"We won't be talking about [coalition options] until after the election, but the reality is, you know, Winston has shown in the past he can form a coalition with anyone..."
#WillieJackson, 2026
So there you have it folks, from the horse's mouth. Labour have learned nothing from 2017. They'd form a coalition with the ghost of Hitler's cock if it got them back on the govt benches. They deserve to lose in Nov.
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I looked into the legacy of one of them in the noughties, as a citizen journalist writing for Aotearoa Indymedia. The former Ivon Watkins-Dow plant in Paritutu, Taranaki was owned by the US corporation behind Agent Orange, and manufactured agricultural variants of the poisons used in it.
But even I'd never heard more than bits and pieces about this one in Kawerau;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/mata-with-mihingarangi-forbes/story/2018952122/mata-season-2-mata-reports-episode-2-toxic-legacy-a-fast-track-to-failure
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#PoliTips: If an honest answer would make you look bad, ignore the question, and move on. Dr Shane Reti demonstrates.
Reti: We couldn't afford to put everything we wanted to in the budget.
Mihi Forbes: You gave NZ$2.9 billion to landlords and didn't put in the few million required for the cancer drugs you promised. That was a choice.
Reti: We couldn't afford to put everything we wanted to in the budget.
Strypey
