National received internal polling that showed the huge drop the Talbot and TVNZ Polls reflected and to get ahead of that narrative, Luxon ceremonially sacrificed Melissa Lee and Penny Simmonds.
Right wing media Trolls celebrated his strength when really it as a knee-jerk out of weakness.
National Mandarins know Luxon is polling poorly because he looks so weak with David Seymour and Winston Peters never endingly bullying him week in and week out, so they keep trying to butch him up to try and look tough, hence the press conference with Mark Mitchell on his arm.
The whole point of that train wreck interview was to make Luxon look tough, sell 800 extra beds and DON’T SAY Mega Prison.
That’s why they fucked the numbers up, they didn’t want the addition adding of 455 beds + 600 beds + 100 beds + 800 beds = Mega Prison.
It was supposed to be a simply a 10 minute press conference to make Luxon look tough alongside the Police Minister to get a story into the 6pm news with the message ‘800 more beds for criminals’ – but NOT a Mega Prison.
Mega Prison does not poll well.
It ended 40 minutes later with Luxon and Mark Mitchell looking like idiots and weak ones at that.
Luxon’s need to look strong drove Mark Mitchell trainwreck press conference.
Can you imagine these two in an actual crisis?
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It’s getting pretty obvious that this is not so much a government as three problems in a trenchcoat pretending to be a solution.
Stuart Monroe Don’t worry. If Trench Coat Tory Whanau gets her way about delisting Wellington’s heritage buildings, and history misunderstander Tamatha Paul gets them destroyed because they seemingly trigger some sort of museum phobia, and Christopher Bishop, the tobacco boy from Naenae College aids and abets the pair of them, the resultant saturation of modern people-boxes in the earthquake-prone windy city, could deter politicians and out-of-towners from wanting to sojourn in such a soulless and aesthetically repelling environ. Luxon couldn’t even cope with living in old-timbered Premier House immersed in beautiful native bush and lovely birdsong.
Wow!! That is one seriously lyrical pile of drivel there youngster… It would have been impressive if it had been remotely relevant, or had a modicum of common sense in it, but hey, artistic license and all……
A solution Stuart, for what ? Seymour’s delusional utopia, a CoC agreement for the freedom of a few to have so much and Luxie selling his soul for POWER ?
* 3 district councils sent into quick investigations on this instant solution as to whether they have the infrastructure, housing, schools etc for staff families ( NO !!! )
* Whether they are able to stretch water take capacity or treat the waste from the prison.
* ‘ Rehab ‘ , doing what ffs ? where will the shortage of counselling, teaching and support workers come from when concentrating the nation’s troubled in one place AND what ‘ rooms’ would this take place in ? IMAGINE 600 counselling sessions per week and the logistics of movement control ?
*Increasing total staff costs across all admin and ‘ rehab ‘ sectors – will they ?
*Security, visitor management for 1800 prisoners, where … ?
*Human Rights? Already lock ups are longer because the shortage of staff means no supervision.
* FEEDING 1800 people- AND on the grapevine today, Waikeria is reported to be opening the new kitchen facility early to run TESTS whether it can cope with staff, equipment, ovens etc.
Reportedly, trial runs will see if they CAN produce TWO THOUSAND meals at a time and then they will be thrown away.
Is this super prison just a mirage, whereby it’s not more buildings at all but more profit in the pockets of SUPER BUNK MAKERS AND SUPPLIERS ?
What a bunch of propoganda, ” outright dictatorship in order to win the war against democracy, the masses, and welfare.”
Beware the Little Dave’s who have only read one book. It’s Hayek-inspired BULLSHIT BINGO and a new kind of bipolar tyranny right in front of your nose and the masses will pay for it.
Yes …and can you imagine, for just one second, how things would have turned out if they had been in charge when Covid struck..
You can just see what a clusterfuck of epic proportions that would have been….N.Z. has lost the plot voting these absolute numpties in…
Nonsense. Mark Mitchell is perfectly capable of mumbling a press conference without any help from anybody else. These two guys should have got their stories lined up beforehand like every recalcitrant teenager knows to do when being hauled up before the headmaster. If they can’t manage that much, then they may need a few more advisors or pr persons. Paid professional liars aren’t that hard to come by, nor little truth twisters.
Can you imagine these two in an actual crisis?
Hell no!
Cuddling naked to stay warm ?
Nah…im good !
If the alpine fault blows while these idiots are in power we are screwed worse than we were under John key.
Mega prison = more Maori in prison on our land stolen by our colonisers
Hard to say. Luzon will probably jump into his pyjamas, Mitchell out looking for dogs, Seymour hiding in mum’s wardrobe, and Key skulking around the Beehive with Bill English, which leaves Peters and Jones. Could be worse. The search and rescue people are mountaineers and bushmen, trained, practical, self-disciplined, and they could do ok with Peters and Jones, like better than with Willis or Marama and C and that other dreadful woman.
Oh Annie , which PJs this time, his Noddy or his Barbie ones ?
So Gentle Annie would you prefer a mixture of Labour/Maori/Greens?
Labour proved what a failure they are.
Maori Party is racist.
Greens some sort of mixture between Socialism and Marxism.
Do you really think that would work?