National caucus retreat: Christopher Luxon speaks in Queenstown after win in approval poll
“It’s game on.”
That’s the message from National leader Christopher Luxon in his speech to MPs at the party’s caucus retreat in Queenstown.
Luxon will hope to use the weekend to reset the mood of the caucus after years of factional infighting.
The retreat will focus on topics Luxon thinks will be important in the new year: The economy, Covid-19, and Māori.
The walking contradiction that is Christian Lex Luthor continues to amuse.
He’s telling MPs not to be elitist pricks in the most elitist prick city in NZ – Queenstown.
It’s like his entry as leader when he hired a black Mercedes to cross the road to Parliament, he can’t help but highlight his wealth and privilege while pretending to care about poor people.
Strip back the rhetoric and it’s the same old right wing bullshit, charter schools, tax cuts and welfare reform.
He sights George Osborne without acknowledging Osborne oversaw steep cuts in social spending!
Luxon is the slick advert for the house you can never afford.
What’s most hilarious is the claim they have glossed over Judith manufacturing a MeToo harpoon to smear Simon Bridges with as if that’s normal politics.
Luxon can talk the talk, but will still hire a black Mercedes rather than walk the walk.
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There’s a lot of hysteria about Luxon. A Handmaiden’s Tale-level anti-abortionist!! And yet National under Luxon recently supported woke legislation to allow trans individuals to fiddle their birth certificates.
I find Luxon (like Osborne) deeply repellent. But the evidence suggests he’s not a conviction politician. He’s another Hollow Man in the John Key mold. His pitch appears to be a more business-friendly, more competent version of Ardern’s government. He promises to repeal 3 Waters, but is there any evidence he would overturn the rest of the wokeist agenda being pushed through by the present government? e.g. “hate speech” legislation, maatauranga is science courses.
So currently there’s not a big difference between NZ’s two major parties – it’s Ardern’s very prog brand of neoliberalism, or Luxon’s slightly less prog brand of neoliberalism.
Exciting choices, eh?
he won’t change hate speech laws as it’s a handy ‘suppression tool’ for the right as well as the woke..it’s just that the woke are too dim to perceive it turned against them…but give the right half a chance…with reference to the OZ upcoming ‘protect xtians from hate speech’ legislation.
.think ‘it can’t happen here’?
wanna bet?
Fester is playing this very well. The aim of this whole conference was to demonstrate to middle class, white females under the age of 35 that they can vote for National. Coupled with the ‘poor me’ journalist stuck in Afghanistan not a great look for the PM or her minders.
One poll showing the right above the left can be called rouge. If there are more it’s confirming a trend. Junior John Key firming as PM.
Well none of them are toffs anyway. Generally just a bit tacky, and sometimes spectacularly so, but quite what they mean by elitist has me as floored as my beeswax linoleum polish.
At least Martyn tells it like is as opposed to the MSM who present Luxon as the great white hope & appear to be unable to question any of his assertions.
The feckless are slowly but surely reading the room. Uncle Fester is firming as is an early ejection to New York for our PM. The worm is turning.
Back your statement with fact Frank. It’s bullshit at the moment.
I made a prediction that Ardern will be gone by 31/12/2022. I stand by that prediction but if I’m wrong well I’m wrong. Been before almost certain to be again.
My prediction of the PM heading to New York is 1 million to one. Why would she when N.Z. is a beautiful country, has a great partner with a great career. Don’t think a post overseas is her thing, given I can’t recall the last PM to hold a post oversea’s. Perhaps an appointment to board of director and chairmanship roles in New Zealand corporations like Key, after she becomes a Dame.
She is not qualified for the heights of John Key.
Doubt she’s qualified for his lows either – c’mon Jeremy, read a list of John Key’s lies – and those are just the listed ones.
With respect I think Jacinda Ardern has told more lies than the sum total all previous Prime Ministers.
Jeremy can’t read, his mum does it for him and she’s 90!
Maybe Jacinda could pull a few mullets to reach Teflon Key’s great heights.
Now discrimination of the elderly.
Listen here you lot. For me to become the PM, we must convince the ferals that we care about them…haha. They are disappointed with Ardern so if we say the right things at the right time, the thicko’s may actually believe us. Fact is there are not enough wealthy kiwis and fellow God botherers to get me over the line so we will need the drop kick lazy losers to vote for us as well. Everyone on board? As soon as we get to the top floor it will be business as usual only worse. Only then will the lazy ferals realize they bought the Brooklyn Bridge. Hilarious.
Yep. All aboard for the great con game.
Given Queenstown is one of the hardest hit tourist destinations in NZ I think the choice to go there is commendable.
I see the Labour Government as more elitist thinking they can control everything whilst deserting the poor people of NZ.
Hungry children?
Well if you are poor, or a hungry child I can’t see a tax cut and reduction in social services helping. You really think National will help address these issues? Their coalition partner ACT certainly won’t
Paeroa is also extremely hard hit, they could have gone there, they also have hungry children Uncle Fester can fix..
100% Bert…..but Paeroa doesn’t have all the impressive and fun stuff Queenstown does.
The funniest thing I’ve read so far today is a bowling ball head supporter trying to sell the notion that National having their retreat in Queenstown shows they are thoughtful and caring. Haha brilliant. Epic comedy. I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’m trying to sell. It’s going cheap today. 50% off but be quick. ….but wait there’s more. Buy today and receive 100 kilos of wet toilet paper absolutely free.
I read that too Thinking- Man, a supporter saying Queenstown doing it tough so only appropriate to have it there. Gotta love the brainwashed!
Queenstown hardest hit tourist destination in NZ seems to have brought out the meanest nastiest people on this site.
Just like to point out the hard working people in tourism in Queenstown are actually people.
Oh poor Jeremy, or is that you John, do you want a lollypop?
You are at the front of the line for nasty.
Yeah darn right.
LOL could you imagine any political party having their conference in Paeroa Bertie. Imagine popping don to the local cafe for a coffee and a bite to eat……..Funny thing is places like Paeroa will be where A LOT of the swing votes will be.
That’s not the only swing thing in Paeroa Frankie!
I think it will be the benefit voters, Nact need to be afraid of and actually the promise of tax cuts followed by the usual reversal by way of income tax increases should scare all of N.Z.
Come on Frankie, a selfie in front of the L n P bottle isn’t on your bucket list? And they have McDonald’s now, sadly no Gibbston Valley Pinot Noir but a nice $8.99 McGuigan 2 star Merlot and a cruise through the Karangahaki gorge to the lovely mines of Waihi.
There are literally no high class hookers, cocaine, and MDMA in Paeroa. Plenty in QT though…
As long as the gweens are out of parliament, that’s a good result in my book.
Looking at the comments, I sense a lot of people on the left panicking. Which isn’t surprising when one scrutinizes the performance of the current government…
100%. Also the irony in calling him Lex Luther or Uncle Fester whilst calling out the twats on the right who call Jacinda “Cindy”.
MickeyBoyle,
If “Cindy’ was the only name used to describe Ardern, nobody would give a flying toss.
Its names relentlessly used such as Horse face and Hitler etc that are well OTT. It should also be pointed out that right from the getgo, Ardern has been subjected to a campaign of misogynistic abuse from the Neanderthals that have contempt for a female that had the audacity to become our PM.
Then we have the deliberate and disrespectful butchering of her name. Jacinta a common one. The first was Taxcinda which even my young grandchildren were coming home from Primary school and repeating. There has been a long list of names since all designed to ridicule and mock Ardern. I wonder how many of the men involved would feel about their wife, sister, mother, daughter etc being attacked in that manner. I’m sure those involved would on principle have refused all forms of Government support during the pandemic.
Yes, at least those on the left gave Luxon twenty five minutes before the name calling began. You certainly have got me there… and if you truly believe the majority of the criticism is due to misogyny towards Ardern. I will simply write off your demonization of Luxon as misandry. If a National government was this useless, you would be calling them out on it. But because Labour is in charge, you turn a blind eye. It’s pathetic. We deserve what we get!
“If a National government was this useless”
What do you mean were?
Some friends recently returned from a visit to Poland have told me that there, where she is known, she is called ‘Stalinda’. I think George Orwell would have approved.
Let’s not aim high. Lefties are good at that. Martyn nobody follows a leader that aims low.
The New Kraut same as the old Kraut, stale and pale.
Gosh racism!!
Are you Jeremy or is that you again John, seems like your back.
I am very disappointed in people’s negative comments.
I believe the National Party’s reinvention as compassionate and caring will provide hours of uproarious comedy.
( National suggests more easily tightened belts for hungry children! Judith Collin’s nutritious recipes using roadside weeds! Take charge of your life! Nicola reminds poor people they only have themselves to blame!’
Unemployed? Homeless? Hungry? God will feed you!)
I understand Luxon, like Don Brash before him, believes there are too many public holidays.
I like this one – ‘We can help you by taking away your holidays! Vote National!”
Unbelievable – its got the smell of dirty politics. How can act gain 8%. I thought the grumpy old men were dying out. It seems the right wing/tories are also controlling the Roy Morgan polsters. Dirty politics’ NZ has also reached out to to their inconsequential agents in the UK. Whatever the outcome in 2023, in the interim we can be assured that Jacinda and the scientists will save all us grumpy old men, the sick and the poor from omicron.
I doubt that anyone here had to convince any of the pomgolian press to look down under, its just a deflection, because of the political shitstorm that Boris is sitting in the middle of.
Sounds like good advice to me.
The story of Chris Luxon’s life is a fascinating tale. He started on a cooking show called “Speed Cooking”, and later moved into breakfast TV with Jason Hoyte. A panel of experts dished out expert advice late at night and I’m proud to say I live my life by it. If that isn’t preparation for the PM role I don’t know what is. Just this morning I heard he told National supporters they can’t yell at low scum to pull themselves up by their bootstraps anymore. They need to “give them opportunities”. I think it’s great he’s bravely moving the Nats into the 20th century like that. People don’t generally wear boots in summer, too hot, but I’m going to start Bootstrapper Ltd. today, with my central mission to sell bootlaces to the rich. They can throw them in the face of the homeless, and into the bike chains of urban hippies. Giving people the opportunity to aspire to owing boots should really supercharge our economy, and sort out the bludgers from the under-opportunisated.
God Adrian, at this rate, you are going to be lethal in six moths time. Keep it up!
Adrian, dear Adrian, if you can sell matches and violets as well, I will buy them. The matches will sell because come Armageddon or climate catastrophe, there’ll be none, they’re mainly imported, and the non Swedishmade break, and they can set pants on fire. Violets could be harder to come by, but marigolds could do instead. Indians use them for everything and two Indians equal one Chinese, so go Indian.
Dandelion leaves can be gathered by the roadside without having to wear boots or get your feet wet, so sell them too. Loaded with vitamin c, store well in the fridge ( bottom compartment) and can be tossed into anything. If you sling a tray around your neck, you’ll have wonderful novelty value and folk will stop delighted to see a real life entrepreneur in action. You’ll be a great role model without having to run around on a muddy playing field, or worse, on astroturf, or even speak in cliches. Go for it, Adrian, and good luck.
PS. Don’t wear jandals. Chris tried that and he looked plain damn stupid. Ditto white socks with red and striped tops with trainers. Trust me on this, ok ?
Well said Martyn. The irony of telling his MPs to not be seen as elitist whilst hiring a mercedes for a short trip is enough to prove Luxon is all talk and no substance.
What I need to see is the plan that will enable those who are currently renting his houses to be able to buy them; and Christopher don’t give me the ‘trickle-down’ bs.
Displayed competence at Air NZ?
Christ tomorrow you’ll be wanting him to give him a knighthood!
Bloody good idea thanks.
Well you certainly have none Jeremy/John.
And your foul language is disgusting!
Depends who you talk to..
https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/02/08/national-mp-chris-luxon-ex-air-nz-boss-has-no-recollection-of-controversial-saudi-contract/
Seems he has the same syndrome as Key, no wonder they have so much admiration for each other.
Peter Kelly – Christopher the Christ bearer kindly provided the opportunity for two drivers to earn a bit of dosh by carting him and his token lady sub-leader in separate cars, a few yards up Bowen Street. At this rate they could lose the use of their legs, and that’s a mighty big sacrifice to make in the interests of the hard done by poor. They need those legs to keep their feet on and thus provide earning opportunities for the exploited Asians in sweatshops making shoes and such like. That’s big thinking, n’est-ce pas ?
“he can’t help but highlight his wealth and privilege while pretending to care about poor people ”
If he cares about poor people he has joined the wrong party ! The shyster promised compassionate neo liberal conservatism and the Hobbits actually believed it and voted for him and the rest of the deplorables.
Poor people in NZ will stay exactly as they are …poor. That will never change and only continue to worsen and be hidden and out of sight from the rest of the country.
The poor are the expendable face of the way this economy and country is governed.
It just goes round and round in circles with now the next saviour being presented as the answer to the countries problems. Luxon only cares about just convincing enough idiots that he can do the job just a bit better than Adern and what better place to start than turning up in a expensive car to assume the mantle of leadership and then hold your caucus in Queenstown the mecca for New Zealand’s rich and effluent…i meant affluent.
Its not what they say its what they do that counts.
Labour’s record clearly shows they don’t care about poor people.
Under John Key the gap between rich and poor was more narrow than it is now?
Evidence please?
2010 single person on a benefit $194.12 net weekly Adult 25+
2017 single person on a benefit $212.45 net
2022 single person on a benefit $278.50 net
In 7 years a net increase of $18.33 National
In 5 years a net increase of $ 66.05 Labour
I’m pleased you’re not a math teacher.
You are so silly you need to add another column showing the buying power.
and costs have gone up by?
and factoring in ‘means tested’ payments like acc supp and tas which are cut with every nominal rise…the last 20 bucks did fuck all taking these provisions into account…what are the actual ‘in hand’ increases related to inflation?
they could have instructed WINZ that like winter heating payments, increases will not be linked to means tested payments but they deliberately didn’t…sooooooo…..
Oh Jeremy, you seriously have so much to learn my boy.
Is he wrong? Nope.
Oh look the parrots back and yes he’s wrong, undoubtedly.
You obviously don’t hold any qualifications in economics or commerce and that’s fine but please refrain from nonsensical remarks.
You’re embarrassing yourself.
You don’t hold any qualifications in common sense or intellect judging by your idiotic and imbecilic remarks. What a complete embarrassment to everyone on this site Jeremy/John.
Bert Are you Jeremy’s father and how do you know if J’s a boy when nobody knows what a boy is any more ?
Check with Elizabeth Kerekere MP, or ring the Dept of Education and see if you can get some sort of definition. Any Green would probably do actually, but they get sidetracked into racial stuff, and race has nothing to do with this.
And just because Jeremy is or isn’t a boy, doesn’t mean that he was a boy last wee, or that he will still be a boy next week. Again, Elizabeth Kerekere seems to be the expert here, but you could ring one of those 0800 numbers and hope it’s answered by someone with English as a first or second language and that they don’t have your number.
That’s really funny Gentle Annie thankyou.
Looking in mirror and at birth certificate I think I’m a boy maybe even a male or a man but not sure I’m allowed to say that anymore am I?
Jeremy. Play it safe, bert’s boy. Wherever you go, just play it safe and address other people saying, “ Do you know what I am? “ But make them say it, ok ?
This keeps your options open in case you want to change in future, and it is easy to do it now, you don’t even need a doctor. Just a few words on that doc you’ve got.
You’ll qualify for free psychiatric counselling, and you’ll even get government funding to learn how to speak like a lady without having your larynx operated on. This is a good idea just in case you change your mind again and you need to go lower, and in any case the scalpel might slip and cut your throat, which can get messy, so I’d give it a miss just in case the surgeon does, ok ?
I wouldn’t get your bits chopped off because it mainly gets done in Thailand, and there are too many other distractions there which could confuse you even more. Alternatively, you might convert to Buddhism, which is a lot less costly than consumerism, and you’ll never have to worry about your earthly possessions again – if you’ve got any.
But there’s nothing wrong with being a man, and I suggest you say that to everybody you meet too, unless it’s a Green politician, in which case, run like hell as soon as you’ve said it.
Great advice GA which I will heed.
Thankyou
Spot on M. I also think Luxton comes across totally like a pretender and as for that freak of a women with the rictus grin as his side kick, good God save us from them both.
Lone Comet. The woman with the rictus grin clearly needs to buy a decent brassiere even it costs a bob or two.
But either of them or any of them equating money with class are enough to make me spew.
Those are my – and Baxter’s – mountains, and I’d prefer they kept away from them.
He will be growing a ponytail next so that he can play with it
Call him what you want, but which government has overseen the greatest transfer of wealth in a generation, allowed house prices to increase in price by 30% in a year and has been in charge whilst we’ve added 20000 people to the social housing waiting list, whilst also increasing cost of living, inflation, inequality and poverty. Top that off by a 53% increase in gang numbers, coal imports through the roof and a tribe of hostile, woke supporters who demonize all who don’t buy into this notion of purity always and everywhere. Can you really blame people for looking at National and Luxon? Reap what you sow.
I agree with you MickeyBoyle the statistics are there.
The widening gap is a consequence of incompetence within the Labour Government.
Statistics, blah just more right wing propaganda. There see how easy that was.
MickeyBoyle And who deliberately created this situation by systematically destroying social housing, and booted tenants out under false pretences, and enticed cheap labour immigrants here knowing the housing stock had been depleted and would be even more so if they hadn’t been booted out themselves ?
And has increased benefits greater than any other Government in history to undo the damage by the previous incompetent and most dangerous national government in history. Quite right Annie, those on the right fail to admit this was created under a right wing government that goes back to Ruth Richardson’s mother of all budgets!
Gosh that bloody Ruth Richardson is the cause of the current Labour Government’s incompetence.
Blow me down.
Clearly the lift doesn’t go to the top floor with you Jeremy.
” Clearly the lift doesn’t go to the top floor with you Jeremy ”
LOL
That’s right Annie, Labours failures for the past 4+ years are all Sir John Keys fault.
Come on, stop letting them get away with it.
No, Labour have to take ownership of the present, and although I dislike Key, English with his privatisation agendas was pretty slippery. The Nats did create many of the current issues, but I struggle to understand the homelessness situation and bad accommodation scenarios.
While not denying the incompetence of the support money dished out over the last couple of years if National had been in charge over that period poor people would have been dying instead & the gap between living poor & dead poor is not something that most people look forward to.
Well said and perhaps Jeremy and his mate MickeyBoyle heed your message as not sure they understand the difference between keeping people alive and Nacts alternative.
That’s just ridiculous.
luxton is just trying to avoid the pitfall the uk tories fell into..ie- being sussed out as a club for pretend posh public school ponces…works well with habitual cap doffers but can wear thin with the more grassroots….luxton is attempting a ‘nats with a human face’ schtick..just PR waffle tells us less than nothing about his real intentions..
That picture is not Luxon.
Pretty sure it’s Lee Hart, aka That Guy.
Isn’t it the sausage man?
If I’m correct then what has it got to do with anything?
That is the photo at top of page – labelled as Luxon.
That pic is NOT Luxon.
Some former National party MP’s have let their “sausage” do the thinking, rather than their brains. Could that be the link?
Kheala I think they had to substitute the face because the original face sickens people, which could be mistaken for another viral outbreak, and frankly we have enough on our plates.
You’re correct, it is Lee.
That make so many of the above comments by those above claiming to know his intentions extra hilarious considering they can’t even recognise the guy on the first place 🙂
Oh for goodness sake Peter, this isn’t the first time Leigh Hart’s pic has substituted for saveloy boy – it’s a game, laddie, and a harmless one, but quite nice when women in particular find Luxon singularly repellent – he’s creepy – more than just his looks.
Well that explains it then. I thought the photo of him was the first one I’d seen where there wasnt a major creep factor going on! Well spotted Kheala.
Can’t they swap the chaps then instead of just the photos ? Chris can get a job assembling barbecues somewhere or other ( but he should really wear a sun hat, and no more stupid jandals with power tools ) and the nicer-eyed chappie who doesn’t creep out women and children – or horses – could lead the Nats round and round the Mulberry Bush instead ? The pay’s quite good, and he only has to wander around saying that he fancies Liz Hurley to show he’s blokey.
This is quite good.
Youtube.
10.47 mins of useful info.
Russell Brand.
“You Thought The Pandemic Was Bad? Wait Till You See THIS!!”
Worrying statistics show an America in decline. But why? And, if you thought the pandemic was bad, is worse still to come?
https://youtu.be/OKf7PWd7QgA
luxon’s merely a talking head and a bald one at that. Ignore him. He and his ilk are done for.
We don’t need ‘leadership’ from Luxon because he’s no leader. We need to trust ourselves, then do the right thing.
I am sorry but I reckon a pragmatic neo-liberal beats a ‘woke’-appeaser pseudo-socialist neo-liberal any time! I am grateful for Jacinda’s steady leadership through some very hard times , but the legislation being passed in parliament (very little media coverage of that!) is reprehensible. (They call her ‘Stalinda’ in central Europe.)
the woke are not socialist, leftist or communist or any other ‘ism/ist’ they are a new form of neo victorian finger wagging fascism…feel free to let your political prejudices cloud your vision of your adversaries.
Like Key did before he gave the tax cuts to the rich.
Like Bill English … it amounted to nothing.
We know you came from the ’35 social democracy like us but now you are going to have to prove it . And not a bit more trust.
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