Somewhere out there in the average workplace are people who voted for National who still think Christopher Luxon is doing an excellent job and he is the man to get us all back on track.
There's no arguing with them.
If you mention the fact that Christopher Luxon made a mockery of Waitangi with that recycled speech he read out loud - they will respond how he had a jolly good explanation - after all there's so much misinformation about and all he wanted was consistency of message.
In other words, they never really looked into it and swallowed what Christopher Luxon spoon fed them in headlines yesterday.
The only misinformation Luxon is referring to is the notion he is going to change the original nine signed documents of Te Tiriti/The Treaty in the National Library...and that had nothing whatsoever to do with the portions of his Waitangi Day speeches in 2022, 2023, and 2024 that overlapped.
But should you dare raise this point and do the thinking for the average National voter - they'll walk away with a smile - shutting that notion out of their mind.
Fingers in ears - la la la - you socialists.
It's not easy to be a Nat and admit you got it wrong and even harder for such a person to change their mind.
The person telling them must be someone they trust and respect and the information must be solid.
To me Claire Trevett ( Chief Political reporter at the NZ Herald ) suffers terribly from this experience as she watches Luxon spin from one disaster to another - and this morning Claire even softened up the latest shift in Luxon's spin - suggesting he possibly been "inadvertently ambiguous" over the past month when he repeatedly insisted that he did not know how to be any clearer - how he had "no intention to support" and there was "no commitment to support" David Seymour's Treaty Principles Bill beyond the first reading and into the Select Committee stage.
Yes suddenly after Waitangi Day - Luxon had added "Will not support" and no matter what the polls say - that will be that.
Sure the Headlines at the NZ Herald now said the Bill was a dead duck - but Trevett was still carving out wriggle room for Luxon, apologising for him, minimising the size of the question mark, making up excuses and soothing the mind of the average National voter - who still thinks Luxon is the man.
"While Luxon has consistently said he does not support a referendum, he has repeatedly, and perhaps inadvertently, left a small question mark hanging about whether he might be persuaded to support the bill beyond that point." - wrote Claire.
Ha ha "perhaps inadvertently left a small question mark" is absolutely what Claire is all about.
The "perhaps" means its speculation, not facts from Claire.
The "inadvertently" means BS it was 100% conscious and deliberate, and the "small question mark" is all about minimising the giant back lash Luxon's deliberate decision to not rule this out for weeks and weeks has had on his own Party.
That's spin for you and it's also Luxon patronising the nation - doubling down for weeks and then shifting his spin - while feeding the National Voter who is too busy to think critically and likes being spoon fed what to say in that workplace.
Thomas Coughlan was also artfully turning around Luxon's cockups - like the way TVNZ reported how Luxon announced he was binning an old Labour Prison Reduction target that Labour had already binned.
"...it appears that Wednesday’s announcement was less binning Labour’s old target than it was putting out a press release claiming the act of not setting a new target was in fact the abolition of a previous, now expired, target." - wrote Thomas.
Right, but I am going with the fact that there was no current target to bin anymore and the act of not setting a new target was more of a sidestep with a cockup loaded into it - a deflection, away from the heat caused by Luxon's speech and the Government's shocker over Waitangi.
The reversal and shift in spin by Luxon spoke volumes while the NZ Herald tidied up this morning. It's all about sweeping up.
Even BeenADick thought the same concerning a deflection- as he commented that the announcement yesterday about the cultural reports and the cockup about "binning a target that was already binned" - was from some kind of left field - like a deflection to get us all talking about this - instead of Waitangi.
Here on G News you guys are pretty switched on so I know you can relate when I list the recent record of BS from Luxon...including but not limited by :
Luxon insisted he had shown you the spreadsheet when he had not - and was prepared to sell NZ to foreigners to fund a tax cut
Luxon's story about economic vandalism would be correct if there was no pandemic and no cyclone - Luxon always leaves that bit out of his spin concerning government spending and debt - eduction outcomes, school attendance, health waiting lists, inflation, and crime rates.
Luxon's Finance Minister never did show how she could afford the tax cuts and expanded the cuts in the Public Service from 24 agencies to 39 after New Years.
Luxon's Finance Minister had no solution to replace the ageing Cook Strait Ferries.
Luxon's plan to kill 8000 New Zealanders by repealing coming smokefree legislation used messages co-opted from the Tobacco Industry and it was only after he was caught red handed by Jack Tame that Luxon gave up the BS about one store in Northland.
Luxon was unaware of the ruling by the International Court of Justice that there was a plausible risk of Genocide in Gaza and that this triggered his obligation to act to prevent it.
Luxon's Police Minister had six years to be aware about recruiting challenges and even longer to understand Coalition Agreements in MMP, but was too thick to appreciate the basics, shot his mouth off and there was a cover up about the botch up behind the scenes.
Luxon's number three, Chris Bishop had no idea about attrition and police numbers and threw Casey Costello under a bus about who wrote that policy note.
Luxon's associate minister of Health is behaving more aligned with the Tobacco Industry than Health and openly denied the undeniable while Luxon said - you'd have to ask her - but he has full confidence.
Luxon's lack of ideas about Climate action are growing increasingly alarming as a sharp fall in EV sales happens under his watch.
Luxon leapt into military conflict in the Red Sea without assessing threat levels and spun lines about this having nothing to do with the expansion of the war in Gaza.
Luxon dodged questions at Waitangi and exited in a hurry after serving up a recycled speech and then boasted it was an incredible experience and he wanted to be consistent - and will repeat the same lines about Cook sailing south and seven decades and people just like us - trying to navigate to a more peaceful, united, stable and prosperous future.
Luxon has told us we can never get back on track but we will definitely get back on track.
Somewhere out there in the average workplace are people who voted for National who still think Christopher Luxon is doing an excellent job and he is the man to get us all back on track.
But here, I just see something like a train wreck smashing into a train wreck, smashing into a train wreck ...and the NZ Herald as the fluffers for the Emperor who not only has no clothes - but who thinks he knows best - is working incredibly hard at telling us he is working incredibly hard and that today is Friday not Thursday - we've talked about this before, and he does not know how to be any clearer - it's always been Saturday as he has repeatedly told us.
"He is doing an excellent job", said the National Voter.
How it really is
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