Oh shit.
Shots fired.
Jack proved why he deserved his award win as best News and Current Affairs Presenter with his devastating interview of Luxon today.
Luxon claimed he was always against spending and inflaming inflation.
Jack very clearly laid out the timeline of how many times National had called for tax cuts and Billion dollar spendings press while the Reserve Bank was ramping up the OCR.
It was devastating.
It showed National have been all over the place and can’t seriously be proclaimed as expert managers of the economy.
Jack then challenged the craziness of National’s military boot camps and ankle bracelets of 10 year old children.
The number of serious repeat ram raiders is about 100, 80% of whom are already known to welfare agencies who are the kids from John Key’s draconian welfare reforms that saw kids in cars, state house tenants thrown onto the street for wrongful meth testing and whose parents were incarcerated in our private prison industry.
How will more draconian policies fix the problems the last set of draconian policies created?
There is 30% of the electorate who have been frightened, angered and disgusted by the never ending media shock diet of crime news – who are old testament eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth justice types – who will always vote for suffering and punishment. Leaders speak to the angels of our better nature, not envoke their wrath.
Shouldn’t National be intellectually and philosophically ashamed to roll out reactionary knee jerk counter productive social policy like Military bloody Boot camps?
What most screaming ‘something must be done’ are missing is that the age of criminal liability is already 10 years of age in NZ, something the UN has challenged us on?
What are you get tough on crime cheerleaders demanding here? We arrest these children as soon as they come out of the womb?
How does trying to out-ACT ACT by putting ankle bracelets on 10 year old children win the political middle?
National is to the right of Caligula now!
Ram Raid news stories make news producers orgasm.
They are cheap, easy to produce and present as live breaking news and the kids committing the crimes boasting on social media for notoriety guarantees a self feeding loop which terrifies the middle classes and sets the get tough on crime lynch mob off.
How much responsibility should the media be held accountable for sparking the latest moral panic?
Luxon was smashed all over the place by Jack on this nonsense attempt by National to win back ACT Party vote and it was merciless!
Climate Change was another glaring example of how captured National are by the polluters. Luxon couldn’t point to one policy where National will reduce emissions.
His performance today reminds you that National selected him as their Leader, not because he was the best, but because Judith spite rat-fucked Simon Bridges.
It was either Luxon or Muller again.
National have finally dumped their stupid top tax rate cut and will have to stop bleating about spending they know is essential (and won’t really change under them). Despite the recession and Labour’s woeful delivery, National still can’t capture any real support for their own totally rudderless economic vision.
It’s like a game of rugby where the National Party are on foot and the entire Labour Party are on crutches and National is still only ahead by 2 points.
The Right in NZ have mistaken the animosity towards Jacinda as proof positive they will win the 2023 election and are already doing the victory laps.
Luxon’s woeful performance on Q+A today highlights how misplaced that triumphalism is.
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I have to say the political football that crime has become is disgusting. Guess it’s not new. Both Luxon and Ardern turning up to either see the family or placing flowers at the crime scene is all a bit ridiculous. In fact One news pointed out that Ardern had visited the family but was yet to visit the scene! What will she do? Dust for prints? Over the years how many examples would you question why the political leads have not turned out for violent crimes if you are going to be consistent? I guess they have to show they care but yesterday just seemed weird.
Why not some numbers behind this? What were police numbers and budget when Labour came in and what are they now? The budget is something like 30% higher, and headcount is too. Is that the answer? Go back to 2015 and you will find headlines about dairy owners pleading with National to do something! Clearly we are not addressing underlying issues that will take years to fix and I guess post/during COVID it’s really biting us in the arse. In fact look at Australian headlines for youth crime. They are not dissimilar.
Agree Wheel politicizing crime and in particular murder is disgusting.
If you do go down that track then think how both Key and Ardern failed to stop the impact on Australia’s 501s, after all that’s where this murderer came from and the many gang members responsible for our crimes.
Totally agree about political football. What’s with Jacinda and half a dozen other mps turning up at the funeral of the victim today. How many other funerals have they attended en masse for individuals murdered in NZ everyday? What about all the kids who get murdered by their near and dear, how many MPs attend that everyday?
This is all political point scoring, a great theater, all orchestrated for the media, all ensuring the Indian vote is secure.
Funny, people complained when Ardern wasn’t there, now they’re complaining that she is there. I guess when you have right wing leaning traits this will always be your argument Benny.
Seeing how your naming and shaming. You named Jacinda now what were the names of the National MPs who turned up, there were a few?
Don’t under estimate the collective stupidity of voters – most of whom don’t watch Q & A – and instead will be corralled into voting by excellent use of targeted social media campaign’s. The people who National employee’s to guide them on these things are brilliant at what they do and have a history of success globally.
Luckily, unlike the UK and US, we have proportional representation and – hopefully – a lot of young voters turn up as a counter force.
Most of the facebook comments were more critical of Jack Tames interviewing style and for “not letting Luxon finish his answer” than any substance as to what Luxon had said. Luxon basically said nothing
What are the ratings for Q+A? If no one watches these shows (and I don’t think many do), it won’t affect polling. People will vote according to whether they feel they are “getting richer/ahead”. If they feel the current government isn’t facilitating improvement in their lives, they will get voted out of office, i.e. governments get voted out, not in. I still feel there is next to zero chance Labour gets re-elected in 2023, unless National do something incredibly stupid (e.g. changing leaders a year out from the election), which isn’t impossible of course, but unlikely on balance.
Jack, though superb, missed one trick: The NZDF is losing staff very quickly because they never joined the Armed Forces to be MIQ pseudo-police and they will certainly not join to be baby-sitters for recalcitrant youths who think it is fun to ram cars into shops.
Luxon will have a lot of explaining to his Minister of Defence – if he ever gets to appoint one!
He certainly did not look like a PM-in-the-making in this Q&A interview.
And save me from that forced smile!! More like a grimace through gritted teeth.
100%. The military are not set up to nor attract people who want to do psuedo corrections officer/social worker roles. Just like police doing psuedo social working! I believe the MIQ thing was a retention killer.
Politicians often are oblivious to why people work for a living!
By all means hold the leader of the opposition accountable.
But let’s see them do the same to the PM and the government.
Did you know that the government – under urgency- has just inserted a supermajority clause in a new piece of legislation inserted at the last minute?
(Public ownership of water assets).
Something only ever done over electoral matters. No submissions, no debate, a further screwing of the scrum.
Constitutional destruction being done dishonestly while the media continue the bash Luxon theme instead of grilling the government over something that will radically change how laws will be passed by left and right now.
This is awful partisan politics.
Tax schmax
Many on this sight seem to let thinks like this slide by hoping it will be missed. Just finished listening to the National station in the Maori slot and they were saying how Labour is craping on them as land owners and refusing to spend money to get an accurate count at the up coming census .All small points but add to a picture of neglect.
Are you joking KCC? The media are nothing but negative about anything to do with the government. Yesterday was a classic..why is the PM yet to visit the crime scene!
So what does the super majority clause do? Is that the one requiring more than 75% of the house to approve a sale? The one National would not agree to?
Cluster Fuxon 🙂
Isn’t it great that the 27 people(Political tragics) who watch Q&A on a Sunday morning, can vent their spleen here after Bomber makes a meal out of a spoon full of oatmeal.
100% Ra
“I am saying to you …”. “What we are saying to you…”. “I want to step back a bit.”
Dodge, deflect, deny, distract, discredit, defend, defame, distort, defy, delude, …..
Deceitful dunce.
Go Paul! A dozen delightful D-words, dang!
Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive and Dodge. That’s great of advice from Patches O’Houlihan
https://fiveds.fandom.com/wiki/Five_D%27s_of_Dodgeball
Lolz!
Dog tucker lost.
Bommer no please, print thanks for my blown socialist.
Agree Ada I have said it before but many on this blog on the left state with authority that all Naional voters are evil and all Labour voters are heaven sent (but most of them do not believe in religion )
Some make constructive comment that add to the debate but many are so predictable
I’m voting Labour next election just to watch the tribal ferals lose their minds.
I think National, if by perchance they get to be government next year, will be back to their usual tried and true(to their form that is) Beneficiary Bashing especially of low income non-white NZers. These NZers will be the very ones Luxon calls Bottom Feeders.
And so again National will be enhancing their racist policies upon those they booted out of State Homes during the Key years.
But as is also true to form National will NEVER EVER take FULL responsibility for THEIR mistakes during the last National government.
I don’t think Luxon has a clue as to what thinking up new or inspirational policies. He is so ingrained in negativity that it has become like a cancerous growth for him. And he will forever blame someone else but himself or even those bullies in National that beat up fellow school colleagues in past years.
Meanwhile National now have a fawning Party Faithful in the mainstream NZ media who will conduct an orchestrated almost pre-electioneering campaign against this government and using even the murder of a shopkeeper as a tool to spread discontent. Turning a murder into a political tool is demeaning and abhorrent especially towards those who are trying to benefit out of the death for political gain i.e garner or buy votes.
Sure this government and no government in the past and into the future are/will be perfection upon the planet. As is human nature mistakes are made.
Looking at the track record of the various National governments over the past 40 plus years I have come to the conclusion that they will be rote of nausea regurgitate the same old and failed policies of the past but give the tried and failed policies whole new names. For example the Ronald Reagan Inspired “Trickle Down Effect” could be referred to the Fountain of Improvement.
Give it time and I am sure we will hear Luxon talking about a Brighter Future which is of course a Copy and Paste from john Key.
Ans the No Cutting of the Higher Tax rate could well be like John Key promising no increase in GST when in reality that is what HE did whilst prime minister of New Zilland(as he called this country).
Actually I think due to his EGO Luxon is in love with the fantasy of being addressed as Prime Minister.
But here is something. If he became prime minister of New Zilland would the media refer to him as Luxon instead of prime minister or would the media address him as prime minister Luxon or Mr Luxon???!!!!
The reason for me asking is I notice the media(the National Party Faithful in the media)refer to Jacinda as Ardern in an almost vindictive manner whereas Luxon is addressed as Mr Luxon.
Whilst I may seem petty but I am not terribly fond of the media here in NZ at all. It’s a shadow of its former self and not a very nice one at that.
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