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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:<p>When Andrea Vance &amp; Charlie Mitchell team up on a story, you know it'll be good.</p><p>They've unmasked the anonymous creep who led the foul attack on Green MP Benjamin Doyle. He's a New Plymouth businessman &amp; "former" NZ First member.</p><p>While NZ1st now disown him, Rhys Williams attended the party’s '23 AGM &amp; helped draft a policy remit that ended up in the coalition agreement.</p><p>NZ1st attracts the ugliest people.</p><p><a href="https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360646129/businessman-behind-toxic-online-benjamin-doyle-campaign" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thepost.co.nz/politics/3606461</span><span class="invisible">29/businessman-behind-toxic-online-benjamin-doyle-campaign</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/DirtyPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirtyPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZFirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZPol</span></a></p>
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:<p>NZ1st MP &amp; Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson has gone coy &amp; refuses to answer questions about serious conflicts of interest.</p><p>While Patterson is a director &amp; 50% shareholder of Ngapara Farms Ltd which trades carbon credits, he was involved with cabinet discussions on the ETS.</p><p>Conflicted? Last week "he wasn't aware" that his sister had lobbied him opposing infant formula standards.</p><p><a href="https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/07/call-for-pm-to-step-in-over-ministers-carbon-trading-conflict-of-interest/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/07/call</span><span class="invisible">-for-pm-to-step-in-over-ministers-carbon-trading-conflict-of-interest/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZFirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a></p>
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:<p>NZ's soon-to-be-former deputy PM Winston Peters has been sucking up the Trump cool aid. He wants to wipe out ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ &amp; remove “woke DEI regulations”.</p><p>“This Bill would put an end to the woke left-wing social engineering &amp; diversity targets in the public sector. NZ is a country founded on meritocracy not on some mind-numbingly stupid ideology.”</p><p>Old man throws toxic scraps in the general direction of his cooker voters.</p><p><a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/winston-peters-new-zealand-first-follows-donald-trumps-anti-dei-path-with-new-bill/UMEW5HLVR5DFBE5AE726EH7NEE/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/win</span><span class="invisible">ston-peters-new-zealand-first-follows-donald-trumps-anti-dei-path-with-new-bill/UMEW5HLVR5DFBE5AE726EH7NEE/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZFirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Cookers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cookers</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>The Wages Theft Bill raises sharp opinions across New Zealand <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/782965/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/782965/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EMA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ERA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ERA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LabourParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LabourParty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NZFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZFirst</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TheCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheCrimes</span></a>(TheftByEmployer)AmendmentBill <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WageTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WageTheft</span></a></p>
Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:<p>NZFirst are channelling their inner-Trump &amp; doubling down on Shane Jones' attack on immigrant MPs.</p><p>Winston Peters reckons Green MPs Lawrence Xu-Nan and Francisco Hernandez should "show some gratitude" for being in New Zealand. Negativity, meet ignorance.</p><p>And where's our PM when he's needed? Is he terrified of criticising his coalition partners, or is he just way out of his depth again?</p><p>Xenophobes Peters &amp; Jones truly are yesterday's men.</p><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/540319/nz-first-refuses-to-back-down-over-xenophobic-comments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rnz.co.nz/news/political/54031</span><span class="invisible">9/nz-first-refuses-to-back-down-over-xenophobic-comments</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/NZFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NZFirst</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/ShaneJones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShaneJones</span></a></p>