If National loses the election this year, it is on them for doing a poor job and assuming that they would have two terms. It is also on their supporters for not holding them to account from the first minute.
Luxon is a very poor leader and a poor PM but gee whizz, Hipkins has failure stamped over every ministerial portfolio he has had in his hands.
Give Luxon a break, and turn your jeers into cheers, because nobody’s perfect. If you tear down Luxon, you’re only helping the crazy left.
Christopher Luxon was the fastest person to go from outside parliament to PM. Now it looks like he will be the fastest person to get rolled after winning an election.
Luxon needs to pull his tiny little hands out of his pockets, shelve training for the world pocket billiard champs and start doing politics better. Show some fire: tackle the issues head-on and rebuild that voter base.
Will NZ right-wing patriots fracture like in the last general election?
All up, not a bad effort from Damien Grant. He nails National’s dismal record on spending and ends with a call to arms: grab a chainsaw and go after the deep state bureaucrats, Javier Milei style.
Our country does not need another middle manager with a PowerPoint. It needs a leader who can fight the real battles. Luxon just proved he is not that man.
I went to the Labour Party State of the Nation.
The liberal elite who control our institutions, the old media and the progressive parties are busy virtue signalling by walking away from X. In the process they walk away from hundreds of thousands of ordinary Kiwis who are right there on the platform.
About the only thing Labour actually delivered last time round was eye-watering debt for the nation and high inflation. If you want more of that then by all means vote Labour.
Opportunity will not make it. It never does. The only history it is writing is another chapter in the long book of parties that confused media hype with voter support.
National really needs to do something to gain some momentum. Perhaps if their election strategist focussed on the election rather than rolling his boss then things may improve.
The next election will not be decided in the echo chambers of the commentariat. It will be decided by voters who are fed up with the same old games. Winston Peters understands that better than most.
This forces Christopher Luxon and his crew to confront their bad habit of selling out to Māori interests, a pattern that kicked off under Jim Bolger and went into overdrive with John Key.
