For too long this country has been hamstrung: bound up in excessive red tape and regulations. We are held back by having governments with an insular mindset and a fear of thinking or doing anything outside the square. We are quite capable of it. Think of our historic number-eight-wire mentality, our innovative approach and our ability to create new opportunities and ideas. Think Rocket Lab.
What we don’t always have is the required expertise and certainly not the necessary funds to enable the projects we want. This is where Luxon’s business expertise is vital to ‘getting things done’ as he puts it. This is an area, along with trade, where he is a man on a mission. These are the two areas where he sees growth for the country can best be achieved. He’s right. A small country like ours needs both to prosper.
After some dismal poll numbers Luxon needs some runs on the board. The infrastructure summit might just be the place where he scores some. There are reports of an Italian firm showing interest in building the Northern Expressway. It is the long game Luxon is playing. Catches, as sometimes happens in cricket, are not always easily made.
It is encouraging to see Labour showing signs of coming to the party by talking of loosening their policies around foreign investment. Barbara Edmonds is sounding like she might like a slice of the infrastructure cake Luxon is cooking, but in the next breath she talks about involving Māori as a partnership in what has been decided. Ginny Andersen on the other hand, talking to Mike Hosking, doesn’t think foreign investment will have any effect on the country’s economic growth or prosperity. Chris Hipkins doesn’t think hospitals and schools should be privately owned.
It is this narrow minded, archaic, unionised thinking that is holding the country back and has done so for decades. We need to free ourselves of the self-imposed shackles and invite the world in to help with the growth and prosperity we so desperately need. It is past time we let the world know that we are open for business.
Luxon is the best-placed politician to do it. Like Trump, he is not a politician, he is a businessman. If he really wanted more runs on the board he could be more Trump like and get a DOGE operation going aimed at cleaning out the Public Service here. Voters on the right of the political spectrum vote on the policies a party campaigns on and, when it’s elected, expects them to be acted upon.
This is exactly what Trump has done on the domestic front and Luxon would be wise to follow suit. Trump has virtually destroyed the Democrats. They are leaderless, legless and devoid of vision. They are singing from the same songbook that lost them the election. Luxon, if he had the necessary willingness, could do exactly that to Labour and their coalition comrades.
A headline has just popped up on my screen from the Listener, that magazine of left-wing excellence. It reads ‘How can Luxon sell New Zealand if he can’t sell himself’. That would be one of the dumbest headlines I’ve seen. It is simply facile. The two are completely unrelated as I hope I have shown in this piece.
He can sell New Zealand internationally through his business acumen. Where he has problems selling himself is domestically. There is an answer though. Luxon should adopt the mantra Phil Goff gave Trump and become a dangerous idiot.
What we don’t always have is the required expertise and certainly not the necessary funds to enable the projects we want. This is where Luxon’s business expertise is vital to ‘getting things done’ as he puts it. This is an area, along with trade, where he is a man on a mission. These are the two areas where he sees growth for the country can best be achieved. He’s right. A small country like ours needs both to prosper.
After some dismal poll numbers Luxon needs some runs on the board. The infrastructure summit might just be the place where he scores some. There are reports of an Italian firm showing interest in building the Northern Expressway. It is the long game Luxon is playing. Catches, as sometimes happens in cricket, are not always easily made.
It is encouraging to see Labour showing signs of coming to the party by talking of loosening their policies around foreign investment. Barbara Edmonds is sounding like she might like a slice of the infrastructure cake Luxon is cooking, but in the next breath she talks about involving Māori as a partnership in what has been decided. Ginny Andersen on the other hand, talking to Mike Hosking, doesn’t think foreign investment will have any effect on the country’s economic growth or prosperity. Chris Hipkins doesn’t think hospitals and schools should be privately owned.
It is this narrow minded, archaic, unionised thinking that is holding the country back and has done so for decades. We need to free ourselves of the self-imposed shackles and invite the world in to help with the growth and prosperity we so desperately need. It is past time we let the world know that we are open for business.
Luxon is the best-placed politician to do it. Like Trump, he is not a politician, he is a businessman. If he really wanted more runs on the board he could be more Trump like and get a DOGE operation going aimed at cleaning out the Public Service here. Voters on the right of the political spectrum vote on the policies a party campaigns on and, when it’s elected, expects them to be acted upon.
This is exactly what Trump has done on the domestic front and Luxon would be wise to follow suit. Trump has virtually destroyed the Democrats. They are leaderless, legless and devoid of vision. They are singing from the same songbook that lost them the election. Luxon, if he had the necessary willingness, could do exactly that to Labour and their coalition comrades.
A headline has just popped up on my screen from the Listener, that magazine of left-wing excellence. It reads ‘How can Luxon sell New Zealand if he can’t sell himself’. That would be one of the dumbest headlines I’ve seen. It is simply facile. The two are completely unrelated as I hope I have shown in this piece.
He can sell New Zealand internationally through his business acumen. Where he has problems selling himself is domestically. There is an answer though. Luxon should adopt the mantra Phil Goff gave Trump and become a dangerous idiot.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
6 comments:
Anyone who thinks Luxons "domestic woes" are anything more than a despicable left wing media attempt to discredit the National Leader... is a fool.
Luxon and his disciplined team have been working hard to fix the huge problems left by the public money swindling Clark, Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson, Little; axis of evil.
A Trade deal with India is imminent which is just one of the green shoots resulting from Luxons expertise and toil.
Expect more!
Sadly the great majority better understand, are more interested in, and much more informed about such monumental issues as school lunches.
JC , Luxon only has to say , I have given the Treaty Principles Bill further thought and NZ does deserve to debate the bill further . END
Mark Hanely - you missed Key off your list of those that have sent our country down the gurgler.
Luxon's biggest problem is he sees himself as a new Key, when he isn't. Plus such a person is the last thing Kiwis want.
Mr Hanley: still awaiting your reply ( requested ) as to why Mr Luxon refuses to address the critical socio-cultural issue for NZ ( democracy and race relations) - which impacts on the economic situation as well. Until you respond, your comments lack credibility - you seem to be diverting attention from what he should be doing in this area ( alongside the economic).
PS I worked for the UN for over 30 years and the OECD for another 5. A country's economic context can never be analysed separately from its socio-cultural situation. These are Inextricably linked. So... we await your reply.
I responded to plenty of Anons debunking their racist concerns.
The average Maori in the street hasn't seen any benefit from the Ardern years.
Like lbgtqa, climate change, farmer hate, kindness, and school lunches: race was a smoke bomb launched by the Clark, Ardern, Little, Robertson, and Hipkins axis of evil to distract us while they embezzled our hard earned money..... much of it funneled to the Maori Kings family, then no doubt koha-ed out to others.
The aggregious public service partnership Maori kings family money making schemes have all been, or are in the process of being, wiped out by Luxon (rma, Maori health, 3 waters, local body Maori seats, etc.).
The TOW principles bill is not necessary with Luxon in charge because he won't launder money through the Maori Kings family.
I have a hunch we will be given a binding referendum on TOWP when:
- the coalitions current tranche of vital work has been completed so Luxon and his ministers have more time to deal with the inevitable towp media frenzy,
- the results of the coalitions hard work are improving voters lives,
- the coalitions popularity is increasing,
- unemployment is much lower so the resulting hikois will have less people available to join in.
PS.
I normally don't comment on race except my support for the towp bill. I find the subject tiresome. and overblown, and like most voters i place race a long way down my priority list.... while the virtuous and honest Luxon is in charge.
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