“New Zealanders who are struggling to put food on the table are not going to thank us for having a performative awards ceremony after we write billion-dollar cheques to other countries to meet a Paris target that James Shaw set.”

No, they certainly won’t, Nicky Noboats, so why don’t you invest it in New Zealand instead by building renewables, funding the transition to electric power, building new insulated homes or any other thing the previous government had a half-arsed try at and prove you’re better by doing better.

Fat chance of that though eh. #nzpol