Luxon, the little baby Jesus and National Party entitlement – Luxon didn’t misread the room, the room misread him!
Press Gallery Journalists and commentators keep saying Luxon ‘misread’ the room over his $52000 allowance, which is utter bullshit!
The Press Gallery Journalists all misread Luxon!
Luxon sees his privilege through his prosperity theology paradigm where he has 7 properties because Jesus loves him!
His accomodation allowance is a prosperity given to him by Jesus – that’s why he took so long to u-turn!
What’s interesting about his refusal to immediately admit mistake and change is that he did it with the EV subsidy as well. While he was damning Labour for the EV Subsidy, he was intending to use it for himself and apparently the rumour is they really had to argue internally against him taking it because it was such a bad look.
He clearly used it for his wife’s car, but his intent to get it for himself and the amount of time it took to convince him was astonishing.
His National Party Mandarins must have felt the same panic back then that they did last week when he said ‘I’m entitled’ almost 150 seperate times in the space of only 5 minutes.
The reason he refused to back down is because of his evangelical prosperity theology privilege. In Luxon’s branch dividend, Prosperity Theology preaches that the ordained and blessed by God are afforded huge wealth and prosperity.
It’s like Abraham’s blessings but on meth.
It’s what Bishop Brian Tamaki believes in.
The Bish has a huge gold watch, beautiful houses and expensive motorcycles because God loves Brian ever so much he is publicly blessing him with prosperity to bring more souls to Christ.
Hiding your prosperity when Jesus has given you the wifi password to heaven is considered terrible form.
For Luxon, him having 7 properties is proof positive that Jesus loves him, and hiding any of the prosperity and privilege that comes with being loved ever so much by Jesus is sinful.
Chris dug his heels in over his EV subsidy and paying himself $1000 per week to hire his own apartment while demanding brutal austerity for everyone else because Jesus loves him dammit!
If Jesus wants to give Chris all these privileges and benefits, then Christopher fucking Luxon deserves everything God wants to give him!
Yesterday the PM said he was taken aback by the fury he received which really shows how disconnected from reality he is…
‘Quite full on’: Luxon on public’s $52k allowance backlash
Christopher Luxon has responded to the public backlash against him claiming a $52,000 tax-free bonus to pay for his mortgage-free Wellington apartment, saying it was “quite full on”.
…he’s demanding austerity for us and blessings he is entitled to because Baby Jesus loves him so fiercely!
Luxon didn’t misread the room, the room misread him.
This is the born to rule prick attitude National Party MPs have always embodied (except Chris Penk).
What’s alarming here is that these expenses were publicly released (as they always are) and his Office seemed to have been blindsided by the revelation because the response damaged Luxon. His Office should have been aware he was tiling the allowance and should have cautioned him against it at the time because thus moment was always going to happen!
This is very sloppy by Luxon’s Office and is either incompetence or a genuine attempt to undermine the Leader.
There are enormous rumblings inside National over his leadership to date. The reality of how deep Luxon has to cut things means Winston can’t stomach it.
The wobbles are on this Government before they’ve seen 5 months.
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His entitlement was obvious from the moment he hired a limo to cross the road.
Correct Bonnie, well said. As the saying goes ” more money than brains”
Clearly the chickens need to consider that as an option
Exactly!!
He sees all this privelege as ‘his right’ for God only knows what reason. He is no leader. ..but neither was Key…
Just a bunch of backslapping golf playing wide-boys that couldn’t organise a pissup in a brewery..
He’s as thick as they come and never ever, ever, learns, because his DNA is telling him otherwise!
Bonnie. That was quite comical. I think it was two limos, with a separate one for the lady. Something must have gone to his head, but a shiny black Mercedes to go a few yards up Bowen Street was a bit like a wee kid playing dress-ups. Boris J was whizzing around London on a bike back then.
Chris-cash-is-king lap-of-luxury-Luxon, showed a similar level of judgment to do-you-know-who-I-am Mr Gilmore, when the generous living in Wellington entitlement he was receiving became known.
Quote: I feel entitled to all the entitlements I know I’m entitled to, and actually the more entitled the entitled are to said entitlements such as myself, the more grateful those missing out on said entitlements should be to my getting the rightful entitlements to which I’m entitled.
After all, owning seven houses is no walk in the park, so why should I live in premier house, when I almost forgot that I owned a perfectly good apartment just a stones throw away from the beehive, which I could never rent out for $1000 per week, so I thought to myself, why don’t I just move into it, and collect that $1000 per week entitlement, without the bother of renting it to anyone. And I must admit that I am a very good tenant, so I was really just doing the country a favor. Now I must jet off to Australia, before I need to answer any further questions on this, which I’m finding awfully distracting. I’ll be flying Air-NZ, which is my kind of company that I have so much in common with, and who know all about govt entitlements, since the govt has had to bail them out twice.
The nail on the head, Kushla!
Great writing!
Great comments. That’s our beloved PM (sic ..no sarc) in a nutshell. (actually an eggshell).
Speaking of AirNZ bailouts, the government of the day should have grabbed an Airbus or 2 as replacements for those 2 aging old 757 crates as part repayment.
I haven’t been keeping track but some of them are part of their replacement programme.
Luxon and his successor are turning what was once a reasonably good airline into a pile of shit as far as the travelling public goes – unless you’re part of the elite.
I’m now making a point to avoid them where possible
What an arsehole the skin head gang leader is .Every other person that moves to another town has to provide their own home so why should the rest of NZ pay for his house or any other mps house for that matter .Its a fucken ripoff that needs to stop right now .They can claim WWF and Acomadation allowances if their income has them below the thresh hold like everyone else
It’s an interesting contrast to the US, where a number of Congressmen (mainly Republicans) claim to sleep in their offices. Of course, I’m sure most of those actually have a separate pad owned by a lobbyist where they actually bed down with their mistresses/prostitutes, but it’s an interesting contrast that these NZ rightoids don’t even pretend to be frugal with our money, eh?
He just didn’t think, that’s all. Nobody cares where he lives, but his minders should have told him that paying himself to live in one of his own properties wasn’t a good look. Media now wanting to film the inside of Premier House are being just as dumb. Everyone needs a bit of privacy, even PM’s who cavort with their families in matching pyjamas to celebrate Christmas…
I haven’t seen a huge amount of evidence of Luxon’s Jesusing and prosperity gospel beliefs. Personally I just think he collected it because as a CEO/executive he believes it’s his right, because it’s in his salary package. He could easily believe in the prosperity gospel, but Jesus never said anything about housing allowances. Or abortion for that matter.
I notice Luxon’s next interview the words ‘entitled’ were substituted for ‘allowances’. Too late we all heard his first excuses.
Our PM is showing his true colours with rebates for landlords, tax cuts for the rich, nothing seems to be good enough for our self entitled PM. Luxon’s government campaigned on helping the squeezed middle and helping NZers with the rising cost of living now we have more petrol tax coming, increases to rego cars and they are going hit us with the stick with fines and hidden cameras.
Sorry did you voters misunderstand me? When I was talking about easing the cost of living I didn’t mean you peons.
Clearly silly Willis tax cuts don’t add up, trying desperately to find the funds from smoking, children’s breakfasts, road user and petrol charges and now this…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/not-buckling-up-could-cost-450-as-government-policy-statement-targets-seatbelt-use/N2GHBFK57JFEBLAYOOYROVME3Q/
Misread the room, what a bullshit excuse for a complete lack of moral compass, let alone political nous. You obviously have experience with crazy Christians as you describe exactly the form their entitlement takes. That’s why Luxon belonging to a far right Christian religious cult has impact on all NZers as our Prime Minister and this is unfolding in all the terrible, not to say downright evil policies they are unrolling. I never can get why the right wing can do so much damage in such a short time and the ‘Left’ can do so little good.
“He said ‘I’m entitled’ almost 150 separate times in the space of only 5 minutes.”
Shakes head. That jargon expression, “the optics”.
Or Robbie Burns:
“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion.”
And how does your rationale as above fit with Luke 18:25: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”
1 Chinese = 2 Indians – 100 kiwis
Where’s Bob the 1st now?
Meanwhile whilst National appease their donors, they let the air defense, Picton ferry and Parliament House all run down.
You get what you vote for I guess.