Barb Edmonds MP

Barb Edmonds MP

@barbedmonds.bsky.social

Proud local 💁🏽‍♀️ mother of eight 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 tax lawyer 👩🏽‍⚖️ & @nzlabour MP for Mana.📍 Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington

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Chris Hipkins
@chrishipkins.bsky.social

Christopher Luxon has set the bar for ministerial conduct so low Ministers have to sack themselves. Andrew Bayly should’ve been gone months ago. After finding out about the latest allegation on Wednesday, the PM waited days for him to resign when he should’ve been sacked asap.

Barb Edmonds MP
@barbedmonds.bsky.social

David Seymour wants to make it easier to sell our assets, hocking NZ off to the highest bidder…and he wonders why I don’t agree with him. Investing in NZ is a privilege, let’s keep it that way!

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Musical Chairs
@musicalchairs.bsky.social

Govt are getting excited about lower interest rates and publishing some truly misleading nonsense. My adjusted design is messy, but the numbers and text better reflect the reality. Couple more importants things on this subject... [🧵 1/3]

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Chris Hipkins
@chrishipkins.bsky.social

Real men don’t barricade women and children. Real men don’t threaten and intimidate. Real men don’t preach hate. Real men DO show respect, compassion & love. Real men are comfortable enough in who they are to celebrate the diversity of others. Brian Tamaki you are just a boy.

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Chris Hipkins
@chrishipkins.bsky.social

This National/ACT government are working from the same old neoliberal playbook, defund public services, run them down, then use that as an excuse to privatize them. It’s based on ideology and the people who pay the true price are everyday Kiwis.

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Chris Hipkins
@chrishipkins.bsky.social

Kiwis are delivering their verdict on this government with their feet - 125,000 gave up and left last year. That’s a person heading for the departure lounge every 4 minutes. The National/ACT agenda of slashing and privatizing will only drive more away.

Barb Edmonds MP
@barbedmonds.bsky.social

Maintaining government investment in the building of social housing is a productive use of taxpayer’s money. Instead we get tax breaks for tobacco companies and interest deductibility reinstated for all landlords…not just the new builds.

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Chris Hipkins
@chrishipkins.bsky.social

NZ’s economy wasn’t in recession before the election. In the past 6 months the economy has dropped faster than any time since 1991 (excluding COVID). This is what the politics of austerity does. Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon are clearly making things worse not better!

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Barb Edmonds MP
@barbedmonds.bsky.social

I’m no economist, but what I do recall from Economics 101 is that if the market is failing, then the Government should intervene. Bit like how the construction market is failing right now with 13,000 fewer roles and record net migration.

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Barb Edmonds MP
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Instead of tax cuts, she should have kept the large government building of infrastructure, schools, hospitals and housing going. This keeps the construction sector going, which helps the manufacturing sector. This means more money in the economy through wages, salaries and the purchasing of goods

Barb Edmonds MP
@barbedmonds.bsky.social

Instead she gave tax cuts which for most got gobbled up by interest rates. And for those who are on lower incomes who actually spend their money in the wider economy…well they got $2.25 if they were a pensioner.

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Barb Edmonds MP
@barbedmonds.bsky.social

Nicola Willis needs to focus on getting results in the real world. The Government should be doing what it can to support and grow the economy, focus on creating jobs and opportunities, not slashing and burning.

Barb Edmonds MP
@barbedmonds.bsky.social

The economy shrank 1% this quarter and New Zealand has tumbled into the depths of a recession of Nicola Willis’ making. Her cuts and austerity has fed the recessionary fire, and today’s GDP figures show this, recording the weakest 6-month period since 1991, excluding COVID-19.

Barb Edmonds MP
@barbedmonds.bsky.social

There’s no creative accounting that Nicola can do to make these GDP figures better. This amount of economic shrink in six months is a dire result. A year on and we are in no better position. The economy has not grown, Kiwis are no better off, and even more are out of work.

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Marc Daalder
@marcdaalder.bsky.social

Conventional wisdom in 2024 seems to dictate that the Covid-19 response was an overreaction, but that conventional wisdom is wrong. My analysis on the Royal Commission report and the response to it: newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/03/h...

newsroom.co.nzHistorical revisionism on Covid threatens NZ's pandemic preparednessComment: The Royal Commission report fundamentally validates the strategic and tactical choices made during the acute phase of the pandemic
Barb Edmonds MP
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New taxes (just won’t say what they are) and can’t remember the range provided by Tsy for Climate Commitments. You’d think given the fiscal cost MoF would be over her numbers.

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Clint Smith
@clintvsmith.bsky.social

Just catching up on Luxon's Q+A interview (yikes) and something that I noted was he kept saying that rents have stopped rising under this government. That isn't true. Not only are rents rising fast relative to past years, they're now rising faster than wages

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Nick Young
@nickofnz.bsky.social

Unbelievable! The oil and gas lobby has asked the government to UNDERWRITE the risk of fossil fuel exploration, with the taxpayer potentially taking "some or all" of the risk if new gas supplies fail to eventuate as they are likely to do. #nzpol #nonewgas

rnz.co.nzOil and gas lobby asks government to underwite fossil fuel exploration, minister 'considering options'A fossil fuel body is warmly praising the government's "no nonsense" draft emissions plan and calling for a sustainable aviation group to be scrapped.

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