It’s the B Team on Breakfast this morning which doesn’t include John Campbell so I don’t bother watching it because it’s like a private school glee club without him so I flick over to the AM Show who are running a line that there is a spill aimed at Simon Bridges leadership…
Simon Bridges fends off leadership coup rumours, says focus is on COVID-19
The AM Show understands that rumours are swirling about a leadership coup, with a potential challenge from MP Mark Mitchell and deputy National Party leader Paula Bennett. That follows a flood of negative comments aimed at Bridges’ response to the Government’s decision to leave lockdown next Monday.
…the fall out from Simon’s Facebook post was a terrible blunder. He utterly misjudged that New Zealander’s saw their shared sacrifice as something that should be celebrated, not belittled. We wanted to be told we had done a great job abiding by the rules, instead Simon diminished that shared experience.
The resulting backlash was entirely predictable and it’s same the reason why the Death Cult Capitalists aren’t making any headway. They just don’t ‘get’ that the vast majority of Kiwis understood and accepted their obligations as citizens during a pandemic.
Bridges blunder could be forgivable by the Right, after all they don’t give two shits about the weakest and most vulnerable amongst us and want the slaves back to work but it’s Farrar’s internal polling that shows an enormous slump in National’s vote with a large split now going to ACT that terrifies National.
With National polling internally at such low numbers, lots of the current crop of MPs would no longer be in Parliament.
Self interest drives National MPs like nothing else, so the next public poll due shortly will be the decider as to whether or not there is a move against Simon.
If the TVNZ and TV3 Polls reflect the internal polling, Simon will be gone before Breakfast.
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Mark Mitchell? With his backstory?
Yea, if that’s the best the Nats can offer, they’re in serious trouble.
Heh, a “sell sword” Iraq mercenary as National leader? National’s fetish for ex coppers is certainly persistent.
Tiger -He was just a police dog handler – then he got rich on the dogs of war.
One of the obnoxious aspects of Mitchell was an interview he gave to a Fairfax woman – outing him as the next John Key – which focused on finding a lost dog in Iraq, re-uniting the dog with its owner- and warm fuzzies all around; the reality of the hell of life in post-war Iraq didn’t really feature.
I thought it fairly insulting PR from someone who seemingly assumed that we’re all simple enough to be impressed with his kind canine stunt, and oblivious of the heart-breaking backdrop in which it was carried out. No so.
The interviewer was just as bad, the pair of them presenting a dumb thick sort of potage with a clearly connived purpose – but it could be a sow’s ear issue.
Hagar posted this chapter link free online in 2018 when Mitchell last ran for head of the Nats:
https://dirtypoliticsnz.com/2018/02/20/dirty-politics-chapter-9-simon-lusks-plan/
Basically a Lusk-mentored far right toxic homophobe (in my opinion).
+1 Forget now, essential reading – if you read anything this lockdown… make it that
100%. Homophobe from a line of them.
+1 RosieLee
A Mercenary by all definitions. How apt for their leader.
mer•ce•na•ry mûr′sə-nĕr″ē►
adj. Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain.
adj. Hired for service in a foreign army.
n. One who serves or works merely for monetary gain; a hireling.
But he was a foreign occupier and murderer in Iraq.
Mark Mitchell not only went freely and willingly to fight in an illegal war of aggression, but he made a profit out of it. It is disgusting.”
“More than a million people are dead in Iraq because of the US’s war. Mark Mitchell was one of thousands who went to occupy and repress the local people on behalf of the US.”
A despicable low life form who will help cement our NZ into USA’s criminal global program of war.
Another plant like johnky and douglarse.
The question to ask of the man every single time was ‘what was he paid for the body count’ as a mercenary!
So the rumblings might have begun….again. Either way it will be “out of the frying pan and into the fire”
Isn’t the night watchman supposed to get through to at least the next day?
They will roll him closer to the election date. Simon was always a placeholder.
Re the photo – it must be immediately after Simon’s election to leadership. I can see J-L Ross there but where is the heir-apparent, Mark Mitchell? Was he even in Parliament then? He’s an undeserving rookie (so, go the Nats and elect him your leader!).
All smiles then, but look closer and you’ll see how many of those smiles were through very clenched teeth (notably from the person just behind Simon, who is wearing the yellow shirt – yellow?).
Paula Bennett ” Can’t believe a tweet from a known stirring leftee is getting any pickup, move on we back Simon we have a heath crisis and an economy to fix”
We have seen how Bennett operates . Throw the marginals under the bus, the beneficiaries etc. We lnow her involvement in the leaked Winston Peter’s saga. And we also know that without Bridges she has minimal caucus support. So of course she has his back, her future depends on it.
The most important issue here is that Simon just doesn’t get the pulse of the nation. He is too ideological.
Fingers crossed….even he must be exhausted barking at every passing car in his sole quest in life to “score hits” against the Government.
All Bridges does is make a complete arsehole of himself and highlight just how fortunate we are that he isn’t the Prime Minister. He has to go. It’s just a matter of when and who will replace him. My very strong feeling is he will ride it out until the election is done…and then be replaced By National’s new God and Saviour “in waiting” Christopher Luxon…aka John Key part 2.
Less than 24 hours after my message above about Christopher Luxon aka John Key Part 2…..this article appears.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/121200135/john-key-describes-what-chris-luxon-would-be-like-as-prime-minister?fbclid=IwAR2YRw2jK4ZetTJtLN8lkjRyDDM0Bibj6VNvEbmV6tGBqCjMk7L8_-2nBkg
As National reels from the negative fallout of Simon Bridges’ comments on lifting the lockdown, former Prime Minister John Key has showered praise on Bridges’ potential successor, Christopher Luxon.
Key even briefly described what Luxon would be like as prime minister.
“If Chris was the prime minister, I think what you would see is a very strong emphasis on the economy,” Key said, referencing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who he believed was focused on things other than the economy.
“To me the number one thing the Government of the day does is to provide hardworking New Zealanders, whatever ethnicity they come from, to get ahead and progress in their lives and do well,” Key said.
The remarks came in an interview conduced over Zoom by Skykiwi, a Chinese-language news site.
The interview was uploaded onto the site’s Facebook page on Monday.
Luxon, the former chief executive of Air New Zealand, is now running as National’s candidate in the Botany electorate, currently held by Jami-Lee Ross.
Luxon is already tipped as a future leader and his business background has drawn comparisons between himself and Key.
“Whoever the prime minister of the day is, ultimately we’ll get through Covid-19, but the challenge it represents on the economic side are going to be very significant and with us for quite a long time,” Key said.
Drawing comparisons between himself and Luxon, Key said “to me that’s where the main similarities are: both of us know that unless you know there is a strong economy in the end people don’t have the confidence and choices to look after themselves and their family”.
One of the show’s hosts, Ping Chen, joked about the similarities between Luxon and Key.
“Today I’m honoured to have both Sir John Key Mark I and in Chris as John Key Mark II on the show,” she said.
Neither rebuffed the comparison.
Chen recalled an earlier conversation between herself and Luxon: “Chris used to tell me Mark I was cuter but Mark II is more handsome”.
Key disagreed. “You just have to look at your screen. Clearly I win on both counts,” he said.
Key’s lavishing praise on Luxon comes at a time when Bridges, the incumbent National leader, has faced criticism for a poorly timed and poorly toned response to the lifting of the level 4 lockdown.
He’s spent the week fending off suggestions of a leadership coup.
Luxon and Key discussed aspects of New Zealand’s diplomatic and economic relationship with China, including the ban on the sale of residential housing to non-resident, foreign buyers.
“I never agreed with the foreign buyers ban. I always thought it was more about the politics of envy than it was about good economics,” Key said.
He said the number of houses sold to foreign buyers was overstated and that many foreign buyers also brought investment to create jobs.
What? Just when you think you’ve got rid of a terrible virus? Mark Mitchell comes thundering in to town?
Yep. Mitchell the Mercenary, with all guns ablazing! Just what NZ needs … NOT!
Lovely to see Jian Yang at the very centre of the photo. How appropriate.
@Jacindafan
Just bidding their time till they can get rid of the fucking useless ones.
JLR: Two Chinese would be more valuable than two Indians, I have to say.
SB: Which is what we’ve got at the moment, right? Your problem there is you end up in a shit fight because you’ve got a list MP – you’ve got two list MPs – it’s a pretty mercenary cull – sitting MPs, all that shit. And then we’ve got the issue of – we could end up getting rid of some list MPs if we want and bringing in some of those new ones, and if you do that you’re just filling up your list even further with ones that you’ve gotta sort of look after – I mean I reckon there’s two or three of our MPs, not picking up obvious ones like Finlayson or Carter, but actually we just want them to go. You know? Like Maureen Pugh is fucking useless.
JLR: Yeah, I know. Carter, Finlayson, Nicky Wagner – they don’t really need to hang around.
Simon: Yeah, but then, we get, yeah, yeah, we don’t want them to go this year though.
JLR: Oh, no.
Poor old Maureen Pugh. National MPs who are fucking useless are the very best kind. They’re far less dangerous and do much less damage.
saveNZ,
100%
As innocent people are dying around the world in their tens of thousands due to the actions of Chinese citizens and their reprehensible Government, the National Party is in pause mode on standby to complete New Zealand’s mission of morphing into New China.
Bridges is just a cog in that wheel. He’s been stage managed in a similar way to how Real Estate agents conduct business. They take a buyer to look at potential purchase number 1 (Bridges) knowing it has limited appeal. All the while they have potential purchase number 2 (Luxon) ready to be rolled out and “appear” the new Blue God. Oh yes, i’ll buy that. So much better than the other option you’ve shown me.
The latrine rodent party are not interested in leadership battles despite knowing Bridges is a festering turd. As long as the party which is all that matters does not take a huge dive in the polls, Bridges is safe… for now. Post election which National will lose, it matters not one jot where Bridges is in the polls. He could be 55% as the most popular to become PM, he’d still be gone. Luxon gave up his previous role for one reason after years of encouragement from National. Luxon knows he will be an absolute shoe in at Botany. The party will then arrange for him to be their leader within days of the election…as promised. The National Party is living for that moment at this time.
Then, out of the woodwork you will see an army of blue soldier ants pushing the Mk II version of John Key like he is the most magnificent thing ever created by God for NZ. Chinese New Zealanders will put their weight and their money behind Luxon as they know he’s their man for New China.
The only good news in the above is that more and more New Zealanders are repulsed by the Chinese Government than ever before and know what National are about.
Kia ora Jacindafan
I could hardly find Jian, the only one front and centre for me is Crusher, ohhh Crusher….she glows like a daffodil on a beautiful spring day, I reckon she’s got nipple clamps on Simon and Paula, controlling their every move until she’s ready again, she’s such a turn-on…..
Hey Sean,
Your “confession” about Judith is a little worrying. You didn’t know Peter Plumley-Walker did you? 🙂
fucking hell! your not Amanda’s little boy are you? That’d be a blast from the past
Are these the same experts who have been saying Simon is a dead man walking for the last 18 months. He has made some very valid points and it seems to me that the 37000 SME are being allowed to fail as they are not seen as Left supporters and this thinking is backed up by Deborah Powell’s comments.
Since the COL got into power landlords have been a target and this seems to be carried on with the policies put up to ease the pain showing little help for that sector.
As the country has a half share in Air NZ why are they not told to be more transparent with regard to the incidents of the virus in their staff .Is this another example of this non transparent government in action
Trevor wrote: SME are being allowed to fail and landlords have been a target
Landlords are the main problem for the SMEs. The high rents by the landlords are exactly what the SMEs say is crippling them.
You cannot have it both ways. You can’t disparage the govt for trying to curb the ability of the landlords to do that, while at the same time accusing them of harm to SMEs. It is the profit-driven landlords, often from overseas and/ or the corporate world, who are holding the SMEs and AO/ NZ to ransom.
And those profiteers were empowered and encouraged under the previous govt. That is when premises were sold off to overseas profiteers and that is when rents skyrocketed.
Simon’s toast
No. Just like all the other times you’ve called it. It’s not like he’ll be simply making it up as he goes along. National will have discussed their strategy and he’ll be implementing it.
He has to point out over and over the damage to the economy that the COL are doing and point to Australia as a comparison of how we could have approached the situation. Then when the shit does hit the fan in a couple of months and businesses are failing, people are out of work and facing ruin, the tide will inevitably turn in his favour and he’ll be able to point out that he made the call early.
He just has to hang tough and the situation will come to him. All it requires is balls.
You just dont get it do you!
It is not the message(although your message is wrong) it’s the servant giving it. That’s why he polls under 10 %
Sorry Simon is a truly ineffective leader because you know what? As a true opposition leader – he would have to tell the truth. But no, he cannot do that because he would have to point out what absolute whores (not to offend hard working sex workers, but using the term for easy money) all these solipsistic savages in government and media truly are, paying off their pay masters. Funny thing- sticking like glue to an ideological framework that does not fit reality. New Zealanders are not the dumb sheep they think we are. And most of us are not the whores they are, for example, like Mark Mitchell, a contract killer, must be, seriously, one of the most frightening whores to emerge. Stay Simon…
A true opposition would have been like – “Remember the truly scathing reports that were coming out before the invisible viwus? Remember the ones about babies being illegally uplifted and cops being aggressive. The increase in hunger and homelessness. Remember when nurses and teachers were on strike? Time is a funny thing. And then the hero Ashley Bloomfield – telling parents that children are safe in school but to give the dead dignity of Whanau showing up to mourn when they pass them is not? Seriously, WHAT?” AND
“Hey, what about how quickly the cops and military can organize to keep people from traveling, and how quickly the borders can be closed- – but they were totally helpless to prevent meth from totally destroying families and killing young people through addiction FOR THE PAST TEN FUCKING YEARS? Yeah what about that? HummHO.”
“Hey, what about how quickly the cops and military can organize to keep people from traveling, and how quickly the borders can be closed- – but they were totally helpless to prevent meth from totally destroying families and killing young people through addiction FOR THE PAST TEN FUCKING YEARS?
Yep. Riddle me that, anyone!!
Close the borders for this epidemic? No Probs at all.
End the even more deadly in some ways Meths epidemic? …Uh.. no can do-ee.
WHY?? WHY???
Because it’s easier for the police to bust gangs growing marijuana and keep their crime stats looking good, than it is to do the harder stuff. And they know it. This is where the Minister should step in with a “Please explain” – and the whole issue of KPI’s be revisited in every govt dept throughout the country.
Enter Luxton because business has all the answers.
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