The left are always a bit slow on the uptake, they don’t go for the jugular when they could. They allow inferior political talents like Phil Twyford and Ginny Andersen to get in the media and remind everyone how useless Labour really are.
Or they promote ethno-nationalism like the Māori Party or put a bloke in a dress in parliament, like the Greens.
Or shoplift, or not pay workers, or campaign for Palestine, not NZ.
What they really should be doing is getting some good political operators like Phil Quin, either of the Paganis or Shane Te Pou on the pay roll with the simple mandate to ratfuck Luxon.
Stop the performative bullshit and start concentrating on the old-school Labour strength of kicking a man while he is down.
This means having a whip around and paying Talbot Mills to start polling fortnightly on Christopher Luxon’s net favourables, and what National’s vote share would be if they replaced Luxon as leader with Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop, Erica Stanford or Simeon Brown. And be really cruel and ask if a generic National leader would increase National’s vote. Then start regularly publishing across social media which National MPs will lose their seat on current polling and who would save their seat with a change in leader.
This is a fairly simple play, but the Labour Party is filled with exceptionally simple people who fail to make the simple plays time and time again. It is almost as if they want to maintain Luxon in place.
Ratfucking Luxon isn’t hard, because he is an inferior political talent. Fortunately for Luxon his opposition in parliament is even more inferior and the media is too broke to fund this kind of polling.
