The difference between Chippy and Luxon is that Luxon wants to be your Boss Mate, the kind of emotionally draining relationship where you are always laughing at the Boss mates jokes and always doing what he wants in the weekend. It’s a relationship many workers are forced to play along with in NZs tiny pool and it’s one that we all willingly run a mile from if we have the option.
Chippy in the other hand just wants a sausage roll.
There’s  security in knowing that.
Put up with Boss Mate and his weekend workathons or throw Chippy a sausage roll.
Chippy has the greatest of NZ values, basic dorky competency while remaining affable.
Verity Johnson asks, Why doesn’t Luxon harness Auckland rage? and it’s because while there is a smouldering resentment towards Labour over that second Covid lockdown, it hasn’t transferred into support for Luxon or all the crazy shit National are promising and will come alongside ACT.
Chippy is the family Labrador where as Luxon is a territorial high maintenance lap dog barking at every passing car.
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The difference would be Chipkins would tell you its wine, even when it was patently obvious it was beer. Luxon would say it was probably beer but later retract that statement and suggest it was most likely wine.
But Chippy is like a boss who’s a good bastard who knows how to play the politics game at work, real well, but you know he hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing otherwise. There a certain level of discomfort at that and a feeling it won’t be long until the actual bosses find that out too!
Hipkins demeanor is a carefully crafted image just like Ardern’s “kindness” facade. Behind it is a Wellington technocrat neo-socialist that wants to run your life and is crap at doing that. Te Reo Luxon on other hand is a woke corporate. Will stick a knife into you quicker than you can say “inclusion?” but will attempt to say the ‘correct’ things. Neither are/will be outstanding or transformative leaders and ultimately the only thing that changes between the both of them is the level of competence in ministers and top public servants.
Let’s face it the only politician worth having a beer with would be Winston. He is the only one that has a personality outside of politics and the only likely not to ‘talk shop’ while having a pint.
I agree Frank
How did either of them become leader? Poor quality candidates
Just remember that it was National’s Chris Bishop’s hungry old dad who drove around petrol stations searching, unsuccessfully, for a sausage roll, and wrote a column about his sad plight. Who’s in the wrong party here, a Bishop or the Bishop’s father?
I think I would prefer a beer with Chips and Sausage Rolls.
Luxon is a teetotaller. Even alcohol can’t make the guy interesting.
Actually he is like that boring brother of the bride to be you feel obliged to bring along to your stag night piss-up.
Headline in Chch Press 700 children homeless tells me while the leader has changed the lies of a caring government carries on through him .He has a nice smile and smooth manner but is as shallow as Ardern.
Luxon on the other hand is a proven leader .A good CEO does not need to be everyone’s mate but he needs to make the staff comfortable he knows where he is successfully taking the company or country .
A proven leader who backtracks aue! Trevor
Been ages since I’ve had a beer with mates after work. Kinda sad. But when I think back to my drinking days I wonder where Chippie and Luxton would fit in. There’s all sorts of blokes, and I should add women too, you’ll end up with over a beer: the outright hilarious, the know-it-all, the supercilious, the cynic, the optimist, the evidence-based, down the rabbit hole types, the buffoon, the devious, the careful listener, and those who won’t shut up. Maybe we are all a bit of everything. Perhaps for that reason I can’t pick either of them. Inv, Chippie’s sausage roll persona is a smoke screen to give the impression, well, he’s an ordinary bloke who likes a bit of flaky pastry. That’s Karl du Fresne’s take on it anyway. Luxton, well, he has the look of a straight up bloke you can take at his word, but at the same time someone who you want to avoid in a scrum. But as they say, what happens on the field stays on the field. He’s that sorta bloke. Funny, if he grew his hair out he’d look a little like Boris, but no doubt not the same persona.
Rather than a beer at the pub, I’d go for the bbq. A bit of fresh air and open space does wonders for everyone.
What a sad state of affairs the two main choices really are. Hipkins seems like a decent enough guy but is part of an agenda that will further divide NZ. Sure you could have a beer with him but when it comes to policy etc he is less than authentic. He has undoubtedly kicked the can down the road until after the election with contentious policies and that is alarming especially when you consider how things have unfolded in recent years.
Luxon may well be a good money man but he is about as authentic as a $2 Shop Gold Rolex Watch. There are so many things hidden from view with him. There is no surprise that the majority of Kiwi’s don’t trust the man. One of the few policies he’s been open and transparent about is his plan to reintroduce the live shipping of animals out of NZ despite the barbaric nature of the trade and diabolical outcomes for the animals both on the water and at their destination country. It’s taken years to finally stop this obscene practice that some farmers view as a goldmine. I’d be very interested to see in a country that allegedly cares about animal cruelty what percentage of Kiwi’s are in favour of the trade? Will National gain or lose votes on this policy? Luxon clearly thinks they will gain but I’m confident he’s pulled the wrong reign in his attempt to appease farmers. If he’s wrong on such an emotive issue, what else is he wrong on?
I feel both of them have issues. So hopefully NZ will vote more on policy this year.
There is such a thing as giving a man a chance, even if he is the leader of the National Party.
I want New Zealand to get our real economy back, and while petrol prices are now affordable, grocery prices continue to soar as well as rent and electricity prices, and mortgage repayments have increased dramatically since our first lockdown in 2020.
Moreover Luxon represents traditional values whereas Hipkins represents more of an opportunistic political view. Hipkins is also leader of a third term government which is very tired and expiring.
Actually leader of a second term government and a new leader.
Frank the Tank would be a better PM then both of them. I agree Seymour or Winston the only ones I would cross the road to have a beer with. Maybe Shane Jones, Stu Nash if they were shouting.
The difference is Chippy isn’t up himself.
Christopher Luxon likes to travel first class everywhere and hires a Jag to go 1 km down the road.
It was a BMW and it seems the majority want Luxon’s party even if they are not so hot on Luxon himself .
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