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Sylvia Miles was a wonderful actress. Her acting career was not particularly prolific but the roles she had were always memorable, such as in Midnight Cowboy and Wall Street, and her characters always seemed to get hilarious one-liners (often what viewers remember about the movie). She co-starred in the Agatha Christie movie Evil Under The Sun in 1982 as the theatrical producer Myra Gardner, and one of her amusing one-liners to her wimpy husband was, “If you were a man I’d divorce you!”
With that in mind, is anybody else getting rather sick and tired of Christopher Luxon’s pitiful routine of appearing on television to apologise to the woke socialist mob?
For the last few weeks Luxon will say something (which 80% of the population are thinking) – usually involving common sense, often ‘received wisdom’ for several thousand years until recently dis-invented. It will predictably garner the anger of the left-wing establishment and then he fronts up to Ryan Bridge, John Campbell and presumably other media outlets, for a jolly good scolding!
Luxon then tugs his forelock, drops to his knees like some prison (you-know-what) and profusely apologises for the outrageous impertinence of even having an actual Opposition party, let alone a differing viewpoint.
Once Luxon has demonstrated he is sufficiently contrite, and once the left-wing interviewer has recovered from their attack of the vapours, the interview is brought to an end with a ‘Go forth and don’t sin again (you racist!).’
New Normalcy has been restored. ‘Karen’ can spend the $600 in rent she charges poor people in her investment property on her 11am bottle of wine in conniption-free peace.
But what about the National party voter? What does he think of this sort of behaviour and the myriad implications regarding Mr Luxon and his character?
I was too young to recall Rob Muldoon’s period as Opposition leader, but from what I have read and heard he never acted in such a pathetic, embarrassing fashion. And he won.
In more recent times neither Helen Clark, Don Brash nor John Key as Opposition leaders spent their time apologising to political opponents for ‘thought crimes’ or opposing illogical – and often purely evil – policies intended to cause lasting damage to New Zealand.
Give due credit to Don Brash: he got stuck in and turned the volume up to 11. The angrier the left-wing mob, the better he was doing! But not Mr Luxon. He seems paranoid about the least little criticism from people who despise him and his party.
Anything they say – give it 15 minutes and he caves in – ‘I don’t want to upset everybody.’ The advice he has clearly received is that this strategy shows ‘leadership’, shows he is ‘above the battle’, and other similar twaddle.
Luxon foolishly thinks this is corporate New Zealand, where he has a binding contract and cannot be fired without it costing a lot of money. It isn’t – this is politics. I suspect those giving him such poor advice hope to replace him if he loses the election.
Were I on the Opposition front bench it’s what I would do! (You need to get behind somebody in order to stab them in the back, folks!)
