Former senior New Zealand diplomat who served in the Cook Islands, Fiji,the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Warsaw and now living in sunny Nelson.
Nelson City, New Zealand
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Paul Willis retweeted
It is utterly ridiculous how willing our politicians are happy to lie to the public.
Christopher Luxon spent the entire campaign saying he won’t work with Opportunity, and now he will.
They also utterly fail to deliver on their election promises and hope everyone forgets.
rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…. Good. Stick to your guns.
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stuff.co.nz/politics/3610570…. This doesn’t bode well but have the Nats actually got anyone who can do the job competently? It basically now a largely a rural conservative rump made up mainly of novices.
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Paul Willis retweeted
This is a fair analysis by @coughlthom in @nzherald of what has been perhaps the strangest ever #NZ general election. The issues it throws up should be the subject of a full review.
nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/i…
Paul Willis retweeted
Our final poll of polls average:
- Labour: 29.3%
- National: 27.5%
- Green: 14.7%
- ACT: 10.1%
- NZ First: 10.1%
- Opp: 6.2%
- TPM: 1.3%
thepost.co.nz/nz-news/361111… “There must now be a creeping realisation for many New Zealanders that there is no plan. There never was. And voters are surely sick of being told otherwise.” Post Ed.
thepost.co.nz/politics/36111… “But National in recent weeks has not had much behind the big shiny edifice of No New Taxes. There has been no depth to the campaign, no ability to switch gears or get into detail, or to treat the public as serious adults who might prefer substance..”
Worrying signs. Peters went to vote this morning and couldn’t locate his easy vote form and then posted his voting paper in the wrong ballot box! Christ. Luxon might make him PM. Vote for change.
Paul Willis retweeted
Israel’s largest Arab party grouping, the Joint List, says it will recommend opposition bloc leader Gadi Eisenkot for the formation of a new government after last week’s election.
Paul Willis retweeted
Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran—a strategic debacle that has hurt ordinary Americans—is at the heart of a historic rebuke to his Presidency and his party. newyorker.com/news/global-no…
Paul Willis retweeted
Chris Hipkins says the Michael Laws comments are the party "saying the quiet part out loud.
"Not one day has gone past where I have regretted ruling out working with New Zealand First because this is what they actually believe."
Paul Willis retweeted
After some remarkable message discipline across the National caucus this campaign, Katie Nimon suggested on RNZ yday that a low enough party vote could mean the party handing over the finance portfolio.
This is generally what National say about Labour, not itself.
Paul Willis retweeted
Very telling to see the MAGA crowd in Washington that our clueless foreign policy leadership has been cuddling up to get so thoroughly repudiated by the American electorate. Winston and Christopher seem to be the only ones unable to smell how badly off US policy has been in recent times.
Paul Willis retweeted
Party Vote | Roy Morgan.
Labour: 27.5% (+4)
National: 26.5% (-4.5)
Greens: 15.5% (-0.5)
ACT: 11.0% (-)
NZ First: 10% (-)
Opportunity: 8.0% (+1.5)
TPM: 2% (+0.5)
D: September 25 – October 25, 2026 | R: 859.
+/- September 2026.
(This is the last Roy Morgan poll of the campaign)
thepost.co.nz/politics/36111…. Peters is right. We do need to have more people in the field. The problem is the tasking by Peters has been inept and wrong. MFAT needs a full PIF review. I’m volunteering.
thepost.co.nz/world-news/361…. Yep. There’s a lesson there NZ.
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