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Jacinda Documentary Critique

3 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 5 Apr 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

A podcast discussing criticism of Prime Minister Luxon's leadership, the perceived neglect of Māori perspectives, the Iranian fuel crisis, and a positive assessment of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership through a documentary, while also touching on energy ownership and political style.

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  • maria if you're making a dyslexic read words If a mirror? If a mirror? Collections at the Hocken and National Library. They both collect political stuff. Oh, yeah, all right. That's not a silly idea. Maybe we should. Oh, did you get that twice? No, I just didn't do that. Oh, there we go, because I skipped over one. uh excel dear when jacinda took over she was getting big numbers on three news polls as preferred pm of note uh those were write-in names not select from a list 15 millimeter gustavus uh was wondering what coalition mp might be losing their seats uraki is interesting mount ross school i bet there are more what do you guys think yeah well i just think we've kind of covered that off it's like Like the biggest thing about if they perform in the 20s is all the list seats that are gone. And of course, once people become quite senior ministers, they sometimes drop their electorates because they're like, well, you know, I'll be listed three, I'm fine. But if they hit the 20s, remember all a party votes decides, the only thing a party vote decides is how many MPs there are. I know I've done this to you before, and I'm sorry if you've heard this before, but argument's sake, if you get 50% of the party vote. Right. And the parliament is 120 seats. That means you get 60 MPs. Now, if you've won 40 seats. that means you get 20 off the list if you've won 10 seats that means you get 50 60 50 off the list that's how it works so the number of mp so what basically is happening is if you look at the numbers if they get in the 20s the number of seats that we kind of know are always national seats makes up to about 25 26 27 which means they'll have 20 27 of the votes and they'll have 27 of the seats from electorate votes and they won't get They won't get list seats in and that will be really concerning to some of those. As much as the right likes to point to the left as being lifelong political figures, there are some people in there that won't be doing anything else for a very, very long time because this is their career now and they could be out if National ended up with 20 something on election day. Gold says, I heard a rumour that Mr 8% is amongst the worst examples of humanity. There are so many now. And eGrant Wright says taxpayers union don't like Willis and Luxton. Yeah, I think that's fair. But I don't think that necessarily changes the numbers, unless of course. those numbers as you said sure that they're kind of angling the questions to make them look even worse than they are but but even for taxpayers union there'd be a point where they're gonna if that was the if that was the case there'd be a point where they're actually helping to elect a labor-led government so you know that's a pretty pretty fine between pushing back against luxon and willis whilst not giving too much help to the other side because i i guarantee they don't want to see you know uh barbara edmonds as finance minister or what they're all pushing out there uh chloe swarbrick as finance minister that's the rumor that they're all putting out there
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celebrates empathetic leadership through personal storytelling

#BHN Luxon forgot about Tama | Willis blames Trump for her ills | Gary's Economics on owning energy
7 Apr
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