If this Government were a fable, it would be a scorpion riding on a fox’s face sitting in the open jaws of a great white shark
Coalition talks: PM-elect Christopher Luxon optimistic a coalition deal can be struck today
National leader Christopher Luxon is hopeful a coalition deal can be struck today after working late into the night to iron out the last remaining issues.
Arriving at Parliament Thursday morning, Luxon said he had not managed to close his coalition deal overnight, but was optimistic it would happen today.
He said there was still some work to do but a deal was “really close.”
”At the moment, we’ve got a little bit of work to do this morning and then hopefully we’ll be in a good place. I’m talking to the leaders, another couple of conversations this morning and hopefully we’ll have it closed out.
“We’ve done a lot of other work last night, but we’ve just got a couple of telephone calls to make and should be in good shape.”
Winston Peters arrived at Auckland Airport just after 10am Thursday, and when asked if he was boarding a flight to Wellington responded with ‘take a wild guess’.
Jesus this is just such a glorious clusterfuck isn’t it?
Even if they sign this buffet of dead rats today, we won’t forget the egos, the venal self interest and the ability for Chris Bishop to look rumpled at all times.
It’s like he’s a perpetual crumb.
The weird haiku poem secret messages Shane Jones pompously brain farts each and every fucking day reminds everyone what a terrible bore that man has already become.
He refers to himself in the third person so much he’s become 3 dimensional.
We will never forget the disappointment on Nicola Willis’s face nor the terror in Luxon’s eyes.
He looks like a frightened virgin at an orgy.
Even if this cursed deal gets signed, we’ve already seen what they are and we’ve seen our political stability drop suddenly…
Coalition talks: New Zealand’s political stability lowest since financial crisis
Long coalition negotiations from the new Government have seen a major economics consultancy downgrade its perception of New Zealand’s political stability to its lowest rating in more than a decade.
BMI, which is owned by the Fitch Group, one of the three big ratings agencies, docked a couple of points from New Zealand’s score in its Short-Term Political Risk Index (STPRI), which measures a country’s political stability.
The accompanying report said New Zealand’s score had decreased to 78.5 out of 100, down from 79.4 – the lowest score the country has received since 2010. A lower score implies greater political risk.
…totally on the cards for ACT to pull out of supply and confidence agreements and force a snap election the millisecond NZ First drops far enough below the 5% to eliminate Winston altogether.
Luxon was supposed to be the great deal maker. The internal rage within National’s High Command at how he has mishandled the entire negotiation process has opened enormous private concerns about his ability to do the job, indeed the only reason Winston and David are 100% certain they are signing up to this is because they’ve witnessed Luxon’s incompetence first hand and know they can run rings around him and get more by exploiting him than they ever dreamed possible.
If this Government were a fable, it would be a scorpion riding on a fox’s face sitting in the open jaws of a great white shark.
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Looking forward to our chief negotiator (Luxon) doing a trade deal with India only problem is I wonder how long it will take.
Next century at the earliest…
Only problem is … India will be toast..ed by then…
Yep…they are a real future prospect for sure ..
Clusterfuxon knows how to pick winners alright…..Really does his homework… when he can drag himself away from re-reading his favourite books…
‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’
‘The Art of The Deal’ …
and..
…the hardest one of all to learn..
‘How to Pick The Low Hanging Fruit Whilst Mastering The Power Handshake’.
He’s certainly got his hands full there!!
But hey…he’s been the CEO of a small Government owned airline and a plastic junk bibs and bobs company.
What could go wrong…
They’re taking NZ in a new direction, circular and diminishing.
Although I have my doubts about Luxon you have to wonder if he is going to be another Key in the sense that the left constantly wrote him off and expected that it would all come crashing down very quickly. He is a salesman who will spent the next 3 years trying to sell whatever he is doing as a much better than the other side. Unless Labour can find some leadership that is going to get cut through with the electorate I don’t see them being in a great position to make inroads with the large number of voters they have lost in 3 years.
Drive up house prices and to hell with anything to protect the environment from milk powder production. He sounds exactly like another Key. To give Key is due at least he didn’t dabble in stupid distractions around race. Hopefully Luxon quietly puts that to bed.
I for one hope it does work out for Luxon but not with that stupid sell off houses to more foreigners than we do now. Tax bloody speculation now, you don’t need to invite the planet to buy us. Of course he won’t do this and that’s why he’s looking like self interested prat.
Like Key he will just sell off as much SOE’s as he possibly can just to give the tax cuts, not sell himself as better than the other side. People voted for monkey’s so sadly now they get peanuts.
Luther is a glove puppet to ponytail puller.
Bob the first our newly elected leader bragged about how good he was at negotiating with all his years of experience running several corporate companies, now how come he is not walking his talk and its very early days not a good look so far, out of a ten rating I would give him a two.
Rimmer and Old man yells out clouds are the least of our hairless leaders problems
No electorate win, no Deputy PM, odds on her smoke and mirrors tax policy has been gutted as well, not much left for Nicola Willis to but keep the knife sharp and wait…
I wonder whether the word ‘hyperbole’ was coined with you in mind.
I can just Winston fastidiously guarding public toilets in his little tin foil fascinator
Nah, he’ll dump most of the fringe lunatic bull shit so he can spend the next wee while trying to poach as many National voters as he can.
Fabulous creatures are of course fascinating – but our politicians are lesser beasts, striving their atrophied hearts out just to be second-best, even on their best days.
The College of Arms will be taxed to find a collection of appropriately shabby, disappointing, and unremarkable creatures. Maybe a white-tailed spider on a near-sighted guinea-pig, menaced by a spiny dogfish.
They will go 9 years and surprise as all.
The three not quite almost circus.