First blow against Erica and Penk is the only real leader option
The rumours are that Erica can’t be the leader because she has skeletons in her closet that would be beyond destructive if she becomes leader.
My guess is that she would face questions from the floor of Parliament under the protection of Parliamentary privilege that would be incredibly damaging.
National insiders know the Left know this and you are seeing that manifest this way…
…the only real talent National have to replace Luxon is Penk, but the smart money would be allowing Luxon to crash and burn at the election and then topple him.
I would be very surprised if anyone was dumb enough to take the poisoned chalice of leadership right now.
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BREAKING ‘Role untenable’: Christopher Luxon strips senior minister Chris Penk of his portfolios after leadership challenge!
He always was more suited to Labour.
National has their CEO on regular quarterly performance reviews.
” …the only real talent National have to replace Luxon is Penk ”
How feckin depressing is that !
Penk is detested by a number of his fellow MP’s as is Bishop.
They had the chance to rid themselves of the egghead four months ago and didn’t.
I hate to say it but Willis is the only possible replacement if there was to be one.
Pinky who wants nuclear ships ridiculous!
Luxon’s a ‘dead man walking’ either way….the election campaign will be a train-wreck for him even if he survives these seeds of doubt.
Both he and Willis look like they ‘want out,’ and their body language has looked like that for some time now.
They have completely and utterly driven the country off a cliff with their naive ill thought through ideologies.
N.Z. cannot afford his kind of idiocy and when you consider that Luxon has allowed economically illiterate Maori bashing Mr.Bean Seymour and senile Winston to have so much rope witb disastrous consequences the only options left are to be found at the end of a plank!
Yuck.
What a greasy stack of stoats. ( No disrespect to actual stacked stoats intended.)
Erica stanford…? I didn’t know she could buy sneers for the poor by the pallet load. Luxon’s a self made fake and seems quite good at it while Clutch Cargo the gormless ghoul standing there opposite stanford the stamper’s trying to remember if he turned his electric blanket off. So far… still not sure.
What the three dull farts fail to admit to is that they’re there for us lot. We, the people. NOT to get fleshy and feely with our money then to hand that money over to multi-billionaire and multi-millionaire bath tub besties.
One more little thing. We’re still a neoliberal crime scene. It’d pay to remember that when Chipkins The Pink comes a-blushing all cooing and cuddle pie.
We, us lot, must demand the vote be made compulsory then they, the D grade comic opera squawkers above who tell us that they are best to represent the dirty-laundry politics we currently have. The same dirty, oily laundry that must now be bleached.
Maybe Stanford will appeal to the average racist bogan NZF swing voter
Hoping Stanford is the one left standing but Bishop or Penk also fine – in saying that the empty woke corporate suit will probably manage to stare them all down again.
I don’t think Stanford will be any good as she called one of the women that challenged her a bitch in the chambers and she does not like to be questioned or challenged. She will get eaten up in the debates she has limited knowledge and has diddly squat charisma.
Bishop will be lucky to win his Hutt South seat he’s done so much damage to our area.
C’mon Martyn, remember you’re talking about the Natz. Of course there are MPs stupid enough to cvet the ‘glory’ even if only for 3 months.
Looking forward to the Labour Leadership showdown. Chippie clearly a major handbrake on victory.
The National party only have themselves to blame who called the herald and told them a leadership change was on the cards. And why do you right wing ding bats keep changing the subject when its Luxy who is the PM, its luxy that used our navy as his personal airline. And its luxy that said he would do a MMP referendum without talking to his caucus. And its luxy who talked down to small businesses who are struggling to survive. In the meantime, he is back to parroting the same old rubbish lines when our country is in a mess.