Oh no he didn’t!
Oh yes he did!
Christopher Luxon holidayed in Hawaii while social media videos suggested he was in Te Puke
National Party leader Christopher Luxon was holidaying in Hawaii last week, while his social media account suggested he was in Te Puke meeting with businesses.
Luxon confirmed to reporters on Tuesday morning that he travelled to United States while on leave last week. Parliament was in recess at the time and politicians do often take some time off during the winter break.
“Yes, I was on leave last week with my family. I went to Hawaii with my family as I tend to do in July,” he said.
His social media account lied about where he was and pretended he was visiting working class people in Te Puke because his handlers didn’t want you knowing he was holidaying in fucking Hawaii while making political milage out of the cost of living crisis.
The sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind are stupid, but they’re not THAT stupid!
Having Mr 7 Properties holidaying in Hawaii while Kiwis shiver in poverty makes it hard to pretend he cares about a cost of living crisis that doesn’t impact him.
Chris Luxon is the highly polished aspiration TV advert for a lifestyle you can never afford.
Many on the Left are disappointed with Jacinda’s lack of transformation, and we are all very grumpy post Covid but Sweet Jesus, if Luxon pretending he’s supporting struggling Kiwis at Te Puke when he’s secretly on a Hawaiian Holiday doesn’t wake you up to National’s faux concern about you, nothing will.
This is very damaging, you can see why National tried to hide it.
Aloha Luxon is a great nickname.
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Obviously not prepared to holiday in New Zealand to help our businesses. Lying about his whereabouts. What is he ashamed of.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with holidaying abroad especially for politicians. Must be nice going to a place no one really knows who you are. Then again I’m not trying to be influential. Perhaps we should try and influence this situation to suit our own aims.
@ sam. What? You’re suggesting we sink to his level? No thanks. You go for it though. Knock yourself out.
I wonder if the Bald Wonder Child of true blue fascism caught up with jonky The Tug ? Perhaps he was there representing us by being the Pacific Ocean Floater.
Warning. Might be a trigger alert.
NZ Herald.
Spy: John Key says aloha to a new Hawaiian holiday pad
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/spy-john-key-says-aloha-to-a-new-hawaiian-holiday-pad/MARLQ6PRVSA7NHKLVC37SEPTAQ/
CB, I am happy to pay an English Tutor to help you. I think you will also need assistance from a lawyer to help construct an argument. Go well young man.
Nah just that the S&P will fall 15% further than in 2008 🙂
Was listening to Donald Brash talk about inflation and value the other day. Made me want to go on holiday too.
Sam Ok, but why post saying that he’s in Te Puke when he’s really in Hawaii ?
Geography fail ? Mind you, sometimes my old Mum didn’t know where she was either.
Queeny. He’s ashamed because real men don’t lay around on beaches. Hawaii is ok – usually en route elsewhere – but real men climb mountains, build things, grow things, and protect the vulnerable.
Chris whinges about “ bottom-feeders”, rides around in big shiny cars, and is lucky that he’s still got the use of his legs if not his declining grey matter.
Did you see him on the 6pm news…he had the same look as when, a few months back, he was asked whether he knew anything about selling Air NZ services and parts to dodgy countries when he was CEO…..
I knew nothing he said despite his face showing that he was as guilty as sin …
Key was a bad liar, but got away with it due to a pathetic fawning media … Luxon is an even worse liar …we’ll see how long honeymoon period lasts…
He’s as crooked as Key and as hopeless as Muller …a greenhorn newbie….National is stuck with him now!!
Good point Queeny!
Hawaii would be nice at this time of the year, I miss spending winters somewhere warmer. Though Hawaii does have it’s own homeless/poverty crisis, especially amongst native Hawaiians, maybe he was doing some sort of Pacific outreach visit? Research perhaps?
lolz
Luxon must have some really happy researchers.
Natz show their true colours – lying, hypocrisy and deceit – wrapped around fake marketing and information.
Ridiculous man’s taking a holiday.
Bob, I think thou doth protest too much.
The man is perfectly entitled to a holiday.
If Ardern had a social media account giving the appearance of her being in Te Puke when she was holidaying elsewhere you would be having seizures
Of course not, Bob would be foaming at the mouth from the bedroom, Sour Kraut told me so.
Christmas Ardern did announce that she’d be spending her hols on the beach too, and that she planned to read a book.
Pathetic to pretend on facebook that he is working hard in Te Puke.
Yes. If Luxon had just been upfront and said that he’s taking a holiday, it would be no big deal. But PM Ardern baked scones for a visiting pop star, Clark had the police breaking speed limits just to get to a rugby match, PM English flew off to an Adele concert in Auckland when the publication of ‘ Hit&Run ‘ was horrifying decent law-abiding persons, and Key licked Hollywood’s dirty boots. New Zealand’s leaders are low.
Quite right Bob, a ridiculous man taking a holiday.
Thanks bert, I was just about to point out Bob’s abuse of the apostrophe of omission, or the lack of comma sense.
Bob the first July 26, 2022 at 1:52 pm
Ridiculous man’s taking a holiday
Too busy foaming at the mouth to see the keys, or the words he’s typed.
Yeah, he should have just bashed one of his staff members and it would be alright. Or it is only certain MPs that are allowed to do that?
Yep Maggie Barry retired.
I think Maggie retired because she’d started calling members of the opposition “ Petal” and found that she was in the wrong garden plot.
Yes but Meka Whaitiri is still there.
So you agree, that it’s ok when the left do it?
Honolulu – Te Puke, tomatoes tomatoes, sister cities really… rookie mistake any Nat PR staffer could make.
He is THE reason that National are not hitting it out of the park especially with all the material Labour keep giving them. What a total schmuck! He is so above the fray of the riff raff he wouldn’t know if his arse was on fire and they pissed on it to put it out.
It has to be said, awful Labour are alive because of Christopher. He is currently one of their best performing MP’s! Well, that and the even more awful Greens!
Agree
Just finished re-reading ‘The Hollow Men’ by Nicky Hager.
The story of the rise and fall of Don Brash as Nat. leader. So many well-documented stories of manipulation of the electorate and lies and hypocrisy by the Nats., as per the Crosby/Textor manual.
Plus ca change, plus c’est meme chose!!
Verity Verdant. Jolly good, but protect your own psyche against these low-life’s, ok ? Hager’s ‘Dirty Politics’ and ‘ Hit&Run’ are less demanding reads, but both whacked me, hence my shock about that blithe little bugger English waltzing off to see Adele and blathering about nothing to see here, when there very clearly was. The politicians think that we’re dingbats, and that’s the premise that they work on, and it’s an ongoing problem.
Just like Scomo….”Your time for pleasuring yourself will soon be over”
Conservatives hit out different in NZ the point of Scomo was that there was no point. That’s the point. He was the never ending apprentice constantly wearing Ho Vis like he one of us. No I think Luxon is lower than that.
Is that what Luxon thought was the initiation to join the mile high club?
Only a kiwi could confuse business class with the mile high club.
@Kyle Wasn’t that “Gladiator” not SCOMO?
Maximus: The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.
Simon O’Connor at One News (NZ’s Fox News), will more than likely try to spin it for National to make Luxon look good. It’s the least Simon can do for his good mate John Key. NZ Fox News One’ll spin it as a left-wing beat-up. Mike Hosking will call a “little hiccup …blown into an international incident by biased gutter gotcha media pundits”
Looks like Luxon has been learning a lot from his mentor Sir John Key’s playbook about lying.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/06/04/435-lies-by-john-key/
Key was also very cavalier with his private life and societal norms:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/75208408/rape-jokes-pubic-hair-and-peeing-in-the-shower—just-how-far-will-john-key-go
Hope Luxon doesn’t descend past lying like his mentor John Key did, and into the gutter like Key did with his “questionable stunts included a tone deaf rendition of a Mariah Carey song, being shut up in a cage complete with a bar of soap and an allusion to an old prison rape joke and – prior to that – talking on public radio about pubic hair, masturbation and whether he peed in the shower.”
Certainly not the sort of behaviour from the “blue blood” elites of New Zealand business, church and politics that Kiwis aspire to.
John Key brought up in a state house solo mother.
Blue blood elite ?
Ridiculous.
Blue blood ? God no. Just another wee nouveau riche vulgarian- the Nats are full of them.
John Key was a solo mother?
Ridiculous.
Bert. Nobody ever said John Key was a single white female that I can recall, and he wasn’t a gender bending Greenie, so your guess is as good as anybody’s but don’t to lose too much sleep over it.
Bob, I totally agree with you, National leaders are ridiculous because of their hypocrisy, lies and creating an alternate reality almost every time they speak.
“The reality is….” was uttered by Chris Luxon more than 4 times when defending ‘holidaying in Hawaii’, instead of grifting ‘in Te Puke’. This ‘ the reality is’ phrase was also Luxon’s mentor, John Key’s second favourite saying – “The reality is …..smacks of a God complex. Only God creates reality!
Another reality of political elites have been exposed by NZ First Foundation. Political donations cover-ups are also synonymous with the NATS. “National Party charges, relating to Ross, Zhang and the two Zheng brothers, allege two $100,000 donations to the National Party were broken up into smaller chunks to get under the disclosure threshold.” https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129370268/trio-accused-in-labour-party-donations-case-continue-to-seek-name-suppression-ahead-of-trial
But, no snowflaking, even in this cold weather, Bob the First. Labour Party donations are also not squeaky clean either. The money-laundering of donations and falsifying records to come beneath thresholds is a worrying development for all political parties.
However, Bob, the ‘blue blood elites’ comment, was a reference to Andrea Vance’s book about National Politics. You mentioned that John Key is not a “blue blood elite”. Agree with you there Bob, Key was a shape-shifting chameleon to everyone, much like Luxon is.
Before joining Bankers Trust, he [Key] collaborated with that firm’s New York office in some heavy-duty currency speculation. A 1987 run on the over-valued Kiwi dollar, led by Bankers’ Trust of New York, panicked the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. How can he [ Key ] go from betting against the New Zealand dollar to taking charge of our economy?https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/let-the-show-begin/FBVJ3GPILG45ZBDRRIUMF5F3ZA/
Same old blue blood, born-to-rule Nats, same old dirty politics. John Key brought up in a state house solo mother. Blue blood elite ? Tories in Britain did the same lower-class boy becomes leader of the Conservatives schtick too, when they made Sir John Major Conservative Prime Minister John Major was born on 29 March 1943 at St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children in St Helier, Surrey, the son of Gwen Major (née Coates, 1905–1970) and former music hall performer Tom Major-Ball (1879–1962), who was 63 years old when Major was born.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major
But, my favourite line from Luxon’s visit is ‘It’s wonderful, the log comes in here and wood comes out the other end of the factory”. This is almost as lame and banal as David Shearer bringing 2 dead schnapper into the debate chamber.
Shearer didn’t last long after that ‘dead fishy stunt’. How long before National cut their losses and get rid of rid of ‘dead wood stunt” Luxon and give him a permanent “holiday in Hawaii” (or in Te Puke)??
Who will take over when Luxon goes after his “dead log becomes wood stunt”.
My money’s on Chris Bishop, or Michael Woodhouse. How blue-blood elite are Chris and Michael Bob?
Mike Judge Chris Bishop’s hungry old father drove around Wellington petrol stations searching for a hot sausage roll. Good Catholic Woodhouse emblazoned a female politician’s face onto a lavatory seat as a sleazy fund raiser. Both appear to be the type of low calibre males who National supporters love regardless of what may seep through their veins.
Aloha Luxon. Who is next Blue Cab off the rank rank?
Bob only when it suits the narrative
He was meant to go to Te Puke but changed his mind to wind up Bert. That’s what he told me.
Brilliant leadership. Being in two places at once!
That’s what coward cabbage told me.
Get Bert wound up twice as much.
Works every time.
Sour kraut and Bob the First, TDB’s Waldorf and Statler right-wing muppets
“Statler and Waldorf are a pair of Muppet characters best known for their cantankerous opinions and shared penchant for heckling. The two elderly men first appeared in The Muppet Show in 1975, where they consistently jeered the entirety of the cast and their performances from their balcony seats.”
I would be more concerned that he implied he usually goes to Hawaii on holiday in July? As Chandler Bing would say ‘ could he BE any more like John Key’.
agree, but that is exactly why the vote raced up when Luxon took over. The second coming of the Messiah!
The man of ‘mystery!’ A member of the jet set club! How the fuck is he supposed to know where he is! “Thats my PA’s job! Details! Thats not me! I focus on the big stuff. Like you know, the really big stuff. Like the size of planes and massive hotel rooms and shit!”
“Te Puke? Where’s that?!”
Aloha Luxon wouldn’t visit a place with “bottom feeders” would he? So Te Puke must be an OK place right?
Not Hawaii sure, but an OK place.
“We don’t just do bottom feeding and just focus on the bottom,” he said. Instead, “we focus on people who want to be positive and ambitious, aspirational and confident”.
We should not expect to hear someone who wishes to be prime minister for all New Zealanders writing off a minority of them as bottom feeders who lack drive and don’t contribute to the greater good. It is close to the ugly word “bludger” and reeks of a disdain for beneficiaries, the working poor and others who find it hard to lift themselves out of difficult situations.
Those situations have been getting especially difficult lately, as Luxon well knows, given his party’s successful focus on the cost of living crisis.
Some observers heard Luxon’s words as a throwback to a more ruthless time in right-wing politics. In New Zealand and elsewhere in the 1980s and 90s, benefits were cut and the poor were expected to pull themselves up by their bootstraps https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300549359/are-the-poor-merely-bottom-feeders
I can just see it now, Aloha Luxon, shaking hands with ‘bottom-feeders’ in Hawaii, through a wire fence. https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/kate-and-will-mocked-tone-deaf-fence-jamaica-photo/
Blue blood born-to-rule types, like Luxon and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!
Der… Te Puke can easily be mistaken for Hawai!
Aloha Luxon LOL. I think that moniker’s gonna stick.
What a silly bugger Luxon is.
He must be on another planet on how he functions and does business.
It’s just another deceptive incident to remind us voters just who in politics deserves our voter support at the ballot box come next year.
Mr Potato Head has come back from sunny Hawaii looking more like a Red Rascal than an Ilam Hardy.
Lying Luxon: Making Judith look good since 2021.
Poor Christopher. I’m sure that he is a competent manager of a well oiled machine. But The National party? He is simultaneously giving the impression of a bunny in the headlights, and a fish out of water so . . . I don’t know . . . is that bish or funny?
While it doesn’t surprise me, it’s still more than a little disappointing, and disturbing that not a single one of the “geniuses” her got the obvious, and equally damaging parallels with the ultra religious cretin Scott Morrison… Any guesses, boys and girls, where Morrison was hiding with his family, while the largest bushfires in over a century were raging right up and down the eat coast of Australia? You know, the ones that lit up the NZ skyline? Any guesses? How many humans dead? How many millions of animals dead? How many people still living rough as a result of a 2billion dollar recovery fund that never got used? That’s right, Honolulu… And that was just the start of the real nasty stuff..
You’ve just been sent your first obvious warning of what will follow a Luxon govt.. Ignore it at your peril, and risking becoming a standing joke in bars in Dublin would be the least of it.. The title of “thickest race on the planet” won’t even get noticed among the rubble that used to be a country, with a society living in it.
He needs the sun! Keep him as tanned as possible – ALL-Year-Round~!! Achieving this is worth up to 5% percentage points I reckon..
Donald Trump is orange for a reason.. just saying.
Bazar comment I know.
Hawaii ! probably at Johns for a strategy session.
Please don’t make excuses for bad behavior. People are entitled to holidays so why lie about it.
I don’t think that any MP’s, whatever ranking they have, should be holidaying overseas just at the moment.
Judith’s eyebrows are raised when she lies, Luxon’s head tilts to the right.
Love the ‘Aloha’ bit, Martyn. I hope it goes on like ‘Piggy’ Muldoon and ‘Mouse’ Rowling.
The diff between this vile strange new freemarket elite and the rest of us.
Mentioning those nicknames of the seventies makes me wonder how different were we from these multi-media times. Expecting an article from you or Chris Trotter. Yep, I no longer think, I just judge others thoughts.
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