Just so that there are no illusions here, Christian Lex Luthor’s first definitive move is to immediately unpick urban intensification to defend the interests of the landed gentry, and everyone else who owns 7 houses (like he does).
Behold the rise of the Mega Landlord and their political power. NZ property went up $800Billion in just the last 2 years and that kind of money buys political influence.
Chris Luxon flies first class everywhere, hiring a Mercedes to cross the road speaks of old boy privilege and exclusive bubble worlds inoculated from the realities of the neoliberal policies he benefits from.
He is a steaming ham of pretension with the curated list of geeky things CEOs group focus to portray an everydad goofiness to mask the sociopathy most CEOs need to succeed.
He keeps complaining his hard core anti abortion evangelical faith keeps getting used to criticize him with, over and over and over.
You can’t shut him up about his God!
Look, you can believe in whatever you like, but if you take up Public Office with Executive Power, the voting public has every right to know if your brand of faith is the happy clappy speaking in tongues rapture kind!
Because you’ll be implementing Science as social policy and it would be a tad concerning if your magical invisible flying wizard mate was making the decisions.
Some will say this is unfair because previous National leaders have been staunch Christians too, but the difference is the evangelical nature of Luxon’s faith and that’s open to challenge.
Despite his connection to his faith, his first move was to protect the rich.
How many houses would Jesus own?
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Sod’em…
“Here comes the conman
Coming with his con plan.
We won’t take no bribe;
We’ve got (to) stay alive.
We gonna chase those crazy –
Chase those crazy baldheads –
Chase those crazy baldheads out of the yown.”
–Thanks to brother Bob Marley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RchWfEDdy3E&fbclid=IwAR02E-co4uF-3c3ETuZv9WDPJ7FkG3Iycs87hgX3WSK-zWsOG-tj7PkrmNY
Shouldn’t that be Lux Luther ?
Lux coz he sux
7 properties. Stock standard true blue Nat. Greed is so good.
Nat supporters in the Herald call him:
Smart
Savvy
Variations of successful
A provider to those who need to rent.
They are very aroused! Very!
Humans would call him a blood sucking leach.
And with all this money he is a taxpayer beneficiary by having us foot the bill for his rent on HIS property doubling as his electorate office. Greedy little fucker, isn’t he?
I’m sorry to say it but parasites like this are so 2000’s!
Chris, we are searching for a leader will takes the housing catastrophe seriously. Not you!
Luxon stated he doesn’t want house prices to drop by too much, because he owns seven of them! And two of them are subsidised by the taxpayer! Greed, power and profit, so how can someone like him, govern for the ordinary Kiwi, many doing the hard yards on struggle street?
This is absolutely obscene.
Thats no different to what Jacinda said and to be fair he is saying exactly what you expect a National leader to say.
A Labour party overseeing and enabling that 800 billion dollar rise on the otherhand could be fairly accused of class traitory.
“A Labour party overseeing and enabling that 800 billion dollar rise on the otherhand could be fairly accused of class traitory”.. So… Yet again we watch kiwis display the attention span of a goldfish.. So who wa it the set that particular train running? And how easy was it going to be to even slow it down, considering that, apart from milk powder, what else is there left to invest in now? I’m not going to defend the labour party, as we let them become what they are now, which is a group of senior management types, who would have few, if any clues as to how life is for the “proles”, but people need to get a grip on the reality of just how precarious the NZ economy had become under the Key/Biden/Xi Jinping government, and how many of our “eggs” were all in one basket… A bit of perspective please…
Thats bullshit, if the Nats policy settings set the train in motion this govt has well and truly filled the boiler with indonesion coal.
This govt is to blame for whats happened with house prices in the last 2 years and they promised different regarding housing affordability.
Take a deep breath…….How did the housing crisis start? When did it start? Under whose watch did it start and develop? I agree, Labour has done bugger all to curtail it and for that they have a big black mark next to their names. But that other crowd set the wheels in motion and solidified the FIRE economy (with the assistance of their cheerleaders, the mainstream media, which is sponsored by FIRE).
PS. FIRE – Finance, Insurance, Real Estate
Fuckin amen to that Brian people forget you need a spark to create a fire. As the Boss said “ya can’t start a fire without a spark” THANK’S NATIONAL.
You are right he absolutely can’t ..anyone in the national party or a supporter will have this Me me attitude..and fk the ordinary man and family …he’s a clone of J keys..whose leadership screwed NZ to death for 9 years
If you want more of the same vote for more evil …
That’s not what he said.
He stated it wouldn’t be good for the economy if house prices fell dramatically, but that he does expect them to plateau or even fall back slightly next year…
im appalled , how much do these amendments decrease the amount of homes built and price rises for first time buyers , how many thousands of people will go into rent trap because of it .
LOL. Uncle Fester learning very quickly Toxic and her pals in the feckless media will be focusing on gotcha politics.
That said the comments were hardly offensive and otherwise it wasn’t a banana slip moment.
He just has to remember to be competent in the eyes of – under 35, white collar female office workers. Unsurprisingly a good portion of those have houses!!
His comments on the border checkpoints and police were HOWEVER on point compared to the waffle of the PM on the matters. Look competent and those issues are the ones that will matter in 18 months time.
Nah Frankie, still sounded like waffle, a little like Bridges and I had no deal?
He was earning $4 million a year so why would he not use some of that to buy houses . The state is not building enough state houses and many of those it has have tenants that are less than desirable so it is up to the private individual to buy and rent as this government policy has pushed house prices up . I would be concerned if his homes were slums or were not tenanted and just kept empty for capital gain.
Aw c’mon, did he cause new dwellings to be built or did he merely buy his houses from the existing pool of homeowner stock and transfer them into the private rentier sector?
I’ll put my money on the later, which means that essentially he housed no one that wouldn’t otherwise be housed. The only real thing is that he has inserted his bloodsucking siphon into the process.
Richard Christie – Correct. Had this man been acting from altruism, yes, he would have caused more houses to be built. Or he could have provided the money for a much needed children’s hospital to be built as a rich good man in Wellington has done. Or he could have funded cooking classes for indigent mothers as a group of Porirua housewives have done. He could have taken a punt and done something interesting and exciting like buy land and explore growing the arable crops we are very likely to need as global environmental changes impact and influence in ways beyond the scope of his big boring head. Not the most inspiring sort of chappie.
The way the market is Trevor he could have allowed “mum and dad investors” or first home buyers a chance if his intentions are pure.
The guy hasn’t been in a church in five years. But keep clutching at straws.
“NZ property went up $800Billion in just the last 2 years”
Who is in government again?
Thankfully Labour and the Greens.
Correction….’hasn’t been in a ‘regular’ church for 5 years.Upper Room offshoot of The Family is not a …regular …church.
More details of the Upper Room crowd must be revealed sooner or later. I’m looking forward to it ‘cos I don’t trust bloody fundamentalists.
Garibaldi The discussion of sects and cults in academic literature is vast. Most of the work has been done by sociologists and anthropologists with historians of religion tending to rely on their data or theories.
A “sect” emerges when a group of people withdraw from an established church, which is what it looks as if Luxon may have done dumping Catholicism. The interesting thing is that he appears to be outside the usual demographic, I think. The other interesting thing is that his political preferences may appear to be at odds with the most common basis for withdrawal from a religious tradition, I think, but am not sufficiently interested to read up on it; somebody like Professor Sir Lloyd Geering could provide fascinating insight here, and a shrink could throw light on that black Mercedes.
The choices are pretty grim right now. A party obsessed with race based ideology and ignores the ever growing equality or a party that governs for the wealthy elite alone. Given the divisiveness of the first the second option looks slightly better…
Some absolute idiot stated Luxon, Key and Ardern as being all of the same. Obviously they never went to school.
Hey Martyn..
Any chance of finding out how many of Luxon’s 7 Houses are setting empty?
You’re good at holding politician’s feet to the fire. Better to expose politicians whom serve the housing Ponzi before they get a foothold.
Or what rent is being charged on them?
Haha yes let’s get to the nitty gritty. This guy is already failing on his first and second day, let’s hope he doesn’t keep failing upwards… Don’t think he will as he doesn’t have the personality for it – think John Key, a particular NZ type of ‘agreeable’ personality, and in the UK, Boris. He looks like a very Todd M kinda mistake, possibly even worse. He won’t crumble into a heap but he is just not relatable and he looks like a Grey and he says shit that is alien to
most and doesn’t seem to have the political wit to spin his unpleasant truths.
Captain Underpants makes my blood run cold.
Every time I hear him speak its like John key all over again but without any charisma. And anyone who stands up and says “I’m strategic”, in my experience is almost always saying I want to be seen as elite and I’m ambitious. IRL, they are often not that strategic at all.
Someone has already described him as ‘style’ above substance and I think that’s what we will see. And the cringeworthy Basin reserve? shot isnt helping. Chris Luxon, effervescent man of the people – yeah right.
Binky. Interest comment about style over substance. This could be part of the reason why women find Luxon repulsive, famine intuition. We never hear much about men’s intuition, although I ‘m sure that men like cops and judges have or develop it, but women, and mothers especially, can have pretty good bullshit detectors. I just think that he looks horrible and presents rather oddly.
All in all a creep of the first water! Plus he looks 72 not 52, what happened?
Actually I think the. Urban planning changes are lazy and haphazard and likely to lead to some poor outcomes.
Apparently Luxon’s inspiration, Jesus, is quoted as mentioning that it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man enter the kingdom of god. In this respect Luxon would be Christian in name only.
WOW this old religious baldy has lost the 20 to 50 yo FEMALE voter,good luck chrome dome old white stale male baldies,they hated you even before you had been selected,YOU are the boss they hate
Seems like Luxon is generating a fair bit of anxiety on the left.
The problem Christopher Luxon has around him is the fecal stench of John Key. Like attracts like even when it comes to those with links to Air NZ. Air NZ has become the political divide even since Erebus. Air NZ become the birthplace of political ambitions and wanting to hold onto power sort of politics and policies.
Without a National MP or politician to influence or control it I am sorry to say Air NZ has become the pawn in political ambitions of its CEOs and those with mostly National Party appendages.
I wouldn’t vote for Luxon because of his closeness to the one I call Sir Lies-alot. Key was just one opportunistic and self-serving, when all things considered even down to his ability to lie without qualm and pull ponytails of females when it suited him, the daily events in politics was probably another ‘business transaction’ for the one many called The Smiling Assassin.
For Key being honest with NZers was an alien concept and something he couldn’t adapt to outside of his Merrill Lynch days in America. But then we all know John Key loves America more than he hates NZ.
NZ was just that ‘great useable usefulness’ he wanted to achieve the ego-obsessed wants. And I am sure Luxon being like Key i.e birds of a feather flock together, will do a Copy and Paste Of John Key and of course Key’s Beloved America.
So all in all I don’t trust Luxon let alone Willis with her Pan Am smile at the photo opportunities seeking event yesterday.
My only question is how many minutes travel will they resort to next time to appear in style when they could have damn well walked the same distance in another’s moccasins to get to their destination i.e the Beehive and Parliament? And all for the sake of vanity. Something National seems to love more than any sense of humanity.
PALIMPSEST
So National have elected “The Puppet” to lead them forward, with John Key’s hand up one orifice
and evangelical Christianity down the other…..we are about to experience the birth of their bastard
child. It will be born while the parents are fully immersed in whale oil chanting neo-liberalism and
ayn rand epithets to their succubus and incubus, as they arouse their acolytes through a Trumpian
style mass media blitz full of nothing but inuendo and dog whistles bought and paid for by their
legion of offshore cohorts.
A ripple of concern oozes through Echo and the Chamber Party. “Does this mean the end of our
free ride, we have suckled at the nipple of the National Party and managed to catch a lot of their
drips…..but what now for us with not one, but two ‘smiling assassins’ to contend with?” Echo
ponders his options: “can you get me the figures based on my rebirth as a lefty”?
Meanwhile as Dystopia and Desperation jockey for positions amongst the lesser crumbs excreted
from the Puppet Master’s table, a shell shocked but against all odds still mostly stable populace now
have a new fear for the future………THE PAST.
We all moan about these characters doing this or doing that, owning this or owning that, – and far easier to snipe and name call online and get personal than to call these politicians out and shame them publicly. Why are we not holding nationwide protests about the housing crisis?
WHY?
Too many cameras on Queen St, Auckland?
Too many vested interests with Australian banks and property portfolio holders who give generously to party coffers to keep the whole rotten edifice chugging on? Not enough willing economists and historians to present the argument of how we overcame these issues historically and to act as spokespersons?
And while we are at it , – What about our ridiculously low wages in a land of plenty? Unions? Hello?
In a shamefaced lie we are touted as a first world nation while we STILL have family’s working two jobs and them and their family’s sleeping in cars and vans. Isn’t this crap something to protest about instead of land rights for gay whales? FFS !!! We pontificate about this politician or that politicians hairstyle or weight or whatever,- yet we never protest about the fundamental issues of the U.N’s ‘right to a warm dry home’ even though we are signatories ,…we ignore or are blissfully and willfully ignorant of the IMF’s decision that neo liberalism is a failed ideology. And yet we tolerate it and mumble into our beers or coffees because it all seems too much…
We are a lazy, indolent people who rather than face the real issues invent issues of no consequence , – all the while pretending they do and ‘virtue signaling’ along the way to make us feel better while ignoring the fundamental basics of a modern and first world nation. And the reason we are a lazy, indolent people is because we are too cowed and gutless because of the mere crumbs of economic security in our menial low waged jobs we perceive we have. Those Queen St camera’s, those media shots…
The truth is, we are a politically gutless, lazy, naïve and indolent people precisely because for so long, – nearly 60 years- we took it for granted that ‘ it’ll never happen to us’ Well it has. Talking online will NEVER change anything. Politicians are shamed and prompted to move by media coverage of mass demonstrations. But not just one or two. Try more like a year, two years, three years. Let underground publications post online, post opinion pieces. Let various groups solely dedicated to the overthrow of neo liberalism find common ground. Let them feel the heat.
Think TTP protests but ongoing. On and on and on.
All we have had is the smug self satisfaction that ‘the peasants are easily diverted, lack stamina, – and given time, – are easily shamed and dispersed’ from these neo liberal politicians for the last 36 years. And by that I include both Labour and National. Let alone ACT.
David Lange once famously said ”That you cant run a country like a Polish shipyard”. Yet this is exactly how this country has now been run for 36 years. This country is now like a glorious open cast Polish or Albanian ‘shipyard’. Without the democracy or the financial rewards.
Nothing less than this prescription will ever change these shitty elitists attitudes that New Zealanders actually have some spine.
Yet that is what needs to be done.
Constant rolling nationwide strikes that keep these issues and these issues alone to the fore until we force change on these worms.
same old, same old – preaching sermons from the pulpit of Mammon. yawn.
I heard Luxon squirm, obfuscate, dodge, duck, dive like the characters from Dodgeball. ‘If you can dodge a question about believing in “speaking in tongues”, you can dodge a wrench FFS’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMWdnkSMPGM
Endorsed by John Key, purveyor of 435 lies – https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/06/04/435-lies-by-john-key/#
Luxon – same old John Key National Party lying bullshit, but without the hair.
And why no hair? We do know that John Key has a penchant to be drawn to a man’s hair, so it is no surprise that Luxon would shave his head. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/it-couldve-been-a-mans-hair-john-key-denies-sexist-behaviour/A4HZDMAWHLH4Q4BBE3KLB3GDAY/
If you can dodge a hair-fondle by John Key, you can dodge a wrench.
There will be a lot more dodging of spanners, wrenches, truth, hair-fondles, speaking in tongues, but, a plus for National, absolutely more affinity with fellow Kiwis, who just happen to have 7 houses in their extensive portfolios.
Look forward to the next two years, where Luxon tries to dodge Dirty Politics’ leaks. Collins will “give back double”.
And if you can dodge a “Dirty Politics” double-fault serve from Crusher, you can dodge a wrench.
Get double-vaxxed, get the popcorn in, a few beersies, some pink chardonnay, because the next few days, months, and years there will be lots more dodging the past, the present and future personal, political, social, religious and economic wrenches.
Yeah Nah, same shit, different day.
Just like Scotty-from-marketing Morrison’s Hillsong brand of Happy clappers. No doubt a pal of the Bishop Brian Tmmaki
Jeez,
Good thing Cindy’s hate speech law has not been passed yet otherwise many of the people slating Luxton here would be finding themselves in court.
Why pick on the man’s looks ?
Jacinda’s no model either but imagine the uproar if she was described as ugly.
Between a religious, predatory capitalist with the Natz and a woke, red guards mob, fuelling the uneducated and high needs with Labeen.
Neither are particularly inspiring.
Hey comrade you’ve used more than your share of oxygen don’t you think?
You gain FOURTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS of new additional wealth every week for 52 consecutive weeks.
How would you feel about the TWO MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS of wealth you’ve just acquired?
How would you celebrate this lotto victory type result? How would it change your life? How would you help others?
What hope would there be of that happening to you and you being blissfully unaware it had even occurred?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/12/national-leader-christopher-luxon-unaware-his-7m-remuera-home-increased-in-value-by-2-3m-over-one-year.html?
He doesn’t keep talking about his God. He keeps getting asked questions about his God and he answers them.
People on this site know my leanings but I agree with you.
Openly declared Christian with a number of Kiwis favourite investments that endless NZ Govts have by default encouraged who has clearly stated his intention to box his believes and his politics separate or a failed Mormon now declared a nice agnostic with no real world business experience.Are these how we categorize suitable PMs in this country now ? Or do we want them to simply bloody good at their job of listening to ALL their people and doing their job well
All these people of religion, past and present, in political service,…be it Christians or Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist,…what is that telling you when so many profess ( albeit weakly) a faith over the silliness of an unproved ‘theory of evolution’ which remains JUST a theory.
Whole lucrative academic careers have been foundered upon it. University’s have made millions on pushing its lies.
A ridiculous 19th century theory that humanists have clung to using false carbon tests, false geological timelines, while conveniently negating the atomic weight of composition , ie : gold sinks to the bottom as do bones of greater weight,… that those biologically of greater weight lived in the swamps and the lowlands- (not in the mountains for obvious reasons) ,… ie ; the ponderous dinosaurs were the first to die and be ‘fossilized’. Voila! Reptilians in the lowland warmer climes. Hello?
Small wonder the biggest were found in the lower sedimentary rocks and the more agile higher dwelling among the higher strata’s of sedimentary layers… see a pattern here with slow moving reptilian form? They need warmth. And that aint found in the mountains and higher plateaus and continents.
Ahh,… That was the bastion of the ‘mammals’,… those weird fur covered things that avoided the slow moving reptilians. It is no small coincidence that the crossover between ‘mammalians’ and ‘reptilians’ was found more than once in paleontology. Its just that it doesn’t fit the Darwinian narrative. The dinosaurs patrolled the swamps, the mammals patrolled the dryer high levels and the savannah.
Petrified trees through many layers!
https://youtu.be/9DI49ZFIvWA?t=8
We have seen that dinosaurs walked with man through fossil excavation ,…. man following a herd of dinosaurs in many accounts, famously preserved in stone. But the dinosaurs were not what the early hunter gatherer humans were after, they were after the watering holes, the congregation of mammalian herbivores that sustained them. And so it has been evermore, that mankind shall not live by ‘chicken’ alone,… but by every word that procedeth from the mouth of God”… and these reptilians were but chicken. Cheap protein. Deficient in the long term. Good for filling the belly but not in delivering the full pack of Vit B and Vit D.
Old wisdom?
Don’t take much for those wise old women who looked after their extended family’s health to observe consequences. Ie: Don’t subsist on seagulls cos their high mercury acid content will ferk your immune and digestive tracts,- go for herbivores instead.
Eh.
So again, I leave you with this: A herald to the amazing capacity of man and woman kind to look out for their progeny with care and wisdom. And think again of what Darwinism would want us to believe, – a 19th century theory that would have us all believe we all descended from some sort of primitive primeval soup on the whim of a notion. Like a virus. Whose notion, I’ll leave you to guess.
Petrified trees through many layers!
https://youtu.be/9DI49ZFIvWA?t=196
My Uncle Barry Fleet has passed away. The oldest of 6 siblings. Of Nga Puhi decent. He was a truck driver of special interest to me as a 12 year old. He, and my father ( of clan Gunn Scots decent) worked together to put on large extended family hungi’s at Christmas. I was so proud of my Dad and Uncle Barry. Uncle Barry showed us the best rocks to get for the hungi,… he also showed us how to use ti tree branches to catch koura as kids.
Uncle Barry would travel down from Kaitaia and arrive early with his young family to Huia, Auckland. Such was his sense of family responsibility. A big man, he was most like a kind of kaumatua. He had no truck with gangs in that era, he was of the old school.
My Auntie Joyce looked after Uncle Warren as well as her 3 sons, , my mother ( 95 and still here) looked after Barry and Geoffrey, Barry’s younger brother. My mother and her sister had a lot to do with helping to bring up Auntie Zola’s and Uncle Lens kids until they found a place to live in Mangakino. And it was all in the family no holds barred. It was all for one and one for all.
I’d like to give a shout out to Geoffrey, Wendy( who never gave any quarter, long may you be as tough as nails), Kim and Steven and your offspring. You are loved. And Stephen?,… I cannot count how many times you made me piss myself laughing at your dry wit as a young un! I have a fantastic extended NZ family.
My Uncle Barry carried my grandmother out to the ambulance when he lived in Auckland, she was in her 90’s- a Hildreth of Yorkshire descent. He also was pallbearer. When I as a smart arsed 18 year old shot a quick quip as pallbearer,… I will never forget his steely eyed glare. I learnt a thing or two about respect as a young man from Uncle Barry.
And this is what is precious and what is valuable. Love. Love for family , for those you know and are yet to meet. Love. We are all worth more than we think we are. We are not here forever. We have infinite purpose despite what occupation we have. And this is why, I believe so strongly in overturning neo liberalism,… because it dehumanizes the human condition.
It seeks to dehumanize my family.
RIP, Uncle Barry.
Beautiful- thank you 🙂
Lots of toxic wokeness going on here comrades.
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