Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦
@magpiesaid
Retired teacher. The future, if there is to be one, is Green. Tax wealth not work.
If you wonder where your tax cut went, here's a list of charges, levies and hikes by our coalition of chaos.
I would insist supermarkets get their maths correct. I use the cost per item or 100g as a guide to value so I had to check this. Looking at you Pak n Save Henderson.
Just before sunrise overlooking Tamaki Makaurau from the Waitakeres twds Manukau Where's the city?🤭
I taught refugees English for many years. Many shared harrowing stories from crossing crocodile infested rivers on rickety bridges to their boat sinking & being rescued by the Tampa & their relief at being accepted by NZ.
A small spider lies dead at the bottom of my just finished mug of blackcurrant tea!🤭😝
Tāmaki Makaurau: looking from Titirangi twds Manukau this morning.
Prefu will be interesting. Do you follow Musical Chairs? His graphs unpick gvt spending nearly every day. You can see how Crown debt has shot up under Willis despite gvt MPs claiming Lab maxed the card. And claims we can't afford super are wrong.
Winston should retire. He's become an ugly liability like his sidekick Jones who threatened Hipkiss on Friday. Peter Boshier had to at 73. Why do civil servants have to retire but not MPs? His rant on X yday someone posted on Bsky. He's a demented narcissist whose age like Trump's is showing.
I'm reading a memoir by Jacquie, a professor of nursing who has terminal bowel cancer. I skimmed quickly, but she didn't discuss diet. She does, however, describe a CT scan with dye, so I've copied the page for your wife. 👇
As someone pointed out, these activists wld return home. Think of the torture suffered by Palestinians.
Morena from Titirangi. Now I can't see anything bc Tamaki Makaurau has disappeared under a blanket of mist which hovers just behind the trees in the photo.
Morena. Before sunrise. Looking twds central Tamaki Makaurau & Manukau from Titirangi.
I'm from AotearoaNZ. When I visited Ireland again in 1980 I was struck by your lovely beaches. But no one was swimming in August. So I dipped a toe in and discovered why. Yet I have old photos of me as a child swimming in Ireland!
Trump's popularity is waning, but our gvt seems determined to follow him to the end.
Politics. Like the lie of this gvt's austerity when they're borrowing more. Their tax cuts didn't benefit the economy bc the rich simply banked their cuts. And their cuts & tax breaks for landlords, tobacco & biz means they're borrowing more. It's the opposite of their spin & media don't call it out
Morena, another tomato skyline looking twds Tamaki Makaurau/Manukau from the Waitakeres with a sliver of moon.
The CoC cut KO then complained about homeless. They didn't campaign on cutting fees free or the 1st home buyers grant or raising the bar for low paid women's court cases to save. And we still have no boats! Tax cuts, landlords' tax break & new investment boost have meant Willis is borrowing more!