MEDIAWATCH: TV3 LEADERS DEBATE: Finally – where has this Chippy been!
Election 2023: Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon come to life in fiery leaders’ debate
And Hipkins came out firing.
FINALLY!
Where the hell has this Chippy been?
He did what every Left wing voter wanted and that was to attack Luxon over his bullshit policies and budget holes.
We finally saw Luxon on the back foot and we finally saw the scrapper that Kiwis want Chippy to be.
The insane posturing of Luxon over Gang funerals really told us what a National party leadership would look like.
Luxon’s insane policy to have Police rip Gang patches off Gang members was tested by Paddy who asked, ‘Would you demand Police enter a Gang funeral to remove patches’.
Luxon said yes.
Just imagine that.
500 Gang members turning up to mourn their dead comrade, and the Police descend (remember there would need to be at least 1500 Police to removes the gang patches of 500 gang members) to start an open brawl at a funeral.
Paddy made sure Luxon understood the question, and Luxon went straight down the Police State road. If he is anywhere power, Luxon’s go to is State violence that leads to radicalisation.
Sending in cops to a Gang funeral rot reip[ patches off might make tough guys feel tough, but the fucking
Chippy constantly hounded and harassed Luxon and Luxon looked like as flakey as we know he is.
When Chippy threw a NZ First candidates Māori hate into the mix and demanded Luxon answer why National will enable that level of hate.
Tellingly Luxon refuses to resign if his bullshit Foreign Buyers Tax won’t raise the revenue we have all claimed it won’t!
Luxon pretending to not know who Winston was is the highlight!
We are fucked if Luxon gets anywhere near power. He is a condescending smug prick who will pass policy that will benefit the rich and rob the poor!
Cutting to victims in the audience was petty and beneath the mana of the moment and the panel afterwards was bland, but this is Disney after all so we should count our blessings Mickey Mouse didn’t come on stage and blow Luxon.
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Chipkins turned on the deep fryers last night.
lolz
A nice analogy Ngungukai.
I thought Chippie was well named Chipping in like a petulant schoolboy when luxon was answering. Gower should have chipped him!
Dream on…Luxon got smashed out of the park on every single issue…
Chippy’s dismantling job was executed with alarming ease ..
The media are doing their best to try and nullify the beating we all witnessed by making bland overall generalisations, but there is no doubt that it was a blood bath and it just demonstrated how Luxon is not even close to being Prime Ministerial material.
This vacuous newby numpty cannot be given control of the country!!
Wishful thinking and willful denial of reality by you Brom. Luxon got smashed. His true character and traits shined through – he was evasive, equivocating, slippery, condescending, and angry.
“like a petulant schoolboy”, which says more about you than I want to know…
If Winston bans gangs then there will be 500 less people at the funeral
and 500 less police.
Luxon simply struggled on almost every issue.
Hardly surprising Hipkins won comfortably, noted by all political media.
I didn’t know that for Hipkins to win the election he would be in charge of a 5 headed Monster. 4 co leaders and himself.
Makes Uncle Winston look quite good. He was the winner of the debate, just shadowing Hipkins. He might end up on 8.5% now.
Taking patches of gang members at a tangi was an absolute shocker and is totally irresponsible there would be kids and women and other innocent bystanders at these tangihanga. Luxon’s approach would end in a blood bath and not fair on our police either. If National get in power with that mongrel war monger mercenary Mitchell in charge of our police, we will see gun wars with big bloody shoot ups. Our people need to encourage all of their whanau to vote too many don’t vote and are disenfranchised and that includes all the gangs and their whanau.
Shhh. No one is allowed to mention that.
The Newshub poll is showing 68% of voters thought Luxon won. It’s currently sitting on just over 28000 votes.
I too enjoyed this version of Hipkins. But I don’t think it played well to the wider audience sadly.
Not a good endorsement of Newshub, as a blind man on a galloping horse in the dead of night could see that Luxon got an absolute caning, highlighting that fact that he is not ‘fit for purpose’…
….but may also demonstrate the low level of intellect possessed by the people who follow Newshub and participate in their polls…
Which means their polls have no credibility whatsoever…
Newshub is unashamedly rightwing, that is a known fact. To say otherwise is simply ridiculous.
Was chippie on mdma?
No that was Luxon, mdma responsible for hair loss.
No, Luxon and National are getting the country back on crack!
Luxon has been allowed to endlessly spout his meaningless scripted slogans for 18 months. Journalists have either been too timid or too busy cheerleading to challenge him – except for Tame once. Good to have it publicly confirmed that all the slogans are just a low-grade disguise to deflect from what has always been the sacred mission of the National Party – to redistribute wealth upwards.
AB you have hit the nail on the head. For the most part journalists work for business organisation’s and the one thing we know is that business organizations are whole heartedly behind right wing parties, thus no one holding anything Luxon says to account. No matter where you look or listen, TV or radio, the promotion of Luxon is endless. It’s actually very embarrassing.
Yes Sam that would be the squeezed middle and the very rich who have backed the right-wing parties.
I saw the poll and we all know who they are the many selfish voting for themselves last time national were in power our country got run down and inequalities increased not good enough seems some dumb kiwis haven’t learnt their lesson and are going back for more.
Seems Bob the first is in denial on this. But then again he admits he’s biased so anything he posts here is irrelevant.
Yes Sam that would be the squeezed middle and the very rich who have backed the right-wing parties.
I saw the poll and we all know who they are the many selfish voting for themselves last time national were in power our country got run down and inequalities increased not good enough seems some dumb kiwis haven’t learnt their lesson and are going back for more.
Finally!
After weeks of sleepwalking to election defeat, Chippie begins his campaign to remain leader of the Labour Party in opposition.
I mean, really?
On losing the election that was Labour’s to win, Chris Hipkins should do the honourable thing and resign as the leader of the Labour Party.
Wasn’t that the national standards debacle introduced by the National party when Hekia was in charge of M.O.E. And didn’t the teachers at the time call it mediocracy. Also, Tolley cut the funding for remedial reading recovery and this program was actually working.
yes to all of the above
Wasn’t that the national standards debacle introduced by the National party when Hekia was in charge of M.O.E. And didn’t the teachers at the time call it mediocracy. Also, Tolley cut the funding for remedial reading recovery and this program was actually working.
Yes covid now where’s silly Bob to counter?
Chippy was firing on all cylinders last night. Great to see.
too late. the politics is done. just propaganda and persona now, with a bunch of persuasion. policy is all wrong on all sides from all parties. there’s only one policy that matters. governance. we are being governed by party muppets. what’s in it for MY party and MY leaders. take me to your leader. all your base, are belong to us. we are the borg!