National Party Conference: Luxon doubles down on bashing beneficiaries by unveiling welfare privatisation agenda
The 1800s are calling and they want their cruel social policies back!
Wow.
How desperate has National become?
In a time of climate crisis, inequality crisis, housing crisis, crime crisis and cost of living crisis and where will the great Christian Philosopher Christoper Luxon guide us?
Doubling down on bashing the dirty filthy beneficiaries, Luxon bewilderingly attacks young people on welfare without understanding those numbers include sick, ill and disabled youth!
His chilling promise? Mass privatisation of welfare!
Jesus wept!
Let’s be very clear – what Luxon is promising is a privatisation of welfare – understand that, understand that now!
His entire misdirected dog whistle, let’s bash up the youth on welfare is best summed up in this Herman Melville quote…
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
…this country is still reeling from the impact of Covid and he’s bashing beneficiaries?
WTF?
Where does a 7 property owning Hawaiian mansion holidaying CEO get off shitting on poor people in such desperate times?
We are handing out over 100 000 food grants a month with Food Banks spiking 500% and he’s bitching about the lowest unemployment rate in forever?
It’s like he can’t help but bully anyone economically weaker than himself.
Does he think this is shits ands giggles for everyone? Right now a vast chunk of our brothers and sisters in this country, regardless of who they vote for, are doing it bloody hard, and only someone really insulted from that reality like he is would say this sort of crap!
I thought that ‘bottom feeder’ comment was a slip up, a mistake, a poorly worded brain fat, but the more I see of Luxon, the more I see a preening vanity in his success, a naked self aggrandisement that sees his wealth as a direct blessing from Jesus making it a sin to be humble.
I don’t like his policies.
I don’t like the way he pushes around the poor.
I don’t like the constant and embarrassing u-turns.
I don’t like him!
I thought Luxon was a dumbo boofhead who believed in prosperity religion and thinks Jesus has blessed him because he owns 7 properties. He oozes a misplaced sense of confidence because of this and it’s that misplaced sense of self faith that National are selling an uneasy and nervous electorate.
Listening to him spout far right welfare privatisation garbage marks him out as a dumbo boofhead who is incredibly dangerous.
With National privatising welfare and ACT amputating 5 ministries, a National/ACT Government represents the most radical departure from the norm NZ has seen since Roger Douglas met Ruth Richardson.
We have lived through a political period of time since MMP that has managed to dilute and temper the idealogical extremes of Left/Right politics in NZ. The need to compromise and pull punches is fundamental to the MMP dynamic HOWEVER that completely gets thrown out the window if there is no political centre left.
The political centre has been hollowed out so much under MMP that Labour and National are almost indistinguishable in their acquiescence to neoliberal mantra.
The far left and far right have enormous pent up political tension that will rupture once Labour or National are dependent on their numbers for a majority.
National think privatising welfare is the solution, the backlash will suggest they’ve misplaced the centre.
Kiwi’s don’t want to punish one another, they want help and direction in these frightening times, National trying to goad a public stoning of teenagers on welfare is misplaced malice that won’t generate the political excitement they think it will.
We are a bigger people than National think we are.
This sudden desire to privatise welfare is a terrible strategic blunder by National. Trying to out right ACT on welfare isn’t a political solution, it’s a virtue signalling exercise amongst crypto-fascists!
Labour have achieved so little because of the trainwreck National left the country in, oh and let’s not forget the little issue of ‘Covid’.
Labour deserve and have earned another vote from reasonable people when you consider the position Covid placed us in. Jacinda has been a remarkable leader and the narrative that it’s all Labour’s fault simply rings false and the solution of privatiziang welfare to give teenagers on benefits a clip around the ear is just bullshit alpha bullying by a beta bully.
I mean Aloha Luxon can’t even pick on someone his own size, he has to go after kids on benefits!
Luxon manipulated people’s legitimate fear and pain from the cost of living and then went to Hawaii while his social media handlers pretended he was in Te Puke meeting people suffering from the cost of living crisis.
They did that because they knew holidaying in Hawaii would make his concern over the cost of living crisis look fake and insincere.
Which it is.
The glitter has quickly rubbed off this turd.
Remember, Luxon was the negotiated leader, not the most talented. He became Leader after Collins made her hate pack vote for him after she ratfucked Simon Bridges.
Once the mainstream media comprehend he’s attempting to privatise welfare, his inability to answer questions and critics of what that actually looks like in real life will avalanche.
This was a poorly thought out knee-jerk without a knee-cap.
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These jobs coaches are just another way of ‘managing’ the unemployed via another endless stream of meetings in which they are shown how to redo their CV for the umpteenth time.
Better off just giving long term unemployed a one way ticket to Australia so they can find work there.
Luxon just doesnt get it but to be honest, I am not sure anyone in National does.
Labour has taken us on a hellish tangent which has screwed the country but at least they dreamed a dream and tried something new and Luxon’s solution is “Here’s a bandaid, I dont have any views on anything but making money for me and my mates but I am pretty sure if we turn the clock back 20 years it will all come out great”
He’s not wrong, we do have an intergenerational welfare problem and we have young people who dont want to work but that’s like looking at the tip of an iceberg. Saying to people you get a year on the dole and your own personal job coach is only going to change 5% if that. Because it’s all the stuff under the waterline that is the problem. But I doubt that there is anyone in National who can even understand that.
Has anyone explained to them it’s actually 2021?
I thought Uncle Fester was supposedly the great hope to save National and indeed A/NZ.
How many out-of-their depth, baldy white guys remain for the Tories foist out into our faces before they anoint someone with appeal to moderate voters?
Every time this person with seven houses appears with that mouth I pause and think about homeless youth.
https://www.teaomaori.news/youth-homelessness-rising-whangarei
Can he honestly say, if he had to sleep in a park, not just for one night either, more like permanent, would he be ‘job ready’?
It was the “white guys” who brought civilisation to the barbarians occupying this land and who built the infrastructure and the businesses of this country.
Cutting people benefits who don’t comply will simply add to more ram raids, family breakdowns, more mental and anxiety problems, more crime, more Maori imprisonment, more violence, more us and them, more have-nots, more migration to Aus. And all this talk at a time when Ms zip it sweet is advocating for the opposite approach. God help us if this rich prick out of touch turd gets in.
Cutting people benefits who don’t comply will simply add to more ram raids, family breakdowns, more mental and anxiety problems, more crime, more Maori imprisonment, more violence, more us and them, more have-nots, more migration to Aus. And all this talk at a time when Ms zip it sweet is advocating for the opposite approach. God help us if this rich prick out of touch turd gets in.
Cutting people benefits who don’t comply will simply add to more ram raids, family breakdowns, more mental and anxiety problems, more crime, more Maori imprisonment, more violence, more us and them, more have-nots, more migration to Aus. And all this talk at a time when Ms zip it sweet is advocating for the opposite approach. God help us if this rich prick out of touch turd gets in.
Cutting people benefits who don’t comply will simply add to more ram raids, family breakdowns, more mental and anxiety problems, more crime, more Maori imprisonment, more violence, more us and them, more have-nots, more migration to Aus. And all this talk at a time when Ms zip it sweet is advocating for the opposite approach. God help us if this rich prick out of touch turd gets in.
Yes and by outsourcing he can claim to be reducing staff numbers
Another ploy used by Nats in days gone by.
Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that.
Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that. Where is zip it sweety she’s now singing from a different so g sheet.
Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that. Where is zip it sweety she’s now singing from a different so g sheet.
Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that. Where is zip it sweety she’s now singing from a different so g sheet.
Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that. Where is zip it sweety she’s now singing from a different so g sheet.
– Labour have achieved so little because of the trainwreck National left the country in, oh and let’s not forget the little issue of ‘Covid’. –
Oof! Disingenuosity aplenty!
Even train wrecks can be cleaned up with the right equipment and willing workers.
If the workers don’t want to do it, it won’t happen no matter what supermarionation equipment they get hold of.
The only obstacle in front of the Labour caucus is the Labour caucus. They just don’t WANT to change anything. Much as I looove blaming National for everything wrong, this is one case where it won’t work. Labour has an absolute majority at the moment; they could do anything they wanted.
BUT THEY FUCKING DIDN’T!
Jacinda’s legacy: “We didn’t do anything; how cool is that?”
JSB No they don’t want to change anything. They darn well ought to have the guts to do something, but are so afraid they won’t hold back the rush from entitled wealthies that they keep their heads below the parapet. We should get Rowan Atkinson over here as Blackadder along with Tony Robinson and his cunning ideas and make a film about our government.
The peacocks that lost their feathers are now like hens in close captivity pecking at each other. The Beehive has been turned into a henhouse where Labour has employed
Rumplestiltskin to supply them with golden eggs. Might as well have flights of fancy – nothing else will fly, as the hens find that golden eggs make them too heavy to move far or fast.
8 words of utter shite Bob the first. No evidence, no links, and you have no clue Bob.
Are you sure that your bosses and employers at Dirty Politics Central BPD (Blogposts Payment Division) will actually pay you a fee for this drivel?
I agree that this is not great politics from Mr. Luxon. He may or may not have a point about the consequences of inter generational welfare dependency but this is not the solution – one of them is policies and incentives aimed at getting our young people back to school (since Labour appear not to be phased by our current third world school attendance rates) after the socially devastating drop off in school attendance as a direct result of the Covid lockdowns.
By way of balance not everything that came out of the National Party Conference has been negative. For example Prof Elizabeth Rata gave a very thoughtful presentation entitled “In defence of Democracy” which although not covered on MSM (that I can see) can be found summarised on non-government subsidised news sites.
Of course it wouldn’t be the dailyblog if you weren’t sticking it to National.
Privatized welfare. You mean subcontracting. Like the Government does with so many things.
Schools, medical, some MSD functions. Prisons
But I guess you had to find a bogeyman. 🙂
Good for a Sunday chuckle Bomber, but cant take you seriously
OMG such shit. It will all be contract and if you get someone into a job then you will get paid but otherwise….. fiddle away.
Beneficaries are such easy pickings. How come he isn’t going for all the big tax dodgers.
David Seymour doesn’t own any houses. Does not holiday in Hawaii. Was not the CEO for a state sponsored airline. His credentials are looking very good all of a sudden.
Luxon, looks and reminds me of Muldoon, maybe, thats why, look at us again, why, your farm fence, has not altered care, and your social welefare, certaintly not. Same as it ever was.
Allways the same, city farm fence , greed exploit, with blame, the workers,allowed pay rise, your expoited drive you adhere to, wage drive, your home debt, that you will never union, in your place of employment. Trust us, our social welfare, shall be minimal, you shall care our understanding care.
Allways the same, city farm fence , greed exploit, with blame, the workers,allowed pay rise, your exploited drive you adhere to, wage drive, your home debt, that you will never union, in your place of employment. Trust us, our social welfare, shall be minimal, you shall care our understanding care.
they are going round in circles. they always do this and then things get worse.. john keys remember .. ho bout they do something new for once
Politicians draw down the biggest benefits Chris, you know that. Another thing, if anyone in New Zealand works for at least one hour a week they are classed as employed. So this ‘work will set you free’ mantra you are peddling just doesn’t make sense, it’s like saying the two million people currently getting the cost of living payment aren’t on benefit, or those businesses that manipulated the covid subsidy didn’t receive corporate welfare. It’s just tired political theatre performed by bad actors for a gullible audience. Actual work and career opportunities are really only available to you and your entitled mates, you know that. True, Robertson is the king of two-tier welfare but your people have perfected the art of the kiwi caste. And really, who wants to work for minimum wage serving you coffee on the way to your next holiday. Why would anyone want to work a job whose sole purpose is to earn enough money to fill their car with gas so that they can get to that job and earn enough for gas, so on ad infinitum. It’s ridiculous, and it’s carbon intensive. So go back to your gated community Chris, let the adults get on with it.
National are desperately looking for an issue to tackle and has reverted to its usual target of picking on beneficiaries even when there are few grounds to do so. So what would this policy cost? And what damage would be done to the self-esteem of the targets? Willis said something about returning to the 1970s this could be a step on the way.
Nah! he’s not a Rob Muldoom, Muldoom rubbed shoulders with black power he set up trade training (which is why they did a haka at his tangi, respect) Luxon will run a mile maybe fly he knows a lot about planes.
It can’t be wrong to ensure that able-bodied people work to support themselves instead of relying on others to work and pay taxes that are then given to those able-bodied people who are too lazy to work for themselves. That is definitely NOT beneficiary-bashing.
I am not against helping those that are unable to work either through mental of physical infirmities but I am definitely against helping those who are too lazy to help themselves.
We didn’t call him piggy Muldoon for nothing