good evening https://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mtfgfcbvpc2fTPM is a party largely without political content. The pitch - “believe in you, believe in me, believe in Māori” - is a local version of American-style psychobabble that defined 2010s social media. JT’s speech to the conference, which he published on FB, is largely meaningless psychobabble too19 Aug 2026 00:00 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtfgfcbvpc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mt6m34wick2kTPM’s implicit strategy to engineer an overhang is, of course, genius - and I think it’ll be enough to return the Māori electorates (except IR and TTT) to TPM. But I worry the democratic cynicism within it will, in time, sink the strategy and maybe the electorates too. So classically JT16 Aug 2026 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt6m34wick2khttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mt5n6lht6c2mLabour’s small target strategy will probably mean they can cobble together a government post-November, but it guarantees a loss in 2029 in the same way Jacinda’s small target strategy in 2020 meant Labour had no mandate for even the limited changes they pursued15 Aug 2026 21:40 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt5n6lht6c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mt3f5yijvk2pI’ve been in Sydney this week, and Melbourne and the Sunshine Coast earlier in the year, and the downturn is apparent here too, albeit softer. The wages are better, but house prices seem higher (even relative to incomes), and food costs don’t appear dramatically lower than in New Zealand15 Aug 2026 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3f5yijvk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mt3cnbj5ak2wThere are well theorised critiques of the public service as the “permanent government” and what that entails, but that structural critique is entirely separate from impressionistic judgements of bloated and overpaid individuals within the public service14 Aug 2026 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt3cnbj5ak2whttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3msupzlkg6k2xIt’s going to be terrifying when Mr Hooton turns the Post’s guns on the left, but for now, this is just electric stuff https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361061163/they-bottled-it-matthew-hooton-and-andrea-vance-break-down-nationals-vote-back-luxon12 Aug 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3msupzlkg6k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mstibkjlvc2hGo out there and smack it11 Aug 2026 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstibkjlvc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mss3akunvs24Erica Stanford will almost certainly lift National’s party vote, and almost certainly enforce her will upon the Act and New Zealand First parties. She will make mince meat of Mr Hipkins11 Aug 2026 07:20 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mss3akunvs24https://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3msrgqfwnnk23I hope Sir John Key is working the phones not on behalf of Luxon, but in preparation for his own return to the leadership11 Aug 2026 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3msrgqfwnnk23https://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3msjocl2sxs26Please tell me the photographs of Kieran in communist memorabilia are not AI. Please,07 Aug 2026 23:07 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3msjocl2sxs26https://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mryyl745y22iThe first technocratic centrist party under MMP was the Māori Party 2008-2017, not Opportunity. It will eventually end the same way for Opportunity as it did the Māori Party. Some interesting historical context if you need: https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/did-the-maori-electorates-decide-the-2017-election/01 Aug 2026 07:55 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mryyl745y22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mr7ms4pfyc2eThat guy who shall not be named is not only dumb as a sack of hammers, he’s also a piece of shit22 Jul 2026 05:48 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr7ms4pfyc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mqawmbb3uc2pI didn’t miss Twitter until someone described to me this incredible new poster, Joseph Mooney MP10 Jul 2026 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqawmbb3uc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mq7burxues27Another round of infrastructure-destroying storms. Not even a few months after the last round of destructive storms. These rain events are quarterly now. But no one in politics or media is prepared to say it09 Jul 2026 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7burxues27https://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3molqaaga4s2hMy observation of Labour and National government frustrations with the public service is that, contrary to what the last Labour government believed, the public service didn’t resist their agenda. Instead the PS institutional inertia, sclerosis, meant they simply didn’t have the know how to do it18 Jun 2026 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3molqaaga4s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mohew27dq22gThe Golden Mile looks like total shit, which is uniquely offensive to New Zealand’s ancestral (English) instinct for orderly and tidy town square spaces. Unfortunately, equally offensive to our ancestral instincts is spending any money whatsoever in order to improve any given situation17 Jun 2026 03:33 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mohew27dq22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3moc3qlgxwc24Every serious socialist will nominate the Financial Times as their newspaper of choice because of its ideological clarity. In New Zealand, every serious socialist may soon see the Post as their newspaper of choice because of the ideological clarity Mr Hooton will imminently bring15 Jun 2026 01:05 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3moc3qlgxwc24https://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mnqcnpyaj22eThe speeding ticket story has arrived in just in time to arrest the Green Party’s decline in the polls07 Jun 2026 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnqcnpyaj22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mnlmskb5ks2rDrop a huge take. Log out for a period of time. Return. Oh yeah. Still hits just as good as it used to06 Jun 2026 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnlmskb5ks2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mniyg37kt223there are only two cities in new zealand with cosmopolitan cultures: dunedin, because of the historic role of finance and the contemporary role of higher education; and wellington because of its dense urban core and role as a government town. auckland is a series of small town cultures in one city05 Jun 2026 01:29 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mniyg37kt223https://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mnatlxy5pk2xeasily getting defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by counting the RONS as arterial routes for the military01 Jun 2026 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnatlxy5pk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mkvpuc7kpc2zNew Zealand is probably the most successful settler colony: the demographic weight of the Māori population is significant, so too the length and potential of its grievances, but all resistance has been institutionalised via the Māori seats, Waitangi Tribunal, Treaty settlements, RMA, and so on02 May 2026 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvpuc7kpc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mkmdsy7wsk2wAmong a certain cohort, TVNZ is simply a cipher for “woke”, so the incentive for confrontation is in the government’s favour if it wishes to reinforce the loyalty of said cohort29 Apr 2026 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkmdsy7wsk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mkejld3yx22aIt’s low IQ behaviour to compose a racist haka denigrating Indians as a people as opposed to simply criticising one specific individual whose race and ethnicity is actually irrelevant26 Apr 2026 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkejld3yx22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mkc67l2dm22rBarry, just let it go x25 Apr 2026 04:09 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkc67l2dm22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/morgangodfery.bsky.social/post/3mk7hzxaamc2lI assume the complaint about the conduct of a TVNZ journalist in Parliament involves Benedict Collins, who is a picture of civility compared to the Mad Dog days of 3 News under Duncan Garner, Patrick Gower, and Tova O’Brien24 Apr 2026 02:26 +0000at://did:plc:2atf2e2rzppevxxtbkj7aeqf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7hzxaamc2l