Elliot Crossan @ElliotsGraphs
Socialist writer and enthusiastic graph maker. Follow me on Substack for a graph-filled analysis of politics and economics in Aotearoa New Zealand. elliotcrossan.substack.com Joined August 2025-
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In June 2024 NZ households were a trillion dollars better off than a decade ago: - Top 20% were up $650 billion, with a net worth of $1.37 trillion (90% richer). - The bottom 20% were down $2.7 billion poorer, with a net worth of -$3.54 billion (310% poorer).
Roger Douglas is once again making headlines at age 87. The former Finance Minister is using the pretext of the economic crisis to call for Nicola Willis to resign and for the Coalition to implement harsher austerity measures. Read my piece about it: elliotcrossan.substack.com/p/roger-dougla…
If you're wondering why leftists are gleeful at Starmer's problems, it's important to understand that the way he treated Corbyn, dozens of left MPs, hundreds of aspiring parliamentary candidates and thousands of members has been despicable, and 100% unprecedented in UK history.
Your Party deciding to really go for it with mass assemblies, mass canvassing, sortition conference and online voting is a very brave experiment in popular democracy that should be welcomed by anyone who doesn't want us to be governed directly by Elon Musk by 2035.
In the Tāmaki Makaurau byelection, new TPM MP Kaipara was able to retain 60% of the votes her predecessor received in 2023. Labour's Henare was only able to retain 31% of his voters. Labour will hope that the low enthusiasm demonstrated in this byelection is not part of a trend.
“We pay 28% more than the OECD average for milk, cheese and eggs, and 34% more for fruits and veggies, despite producing these things ourselves.” For a country that produces enough food for 40 million people, “the global market” is a poor excuse. stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360808…
my brother, this isn’t garlic and we’re not vampires
Via Bernard Hickey who's not on Twitter anymore.
some of you are going to love paying $10 for a loaf of bread (competition means the other supermarket has it for $11 right now)
some of you are going to love paying $10 for a loaf of bread (competition means the other supermarket has it for $11 right now)
Oopsies. Looks like I upset the New Zealand Initiative (NZ's #1 free market lobby group) by pointing out that their board includes executives from both Foodstuffs AND Woolworths! These are definitely the people you can trust to care about extortionate food prices, folks!
Oopsies. Looks like I upset the New Zealand Initiative (NZ's #1 free market lobby group) by pointing out that their board includes executives from both Foodstuffs AND Woolworths! These are definitely the people you can trust to care about extortionate food prices, folks! https://t.co/wUyZFEq42k
Everyone on the left can agree that we must change the government. But if Labour wins in 2026 and refuses to transform the system generating extreme inequality, NZ society will continue to fragment. Full article here: elliotcrossan.substack.com/p/it-is-not-en…
Our Prime Minister density is at 100%
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO, everyone join your union so we can make the line go up evern higher
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO, everyone join your union so we can make the line go up evern higher
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