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Political talking points - or "key messages" as Nicky Hagar called them in The Hollow Men - are a cancer on political communication. Expressly designed to allow politicians to make public statements without actually *saying* anything.
There's some great examples in yesterday's FOP on RNZ, where CLuxon and Rimmer vomited up and ate the same verbal hairballs they've been retaining since 2023;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics/2025/FOCUSDISCONTENT
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People talking about fixing an economy that's bleeding out, with more cutting of regulation and public spending, is like a doctor proposing to save a person who's bleeding out, by doing more bloodletting.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=3bb48a4d-e5cb-4fd1-bd2b-209f8458de06
Wow, the world is really waking up to the reality of Bibi's New Clothes;
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=36b614ea-2ca6-43a1-a900-293694ea3e30
Intriguing to compare the rhetoric that led up to Irish independence with the rhetoric around the recognition of Palestinian statehood. Right down to the way they used the IRA as an excuse to refuse independence. Avoiding talks for handover to a transitional government by accusing people involved of being with the IRA ("we don't negotiate with terrorists")
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"I'm not taking any lectures from frick'n Chris Hipkins."
#CLuxon, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e209c491-f7d1-421e-abf2-a68afd0c9b0b
Ooh, the nice guy mask is slipping. CLuxon is rattled!
The NatACTs are running scared. Which is presumably why they've turned to blatant voter suppression, in a desperate attempt to avoid being turfed out in 2026.
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-attack-on-free-and-fair-elections.html
"In references how in the past, major drug seizures would have a clear impact on consumption. That's no longer the case. According to the National Drug Intelligence Bureau, there was a 96% increase, in 2024, of the minimum annual consumption of methamphetamine compared to 2023."
#LillianHanly, Political Reporter, RNZ, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=0f53fc3a-0d35-4a91-8a3d-e6cdd4ed7d2a
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#podcasts#RNZ #FocusOnPolitics#DrugProhibition#WarOnSomeDrugs #meth#NDIB
"This is the trickle-down budget. This is the no ambition budget. This is the ask the lowest paid working women in this country to pay the cost of your unequal economy budget. This is the 'let them eat cake' budget."
#ChlöeSwarbrick, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=e8279efb-5185-496b-9924-5b293c6710eb
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