The big top has been unfurled and the clowns are back at the circus - as the Coalition starts the year with yet another on-form shocker of incompetence for 2025.

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The National party is under pressure - their allies are attacking them as being too nice and ignoring them, voters are wanting to go elsewhere, so the polls are slipping and David Seymour is sucking a lot of oxygen right now - so it’s time to bring back another National Party classic - asset sales!

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The verbal submissions for the what we are promised is a doomed Bill costing us tax payers the tune of $6 Million dollars to deal with, started to be heard on Monday. There was eloquent opposition from some of the most learned minds in academia, law, constitutional matters, treaty settlements, medicine, lived experiences from Iwi groups and some other drivel from other groups and people as well who look like the stereotype you get in your head when you say “Act voter”.

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This year's local elections are going to have candidates running and hiding their links to the freedumb communities they're part of, and we know this because of an 18 page "how-to" guide currently doing the rounds amongst their communities - which was accidentally sent to me by someone who wants your vote but can't tell the difference between "reply" and "Reply All".

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What is the actual State of the Nation? We speak to Henderson-Massey Local Board Deputy Chair Dr Will Flavell, Disability Advocate Nick Ruane and NZNO Boss Anne Daniels to find oiut

This week's news - with everyone telling us what the state of the nation is, the weird flex from Tama Potaka involving an actual weird flex and pretty blue lights.

The PM has said we need to stop the culture of saying No in this country - it’s holding us back, it’s stopping us from growing and succeeding - so I’m sure he is going to lead by example and stop saying no…

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December quarter inflation was steady - not lower than the previous one as predicted and hoped for by the government - but they still took credit for it. And in a strange way, they may be able to take some of the credit this time… by tanking the economy and falling for disinformation.

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The exodus from X/Twitter to platforms where hate speech and disinformation fed by the alt right tech oligarch who is now in Trump’s inner circle don’t run rampant, accelerated after the November Presidential election - and the latest to quietly leave is one of the cornerstones of Aotearoa journalism…

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The band is giving each other furtive looks, resigned in the knowledge that they will go down with the largest steamer in history, and all they can do now is try and calm those around them facing a watery end, as the the band starts to play, the captain decides now is the time to shuffle the deck chairs on the deck of the Titanic, as it starts to sink…

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