Because it’s easier for the police to bust gangs growing marijuana and keep their crime stats looking good, than it is to do the harder stuff. And they know it. This is where the Minister should step in with a “Please explain” – and the whole issue of KPI’s be revisited in every govt dept throughout the country.

saveNZ,

100%

As innocent people are dying around the world in their tens of thousands due to the actions of Chinese citizens and their reprehensible Government, the National Party is in pause mode on standby to complete New Zealand’s mission of morphing into New China.

Bridges is just a cog in that wheel. He’s been stage managed in a similar way to how Real Estate agents conduct business. They take a buyer to look at potential purchase number 1 (Bridges) knowing it has limited appeal. All the while they have potential purchase number 2 (Luxon) ready to be rolled out and “appear” the new Blue God. Oh yes, i’ll buy that. So much better than the other option you’ve shown me.

The latrine rodent party are not interested in leadership battles despite knowing Bridges is a festering turd. As long as the party which is all that matters does not take a huge dive in the polls, Bridges is safe… for now. Post election which National will lose, it matters not one jot where Bridges is in the polls. He could be 55% as the most popular to become PM, he’d still be gone. Luxon gave up his previous role for one reason after years of encouragement from National. Luxon knows he will be an absolute shoe in at Botany. The party will then arrange for him to be their leader within days of the election…as promised. The National Party is living for that moment at this time.

Then, out of the woodwork you will see an army of blue soldier ants pushing the Mk II version of John Key like he is the most magnificent thing ever created by God for NZ. Chinese New Zealanders will put their weight and their money behind Luxon as they know he’s their man for New China.

The only good news in the above is that more and more New Zealanders are repulsed by the Chinese Government than ever before and know what National are about.

national and labour are the same thing.

Well I disagree, but apart from that, where are the GREENS?

This should be their time. There are many links between pandemics, our responses, and the environment. Why aren’t they calling this out?

Why have the Greens gone silent? …And why, when they do have the odd comment or question, is it delivered in hushed tones, almost with an air of apology.

If the Greens want a role in a future govt, NOW would be a very good time to speak up and speak out – start shouting about some things. (We’ve just had Earth Day. Where was their voice?)

If anyone knows how to wake them up, shake them up, … please do so!! They’ve fallen silent and are becoming invisible.

Less than 24 hours after my message above about Christopher Luxon aka John Key Part 2…..this article appears.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/121200135/john-key-describes-what-chris-luxon-would-be-like-as-prime-minister?fbclid=IwAR2YRw2jK4ZetTJtLN8lkjRyDDM0Bibj6VNvEbmV6tGBqCjMk7L8_-2nBkg

As National reels from the negative fallout of Simon Bridges’ comments on lifting the lockdown, former Prime Minister John Key has showered praise on Bridges’ potential successor, Christopher Luxon.

​Key even briefly described what Luxon would be like as prime minister.

“If Chris was the prime minister, I think what you would see is a very strong emphasis on the economy,” Key said, referencing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who he believed was focused on things other than the economy.

“To me the number one thing the Government of the day does is to provide hardworking New Zealanders, whatever ethnicity they come from, to get ahead and progress in their lives and do well,” Key said.

The remarks came in an interview conduced over Zoom by Skykiwi, a Chinese-language news site.

The interview was uploaded onto the site’s Facebook page on Monday.

Luxon, the former chief executive of Air New Zealand, is now running as National’s candidate in the Botany electorate, currently held by Jami-Lee Ross.

Luxon is already tipped as a future leader and his business background has drawn comparisons between himself and Key.

“Whoever the prime minister of the day is, ultimately we’ll get through Covid-19, but the challenge it represents on the economic side are going to be very significant and with us for quite a long time,” Key said.

Drawing comparisons between himself and Luxon, Key said “to me that’s where the main similarities are: both of us know that unless you know there is a strong economy in the end people don’t have the confidence and choices to look after themselves and their family”.

One of the show’s hosts, Ping Chen, joked about the similarities between Luxon and Key.

“Today I’m honoured to have both Sir John Key Mark I and in Chris as John Key Mark II on the show,” she said.

Neither rebuffed the comparison.

Chen recalled an earlier conversation between herself and Luxon: “Chris used to tell me Mark I was cuter but Mark II is more handsome”.

Key disagreed. “You just have to look at your screen. Clearly I win on both counts,” he said.

Key’s lavishing praise on Luxon comes at a time when Bridges, the incumbent National leader, has faced criticism for a poorly timed and poorly toned response to the lifting of the level 4 lockdown.

He’s spent the week fending off suggestions of a leadership coup.

Luxon and Key discussed aspects of New Zealand’s diplomatic and economic relationship with China, including the ban on the sale of residential housing to non-resident, foreign buyers.

“I never agreed with the foreign buyers ban. I always thought it was more about the politics of envy than it was about good economics,” Key said.

He said the number of houses sold to foreign buyers was overstated and that many foreign buyers also brought investment to create jobs.

They are so basic, so fundamental to dealing with what’s ahead of us…

“Hey, what about how quickly the cops and military can organize to keep people from traveling, and how quickly the borders can be closed- – but they were totally helpless to prevent meth from totally destroying families and killing young people through addiction FOR THE PAST TEN FUCKING YEARS?

Yep. Riddle me that, anyone!!
Close the borders for this epidemic? No Probs at all.
End the even more deadly in some ways Meths epidemic? …Uh.. no can do-ee.
WHY?? WHY???