People are pissed off with everything because we’ve all been through hell over the last couple of years thanks to the pandemic.
Of course we are angry, and tired and fearful and angry, really, really, angry and Jacinda is getting lots of it in the neck and Labour are sliding in the Polls.
In steps Christian Lex Luthor, Christopher Luxon.
Sure, he can do the CEO 45 second sound bite but when actually pushed on details ends up shooting himself in the foot with some boofhead reactionary bullshit. He has no intellectual curiosity because Christopher knows his evangelical God loves him and his 7 properties are evidence that prosperity Jesus blessed him.
He’s a white Brian Tamaki in less leather.
Christopher only cares about the Pilots, the first class travellers and his relationship with God.
It is his certainty that National are selling to a frightened NZ, not his ideas or policy.
Christopher doesn’t have time for bottom feeders and policy is for little people which is the real danger. David Seymour, seen here as the world’s loneliest boy with the planet’s saddest robot…
…is far far far far far far etc etc smarter than boofhead and will get all his mutilation of the state through without Luxon even being aware it’s happening.
The yellow quick fox will jump over the lazy blue dog.
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“Why is Luxon such an appealing candidate?”
Where on earth do you get the idea that Luxon is appealing? It’s just a question of support ebbing away from LINO as their incompetence, confusion, dishonesty and contempt for the public become more and more evident.
I doubt Seymour will get to axe all those worse-than-useless ministries – Luxon will be too afraid of upsetting the iwiocracy and middle-class feminists. Unfortunately, I think National will be more amenable to the directly economic side of Seymour’s agenda i.e. privatization and tax cuts.
In order to make those tax cuts we need to rid ourselves of the bureaucratic baggage, including those useless ministries
I don’t want a tax cut. I want to get rid of those useless ministries so we can afford to roll back user-pays, and to better remunerate people who actually do something useful – like school teachers and nurses.
there’s very little left in the silver drawer to sell.
Cluxon & Seamoor have traction because the failures of the current government are always sheeted at the individuals involved. You see it in the comments made on this very site – often individual attacks, smearing the competency of the person. But of course Jacinda, Cluxon and Seamoor are all only offering various shades of the same failed economic theory.
Jo(e) Public doesn’t realise it’s the failure of the neoliberal economic theory that all main parties adhere to that has created a society of massive wealth inequality, bank bailouts, environmental poisoning, climate chaos and growing social instability.
When your choices are vanilla, vanilla-lite, and triple vanilla, and you’re told ‘TINA’ & you must choose, well…. voila – contemporary New Zealand.
The apparent “appeal” of Cluxon & Seamoor is engineered – not something inherent to their (heh) ‘personalities.’
Jase
“Joe Public doesn’t realise”…but you do, eh! “Joe Public” is stupid and you are clever…are you like those political academics called Labour who are way above Joe Public? Joe Public..they are just dumb voters – we are smart, we were political science honours students after all. What does the builder or the plumber know anyway (that’s the plumber with more money than a Poto Williams or a Roberston will ever earn)? Condescending, smug and arrogant, that’s what the lot of them are. in this Govt. And yes, the failures of the current govt should be sheeted at the individuals involved. It’s their fucking job, to make things happen – they haven’t!
I can see why you use the word “sour” in your nom-de-plume.
So your counterargument is smear me, then transpose that smear onto the current government because it somehow logically follows in your head, and claim we are all deriding ‘builders and plumbers’. Don’t go joining any debating clubs now, will you?
Just in case you missed the point, and I suspect you have deliberately steered away from it, it remains the case that (based on past actions, and/or current stated policy), the likes of Ardern, Cluxon and the ACToids are enthralled by, and see no alternative to, the completely failed neoliberal economic doctrine that has been foisted on this country for over 3 decades (or versions thereof). You could have the intellect of an Einstein, the compassion of Mother Teresa, and iron clad determination Ernest Shackleton, but if you are signed up to a political framework that says – neoliberal economics – there is no alternative, then sweet f@ck all will happen.
The actual WILL to change isn’t even there in the first place.
And moving from Ardern-Obama to Cluxon-Key v2.0 will not change anything.
This Red team vs Blue team horseshit – our so-called participatory democracy – is a complete sham.
Now, you go back to smearing individuals in the current government. Interesting to see what your comments will be like if/when the Blue team are back in charge of the game.
Nicely put.
cabbage do you have a mirror in your house? use it.
Martyn. The problem with your description of Chris Luxon is that you are assuming he will be a sound byte no policy politician but you are still guessing. You know Jacinda and her Government are useless but National under Luxon haven’t had a chance to prove they’re useless yet. You say there is no detail in what he says and why would there be fourteen months out from an election. In twelve months you can put the boot into Nationals policy details, or lack of, but not now. Why would National give Labour the time to cancel National policy details now, even if they did have them. Journalists will always try to manufacture the news before it happens.
You’re on to it.
Luxon’s ’empty blue suit’ impression reminds a lot of voters of John Key and the good economic times before Covid.
And Ada let’s not forget English’s low wage economy. It wasn’t all glory you know.
no it wasn’t but house prices, inflation, etc…
The power of nostalgia for a better past.
Yes I agree the eighties and nineties were good years.
covid? don’t you mean Labour?
Good economic times for some Kiwis, mostly for the ones who were already rich.
…because he will allow voters, including a huge proportion of foreign voters, i.e. non-citizen voters, who give zero fucks about No Zealand society, the chance to preserve and accrue more of their wealth.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-pm-john-key-praises-christopher-luxon-as-national-leader-simon-bridges-faces-backlash/CAEBI5ALSZDS54TRFSFXYTMX7U/
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When you see who Luxon is up against, is it any surprise he is doing ok?
Only surprise I have is he hasn’t been more ruthless attacking Labour on their absolute fiasco of a Government and the social experiment they are currently pushing (co-gov) but maybe he doesn’t want to be seen as raaaycist
OMI co-governance needs to be binned asap and we need to drop all race based identity politics before we totally fall apart as a society and fall on each other
May be X’s he is not more ruthless because labour have basically accomplished what he wants and he will just go further, despite all the laughable moments of he and his deputy standing their supposedly giving a shit about the poor and middle of the middle. And as for co governance, what a number of posters on this site will refuse to recognise is that co governance was already quietly growing under Luxons party’s last turn at the helm. How can you listen to Chris Finlayson and be under any impression it was all labours new idea. Labour are accused one minute of being totally disorganised, useless. and off the cuff (very likely), to then being absolute schemers implementing this grand master plan where they hand over the country to hoards of non binary Māori wearing hashtag me too T-shirt’s ( give me a f’ing break).
Luxon is complete trash. The only thing that makes him appealing is that Jacinda is bigger complete trash.
Bingo!
We are now in the same situation as the Americans in 2016.
Which bad option to pick. But in our case the choice is more obvious because Adern has had her chance and fucked everything she has touched.
I’d say we’re a lot worse off than USA 2016. Our leaders have zero redeeming qualities. At least trump had some policies other than being woke. I’d take anarchy at this point. At least we’d get a anti war move out of it.
Oh I’d agree that Adern is worse than both Trump and Hillary, but the jury is still out on Luxon.
I guess we need to give him 6 years to fuck everything up like Adern has before we will know for sure.
But yeah, not feeling overly optimistic.
And I’d say the US are worse off for Trumps policies so much so he was voted out after one term, even his hand picked judges agreed.
So no we are much better off.
As for Trumps redeeming qualities, good luck finding one.
Bert, and then came Biden, making trump look like a saint.
Wall St owns them…all.
It’s just an illusion..!
At least Biden was not stupid enough to promote an animal drug to fight covid and he is happy to wear a mask which trumps Trump
You duplicitous little pratt.
That so called animal drug is regularly prescribed to humans for non-COVID things.
Trump is a dick, so you don’t need to be sneaky and furtive to make him look bad.
You twat give yourself an uppercut ivermectin IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION!
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-covid19-ivermectin-idUSL1N2PJ1T9
For fucks sake Jay!!!
All good. Tap water is back on. Good enough
Yep, just the same as Adern has made Muldoon look great.
What the fuckever Jays!
Nor sure Biden created an insurrection or has been impeached twice and your definition of a saint says all we need to know about you weirdo.
In essence very few people profited from Labours trickle and sadder even, the same people that benefited from Labours trickle down will be benefitting from Nationals trickle down, and the rest of us gets to hold the bag, delivery the groceries to their betters and then wait in line at the sally army office for a hamper to feed their own families.
L dropped the ball, sat down and had a picnic.
on the bright side RB if the bag we’re holding is a grocery bag it’s gonna get a lot lighter innit?
Because Left folk are so obsessed with throning him into a minsters – as in here. It’s like Willie and Tukaki bring obsessed with Seymour. The middle ground who migrated to Labour last election know that they are stirring up thge current political stablishment. After a year with Collins in charge – Nats are just relishing having a chan ce and media being prepared to ask thge Opposition what they think. Not saying he I good. I understand he does n ot take criticism well. Just that the ritual hatred only appeals to the Left t5ue believers
“David Seymour, seen here as the world’s loneliest boy with the planet’s saddest robot…”
Best line all year!!!! LOL
Enjoy it while he’s still in opposition. LOL.
At least 12 more years.
For the same reason Jacinda was a good candidate — we wanted a holiday.
And John Key.
And Helen.
but we never get the promised ‘holiday’ do we?