while the BBC reported a UK Band wanted it's song back from Winston who used it at his so called "State of the Nation" speech on Sunday.

Nicola's hole grew way bigger than anyone imagined and Winston said it was a gaping $5.6 Billion - a real whopper - while Willis told RNZ she was very uncertain that tax cuts would be delivered in July and that this still needed to go through Cabinet.

Luxon went into helicopter spin mode at Monday's Post Cabinet Press Conference saying the complete opposite that tax cuts were a 100% sure thing - fully funded - and would be on time - but he used the language of "intention" concerning possible delays and the form of cuts - contradicting Willis as mixed messages spewed all over the place - and he and Chris Bishop were unable to explain what happens to children thrown out onto the streets because of their unruly parents as National implemented another poorly thought through policy.

Luxon had an abysmal interview on TVNZ breakfast with Anna where he dodged the question and came across like a bucket of evasion and dodgy dealing...he knew less than Sergeant Schultz about how many warnings tenants might get and it was left to Chippy to talk about how relocation solves 90% of the problems.

Mike Hosking spontaneously combusted when Luxon sounded like a beta cuckold quivering with uncertainty over tax cuts being exactly the same as promised and the frazzled angry toilet brush bristled with rage in its corner.

Penny Simmonds came across like the wicked witch of the west when she tried to pinch the few pennies carers for the disabled are allowed for respite and she initially doubled down with her chin out before blaming the previous government and the Ministry and making a late crocodile apology for her utter heartless incompetence.

The anxiety caused by Simmonds pushed some people to write about how they may take their lives cos there was no way out and of course - none of this would have been needed if Willis could add up - but her tax policies were full of massive mistakes - wrong by $800 Million over interest deductibility, wrong by $500 Million over online gambling and wrong over that foreign buyers tax to the tune of $700 million.

Willis was blindsided by everything Simmonds was up to and needed a briefing because she had been goofing off badly.

Freyberg school received the message loud and clear when thousands of kiwis signed letters and told the school to back off the kids after they were threatened with disciplinary action for doing the haka and one student spat on the ground before David Seymour.

Rod Oram passed away from a cycling accident. RIP.

Grant gave a warm heartfelt valedictory speech after a number of media exit interviews - and he mentioned Government spending was on 27% of GDP when he entered Government in 2017 which was not enough and where National takes us.

Grant will be remembered for saving lives during the pandemic, the wage subsidy and those big surpluses in the early years as well as things like the Winter Energy Payment, Monday-izing public holidays like Waitangi Day - and sticking up for gay rights, the oppressed and down beaten. He told Maori this Govt - is just an ugly blip in the progress we are making. What a great man.

An IPSOS poll showed Luxon's government on 4.6 out of 10 - so much for the "we are working incredibly hard BS" - people are already sick of this band of bastards.

New Zealand fell from 10th to 11th in a world happiness survey as Australia edged us out - which makes sense - they have a Labour Government.

Police said Luxon was a bloody joke and the laughing stock of the whole police station - after his out of touch comments to Tova last week.

New Zealand moved into a very shallow technical recession in line with monetary policy projections - and Luxon used the opportunity to lie to the public about "six years of economic vandalism" which contradicted the IMF, and all those credit agencies and was a load of dishonesty that passes without challenge in our media.

The IMF suggested Luxon and Willis implement a capital gains tax but they blew that off saying they knew best. The IMF also warned Willis not to borrow any more to fund tax cuts which would be inflationary - naturally she scoffed and sneered.

Oliver Sean Plunket took calls from racists and bigots who said they did not mind if National delayed tax cuts as long as the money did not go to Maori or Trans people or anyone else they were bigoted against.

Moana was back fighting the good fight about Te Tiriti and the looming threat from Seymour.

A near deranged anti trans protestor told Ginny she was "f*cken useless" at a Select Committee and people talked about how these anti Trans people are crazy. The law being considered was about Trans people having the right to choose what gender of corrections staff - body search them. Seems reasonable cos that is what is normal for everyone else?

Chris Bishop fibbed point blank about how rents would go down and there would be downward pressure on rents according to a regulatory impact statement ( yanno the ones Nats say they do not read )...but Ginny was correct - rents never go down and that's not what the Regulatory impact statement said.

RNZ revealed Chris Bishop and Christopher Luxon had lied through their teeth about a black market for cigarettes and RAM Raids on dairies - which was in complete contradiction to the official advice. Dr Cigareti dodged questions about it in parliament and did a "hospital pass"to Matt Doocey to make up rubbish about "a range of advice" way back in 2021. So corrupt and slimey.

760 jobs are for the chop - and that's only from 3 out of 32 Government Departments - as the Atlas Network implement insane cuts to human capital to fund their neoliberal tax cuts - and David Seymour sadistically said "Good" when he heard the news at MPI.

Ministry of Health staff will find out after Easter whether their role is facing the chop after leaders decided an announcement between the long weekend and school holidays was the best time to confirm job losses.

Audrey gave her bouquet to Paul Goldsmith for organising a wish Dame Kiri Te Kanawa a happy 80th birthday on Tuesday in parliament - but neglected to mention Goldsmith's "motion without justice" clanger on Thursday. Naturally Audrey did not give her bouquet to Grant despite his fabulous speech.

Both cocaine and MDMA use were above average in all measured wastewater regions for the December quarter.

Mandy is throwing a snooty afternoon tea fundraiser for snobs and terribly elite socialites in the grassy grounds in order to raise more money for the Nats.

There was more but this is just a brief summary.

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