Watching Luxon and Winston attack each other over the economic meltdown they have created is just glorious…
Luxon brushes off Winston Peters’ asset sales attack
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has waved away New Zealand First’s criticism of National’s economic plan, saying Winston Peters has many entrenched views.
…firstly, how bad has shit gotten that all National have left is selling our public assets to cover up the disaster of their austerity program?
They have underfunded public services while borrowing billions for tax cuts, landlord tax loop holes, gas and oil subsides, tobacco subsidies and Michelin Star programs.
Their decision to destroy Labour’s infrastructure pipeline has had a cascade effect throughout the economy that has seen 73 000 flee the country and the destruction of 30 000 jobs in the construction sector.
National’s response to this is mass importation of cheaper labour from exploited migrant workers while allowing multi millionaires to buy $5million mansions.
Look.
NZ is 3 huge sparsely populated Islands.
We simply don’t have the population density for free market dynamics to generate the competitive advantages that they can provide, NZ has ALWAYS required the State to step in as the foundation stone.
National and ACT want to kick that foundation stone out from under us and pretend that’s not economic vandalism.
Unemployment reached a 9-year high of 5.3 percent, it’s 10.5% for Māori, 12.1% for Pacifica and 15.2% for 15-24year olds while an increasing number of disillusioned job seekers are opting out of joining the workforce altogether.
Winston is one of the best political players in the game, to date he has leaned heavily into culture war conspiracies to hate on the Trans, hate on the vaccines, hate on climate change, but he is smart enough to know that his knuckle dragging supporters can’t eat their hate and that the economy is suffering right now.
He will have watched what happened recently in America and the crucifixion of Republicans in the most recent elections.
For example, of the 480-plus contested races in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh, Republicans only won 11.
In Pennsylvania’s Bucks County, voters elected a Democratic district attorney for the first time since the 1800s, part of a Democratic sweep of every county office, including controller and recorder of deeds.
In Georgia, Democrats ousted two Republicans on the Public Service Commission, the party’s first capture of a non-federal statewide office in Georgia since 2006.
In Connecticut, Democrats took control of 28 towns from the GOP.
In New Jersey, Democrats won their biggest majority in the General Assembly since the Watergate era.
Much of the attention last Wednesday NZT focused on the Democrats’ big United States election wins in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, as well as in the New York mayor’s contest.
But the party also won hundreds of lower-profile state and local contests – often swamping Republican incumbents with overwhelming turnout.
…I love this comment by a Republican strategist…
“I think we need to heed what the voters are telling us – they want us to focus on pocketbook issues, which is part and parcel of how Trump got elected in the first place,” Nicholas said.
“Perhaps we have run enough ads on the trans issue for a while.”
…Winston is sensing the same change in NZ.
Hating on the trans and the woke is fine and dandy while you have money in your pocket, but not even demented NZ First voters can pay the bills with their spite.
Winston is pivoting, he will know the numbers are being run on Luxon’s leadership and he is beginning his campaigning now.
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So the reserve bank is paying $56 mill to lease office space. You would think it had a government owned building when it was established in 1934. If that building hadnt been asset saled at some point then that would be $56 million in taxes that wouldnt have to be collected today.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/ombudsman-complaint-prompts-the-rbnz-to-disclose-it-quadrupled-auckland-lease-costs/premium/AG5Q3KSTFZBERGWF5GEZ4UCHTA/
This is coalition in action .I have been pleasantly surprised at the lack of aggression between the 3 parties which show the true skill of Luxon despite his lack of political knowledge.
That’s such a silly but funny comment trev
If Clusterfuxon wants a “mature conversation” regarding asset sales, then let’s start with a mature conversation regarding CGT, wealth tax, and student loan/ benefit debt forgiveness.
Seriously, how did these useless losers ever get in power? It is deeply embarrassing and will take decades to repair the dumbarse damage these selfish idiots have inflicted upon our beloved Aotearoa.
Bastards.
“…firstly, how bad has shit gotten that all National have left is selling our public assets to cover up the disaster of their austerity program?”
I don’t get comments like this, especially when you frequently publish stories with a diagram showing how the CoC runs down state services so the public demands they cut services and sell assets.
It is deliberate – austerity demands asset sales.
Outsourcing hips and knees to the private sector means the public health sector becomes more inefficient as overheads remain the same but outputs decrease, so they can show the public sector doesn’t work and demand more privatisation.
The CoC may be as thick as batshit, but the people who decide what they do are not.
I think it’s deliberate too. Starve everything. Make the gullible public dissatisfied with their public services and they’ll be easy to manipulate into considering selling those assets.
I think that you are describing the diagram wrong. The public want decent government services (education, health etc) but this government has made a mess and is using the mess as an excuse to make a bigger mess. Proposed asset sales will just increase the wealth of those who already have enough and put the government in a worse financial situation.
Well it has taken Winston a while to wisen up and see the inept mess he willingly joined. Is he positioning himself to run with Labour? Actually hope not, but if he is he has to shed the “stupid antivax / anti everything normal” brigade. He can’t have a foot in both camps although he would like to. Once your assets have gone you have nothing but the cash which gets burnt up fast. Anyone with a brain, which excludes Willis and Luxon, can see that. Please someone tell me exactly what OF SIGNIFICANCE this inept, thick CoC has brought in so far? Seems to me they are insignificant, interferring bees that buzz around creating havoc to distract us and hiding appalling corruption! Add to the McSkimming cover-up the 400 bogus truck licences, plus falsifying breath tests – it goes on and on! Even the money the new multi millonaires make will leave our country as do the exhorbitant and greedy bank profits. Time for a “massive” change – another word Luxon loves!
Luxon will be shitting his pants right now and selling a few assets will be the furtherest from his mind .Both he and his shit police minister knew in 2024 that Mcskimming was a dirty cop but chose to sweep it under the carpet .Then the promoted costa to the head of the social investment ministry even though they knew this shit was going on .
Mitchell is going hard to throw Coster under the bus which is what Luxon will be planning to do to Mitchell to save his own arse .
I have no idea why the media have the desire to cover up for these two shit men .If it was the last government they would have had a trial by media by now and a public lynching on parliament grounds .
Distraction, you reckon. Could be Gordon. The police minister is hardly a fit and proper person himself, and they knew that before the election. Now he gets to make Coster’s head roll.
Looks as if you don’t often get to the top of anything, by being ‘a fit and proper person’.
Your condemnation of the current government seem to blind you to the facts that Coster was appointed u Der Labour and much of the cover up happened under Labour.Coster’s role in covid control was praised and he was put on a high pedestal by Hipkins.There was no cover up by this government.
Trev better to not comment and be thought a fool than to comment and remove all doubt
You miss the point as usual .Luxon and Mitchell were copied in on emails from the lady in october 2024 ,1 year after they were elected and have sat on that info for a year .
They are in this upto their necks and Luxon has gone to ground and he will be soon off on an urgent trip to no where .
Of course Luxon knew. The no surprises policy would have seen to that. That alone should cause him to resign, but it won’t.
Why can’t we just sell Cluxon?
And throw seymour in as a freebie. A Two-fer deal. buy one, get one free.
Problem solved.
We’ll keep Winston on the shelf for now, but he’d better not change his mind on this, or he’ll be out.
None of them could be classed as ‘assets’, I know, but selling your old junk is so satisfying.
Sell Luxon and Seymour? You couldn’t give them away for free.
The quick silver fox jumps over the lazy blue hog and the leap-frogs, well …
Luxon is another Key without the cunning and black ops team behind him. Its more likely that Mitchell and Collins were aware of the cover up through their extensive contacts in the Police. Not much happens without Collins knowing about it. The true extent of the deception will never be known.
I have no time nor liking of Winston Peters mainly due to his Broken Promise in the lead up to the 1996 election when he said he would NEVER enter into a Coalition government with National.
Once the votes were counted He Happily discarded his promise and jumped in political bed with National.
I am getting the impression that the Honeymoon between National and NZ First is at an end. Peters is probably waking up to see what a Lazy Part-time Often Missing in Action prime minister Luxon is.
After all Luxon ONLY cares about Luxon and his Self-Promotion. Luxon Doesn’t care about anyone else eg those he calls Bottom Feeders.
NZ deserves better in its politicians