Let’s be honest – Chris Luxon believes poverty is a moral failing
The snide manner in which the Prime Minister constantly used his, ‘if you don’t like it, make a Marmite Sandwich’ sneer really gave us another bewildering insight into the real mind of Christopher Luxon.
Put aside the outrageousness of responding with that statement in light of the total failure of the corporate slop we are feeing our kids with.
Burnt fucking plastic FFS!
But pause in your righteous anger at the context of what he said, look at the way he said it and look at the sense of smugness when he said it to capture the essence of our Prime Minister.
For him and his Evangelical Prosperity Theology, God rewards the good Christian with blessings, so conversely those suffering in poverty don’t deserve Gods blessings, and that was what really rubbed with his factious marmite sandwich comment, it wasn’t just the naked privilege of his wealth, you get the real sense that Luxon believes poverty is a moral failing!
Has anyone considered the possibility that Chris Luxon just hates New Zealand and New Zealanders?
He sends his kids to the American education system, he holidays in Hawaii and he loves Trump.
He has called NZers whiney and he puts us down when he’s overseas.
He infamously called poor people ‘Bottom feeders’.
I think he sees NZ the way he saw Air NZ.
First class was his class, business class are acceptable, economy class are ordinary while everyone who cant afford a ticket are bottom feeders.
He probably joked with the Pilots because he thought that was him talking with the working classes.
I don’t think Luxon actually likes New Zealand or New Zealanders.
Luxon crashed the economy with his Austerity Budget and is now blaming beneficiaries for burning in the fire he started!
I find the idea that we should actively punish Beneficiaries who are the collateral damage to his ideological policy pretty sickening…
…put aside the fact that Luxon is a rich prick, look at what he has done to the economy and then consider his lecturing towards beneficiaries:
He crashed the economy with an austerity budget that borrowed more for tax cuts and loopholes we couldn’t afford, and you is lecturing the poor?
HE HAS DONE THIS!!!
Blaming the victims of his economic policy is outrageous!
National are pushing 350,000 jobseekers to find work when there is no work because you collapsed the economy!
There are less than 11,000 jobs on Trademe and less than 5000 on Seek and National are demanding new sanctions against beneficiaries after sacking 9520 public sector workers!
Luxon is an evangelical Christian who believes in Prosperity Theology, it’s the same grift Bishop Brian Tamaki is part of, you are rich because Jesus has blessed you.
Luxon sees his 7 properties (he sold 3 right after the law changed and made huge money tax free from that decision) as a blessing from God and that’s why when he was challenged over getting extra over his housing allowance and Tesla subsidy, he could only say “I’m entitled”, because to refuse crowing about your good fortune and benefits is an affront to God who is giving him these blessings because Jesus lives him extra so much.
He’s a Christian nut job who wishes he was American who now wants to blame beneficiaries for an economy he has wrecked.
I know where he can stick his bloody marmite sandwiches!
It’s no wonder the numbers are being run on him right now by the different factions. If his Investment Summit flops (which it is risking) the move against him will happen before June.
The reason Luxon went so hard on the marmite sandwich insult was because internal polling tells him National voters love kicking the parents of hungry kids and he’s desperately trying to shore up support.
The replacement candidate being most touted as a compromise between the factions is a female National Party Cabinet Minister.
The uncertainty is how Winston will react to a leadership change and whether he’ll use that as a reason to call a snap election as well as the Ferry issue.
Luxon better pray his Investment Summit pays off because if it doesn’t and he continues to slide in the Polls the spill will be under way.
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Spot on Martyn. It appears that this is his default operating position.
I’ld put my money on Nicola Stanford.
He’s a very shallow man. This is why he keeps making such inane comments. Describing Kiwis as ‘whiners’ is a bit threatening though in view of how the Nats Paula B retaliated against critics.
Luxon thinks its his moral responsability to have as many people living in poverty as he can.When his time is up he will sit back and smuggly gloat about how many more people are in poverty noe than there were before he started .
A leader who refers to his own countrymen as “whiners” and “bottom-feeders” must go. This odious gabbling from a head which resembles half a cow’s bottom, is straight from Meghan M’s playbook of blaming the viewers for being unintelligent and uneducated for panning her vacuous Netflix offerings when the boot’s on the other foot.
A leader who espouses the Golden Calf over the message of the Sermon on the Mount, drags our people back to times which we’ve long moved on from, and he needs to move on himself. Nobody likes him, and he has only himself to blame for that.
Most of the jobs advertised online require skills and qualifications obtained after years of study. Luxon and his people must understand this and the need to train communities for careers (such as politician), not just accept a life of tentative on-call minimum wages and struggle. And then if only 3-4 % of jobseekers can fill the jobs advertised online after years of study, and Luxon and his people must understand this, then what the government is doing is attacking the unemployed which is a human rights issue. In business this bad faith would not be tolerated, it’s a sackable offence up there with manhandling co-workers. This government could have spent the $150 million they wasted on the Ukraine fantasy on setting up a government department which transitioned people to work, maybe factories of some sort, or maybe spent $150 million on 10,000 full tertiary scholarships for unemployed kids to change their lives. Luxon’s hate belongs in the dustbin of history, we need people with ideas and innovation and understanding taking the country forward.
Ethan Bouquet. WINZ used to have work brokers, real persons who guaranteed to find people jobs and who transacted between job seekers and possible employers. And then they dumped them.
In the early 80s if you didn’t have work you would see a person at the Labour Dept. First thing they did was take the view that it was a problem that the economy hadn’t provided you with a job yet and how could they help. They immediately hooked you up with some income. Then found some likely places to get work. And if that didn’t work out found you a subsidised job or a job on a work scheme.
Why did this happen? Because Muldoon knew unemployment kills demand and also probably Muldoon had a sense of shame about high unemployment on his watch. Something not shared by the Lange Douglas Goff government that followed.
The current lot view high unemployment as a good thing.
you are right how do we expect the young people to have experience the day they leave school .
It’s a foundational belief on the Right that poverty is (more or less) deserved – and for a very obvious reason: if one accepts that poverty may be undeserved, then it necessarily follows that wealth may also be undeserved.
Such a concession that the world is morally random, upends the right-wing need for an orderly, stable, hierarchical world with oneself somewhere in the upper half of the distribution based on personal virtues. Known as the “just world fallacy”, these ideas dovetail with radically Protestant religious beliefs that emphasise the individual’s direct relationship with God and their personal wealth as a sign of God’s grace towards them.
In contrast, minor twentieth century poet Edmund Blunden had it right when writing of the first world war:
“I have been young, and now am not too old;
And I have seen the righteous forsaken…”
In terms of democratic politics, I’d give this one to Luxon. He knows what he’s doing and who he’s talking to – all the parents who make lunches themselves. The lack of empathy, or even slightest consideration, for the children and parents who do use the lunch program is not accidental. This is a standard right wing approach to poverty and the redistributive policies used to address it. In the US – Musk recently called those who receive government funds ‘parasites’. This is where we are going NZ – watch and see what happens to NZH – I’m scared.
So you would be happy having a marmite sandwich as your only meal for each day of your child hood .
Think you misread CS post….
Thanks Gordon. I don’t agree with Luxons behavior personally – but with the wider public picking on the poor is generally appealing and will speak to the coalition base.
He’s a self centered entitled prick.If he dislikes Kiwis this much why the f doesn’t he go and join his buddy Trump.
Janne N Here he is a big pebble in a small pond. The really unfortunate part is that he thinks he’s better than other people just because he’s rich, and he’s rich in spite of adding nothing of any value whatsoever to the social community. His “ rich and sorted” boast from a PM was disgraceful, and vulgar.
Yeah of course he thinks that, not news. The marmite sandwich is his let them eat cake moment and soon school lunches will be dismantled completely is the direction they want to go.
I challenge everyone that thinks a single marmite sandwich as the only meal for the day to try living on that diet for a week and see how they feel at the end of seven days .I have been doing a bit of research at the supermarket fruit department over the last few weeks .I find that fruit is costed at $1 per item .If peaches are $9 per kg and on average you get 9 peaches per kg .nectarens are the same as are plumbs .So to get 5 serves today will be $5 per person.So if you have a family of 4 that is $35 per week before you get to the $4.50 milk and bread .$15 per kg for meat would be a low cost average x that by 7 and there is another $100 .All this is before you pay the rent and the cost of getting to work and school .Thats all from $790 per week
Gordon, I think Luxon is assuming that the marmite sandwich is one of three meals a day. I would be surprised if he thought for one moment that the school lunch was the only daily meal.
NWS and WW’s both have free fruit available for children, with no restrictions.
He’s rich and sorted he knows nothing about poverty or hardship.
Luxon is doing what he’s been paid to do. Although I agree it probably helps that he believes it.
You might want to consider the backlash you’d get if you exchanged the word Christian for Muslim, Hindu or Budhist in the above text. Not sure why it’s fine to tar Christians with the same brush as Christopher Luxon. Just remember the immeasurable damage Roger Douglas did to the Labour party by calling himself Labour – much to the delight of evil people.
If we’re to ever save New Zealand it will be non tribal.