MEDIAWATCH: Erica Stanford’s Q+A interview should terrify Luxon

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Martyn Bradbury
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Wow.

How good was Erica Stanford on Q+A?

She managed to defend the NCEA mutilation with a skill and emotional attunement that screams National Party Leader.

Luxon has been able to get away with his appalling performances because there is no one who could seriously challenge him.

Erica’s performance on Q+A demolishes that guard rail.

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Alongside Penk, she is the star performer of National.

The clock on Luxon’s leadership just started ticking.

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35 COMMENTS

  1. Yes she’s very good when she’s getting her own way. Watch the wheels fall off when she’s under pressure in parliament and never forget she voted against pay equity just to balance the books. Be careful what you wish for

    • Yes …i swear she was an extra in the movie ‘ Mean Girls’….

      Luxon and Penk set a very low bar which makes Stanford look at the low end of semi normal.

      The idiotic, incorrect, nonsense that Penk is espousing around construction, what changes he is planning to make, and why, should set the alarm bells ringing for N.Z.’s future.

      Everyone, except Luxon himself, realises that he is a vacuous, God-bothering, anti abortionist fraud….but if Stanford is the answer to National and the country’s leadership crisis, then National, and the country, are officially fucked!

  2. NCEA changes are a perfect ‘culture war light’ issue that National will ride as hard as they can to cover for their economic failures. It is not serious education policy at all but that won’t matter because its purpose is to feed the ZB/Platform echo chamber with fresh meat.
    This is a more subtle approach than Maori bashing and ‘bene’ bashing but it fits right in there on the standard right-wing target list – public education and teachers. Teacher bashing is going to come next and will be a key part of Nationals election campaign as their regressive education ideas meet reality.

  3. I remember watching her on the telly quite sometime ago and she was carrying on in a hysterical manner like a stark raving mad banshee.

    I think whilst people may like her compared to Luxon she is too volatile and unstable especially when deeply questioned especially by the MPs in Opposition. She flies off the handle too quickly.

    Besides she calls female MPs Stupid Bitches and that is a display of how uncouth she is.

    In Misogynistic NZ I don’t think she will get many votes if she takes over from Luxon. Though I do not like Luxon he is the best weapon Labour has to winning the election.

  4. Her much needed education reforms, that are actually happening and not just used for PR, alone suggest she might be someone who actually gets things done. People still conveniently forget that Labour (under Jacinda) was handed an unprecedented outright majority under MMP and inexplicably completely squandered it (yet TDBers somehow still think she was the bees knees GOAT).

    • Many on this blog hate to be reminded of how bad Jacinda and co did to promote Labour’s core policies to show us none believers that socialism is good for all .

    • I am a left winger but I have never regarded Jacinda and her followers as left wing. Given her mandate I am staggered at how little she changed anything for the betterment of those at the bottom of the ladder. The only thing close to left wing is TPM – who said we should get out of being under the wing of the United States amongst many other good things. And the Green Party.

    • What you call Labour was LINO and didn’t have the moral character to actually make the decisions required. They are controlled by the financial class so while they made some improvements they were more interested in pleasing the market than supporting low income and working people.

    • So why have the curriculum changes that were supposed to start next year been deferred until 2027.
      Getting things done my arse.
      Also hiding behind Seymour when asked about charter schools. They aren’t happening at the rate that was promised
      Getting things done my arse.

  5. Just watched her interview. She is very articulate and doesn’t allow herself to get trapped in Jack Tame’s pedantic nonsense (he really needs to work on that imo). Reminds me of Jacinda, except National.

    • Yep, pretty much the same apprenticeship of participation. Jacinda was under the wing of Helen Clarke while Erica worked in the office of Murray McCully, then MP for East Coast Bays on Auckland’s North Shore. The same seat so occupies now I think. But very different people I feel.

  7. Stanford is a phoney she cares mostly about the upper class,when asked about the opposition to her NCEA she wasnt having a bar of it yet her and her party talk up bipartisan. Everything has to be done fast not best practise as good things take time and for something they claim to be so important ,why the rush. Also she seemed to have no problem with collectives when it comes to the caucus making a collective decision but when it’s the teacher union collective that’s a big nah! funny that double standards. Standfors is the education Minister she needs to take responsibility for all matters in her portfolio not pass the buck. The red necks on ZB are making her out to be better than she is . She’s not PM material she mutters obscenities under her breathe when challenged calling the opposition bitches is not becoming of a PM. Her use of her personal email account was downplayed by her baldy loser attention seeking embarassment of a leader whose looking like suffering from bad polls and extreme unpopularity, cuddling foreign leaders like a kid needing affection.

  8. Luxon is living off his coalition partners. New Zealanders don’t like him and National needs to sack him. Stanford and Penk? Possibly. Unfortunately anyone is better than Luxon.

    • Unlike Jacinda Luxon does not get all upset if he is not Mr Popularity he is happy to be judged by the results of his Party at the next election. By then the hard work will be paying dividens for the voters.

      • ‘By then the hard work will be paying dividens for the voters.’
        You said that last year Trevor and earlier this year. According to your predictions we should have been surfing the waves of prosperity by now.
        Methinks ye be a false prophet and should be stoned( if not already).

    • Luxon is the gift that keeps on giving. I’m hoping he’ll hang around for as long as possible. Everyone thinks he’s a corporate jargon dispenser (which he is), he can’t keep Peters and Seymour on a leash, and he makes the opposition look brilliant by comparison. The longer National takes to roll him, the better.

  11. Not sure Erica Stanford has the support or metal to oust Luxton. Or indeed the ambition. National’s only female leader Jenny Shipley was a different kettle of fish, as was Jim Bolger.

  12. Erica Stanford always looks like she’s just smelled something deeply unpleasant. Or she’s sucking a lemon. In terms of her eloquence and relatability, it’s true she runs rings around Luxon. But then a pot plant would run rings around Luxon. He’s an absolute charisma vacuum.

    • And there’s the rub. If Luxton cannot deliver as promised his charisma certainly wont save him. If the headwinds keep blowing as they have Luxton’s credability will be on the line come election time and he’ll be gonsky. Looks pretty much exhausted as it is.

  13. I found Tame’s questions on NCEA not probing enough on substance – his questions improved with charter schools , and did rattle her when she couldn’t answer why Seymour is running the show but she is the minister, so not impressed with Stanford – just boilrerplate ‘growth’ ‘blame labour’ BS.

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