There’s no way Nicola Willis will be Finance Minister in National’s Government – The smart yellow fox will jump over the lazy blue log
Christopher Luxon may not be able to keep Finance Minister promise, David Seymour says
ACT’s David Seymour says Christopher Luxon may not be able to keep his “promise” that Nicola Willis will be the Finance Minister in a future National-led Government as Kiwis may want him in that role instead.
ACT’s alternative Budget, released on Monday, has sparked a conversation about what policies the National Party could support in any future governing arrangement. For National to take the Treasury benches again, it’s highly likely it will need ACT’s seats for support.
But Luxon, the National leader, has resisted getting into what ACT policies his party could support, saying any discussion about governing arrangements is too far off at the moment. He has repeated National’s current position on the likes of increasing the superannuation age and the tax system.
However, when asked by media on Tuesday, Luxon did say Willis, his deputy leader and finance spokesperson, would be the Finance Minister in any future National Government he ran.
Initially, Luxon simply said Willis would be an “outstanding Finance Minister of New Zealand”. But when pushed on the matter, he confirmed “Nicola Willis will be our Finance Minister”.
“I am making a concrete promise. I am having Nicola Willis as our Finance Minister. There is no doubt about that. That is very clear to me,” Luxon said.
Just how batshit crazy ACT policy is will make many flinch.
Many blokes have walked away from Labour and the Greens and are voting National because they are sick of Jacinda and our ever triggered woke hysterical activists.
There are 2 things everyone flirting with voting National need to recognise right now.
1: Luxon can do the 45 second CEO soundbite but he has zero intellectual curiosity, he is a devout evangelical Christian whom believes his wealth is proof positive that Jesus loves him. His policies will make things far far far worse in this country in terms of housing, inequality and poverty so don’t pretend voting against Jacinda for him makes you radical or edgy, it makes you a fuckwit
2: Luxon is such a boofhead, he’ll let David run rings around him in terms of pushing through crazy ACT Party policy because Luxon isn’t interested in philosophy, he’s interested in God’s love of him being the best he can be. Policy is something the little people do, and Christopher don’t do little people stuff. National are selling Luxon’s certainty to you, and that’s all.
You vote National, you get ACT Far Right Policy.
Make no mistakes that Seymour wants to ram this madness through, and Chris Luxon is intellectually too vain to stop him.
You vote National, you get ACT Far Right Policy.
New National recruits are voting because they are angry with Labour and the Greens, they don’t realise yet what they are actually getting with that protest vote.
You vote National, you get ACT Far Right Policy.
Once punters realise what the fuck crazy David Seymour can ram past an easily distracted Luxon, the sooner they’ll come back to Labour.
Sure, male voters are pissed off with the Left, but they’re not fucking insane.
Luxon needs Nicola to soften his hard right ‘abortion is murder’ stance from female voters but he doesn’t have any intellectual curiosity towards the ants who live under him, and David Seymour is vastly smarter than this clown and will get all of this vast mutilation of the State’s capacity through without even noticing!
David will force Luxon to give him the Finance Minister and Luxon will jettison Nicola faster than Trump appointed Judges trying to end Roe vs Wade.
Luxon is a big ole’ CEO alpha bull boofhead with zero intellectual curiosity and just the total certainty that Jesus loves him, David Seymour will play him like a fiddle and you all known it!
The smart yellow fox will jump over the lazy blue log.
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“You vote National, you get ACT Far Right Policy.”
Sold! The only thing I dislike about ACT policy is raising the retirement age which I think will cost them votes. They should lower the age of KiwiSaver funds access by the same amount that they raise the retirement age to balance it out in my opinion.
They should raise the retirement age for Boomers only then put it back down for next generations. The boomers have got some major societal payback to achieve as reparations for the mess they have caused.
Not all Boomers are responsible or are the same.
I am so sick of that trope. Some us knowingly and willingly supported others and did the right thing (Not buying investment properties because of the social harm it caused, always voting for the underdog, donating time and money to others) even though we were wealthy enough not to do so.
We also largely came from working class stock so we worked hard for our money. Working 2 jobs was the norm in both my and my parents generations (personally and for others). An average paying job during the week and 3 or 4 nights a week tending bar. That was how you saved for your first house and often how you paid the mortgage back in the days of 15 – 20% interest.
Things are even harder now because of the rubbish governments we have endured over the last 20 years. But still for most a dedication to hard work and a foregoing of many things we have assumed we must have, most things are still achievable with planning, wider thinking and a little luck.
“Boomers” has really become a perjorative term and I deeply resent it. We had a social contract with the government of the day that our taxes paid for our super, education and health care. The state provided the infrastructure and financial institutions so that we could save for our first home – and the majority have only ever had the one home that they are living in. Douglas and Prebble sold us out and created a neoliberal state, gleefully continued by successive Nat governments.
Swings and roundabouts. So-called “boomers” worked hard and generated a lot of wealth. 60’s and 70’s NZ governments borrowed heavily especially after the European Common Market came into play in the early 70s and UK and Europe export markets declined significantly. This all had to be paid back and resulted in significant belt-tightening in the 80s and 90s. To blame the average person born between 1946 and 1965 who is retired now is petty and could come back to bite millennials and zoomers in the future based on their general lack of productivity in my opinion.
Labour are National, just a lot more useless. That’s why we, who thought they were actually going to change things, have given up on them. But voting for Nat/ACT is not the go to and I doubt there will be a return to Labour.
Either not voting or voting an alternative depending on what’s available on the day is more likely. And I suspect floating voters are returning to National is all that is happening.
And the Greens as an alternative? God, no. They are at risk of self cancellation!
You can always move to Aus no one is forcing you to stay here against your will.
If the choice is National with Luxon as leader plus Act than do nothing except break promises Labour plus invisible Greens and may be the racist Maori Party I will go for National and Act.
Why do you keep bringingLuxon’s Christianity into the equation beats me ,Does it make if him evil. Do you know or care what religion any of the other leaders follow .
The impact Act have will depend on the size of his popular vote and that s the way it should be .The facts are once in power many parties change their stance as can be seen with Labour but it was the same with Naional .I remember pre 2017 election going to an anti TTPA with the Labour speak saying how terrible it was but once elected signed on . One plus to Greens is they do try and stick to their promises when allowed.
Aren’t you all forgetting one consideration here…..NZ First, thanks to Mallards tantrum’s gets 8% votes from Labour. National then has a choice who it forms a Govt with and might not need ACT
ACT is and always will be an abomination and Frankie if what you say is true, why isn’t ACT polling in the 30’s if they don’t scare people with their policies?
The only question is if Seymour doesn’t drain the swamp but sells it.
The Baby Boomers have been both a blessing and a nuisance to the economy over the years. It is the same with any Western country and with any generation. There are always some repercussions for the economy, for the environment, and social changes, etc.
You vote for the left you get economically shafted and lectured by rich intellectual snobs who use faux left wing talking points to hide their classist hatred of the working class.
You vote for the rich you get economically shafted but get to watch and laugh as the right attempts to dismantle the power of the rich classist woke snobs and orgasm over their tantrums.
Pretty easy choice for the many many many many working class, poor , Maori and pasifika and Asian voters who are by and large socially conservative.
I personally would die laughing watching the classist wokes panic attacks as they get purged from the bureaucracy.
But I will never vote national or act.
Aren’t they squirming over at The Standard on the horror of ACTs policy on downsizing and closing certain government departments.
These people (the PMC) have harassed the working class, the “river of filth” mercilessly from their woke pulpit, even down to the cars they drive.
Now if ACT gets in the PMC might just see what the public actually thinks of them and how important their (invariably) non critical jobs are.
Not much, not very.
Tiger Mountain seems to be inciting actual violence against Seymour.
If it wasnt for the PMC you so despised, you would still be property of your husband, and he would be beating you every single day.
In Christianity, it is a husband’s duty to beat his wife.
millsy you crack me up, but I do worry about your mental health.
millsy, leave it, the guy is simply clueless.
So you want abortion and homosexuality (plus divorce) recriminalised?
Building prisons to jail transgender people will be expensive.
The problem with labour is that they could’t run a piss up in a brewery, apart from giving away free beer, and and a sausage sizzle. Then get someone else to pay for it…The more David Seymour puts his policy out the more its obvious he’s a monoculturalist, needs to do an OE and get some cultural training. He will score plenty of own goals, we are not that stupid. National will get in and what an economic mess they will inherit. Nicola willis will be a great finance minister…..
Vote for Labour and vote for the party who enriched Luxon more than his wildest dreams.
The problem with labour is that they could’t run a piss up in a brewery, apart from giving away free beer, and and a sausage sizzle. Then get someone else to pay for it…The more David Seymour puts his policy out the more its obvious he’s a monoculturalist, needs to do an OE and get some cultural training. He will score plenty of own goals, we are not that stupid. National will get in and what an economic mess they will inherit. Nicola willis will be a great finance minister…..
When National and ACT get in power, you wont get a payrise for the rest of your career. No sick leave, paid holidays, over time, nor any right to join a union. The same pay level, for the rest of your life.
But rents, power prices, health care costs (US style health will be imposed), all across the board.
Zimbabwe? Being a tad dramatic aren;t ya? Perhaps you are a retired Remuera thespian…