MEDIAWATCH: Another week, another Luxon trainwreck interview – tough on crime bullshit doesn’t work
Wow Luxon’s interview on The AM Show yesterday was possibly his worst train wreck interview to date.
Ryan Bridges treated Luxon the way OT treats kids in their fight club detention camps.
Christopher Luxon has called on the Children’s Minister to visit the under-fire Oranga Tamariki youth justice facilities despite admitting he has never been himself.
Luxon just walked straight into Ryan’s fist.
It’s eye rolling how basic he is. He just walked right into Ryan’s fist and once there kept slamming his face into Ryan’s fist. He is so bad at this still and you really wonder how on earth he is going to manage the stress of the election campaign if this is how easy it is to fluster him when you push on the rhetoric.
The truth is the get tough on crime stuff just doesn’t work…
NZ can’t arrest its way out of the gang problem, science chief warns
The prime minister’s chief science advisor is warning New Zealand cannot arrest its way out of the gang problem.
…National claim the soft-on-crime-cuddle-a-crim Labour Party are fecklessly letting out 4000 prisoners while the crime rate soars. What they don’t understand is Labour lowered the prison population using National Party Prison policy that allowed for non violent offenders to apply for home detention while in prison. The only difference between National’s use of their policy and Labour’s is that Labour provided prisoners with help filling out the forms because most prisoners are illiterate.
If National don’t understand the current prison policy, how can they provide solutions?
National claimed they would get prisoners on remand to complete rehabilitation programs, but you can’t use any rehabilitation programs unless you accept your guilt. Why would prisoners on remand waiting trial admit guilt?
Do National actually know what they are talking about?
We had this surreal situation over the weekend where Journalists bombarded National for costing of this mass incarceration policy and they had no numbers. Asked what the cost of a NZer in prison per annum was, Paul Goldsmith and Chris Luxon said “$100,000,” when the actual cost is $193 000″.
How can a Party push extreme uncosted policy like this and pretend to be a Government in waiting?
My fear is that ACT and National can’t actually tell the difference between the Mongrel Mob, Headhunters, Hells Angels, Black Power or Comancheros and that’s an enormous problem because the gangs who flooded Opotiki to mourn the murder of their President and who freaked middle NZ out so much last week, are not the same as the sophisticated Cartel linked gangs who are making enormous profit from NZs meth trade.
How will banning gang patches prevent the 501 syndicates from importing south american cartel meth?
We ask Judges to be independent and use mercy in their decision making, National wants to rob Judges of that discretion and force them to impose heavy sentences even if there are mitigating circumstances.
Do National want justice or a lynch mob?
Those derided ‘cultural reports’ give Judges insight into the criminal to see ion there is anything redeemable here rather than the simply brutality off imprisonment!
WE. WANT. JUDGES. TO. HAVE. THIS. INSIGHT!!!!!!!
National don’t actually understand the Prison Empire they built when last in power, their solutions to remove discretion from Judges, impose harsher sentences while pretending rehabilitation programs (that can never and will never work in remand) are the silver bullets.
This isn’t a law and order debate, this is a right wing wet dream fantasy that has little basis in reality. None of the ‘solutions’ National are offering will do the things they say they are attempting to solve!
If anything, it will cause an explosion in the prison population which will ultimately lead to a full blown prison riot as the underfunded, over crowded, violent jail population (minus any of the joke rehabilitation National are promising) will event horizon into a black hole of misery and suffering!!!
So why is our crime rate soaring?
Well, we have to acknowledge the unprecedented importation of 501s bringing a culture of criminal violence far in excess of what was generated by our domestic gangs. Labour can’t be blamed for that!
We also have to acknowledge that dairy crime was far higher in 2016 when National were last in power than they are now!
What is generating the majority of the current crime wave however is the same thing that is generating crime waves throughout the post-covid Western World.
The same is happening in Australia, UK, Canada and America.
Post covid societal and economic stresses causing crime waves at the same time there is 12.1% food inflation and a cost of living crisis while surviving the ongoing economic, cultural and social impacts of climate crisis storms and geopolitical shockwaves is as predictable as National having to walk something back 24 hours after Luxon says it!
Of course crime is exploding everywhere because the covid sacrifice was felt unevenly across our unequal society, pretending building more uncosted fucking prisons is a solution to all of that is sophistry at its most intellectually bankrupt.
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National are just throwing fried chicken to their base.
The problem for Labour is that “Soft on crime” is a catchy slogan and shouting it often enough means it will stick in the mind. A lot of less discerning voters don’t care about the details. It’s like a song where we all belt out the chorus but don’t know all the words in the verses.
Nobody wants to talk about why slums reappeared after their total abolition; or why mass unemployment was deliberately reintroduced (after all unemployment was totally abolished); or why all the mental asylum residents were dumped on the streets and became addicts; or why “we” supported drug cartels in Afghanistan and South America; or why desegregation efforts in housing suddenly ceased; or why there has been a relentless five-decade collapse in real wages.
There has essentially been a media cover-up, of all of it. And it has lasted for nearly thirty years. Until workers are once again able to open up the pages of the N.Z. Worker and the Grey River Argus every morning, it’s hard to imagine how this press blackout could ever end.
Luxons want to build another medical school in the Waikato sounds like a policy to reward his rich donor mates and their kids when Auckland medical school is less than a two-hour drive away. The capital costs to set this up is just a waste of money and isn’t he moaning about wasted spending, yet he wants to do this himself. Better to invest more in the existing universities rather than more duplication and bureaucracy.
Luxons want to build another medical school in the Waikato sounds like a policy to reward his rich donor mates and their kids when Auckland medical school is less than a two-hour drive away. The capital costs to set this up is just a waste of money and isn’t he moaning about wasted spending, yet he wants to do this himself. Better to invest more in the existing universities rather than more duplication and bureaucracy.
Luxon wants to build another medical school in the Waikato sounds like a policy to reward his rich donor mates and their kids when Auckland medical school is less than a two-hour drive away. The capital costs to set this up is just a waste of money and isn’t he moaning about wasted spending, yet he wants to do this himself. Better to invest more in the existing universities rather than more duplication and bureaucracy.
Luxon wants to build another medical school in the Waikato sounds like a policy to reward his rich donor mates and their kids when Auckland medical school is less than a two-hour drive away. The capital costs to set this up is just a waste of money and isn’t he moaning about wasted spending, yet he wants to do this himself. Better to invest more in the existing universities rather than more duplication and bureaucracy.
Luxon wants to build another medical school in the Waikato sounds like a policy to reward his rich donor mates and their kids when Auckland medical school is less than a two-hour drive away. The capital costs to set this up is just a waste of money and isn’t he moaning about wasted spending, yet he wants to do this himself. Better to invest more in the existing universities rather than more duplication and bureaucracy.
Covid hiccups? They’ll pass buddy 😉
For goodness sake Covid,we are 8000 health workers short! Many GPS are of the age where they will be retiring soon. Other Drs are burning out cause of their workloads. A new medical school is Nationals best policy.
Are you not aware our health system is beyond crisis!
Despite Luxon showing how weak he is and how shallow he is and how he can change his mind based on who his audience is, still many sick voters still don’t care.
“covid is pa”
What the hell does that moniker even mean? assuming it’s trying to make some sort of point.
Really? WGAF. Do you wear a name tag everywhere?
I would say that Chris Luxon is getting himself experienced at interviews which is as it should be given that he’s the leader of the Opposition. The exact same thing happened with John Key.
I would rather have the not so slick interviews from Luxon than the flimsy style we got from Jacinda and replaced with the polished but weak Hipkins
Trev, Jacinda Adern is respected worldwide for the decisive way in which her government handled the Covid Pandemic and propped up the economy.
I except she handled the covid crisis well but it was not that hard as we are a wealthy island with a relatively small population most of whom complied with the rules once we locked down.
Apart from handling the covid situation and dealing with the Chch massacre her track record was poor .
Trev you are beginning to sound like a Monty Python sketch–“what have the Romans ever done for us”.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha etc
Luxon is getting experience so does that mean he is out of his league or does hat only apply to others but not him as he is getting experience at our expense. In fact, Luxon’s inexperience is mediocracy. It seems every time a poll show in favour of Labour many of the commentators on this site, namely men proabably white tend to get their knickers in a knot. As for me repeating myself it’s not me it’s the system.
Tough on crime bullshit doesn’t work? Anyone with half a brain knows ‘being tough on crime’ as an actual strategy of getting rid of crime doesn’t work to the extent the believers of it claim.
Does being ‘tough on crime’ as a strategy for winning votes work though? Some people believe New Zealand is in dire straits, down the tubes, had it. They believe the way to turn it into a great country, (MNZGA wink) is to have Act and Seymour running the country. The level of dumbness is profound.
Luxon trainwrecks? How many of them do there have to be and how catastrophic do they have to be? To see National/Act not win.
In the mishmash of politics in election season haven’t we reached the American scenario?
The infamous Trump one, with his ‘I Could … Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters.’
His point was people after the event would be “Yeah? So? Who cares?”
Nact is proposing to be tough on the bottom feeders, with no mention of white-collar criminals who destroy people’s lives by stealing their future and retirement nest eggs.
Further to my comment, just noticed that the insider trader crooks working for CERA on the Christchurch rebuild were sentenced to home detention– maybe the sentence should be served in the home of a bottom feeder?
Good on him for putting in the effort expected of an opposition leader by giving so many media interviews. Many opposition leaders wouldn’t. John Key did as well, as he wanted the National Party to seem more approachable and transparent.
You might call them interviews, I call them naive rambling. Straight from the “out of touch” media training handbooks of last century. They may reinforce his base and capture the inept but in an age of social media they just amplify his short-comings. Who watches live TV anymore?
If Labour are not soft on crime what the fk is this?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300931432/teen-mob-member-who-broke-into-home-and-sexually-assaulted-pregnant-woman-gets-home-detention
It makes me feel sick and hate this govt to the core.