Yes Chris Luxon is a terrible candidate – here’s why he’s going up in the polls

1. Yes, there is a chunk of voters who mindlessly hate Jacinda for no good reason, Newstalk ZB hosts and callers and the vast majority of Herald commenters who will blame her for everything including the weather.

   But she has not helped herself. Huge promises of transformation have simply not happened. At all! We all got sucked into the bullshit and feel duped.

   You cannot possibly operate a strict neo liberal economy with the amount of losers it generates then have kindness to crime. You want to roll with a neo lib economy as your foundation, you’d best start building more jails to house the damage it generates. But don’t pretend you care either. It’s just pisses us off!

   Unfortunately Jacinda turned out to be another empty promise cynical politician, but her outstanding PR suggested we would expect so much better. Now she’s just annoying and lingers reminding us we were lied to with so much promise and good will squandered. And as a result of that, we have Luxon’s misery to look forward to.

   • Your last paragraph says it all .She has turned out of be another politician that is blinded by her own brilliance and a mistaken faith that she got the vote last time because she was loved rather than the fact the opposition was hopeless at that time.

     • We have had plenty of hopeless oppositions yet the other party never got an MMP majority, even under FFP I can’t remember the voting being over 50 % although I do remember Muldoon gaining power while getting fewer votes than labor.
       You can put the last election result down to covid with help from a hopeless opposition. Unfortunately, as subsequent events have shown we also have a hopeless government that is compounded by a public service bureaucracy that is only interested in self-serving.
       I have no doubt that the current opposition would be equally useless if they gain power again which just goes to show the futility is trusting any political party to solve the country’s problems.

   • Nailed it

   • Amen

     • How ungrateful you grumpy old hate Jacinda right wing men in Aotearoa are – after Jacinda has saved the lives of at least 15,000 of you/us citizens from Covid. If the hopeless NATZACT were in power Aotearoa would be in a helpless position. Perhaps she should have opened up like NATZACT wanted and so there would be fewer NATZ voters around.
       Still 17 months to election so lets get some neutral polsters on the job instead of the NATZ dirty politics polls. Luxon hasnt been pressured yet so he might do a muller. Watch him and NATZ in parliament he will have to improve.
       Jacinda, Coster, Mallard, Labour, Greens 10 Tories/right wing ZERO.

2. Governments and Prime Ministers are invariably voted out not in. The worldwide trend in a covid world is that during the pandemic phase existing governments got retained (usually with a larger margin). Moreover as the hypocrisy grows and the lunacy of some of the restrictions become apparent public sentiment has shifted – expect most sitting governments in a western democracy to get either shit canned or mortally wounded at their next election.

   Our glorious leader being the most committed to the cult of covid is going to get the greatest shit kicking of all. Vote me in Bomber – I would vote for Trevor Mallard over our current PM. It’s not the lack of transformative change or the almost daily fuck ups of incompetence it’s the assault on democracy – whether it is the creeping ideology of co-governance, the wrong-speak 1984 style disinformation strategies played out in the media ; or the lack of transparency and general skullduggery in parliament. Like most with a penis I am fucking over it.

   As for Te Reo – is he a stale turd YES; will he be worse than the current PM – NOBODY COULD. Our country has NEVER been in a worse position financially, socially or politically. This is all on our current leader.

   If only Bridges could have lead like he thought…….

   • This was a paid political broadcast on behalf of the Nowhere party

   • “Never been worse financially” is utter tripe Frank and yes Luxon could absolutely be way worse. He will drive up house prices again by reducing the bright line test, cut the governments income through tax cuts for those that need it least ( and wow that will help inflation) , not invest in infrastructure ( or he will and he is bullshitting) apart from a road or two, and apparently not do anything about the three water situation ( even though the last National government was probably going to do something similar in terms of entities) but look for local government solutions individually ( and with few exceptions that has not gone so well).

     • It actually is Bertie. It’s her ship and the total capitulation to the covid cult was her captains call as was co-governance without campaigning for it; letting slow Trev on the protesters and the wrong speak campaign on everyone that speaks out.

       The only thing I’ll give her a pass on is the pissing off 100B against a wall. That is all on Poor Man’s Gordon Brown and Beetroot Orr.

     • Since the brightline test changes house prices skyrocketed. This was under The government’s watch and due to Poor Man’s Gordon Brown’s vanity and Beetroot Orr’s Keysnesian idiocy by impregnating domestic spending.

       Not spending on infrastructure – 100B spent and not one major new infrastructure project has commenced. The party of infrastructure. Lol.

       Sure – Te Reo will be like a 3-day old dog turd on Orewa Beach. However he won’t be commissioning wrong speak 1984 laws and at some stage remove the last vestiges of the covid cult so I don’t have to wear a face nappy anywhere but aged care and hospitals.

       Te Reo needs Act so we can shit can the wasteful spending and, yes I’m going to fucking say it, Winston so there is an adult in the room

   • What a stupid dumb nonsensical rant !! Most of what the government does is via ‘recommendations’ coming from the behemoth government department- MBIE.
     Most of the staff were hired under the watchful eye of Steven Joyce. There have been major problems with the quality of decision making coming from a considerable number of staff in various key departments and changes are being made.
     That takes a long time to undo and reset.
     But make no mistake, the clusterfuck started under Key, English and Joyce!!
     Luxon is well and truly out of his depth. It’s only the fawning media, (Hosking , Bridge etc,) that’s hiding the hopelessness. I shudder to think what state N.Z would be in had he been in charge of the pandemic response.
     There is a massive difference to running a country than being the CEO, (and not a very good one ), of a state owned enterprise monopoly!

     • Bullshit. MBIE has been impregnated by left leaning wokesters. If Key was in charge we would not have had:

       Indoctrinated people-speak slogans like Be Kind
       Mandates would have gone immediately when they became politically useless
       No decent into lawlessness
       Turning Rotorua into a third world shithole
       Having a complete retard continue as speaker and otherwise leaving incompetent ministers in place

       Our approach would have mirrored Australia. Likely NSW so no swathe of deaths WITH covid and now our economy would be open and despite being fucked up the ass with inflation most industries would be moving.

       Same with Clark (in fairness). Both Clark and Key are adults as would have been Peters. We now have WEF-inspired children in charge.

       • The major push in building regulations started with the earthquake repairs & we know who was in charge then. I am in favor of safety as I want all workers to come home safely but we ended up with a paperwork nightmare that the worst offenders tended to ignore if at all possible.

     • Grant Agree. Key, English, and Joyce – and well done including that little shit English, who slips under the radar far too often. Joyce could have been so much better than he was, but the decimation and destruction of the universities has to be the work of barbarians – and we all know that the pandemic under the Nats would have been horrific. Jacinda and that Ashley bloke got that right.

       • Applewood you are so right. Joyce has never got the criticism he deserves. He was a wrecker.

         • I thought the dildo toss was apt

     • Yes agree Grant our PM is only as good as her staff and many she inherited from National. Also I was told by some of my old work colleague who went to work for MOH and MSD that these government departments are toxic.

   • Frank the Tank; opinionated, deluded claptrap. Your brain is a tank, rolling through and turning to mud the fertile fields of true intellectual argument.

3. We need excellent egalitarian policies. Not identity politics.

   • what? like centralised water framework and rationalised health management? or – it’s Labour what gave you piles?

4. You said it! So many of us just have nowhere to go. Labour are doubly damned – first for their own stubborn espousal of race-based government – which they know perfectly well the majority do not want, and then for foisting Luxon on the country – surely a well-meaning man but not a political leader. David Seymour says it well – but oops – remember Roger Douglas. Winston?
   (Woman – adult female)

   • So its all about the majority is it Eileen sounds racist to me when our country was founded on race based policy for white people not brown people who they had to be assimilated.

     • Covid is pa Looks as if you’re racially profiling Eileen. Sigh.

       • Not at all Pip, it’s only your perspective. Sigh.

5. The same has happened in France many did not want Macron back in, saying he is too arrogant but they also did not want a far right leader Le Pen so they put Macron back in. Look I voted for Jacinda there is nothing wrong with her (in my view) and what she is trying to achieve in our country. The people that hate her are the rich and wanna be rich mostly middle aged or older Pakeha men and women and these people vote for themselves not what is good for our country.

   • Well said Covid.

     ‘The people that hate her are the rich and wanna be rich mostly middle aged or older Pakeha men and women and these people vote for themselves not what is good for our country.’

     This is the majority called out exactly how I see it as well.
     Selfish, greedy, short sighted climate deniers.

     Chrome dome supporters – no vision of a better future. Just more money in their pockets by whatever means. Nothings changed.

6. I wont vote for either of them on principle. They both have a lot to answer for.

7. So its all about the majority is it Eileen sounds racist to me when our country was founded on race based policy for white people not brown people who they had to be assimilated.

8. So its all about the majority is it Eileen sounds racist to me when our country was founded on race based policy for white people not brown people who they had to be assimilated.

   • Bullshit, Maori were given equal rights under the treaty.
     If you want co governance, fund yourselves off Maori tax take alone.
     Good luck with that, how many iwi are even paying tax?

     • Fuck you, you piece of shit. I’m betting you would be too much of a gutless cur to walk onto a Marae and say that rascist shit.

     • Which version of the treaty were they given equal rights?

9. People prefer Jacinda but hate what the Labour Party is doing to working people and poor wages while providing corporate welfare to industry leaders to keep more Dino businesses paying significantly less than OZ.

10. what shits conservatives is that as a population educates itself and becomes more economically independent it tends to drift towards progressiveness – cue artificial boogiemen, stupid memes and dumbed down arguments towards the remaining numbnuts that still buy the riches and status bullshit and want to line up to lick massir’s arse. Better the massir you know and all that crap.

11. The Melon head has a vision, “tax cuts” FFS

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