Chippy is promising very different values from Luxon

ByMartyn Bradbury

The economy is reeling BECAUSE of the austerity policies of the National led Government.

The collapse in jobs and rising prices are driven by the exodus National have generated by shutting down infrastructure spending because Nicola Willis, as a former NZ Initiative High Priestess, believes as a matter of free market faith that cutting back the state forces the market to step in and do it cheaper.

We look at the steep cuts and see no vision, for Nicola, slashing the State IS the vision!

Chris Luxon is an intellectually shallow and emotionally superficial.

His brand of religion is prosperity theology, he has 5 properties and a Hawaiian batch because Jesus loves him ever so much.

His view of poor people, his naked contempt for them is generated from a sense of moral superiority.

The manner in which he gets played by Winston and David every week highlights that his claims of being a deal maker is as hollow as every answer he gives every question.

Luxon is the manifestation of a Corporate Management culture that is as vacuous as it is amoral.

He shaves his head for vanity, not to spite it.

His cry to double down on the social destruction his ideological policies have generated illuminates the emptiness of his vision.

Chippy is promising a very different leadership from Luxon, he is actually promising some basic egalitarian benchmarks for who we are as a people.

This exchange highlights what I mean…

…we are a better people than this right wing Government believes us to be.

 

 

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40 Comments

  1. Imagine all the things that Chippie could achieve if he was in charge and his government had a majority. He could make the tough decisions and turn things around.

    Perhaps one day we’ll get to see what he’s like in the role

    1. Imaging is all you can do at the moment as he and Jacinda before him did little to show the Labour Parties policies were the best way to help all voters .

      2. They were the best way to help all voters as evidenced by this CoC taking us backwards at all levels. Child poverty, unemployment, housing, education, pay equity and the biggest of all, health. A massive fail on a global scale.

    2. he is gutless, chippy is gutless – Labour had it all before them and they blew it all away.
      So how many statements on Gaza have we heard from him, now let’s count….. 0

      2. Yet Labour never took us backwards like this National CoC Michal.

    1. By their fruits you will know them and Hipkins has not been fruitful. He seems to want to be all things to all people while his lack of principles is most likely to annoy all of us. It’s a shame as the current government is so useless however Labour offering to be not as bad as them is not a compelling reason to vote for them. All we can do is hope that enough people vote for the other Leftist parties so that Labour gets forced into having people friendly policies.

  3. Perhaps he should consider one or two different policies from Luxon, then? Not retaining and reforming the Fast Track legislation Shane Jones’s financial backers paid for would be a good start.

  4. I truly doubt Luxon knows the meaning of values or integrity or even simple giving. He’s all about Luxon. He and this CoC have no excuses or answers for crashing our economy. They lurch from one blunder to another with no well thought-out policies, no well researched plans, and when it all falls over feign surprise after which they distract and lie again. I need to ask Luxon this – when you are warm and cosy in one of your beds, in one of your houses, do you ‘ever’ think about the people in NZ who live on the streets trying to sleep in sub-zero temperatures? I bet you don’t even give them a thought – afterall to you they are bottom-feeders or drop-kicks. What this shows is how horribly out of touch you and your cohorts are with reality and have no idea whatsoever how the other half live. You tell yourselves they are on the street because they are lazy, rather than the hard fact that they no longer have a job, so no longer have a home! How anyone can continue to support this uncaring, and yes cruel, bunch, amazes me! Step up Hipkins and show them how it can be done – properly this time.

    1. Don’t worry, Luxon will be giving dosh to the right charities so he and his wife can appear at expensive functions that these organisations run for the really entitled.

  5. Just offering different values isn’t enough. Labour needs to signal some transformational policy. But I am not anticipating any.

    1. No Steve like you I am not holding my breath. I do expect that they will ‘wander’ into the job next year but there will be nothing exciting except when they are held to account by the Greens and TPM

  6. “There is no such thing as bad soldiers, only bad generals”
    This quote from Napoleon tells us about the importance of having good leaders.
    Chris Hipkins, isn’t one.

    “Imagine all the things that Chippie could achieve if he was in charge and his government had a majority. He could make the tough decisions and turn things around. MB

    We don’t have to imagine what ‘Chippie’ could achieve if he was in charge, because we already know what he was like when he was in charge.

    “Perhaps one day we’ll get to see what he’s like in the role” MB

    There is no perhaps about it, we have already seen what he’s like in the role.

    What was Chris Hipkins sole “tough decision to turn things around” when he was in charge?

    Much like Starmer’s U-turn on taxing the rich now that he is in charge.

    Remember the notorious Captain’s Call when Hipkins torpedoed the wealth tax?
    Chris Hipkins wasnt’ even in the country at the time.
    When Chris Hipkins heard, that in his absence, his Ministers were considering a wealth tax to heal some of the vast inequalty in this country, made worse by the pandemic, Chris Hipkins went out of his way to fire off his Captains Call torpedo from the other side of the world to sink it.
    Chris Hipkins is NZ’s Keir Starmer.

    1. Yes he is. And it doesn’t seem like he has ANY cognition of what he did to torpedo Labour in the last election.

    2. I agree Pat. Chippie was ineffective in government and should not be given a second chance. He’s like Starmer. Wellington managerial class with not much experience outside politics. The sausage roll pretender sums him up.

  7. There is nothing wrong with Chippy he needs to seek his own mandate, he also needs some good economic and social policies. At the moment our country is in a bloody mess, and we have a very weak divisive leader. Now if the current PM gets another term he has already said he wants to privatise education and health, he is also open to selling assets. We are already seeing a dismantling of some of our DOC estates, and we are seeing the rich getting richer, and the poor poorer with many homeless, so NZers do have a choice. The scaremongering over coalition partners needs to be ignored if people want a change of government, it is up to them.

    1. You are so right Covid . Luxon don’t care about the bottom feeders and drop kicks,we are the wet and winey country we are not educated enough we don’t deserve world leading health care . Luxon would cross the road before he acknowledges a homeless person in a homeless crisis. No state houses for Luxon , he didn’t even want to live in government house because it wasn’t up to his standards ( whatever they may be). He don’t care about Maori he don’t care about climate change let’s face it him and his government mates only care about themselves. I wish they would all go away the sooner the better

  8. Chippy is damaged goods. He refused to backdate the DHB nurses’ pay equity agreement and people can easily check what he achieved in the Ardern government. Labour need someone new isn’t second tier. Kieran Mc perhaps.

    2. If we take you analogy that means many of the current Ministers (like Winstone, Bishop, Willis) are damaged goods too ennius

  9. No ennius Chippy needs a mandate and to stamp his own mark, he needs good policy, and we need rid of the scabs ruining our country asap who know bests, who don’t care about human rights and who are tramping on us Maori people. Personally, I can’t wait to get rid of these mongrels in power.

    1. Did Hipkins not have time to form a mandate when he took leadership of the Labour Party. While I have no time for Jacinda she took control of the Party and it’s message in a few weeks and won the election with NZF help. All Hipkins came up with was a firm no to CGT Zor Wealth tax and the real biggy GST of fruit and veg .

      1. Wasn’t a NZ Herald hack calling for GST off fruit and vegetables the other day

      2. However, now we’ve had a taste of Luxon, Hipkins firm no to CGT Zor Wealth tax and the real biggy GST of fruit and veg pales into insignificance to the damage and carnage Luxon has caused and the list of that damage is too long to quote.

  10. Chippy is just a different flavor of Kool-aid, the cyanide the drink is laced with is just the same as what National is offering.

  11. Chippy and labour have done exactly the right thing by not releasing any policy yet .The election is 18 months away so why run around screaming and yelling about policy now .As we can see the COC dont have any policy so why put policy out there now for them to claim as their own .

  12. Don’t fall for it. Hipkins is a neolib to his core, he won’t move the needle one mm, he’ll only administer better anaesthetics.

  13. Directional change of humanity care, under a profit structure educated for minimum lesser, meaning, going back to educational results, that we, eh! love to say, look now our schools are going to teach basic Trade skills, for our new old exploit,, educate our children in proper political history, outside a uni, cost theory. Back to the future our Trades skill taught, by their apprentice bosses that the 1991 labour control National government abolished.

  14. Although it is vanishing rare in politics, it is possible for people to learn.

    Simpkins could screw his courage to the sticking point, & fill up the hollow places that make Labour shameful.

    But of course, until he does, there’s nothing there worth voting for.

  15. If we take you analogy that means many of the current Ministers (like Winstone, Bishop, Willis) are damaged goods too ennius

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