Why Luxon just belittled every parent in poverty with his rich prick privilege

This is who we is now, this mutation of spite is what we have become.

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Christopher Luxon on school lunches: ‘Go make a Marmite sandwich’

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says parents who are dissatisfied with the new school lunch programme should “make a marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag”.

It comes after numerous problems were reported with the school lunches including most recently, plastic melted into the food.

Luxon first made the comments during an interview with Newstalk ZB on Tuesday, saying parents who were unhappy with the lunches should pack them themselves.

“If you are unhappy with it, for God’s sake, go make a Marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag just like you and I had.”

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Speaking to reporters ahead of National’s regular Caucus meeting, Luxon said parents have the choice to make their kids a sandwich and chuck an apple in a bag if they don’t like what is on offer through the programme.

What a sanctimonious prick!

Luxoin hates New Zealanders, he despises the bottom feeders and this mighty Christian has what to say about the corporate slop he is providing children?

‘Go make a Marmite sandwich’.

Wow.

“Let them eat marmite sammies because cake is too good for the bottom feeders’

How dare the bottom feeders complain about burnt plastic in their shitty food!

What’s that you can hear?

Chris Luxon speaking out his own arsehole.

How much must you dear reader have hated Jacinda to vote this rich smug arrogant privileged arsehole as Prime Minister.

How easily did you have your post-Covid bitterness manipulated into this shit?

Why won’t they serve this corporate slop in Bellamys?

Week 2 of the corporate slop and this is still not the worst thing ACT have done to children

The reality is that the vats amount of right wingers resent giving any food to hungry children, that’s how malicious and spiteful the NZ Right truly are.

400 000 on welfare.

1 in 4 children going hungry.

Violence against children is rising.

Homelessness is rising.

Inequality is rising.

40% of communities have unaffordable rents.

Unemployment at 5.1% impacts Māori at 9.7% and Pacifica at 10.7%

Mortgage missed payments and unpaid bills are at the highest level in a decade.

And what is Luxon’s response to all this?

…put aside the fact that Luxon is a rich prick, look at what he has done to the economy and then consider his lecturing towards beneficiaries:

He crashed the economy with an austerity budget that borrowed more for tax cuts and loopholes we couldn’t afford, and you is lecturing the poor?

HE HAS DONE THIS!!!

Blaming the victims of his economic policy is outrageous!

National are pushing 350,000 jobseekers to find work when there is no work because they collapsed the economy!

There are less than 11,000 jobs on Trademe and less than 5000 on Seek and National are demanding new sanctions against beneficiaries after sacking 9520 public sector workers!

How much must you hate Jacinda for post Covid bitterness to find this obscenity of policy sophistry acceptable?

This is who we is now, this mutation of spite is what we have become.

Hang your heads in shame Kiwi.

Hang your heads in shame.

 

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113 COMMENTS

  1. I doubt Luxon has a clue about the cost of a family sized plastic ( !!) container of marmite, but it makes a significant dent in any limited food budget. Most food does. But if that gutless wonder is the end product of eating endless marmite sandwiches, then perhaps it is time to cancel marmite before more children’s lives are handicapped.

    Meanwhile, back on the ranch, Stepford Amanda charges ladies $114.00 for the dubious pleasure of having one of her afternoon teas. The sooner they sod back off to Te Puke, the sooner real people will have less to puke about.

    • Well said Hollyhock…Clusterfuxon is called Clusterfuxon with good reason…

      He forgets, or hasn’t even worked it out, that back in his school days era, house prices, on average, were 3 to 4 times the average income and food and electricity prices were far more reasonable ….

      The rapid rise in real estate prices is something that Luxon has personally gamed and benefited from…making huge tax free gains whilst others struggle to even pay their extortionist rents from week to week.

      Now….average houses prices are 15 times the average income…
      and power and food prices are through the roof as a percentage of household incomes…

      Any fool can see that that is unsustainable..just like Seymour’s upchuckmuck lunch programme.

  3. Spot on, a jar of Vegemite,, peanut butter or jam are significant costs to the average family grocery list. The comment shows how entitled and disconnected Luxon really is.

    • Nick J. He’s just cringingly awful, he doesn’t have the brain power to connect. Most persons who comment here are smarter than he is.That first ridiculous shiny black Mercedes’ ride up Bowen St was childish, his “bottom- feeders “ comment appalling and totally unacceptable. Why Key wanted him in that job is worth pondering. Willis looks just as bad.

      I am angry about the sheer waffle about the health service after Monday evening at Wellington Hospital’s A&E with 50 odd patients, including children, waiting well into the night, a prisoner with a guard hurling racial abuse at health workers already rushed off their feet, and this the kind of scenario which Luxon and his ilk know nothing and probably care nothing or they’d address it.

      We all make allowances for people, or we try to, but when it’s the country’s PM we’re having to do it about, it’s not good enough. He has to go. He can afford to go, wherever he likes, but just go.

  4. Luxon is playing to the voters that he has lost to ACT. He will loose very few if any of the general vote–sadly.

  5. I stopped buying apples they were too expensive. Marmite ain’t cheap either, jam is cheaper but has a lot of sugar. We got fruit in the 60s, we got subsidised milk and mutton so we could afford it. Our PMs mask is falling off he is showing the real him and he is not a very nice man who is speaking from a privileged position. Too many naive NZers fell for his false promises he is not a leader, he lacks tact and I find him to be an embarrassment. He is also an arse kisser sucking up to the loopey Trump.

    • And covid then there is this….

      https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/04/censured-new-concerns-over-lester-levys-razor-gang/

      Last paragraph Luxon states…

      Luxon says. “We have more workforce in the frontline parts of our system, and yet we’re getting poor results, and so we need those results to be stepped up. And the reality is, we know we’ve got a low performing organisation, and we need to turn it around.”

      This is a lie by Luxon. Luxon is clearly put of his depth on this.

      Doctors are cutting appointment times in half to do admin tasks because redundancies Levy initiated has gutted front line positions. Front line positions are not being replaced, that is a fact no matter the spin or outright lies Luxon is spinning to his media.

  6. Little more revolting a spectacle than the warm, well fed, wealthy (very wealthy in this case) commenting on the lifestyles of the less well off. What was Baldrick’s food intake for yesterday? Come on any journalist worthy of the title–ask the shiny bonced fucker.

    This PM as well as being totally out of his depth as a Prime Minister, also has a nasty side which he reveals from time to time, he gets a largely free ride from media channels but it is time to target him more.

  7. What a load of rubbish.
    Parents should feed their own kids and if they cannot a school supplied sandwich should be plenty. Why do they need a hot meal.
    Socialists’ will never be satisfied until we are all poor and starving, but at least we are all equal poor and starving.

    • You were right man in black your capitalist comment is a load of rubbish.
      Capitalists will never be satisfied until all the poor and starving are slaves to the rich and powerful. You will never want equality.

    • Letter in The Herald.
      Reality bites
      Oh Bruce Cotterill … your opinion piece, so sensible at first read (March 1) but also so very obvious you know few people dependent on “crutches” to negotiate their way through life.
      Yes, I’m of the Marmite sandwich generation. And yes, many of my lunches were discovered mummified days later in my school bag. However, like many other Marmite sandwich-eaters, I went home after school to afternoon tea and a “proper” evening meal.
      Many of the recipients of today’s school lunches eat once a day. At school. And yes, they also have taste buds and likes/dislikes.
      The argument their family should be meeting their nutritional requirements is pointless. They’re not. For whatever reason. It is then our job to ensure that these kids get fed. The Government is the machine that turns the cogs to get the job done, but it’s us paying for it. And I consider it money well spent.
      Jessica Bland, Stratford.

      • Back in your day, you had afternoon tea because, unlike today, one man’s income was enough to support a family and mum was home to provide it. Back in your day you had a “ proper” evening meal because families frequently sat down to share it together without one parent having to race out the door to the night shift the moment the other arrived home from the day shift.

        National’s invidious low-income economy is anti- family and it’s a bit rich- rich- rich- for any of them to lecture parents about their responsibilities when they deliberately make the going so tough.

    • School supplied, locally made, sandwiches and wraps stuffed with healthy fillings were exactly what was served before the Epsom twerp handed the money over to corporate slops makers.

    • Good comment Johny O’Donnell on Facebook.

      “Make a Marmite sandwich,” says the Prime Minister, as if hunger is just a failure of imagination.
      The Finance Minister agrees, fretting that feeding kids is turning into an entitlement.
      Not the kind of “I’m entitled to it” that saw the Prime Minister claim a $52,000 accommodation supplement for an apartment he owned because Premier House didn’t suit him. No, a different kind of entitled.
      David Seymour, summoned for a please-explain, shrugs it off: “The Prime Minister and I are working through this.” Misogynist-speak for “stay out of it, lady” to the female cabinet colleague he just stood up.
      Meanwhile, a truck grinds its way 800km from the inferno in Hamilton, gambling with our ageing ferries, to deliver food to school kids in Murchison. I wonder if the driver thought to just make a sandwich.
      The relentless heat burns the plastic, melting chemicals into the lifeless grub. But never mind – just make a sandwich.
      In a desperate bid to plug the gap without breaking the bank, growing young minds are delivered a carton of kai so small it fits in your palm. Still hungry? Just make a sandwich.
      Lunches late, or never arriving at all? Disrupting your school day? Just make a sandwich.
      Halal? Allergies? Special dietary needs? Have you ever tried a Marmite sandwich?
      All this fuss. 244,144 students fed each week and who knew – parents could have just made a Marmite sandwich all along.
      As the ice melts on defrosting meals, teachers wonder – will the kids eat today? Or will they be ringing home to remind parents to make a Marmite sandwich?
      But don’t worry, it’s all under control. David Seymour soothes the growling stomachs with a grin “I’m enjoying the challenge” he proclaims as he makes his way to Bellamy’s for a marmite sandwich.
      At the end of another day of misery, all that remains are mountains of rejected food and an ocean of plastic waste.
      Oh, and hungry kids.
      At least they got their three hours of reading, writing, and maths.
      Because sustenance, after all, comes in many forms.

    • In the progressive immagination there is always another problem to be solved, always another injustice to be rectified.

      The problem is the purpose.

    • And farmers should feed their own cows and sheep and businesses should get their own money to prop up their business not my taxes.

  8. MEDIA: Child poverty and material hardship measures are headed in the wrong direction, so the free school lunch program at least ensured that kids are getting one reasonable meal a day.
    MR RICH AND SORTED: In my day we ate bread and dripping and didn’t complain.
    SEYMOUR: Compass are doing great with the $3 meals, and their technical department is even developing a $2 meal, high in protein and fibre, which I’m sure the children will appreciate. Its based on lumps of offal mixed into a base of curried porridge…Mmmmmm.
    MR RICH AND SORTED: I think we should lead by example and provide free marmite sandwiches, apples, and menstrual cups, to all MPs. Jago had volunteered to fit the cups, but he’s no longer available.

  9. I’m wealthy and sorted, back on track he said more like falling off the rails

  10. Good comment from Johny O’donnell on Facebook.
    “Make a Marmite sandwich,” says the Prime Minister, as if hunger is just a failure of imagination.
    The Finance Minister agrees, fretting that feeding kids is turning into an entitlement.
    Not the kind of “I’m entitled to it” that saw the Prime Minister claim a $52,000 accommodation supplement for an apartment he owned because Premier House didn’t suit him. No, a different kind of entitled.
    David Seymour, summoned for a please-explain, shrugs it off: “The Prime Minister and I are working through this.” Misogynist-speak for “stay out of it, lady” to the female cabinet colleague he just stood up.
    Meanwhile, a truck grinds its way 800km from the inferno in Hamilton, gambling with our ageing ferries, to deliver food to school kids in Murchison. I wonder if the driver thought to just make a sandwich.
    The relentless heat burns the plastic, melting chemicals into the lifeless grub. But never mind – just make a sandwich.
    In a desperate bid to plug the gap without breaking the bank, growing young minds are delivered a carton of kai so small it fits in your palm. Still hungry? Just make a sandwich.
    Lunches late, or never arriving at all? Disrupting your school day? Just make a sandwich.
    Halal? Allergies? Special dietary needs? Have you ever tried a Marmite sandwich?
    All this fuss. 244,144 students fed each week and who knew – parents could have just made a Marmite sandwich all along.
    As the ice melts on defrosting meals, teachers wonder – will the kids eat today? Or will they be ringing home to remind parents to make a Marmite sandwich?
    But don’t worry, it’s all under control. David Seymour soothes the growling stomachs with a grin “I’m enjoying the challenge” he proclaims as he makes his way to Bellamy’s for a marmite sandwich.
    At the end of another day of misery, all that remains are mountains of rejected food and an ocean of plastic waste.
    Oh, and hungry kids.
    At least they got their three hours of reading, writing, and maths.
    Because sustenance, after all, comes in many forms.

  11. In the progressive immagination there is always another problem to be solved, always another injustice to be rectified.

    The problem is the purpose.

  12. In the progressive immagination there is always another problem to be solved, always another injustice to be rectified.

    The problem is the purpose.

  13. “If you are unhappy with it, for God’s sake, go make a Marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag just like you and I had.”
    Daddy was a sales executive at Johnson and Johnson, Mummy was a psychotherapist and counsellor, Chris went to Saint Kentigern College, Howick College and Christchurch boys High School.
    Does anyone believe Chris Luxon was brought up on marmite sandwiches and an apple a day?
    This man is not John Banks, or Rob Muldoon. He never lived in a state house at any stage of his life or went hungry for more than half an hour.
    For all those bleaters about how parents should provide their children with school lunches, shall we reinstate the egalitarian society that made the norm? When there was a fairer tax system in place? When poverty was not regarded as a crime but a social evil to be eradicated?
    What Zelda, Maninblack and Krautet Haus want is the society described by Gore Vidal
    ‘Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich.’

    • Stevie. I think Marmite Man told Skye News Australia that both his parents were high school drop-outs, and that this explains his emotional and intellectual deficiencies and general douche-bag nouveau riche vulgarity.

  14. I know a lot of you will never have heard of Keith Holyoake .He was PM for 4 terms inthe late 50s and early 60s when stuff was getting done in NZ ,LIKE BUILDING SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS .The reason he did 4 terms was because every thing he did was for NZ not just a small % like is the norm now days .
    Also he presided over a 60% tax rate for the top earners to enable all these things to happen .
    The change to taxing small business and workers to the max has led us to the current fucked up society .
    A quick google on the tax rates at that time will lead you to two pieces by PAUL GOLDSMITH when the ferret worked for treasury .

    • Holyoake distrusted the American version of capitalism. He was more aligned to the UK, and British one nation Toryism. He kept our involvement in Vietnam to the bare minumum,

    • Holyoake didn’t have a whole phalanx of advisors and pr people telling him what to do. That’s a fairly recent phenomenon, and one that mightn’t necessarily work very well.

  15. Why don’t we just get Sanitarium to pay tax on their marmite and use that to pay the extra $1 for the school lunches. One would think their christian values would get them offering more to feed the poor anyway (or don’t they worry about what Jesus was telling them?).

  17. So, is this bubbleheads “Let them eat cake” moment? One has to say that it has become, and has been for a little while now, rather obvious that NZ has finally voted in a “government” that is nothing of the kind…
    What our tory rump euphemistically label as “leaders” are actually nothing but operatives for outside interests, and have demonstrated their utter lack of care for the people they were elected to administer for…
    Seriously, what did we expect from these whores? Loyalty?, commitment to social justice?, an economy that works for the majority? Recognition of the need for us to evolve into the society that isn’t just another British acquisition whos only use is to be exploited for the benefit of the scions of the colonial power structure?….
    All of the above, and more… But hey, we voted for this, so what we collectively need is therapy to divest ourselves of the collective “Stockholm syndrome” that is staining the social fabric of this country to the point where no amount of scrubbing will remove the damage..

    • Ximon Wrong. The fairly nutritious cheese spreads and fish spreads handy for hurried sandwich making are no longer available in the supermarkets. Chris is merely the Marmite man.

  19. My daughter was a social worker at an Auckland primary school. Some of the kids and mums she helped (including with budgeting and welfare money entitlements) were always short of food after rent and bills. Every Friday she had a deal with a local supermarket to get several crates of bread which she delivered to the kids homes.

    The people in this government have never been in touch.

  21. I get the impression when it comes to Luxon that he is Completely Out of Touch with NZers. He simply has NO CLUE. He is Devoid of Knowledge let alone Caring, Empathy, Understanding or rather You Name It He Lacks It when it comes to Human Qualities that have No Dollar Signs Attached.
    Luxon is still treating NZ and NZers as a Corporation and this whilst he is IN NZ. Outside of the country he probably still makes derogatory comments at say “business meeting” in regards to the country he is supposedly the representative of. When he does that not only is he demeaning NZ but he demeans himself as well. I hope most business people when meeting him quickly realise how much Luxon is prepared to demean himself just to look impressive.
    He himself has boasted about being Wealthy and Sorted and of course Entitled but he Just Doesn’t Do It for NZ if you know what I mean.
    Luxon is coming across as being Not One Bit Interested in NZ and its population. He is more concerned with being addressed as a prime minister albeit a Part-time one at that rather than pulling ALL ministers in the Overall Coalition government that He is Part of To Account. He constantly makes excuses for the actions of Seymour and Peters etc but he will Never Ever be a Proper Leader.
    In fact Luxon comes across as Weak, Gutless, a Coward and only too happy to resort to Corporation Jargon and Learnt by Rote responses in his speeches etc.
    Oh and by the way he is Only TOO responsive which looks like an old Record on an Old Record Player that has a scratch on it to Repeating the Age Old Beating of the Outdated NZ National Party Blame-Game Mantra Drum of Blaming even Labour for All the Woes on the planet.

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