Shared Custody Mindset

March 25, 2026

By NZB3

Insights into the mind of the once and would-be Prime Minister…

Things claimed about Chris Hipkins in March 2026:
“I asked Chris to help…he told me that the kids were my financial responsibility on my weeks and he wouldn’t help me.”

Thing Hipkins said himself in March 2026:
“We are not the Government,”
“New Zealanders today are relying on this Government to come up with solutions. They are the ones sitting in the hot seat.”

So, he thinks we are his children of a broken family and it’s not his week?

Context: The quote from earlier in the month comes from Hipkin’s ex-wife who tweeted a bitter comparison between the man’s political and personal policy. The second quote is from yesterday where Hipkins essentially declined to offer answers to the fuel price crisis on the grounds that it was not his term in office right now.

As you can see, for all the things Hipkin’s old wife said were asymmetrical about Chris, the one thing that is consistent is how Hipkins treats the people he has shared power over. Be it the people of New Zealand or his own children he evidently sees the situation as that of shared custody between oppositional parties.

It is as if his political persona had bled into his personal life. Children and fatherhood itself are apparently a ‘hot desk’ situation that come to Chris and pass away from him according to a clock. When it’s not his shift he doesn’t need to put out any ‘fruit’ or ‘ideas’…no contribution at all.

Make of that what you will but for one thing I do think this sort of information is important so we can think about it and know him. We should know what The House of Hipkins is like (and that it is in order or not in order) if we are expected to be subject to his rule. Especially since, evidently, he thinks we are his ‘children’ on a part time basis.

Consider also the insights this dynamic offers to the way the Labour 6.0 Ministry hands over power. Some broken marriages with children try to work together and not against each other. They don’t poison the well for the hand-over or abrogate the role of parent during off-weeks. Not Chris. According to his ex he alternates between total responsibility and none. According to Chris, as revealed by this fuel issue, that’s also how political power works.

So what’s to stop Chris Hipkins with Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern from wreaking havoc during their time with us kids? While in office they go nuts with money and sustained propaganda and leave the family in a state of hyped up shock and impending withdrawal before handing it over. Like a weekend with dad who makes the kids quick-happy with toys and sugar then takes away the new clothing and toys (but you can have them back as soon as custody switches back!) to leave shocked dependents in mid-hangover just in time for mum’s shared custody ‘term in government’.

So what if Team Hipkins hand over the kids, or the country, in a clapped out state? Over-spend. Over-stimulate the economy. Waste money. The responsibility for those effects are put onto the other ‘parent’/Ministry, he’s telling us. Likewise, both Blue Chris and Red Chris, or any new Ministry, will spend their first little spell of time blaming everything on the previous administration for leaving things in such a mess. And they’ll be right. It was deliberate. A rational response to the rules of the game as our politicians have accepted them.

So what if Aunty Kiri Allen crashed the car or dizzy Aunty Meghan Woods broke the kitchen and poured concrete into the plumbing? Aunty Cindy turned off the gas, Uncle Grant took out a 3rd mortgage, Uncle Bank lost a billion dollars at the casino! It was useful at the time and the effects will fall on someone else’s watch. If Uncle Ashley gave the kids myocarditis that will become a problem for the other parent won’t it? So who cares?

And Uncle David Seymour wants this horror circus to be on a financially responsible budget and 4 year terms as if that would help.

This is a systematic problem with how shared custody works both for our broken families and our broken government. Each Ministry is bent on souping up the family on cheap carbs and sugar hits while it is their turn so they will be thought highly of and handing it over like a bomb about to go off for the next parent. Each party/parent needs to work in bomb disposal when they take over and then switch to sabotage when it’s time to go. This is the ruin of Chris Hipkin’s children. All of them.

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Ref. Labour leader Chris Hipkins not offering policy ideas to help Kiwis amid fuel price rises, Stuff
Ref. Jade Marie tweet, Truenznews