MEDIAWATCH: Luxon loses his temper at Jack Tame in Q+A Final
Crown-Māori relations ‘probably worse’ since coalition came to power – PM
Crown-Māori relations are “probably worse” under the coalition government with “more division” now than when they came to power, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says.
I was very critical of Jack’s interview with the Israeli Ambassador, I thought for a country accused of war crimes, his interview was very weak.
That’s the only bad thing I’ve got to say about him, because week after week Jack does the best TV Political Interview in the game.
He can never be accused of bias, because he bats with very well researched questions that are all open source.
You only get gotten by Jack if you haven’t done your homework, and sweet Jesus did the Prime Minister not do his homework for the final Q+A of 2024.
Luxon has refused to appear on Q+A because he’s really weak and the more voters see of him and his dead eyed corporate KPI routine, the more they dislike him.
Jack, like a laser guided missile, attacked Luxon for siding up to ACTs race divisive Treaty Referendum Cross Burning political jamboree by arguing it wasn’t a bottom line for ACT.
In short, the great deal maker agreed to this divisive race baiting stunt despite it not being. bottom line.
Jack had called David and David told him.
So again, Luxon signed us all up to this hate fest needlessly, despite being promoted as the great deal maker.
The danger for National is moderate National voters will turn to Labour in disgust at the race baiting while more red necked National will peel off to ACT in revolt of Luxon not bashing da Mareees.
Luxon is being ripped to pieces by race politics he was too lazy and stupid to understand when the deal was negotiated.
Jack kept pointing to every economic indicator showing the country going backwards under National, the reason of course is the Austerity budget and policies are shutting down publicly funded infrastructure leaving a yawning chasm in the construction industry which Luxon hopes the private sector will simply plug.
That hope is seeing 1000 Kiwis leaving our shores each week.
National have no policies for the common good, only policies for their donor class, the shock of Jacinda’s Kindness to Luxon’s entitlement has been as brutal as it has been surreal.
Luxon has all the charm of a road accident and his irritation at having to be held accountable by the Bottom Feeders is pretty obvious.
The only truly interesting part of this latest interview was how quick David Seymour was to throw Luxon under the bus by telling media his Bill wasn’t a bottom line.
I think the economy is going to get far, far, far worse. The OCR cut won’t really come through to those needing it most and with Trump’s tariffs looming in January, the US dollar will explode against the Kiwi and we will see a surge in petrol prices that will restart inflation.
All while unemployment spikes.
All Luxon will have over this Summer of pain is some ridiculous gang funeral stunt because Kiwis are going to start wondering what the hell they elected in Luxon because it wasn’t for a race war and economic doom.
Jack is one of best Fourth Estate Journalists, we are fortunate to have him.
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I could only watch about ten minutes of that interview, having to look as well as listen to Luxon’s bull shit is just too painful. And yes Jack does a great job, his interview with Debbie Ngarewa-Packer was worth watching.
Yes, the same for me, not able to listen. I cannot stand his voice or his repeated stock phrases, or his lies.
Two things in this article could not be more true : brutal as it is surreal and yes, David Seymour throwing Luxon under the bus… hmmm what’s all that about. What does that mean Luxon did and why. Was he that dumb? Did he secretly want this division and agrees with Seymour? Should he be in Act?
Thank you for this insightful summary of a rapidly declining situation. Luxon wanted and used the Seymour sideshow to divert attention away from the issues you mention, as well as the current destruction of the public health system.
Don’t bother, they’re here!
Yep Jack Tame ripped him a new one.
All the way through you could see Luxon is as dumb as a brick.
An average year 13 high school student would do a better job than him.
Yes it was a trainwreck, a plane crash, and a car accident of an interview all rolled into one for Luxon…
What a shambles…all he had was… “blame Labour” …despite producing no evidence that the current shambolic state of affaires, and their terrible decision making, could be linked to them.
He didn’t even know what the definition of the term ‘Policy’ was.
And to make things worse, the latest polls about to come out show that Labour are now ahead of National.
Most silverspooners will always vote National, and trot out ludicrous justifications for poor performance regardless of how useless they are, but, now the middleclass parents are seeing their children leave N.Z . in their droves, because it is nigh impossible to get ahead, combined with rapidly deteriorating services , they want the responsible adults back in charge.
The house prices are stagnant to falling and will stay like that for the next 10 years , so the only reason they had to vote for National, is now just a wet dream that’s turned into a pipedream.
They realise it’s time to get real about life and focus on real issues, rather than hope for some lotto type tax free capital gain on their house.
Agree with everything you say.
And yet everyday I read about the coming increase in house prices. One prediction today is a 7% increase by mid next year.
This sort of crap indicted why economy is so unproductive. Based entirely on non productive inflation.
The times are tough because of Labour and there is no money bullshit routine gets old. Of course there was, and there is, f’ing money. People need to wake up and face the fact that you are going to pay one way or another. I’d rather pay through tax than some sovereign wealth fund looking for an even higher return and have foreign ownership of assets to boot. Luxon needs to go, along with the awful Willis. Seymour can sod off as well.
Even if Jack was the worst interviewer Luxon would make him look real good which he is .Luxon is a worried man and may well be gone by mid year.
“The OCR cut won’t really come through to those needing it most”
Luxon, tax cut largesse for landlords.
Orr, interest relief for landlords and homeowners.
Nothing for renters. Except austerity.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/prime-minister-christopher-luxon-gives-press-conference-updating-on-welfare-crime-health-targets/N7FV2NS36VBLHGGRW5O6WUMRF4/
Luxon is a fucking moron. Punish the poor for not turning up for an interview? 150 people turning up for 1 job and unemployment increasing ten fold by the day. Not only is he a moron, he’s a maggot feasting on NZ dead unemployed corpses.
It’s been obvious since before Luxon became PM that he is mainly just a gibberish-producing machine.
But if that was all he is, we could laugh and ignore him. The gibberish machine is also supremely confident in the 1984-1999 zombie economics of our neoliberal revolution. He believes with a zealot’s fervour in low taxes, a small state that doesn’t ‘crowd out” the private sector, the perfect self-equilibrating nature of markets that if left alone produces the best outcomes for all, that efficiency is the highest moral good, that success is driven by great leaders and hierarchical structures. These are all untrue. So it his far-right zealotry that is the problem for us, the gibberish is the symptom, not the disease.
100% – he’s a robot and his machine learning capabilities are limited to a small data set of talking points and rhetoric. I mean – Labour Bad! Labour Bad! blip! bleep! What I will tell you Jack is this.. talking point.. random waffle… click! whirr! cha-ching!
Deliberate obfuscation – to what end?
Spot on but in defense of Lex Luther he’s not a politicians arsehole.
Very limited vocabulary and brain function.
What I’d say to you is, Luxon is an amateur.
Back to media training for him
https://www.mediatrainingnz.co.nz/
P.M. YOUR RECORD STUCK, wha,t six six six years.
You are the BOSS,NOW. Your first year, is what, blaim Labour for world capitalism slow doon again.
He your slack jaw, and back patting, some monsters on our world stage, others, well.
Barbie, crank up them, stuff the Nats ,and farm fence, LOVE A THOUGHTFUL BARBIE OVER XMAS, FOR WHO AMONG THEM WILL RISE COME EASTER.
Some baldies carry it off, slap on some bronzer, grow some stubble and look a little thuggish.
Luxury Luxon’s pale, shiny bonce is quite off putting under the studio lights. His body language is weak, a gut punch from a school boy might drop him. Then when he opens his trap all doubt is removed as to his lack of political skill.
It’s fun when they out themselves
How many got totally fed up with Luxon’s “What I am saying…..” speal?????!!! It become too much and along side him blaming Labour for All the Woes in the World/Planet his responses was to Not Answer Questions and resort to talking Boasting about Himself too much.
I pity the NZ National Party for having such a Weak/Gutless/Cowardly and Spineless leader because he is a Poor Reflection upon National and its MPs.
Sure there could be a few National MPs who are genuine but with Luxon at the helm they are all coming across as not a terribly bright lot with their Part-time leader.
How many got totally fed up with Luxon’s “What I am saying…..” speal?????!!! It become too much and along side him blaming Labour for All the Woes in the World/Planet his responses was to Not Answer Questions and resort to talking Boasting about Himself too much.
I pity the NZ National Party for having such a Weak/Gutless/Cowardly and Spineless leader because he is a Poor Reflection upon National and its MPs.
Sure there could be a few National MPs who are genuine but with Luxon at the helm they are all coming across as not a terribly bright lot with their Part-time leader.