Poll: Just over half think PM Luxon out of touch with voters
Just over half of people think Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is out of touch with voters, according to a new 1News Verian poll.
A total of 51% said he was out of touch, with 37% saying he is in touch and 12% indicating they didn’t know or preferred not to say.
Groups more likely to say Luxon was out of touch were Green Party supporters (88%), Labour Party supporters (75%) and New Zealand First supporters (72%). Māori (65%) and young people – 18 to 34s – (58%) were also more likely to agree.
Those more likely to view Luxon as in touch with voters were National Party supporters (71%), ACT Party supporters (63%) and people aged 70+ (52%).
Those with a household income of $150,000 or more (48%) and men (42%) were also more inclined to say the Prime Minister was in touch.
So the ONLY people who think Luxon is in touch are rich old white men.
Hilarious.
Kiwis don’t like smug arrogant rich pricks who are full of themselves.
We are a humble folk and Luxon’s grandstanding leaves us cold as a people.
Luxon became leader of the National Party, not because he was the best, but because Judith Collins threw her support behind him after she smeared Simon Bridges in the last National Party Leadership spill.
Luxon appeals to those who listen to ZB for aspiration, the vain who enjoy the beauty of their own reflection, the intellectually shallow and philosophically callous.
Luxon is the weakest Prime Minister in NZ history who is played weekly by Seymour and Winston.
His skill set as a CEO has given him no tools to deal with politicians as strategic and wily as Seymour and Winston, he’s so weak he had to sack Melissa Lee to butch up!
His brand of evangelical religion is Prosperity Theory where Gods blessings mark you as a special child of Christ and to deny those blessings is a sin, so when he gets caught out benefiting from his privilege, he always responds aggressively because those privileges have been given to him by God.
“I’m entitled”.
“I’m rich and I’m sorted”.
“Bottomfeeders”.
Luxon is so dumb, here’s how I actually believe his pre-election discussions with David Seymour went:
A meeting of mines – Luxon and Seymour hanging out for lunch before the 2023 Election:
CL: “Hey champ, I’ve ordered us the soup broth. It’s delicious, do you like soup broth”?
DS: “Chris, I want to discuss core roles of the executive under any new ACT/National/NZF Government…”
CL: “I’ll get us the soup broth then, are you going to Taytay in Sydney? The kids want to go so I’ve hired a private jet. Hope it’s not a Tesla eh? (laughs loudly at own joke)
DS: “…..”
CL: “Chris Bishop is also going, he wanted to get a lift with us, but come on. He was a Tobacco lobbyist, he needs CEO money to ride with my crew (laughs loudly at own joke)
DS: “…..”
CL: “Do you like Taytay? I hate how everyone suddenly became a fan after her latest album, which is amazing, don’t get me wrong, but I was a fan from day one. All these newbies sucking up to her now, where was Chris Bishop when she released her first debut in 2006?
DS: “I believe he was 22”
CL: “Are you a Swiftie?”
DS: “…..”
CL: “I think we should have sponsored Taytay’s concert you know, it would win votes with the young female electorate Judith Collins tells me I need to win over. She’s become a great mate recently, hanging out a lot at my house when she turns up unannounced. She joked she was trying to catch me sleeping. I think it was a joke, you can never tell with Judith. Do you trust Judith?”
DS: “I think she’s a treacherous radioactive swamp witch who will always knife you in the back the first chance she gets, sorry, what did you say about the State subsidising a Taylor Swift concert?”
CL: “Yeah, I could get onstage and do a karaoke with her and my daughters will be like ‘Daaaaad’. I bet I can get on The Tictok with that! Are you on The Tictok?
DS: “…..”
CL: They say you will trick me into giving you everything ACT wants including a referendum that will start a race war, but you wouldn’t do that eh?”
DS: “I’ve specifically said I will make you do that”.
CL: “Yeah, but not really right”?
DS: “I’ve specifically said I will make you do that”.
CL: “Yes and I say things I have to walk back all the time too”.
DS: “I’ve specifically said I will make you do that, and have never walked it back. My last 3 press releases have been, “Why I will force this on Chris Luxon, How I will force this on Chris Luxon and When I will force this on Chris Luxon“.
CL: “You guys are so good at press releases, when I was at Air NZ we had a great press release person. Do you think your guys would run the press releases when we take over?
DS: “…..”
CL: “Oh here’s the soup. I love our weekly catch ups over lunch, it’s really helping me understand the man I’ll be working with”.
DS: “…..”
Luxon is an unlikable Prime Minister because he is an unlikable person, his sense of privilege and wealth mark him as simply another shallow suit with all the charm of a road accident.
His total lack of self awareness is God given because owning 7 properties makes Jesus love him more. That false confidence is what he shares with born again Simeon Brown.
Unimaginative without any creative sensibilities, Luxon would buy art from the Warehouse and endlessly boast what a good deal he got for $29.95.
Sending his kids to American Education so they don’t have to suffer the gaucheness of his own broad accent in a never ending sweaty clamber of social climbing that is as ugly as it is primal.
Policy is a mere detail for the geeks and engineers to work on and you sense he believed hanging out with the Pilots at AirNZ was him mingling with the working classes.
The vanity of shaving his head daily and his smug self certainty while getting bitchy when Media challenge him marks him as a hollow man that Kiwis would not want to have a beer with because you know he would endlessly remind you how much better his BBQ was than yours.
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Chris’s nouveau riche vulgarity is more the domain of celebs than politicians from whom we expect a certain degree of gravitas and decorum. That first gleaming black Mercedes ride up Bowen Street was pathetic teenage behaviour; the bananas-in-pyjamas photo-op at Christmas, cringeworthy. The guy’s still performing like a soap salesman and giving salesmen the bad name they mostly deserve.
Many kids don’t have pyjamas. They share a pool of common clothes and shoes. Locally, they wear new pyjamas proudly down to the shops. Luxon wouldn’t know that.
Had he gotten rich doing something constructive like building houses instead of just buying them, or producing food, or inventing the jet boat, or operating on crushed accident victims, or writing a learned tome, he’d command more respect than being a bloke with bugger all to offer waffling that he feels other peoples’ pain like Meghan Markle does. If he equates having money with having brains, IMO he’s deluded and not fit to lead anything.
“Those with a household income of $150,000 or more (48%) and men (42%) were also more inclined to say the Prime Minister was in touch.”
Slight rewrite.
Those with a household income of $150,000 or more (52%) and men (58%) were also inclined to say the Prime Minister was out of touch.
Baldrick is certainly a klutz–and a nasty one to boot. The glare of his pasty bonce under lights puts off just about everyone. I guess his open “I’m rich sod you losers…” attitude is better than pretending to be “down with the ordinary folks”
But the character of the PM makes little odds if you are under attack by MSD, the Food Bank is closing, school lunches are gone and you live in a van.
Tiger Mountain. “ … a nasty one to boot.” Indeed. He should not have referred to New Zealand ‘have-nots ‘ as ‘bottom feeders’, in the way that he did. Muldoon would never have spoken this way.
Luxon is to John Key, what Trump was to Roy Cohn.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2410/S00019/on-luxon-living-in-denial-about-his-privilege
Luxon has no appeal as a leader, nor politician, nor advocate for kiwis.
Luxon is the left’s gain. If he had an ounce of talent the left would be roadkill.
As I said, no appeal.
So given that he is the best choice for leader in the right camp and the all the rest have less talent then the ‘left’ have no worries about becoming road kill.
Your intellect is underwhelming.
When Luxury Luxon described half his fellow NZders as bottom feeders, I knew he was the wrong person. Firstly, he hadn’t checked the meaning of ‘bottom feeder’ in his dictionary.
If anyone can be described as a bottom feeder, it’s him and his ilk.
Maybe he’s forgotten the old adage, ‘It takes one, to know one.’
Poor and petty decision making at his last job and desire to NEVER face tough questions in the hangar, after his first experience there, marked him as a person who didn’t like being told, You Are Wrong!
I’m glad Mr. Hipkins is a nice fellow, that’s good. But we need more than that, from him. If he’s serious about staying on he needs to show us what else he can do, besides being nice.
He needs a solid and brave deputy, such as Alysha Verrall. He needs to be uniting the left and taming the sillier elements of it. The public needs to see some definite progress because this constant diet of bombs being lobbed at so-called bottom feeders is not doing the left any good.
Great picture but he should be on a double lead with winstone on one side and seemore on the other.
On another note I see the COC is trying to bully the Wellington Council it’s the COC who have damaged our city with their bullshit water that does not work policy (just transferring debt that still has to be paid) dismissing thousands of public servants who spend money on the local businesses, no investment in public transport and cutting the public transport subsidies to name a few. Now the COC are trying to do stand overs cause some of the dummies in Wellington who voted for them are crying like babies cause their rates have to go up, but these people were forewarned this would happen.
I thought they would have had Winston humping him .
MB- I think the lunch conversation you wrote was too intellectual for either of them. It would have been more like this-
CL: “…..” (click)
DS: “…..” (click)
CL: “…..” (click)
DS: “…..” (click)
CL: “…..” (click)
DS: “…..” (click)
CL: “…..” (click click)
DS: “…..” (click click)
CL: “…..” (click click click click click click)…
Both too busy sending selfies.
Not convinced that Luxon needed all that much persuasion to give ACT what it wanted. (Saint) John Key had the ACT vote subsumed within National and ACT leaders (Banks, then Seymour) on life support with the so-called “Epsom arrangement” and way less than 5% of the Party vote. The two parties are very aligned in lots of areas and ACT is a convenient vehicle for saying what National really thinks while maintaining the fiction that National is centre-right, rather than just plain right-wing. (It’s Labour of course since 1999 that has been the actual centre-right party in NZ.)
At least John Key was a clever bastard, Luxon is just a bastard. Apart form Uncle Tom Reti, the National party seem to be of very average intelligence. When they give interviews it’s like listening to teenagers. They know the cost of everything but the value of nothing.
Funny your say that . Simeon boy Brown is one of average intelligence. His interviews always have the tag line “I’m just awaiting official advice”. In other words “I haven’t a clue what to do”.
The little intelligence he has is that by using that tag line he absolves himself of any responsibility and will lay the blame at his officials feet.
Why do you think that Ada. I am sure we would have a far better country if we had inspirational leaders who could take both sides of the political spectrum.
One just has to look at the bland leaders since Norman Kirk with the exception of short spells from David Lange and Jacinda Adern to see the lack of progress and cooperation good leaders can achieve.
Unfortunately Lange was shafted by Douglas and Prebble. Adern was handbraked by Peters and Jones.
Add these four blokes into the mix of Bolger Shipley Clarke Key as leaders and you have what we have today. A PM who is a absolutely abhorrent human leading a bunch of racist uncaring money driven people.
If we had had decent leaders who could actually lead we would be far better off economically and socially.
So what is the excuse for Ardern ‘s inaction from 2020 when NZF were out of the picture
A little thing called Covid!
Her inaction to keep businesses alive and people employed was astonishing(sarc)
Contrast today and NZ is the opposite run by an incompetent.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwirail-offers-voluntary-redundancy-to-all-staff/HCX4YK6G6JFHTNST6PFS5CVP3Q/
National government outcomes..
Where did having ones of the World most charismatic leaders get us or the poor sod that put faith in her leading them to a better land of socialist paradise
remember when you and your white supremists were attacking her and her kid along with saying the Maori were stealing the water thats what happened .Then you all voted for this pack of magots and now look at what you have done .You have consigned a whole generation of kids to the scrap heap .Even your little rich prick darlings will feel the force you have unleashed for the next 3 years .
People from your motherland with far greater intellect than you Trevor me old son think otherwise…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/dame-jacinda-ardern-bestowed-with-damehood-at-windsor-castle-investiture-ceremony/MR32SPPSVFFYPM7VHIL7H3TM2A/
The social paradise was on until the facist and narcissistic right brought in a “rich entitled prick” and bulldozed it all.
Of course those that are really on top of understanding economics at govt level know that if National/Act had been in control during the pandemic years there would be no inflation, no high interest rates and no increase in living costs whatsoever…….Yeah Right!!
A fool controlled by two knaves to rule us.
F–k!
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