While Luxon prances around in China playing cultural dress-up with Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue and a handful of senior ministers, Hipkins, the same bloke who cheated on his wife and wrecked his marriage, is overtaking him in popularity. Honestly, I’m not surprised. Luxon is a damn sellout.
Luxon released the below photo on X last night showing himself grinning next to Mark Mitchell, 20 top NZ exporters, and about 14 kapa haka members in full regalia. I did some rough maths for his kapa haka mates. Return flights with Air NZ on the cheap end? Roughly $3,000 a head. That’s at least $40,000 of your taxes blown just getting them there. Hotels, meals, transport? Add another hefty chunk.
What does China think when they see this? A bunch of people yelling, slapping their chests, stamping like toddlers mid-tantrum, looking like Jake Heke about to bash Beth.
The haka is not some magical business tool. It’s cringe to most of the world and more embarrassing than powerful. We look like a bloody parody of ourselves. Luxon might as well rename himself Jacinda Luxon, because he’s just another spineless, virtue-signalling puppet.
If you’re on a business trip, focus on business. Don’t drag along a bunch of cultural freeloaders who know more about navigating WINZ benefits and cultural handouts than international markets. You want investment, not interpretive dance.
Luxon, wake up. Because if you don’t, we’re staring down the barrel of a Labour, Green and Te Pāti Māori coalition. That, my friends, is a future no sane person wants.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
If you’re on a business trip, focus on business. Don’t drag along a bunch of cultural freeloaders who know more about navigating WINZ benefits and cultural handouts than international markets. You want investment, not interpretive dance.
Luxon, wake up. Because if you don’t, we’re staring down the barrel of a Labour, Green and Te Pāti Māori coalition. That, my friends, is a future no sane person wants.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
7 comments:
Luxon is trying to convince the world(and possibly himself) that this is "who we are". Ardern is trying to convince the world that "we all love her and that she saved us". Truly cringe material to the intelligent New Zealander. These two people and their perspective do not represent real New Zealanders. I totally agree, business trips should be totally focused on business. I have housed, through other family members requests, Japanese homestay students. Their total focus was on European culture and learning the English language. I can't imagine why the Chinese people would be any different.
But the sanity of NZers - once their great strength - is now seriously on doubt.
The bald Jacinda is an absolute idiot!
The Haka is a national embarassment. If individuals behaved like that in private or public they would be sent to anger management counselling. What must overseas dignitaries think when confronted with this spectacle on arrival in New Zealand. What other supposedly civilised country greets visitors with a threatening war cry,y? What was fine in pre-European times when tribes were competing for scarce resources, so scarce that on occasions they needed to resort to cannibalism, is not fine in the 21st century.
i have never understood the desire to demonstrate primitism to the Chinese. They largely buy food from us. They are very concerned about quality . They want product produced by efficent mechanised means least likely to be corrupted. So we delight in showing them we are still in the stone age. Does Luxon ask for these displays or does some staffer present them and he is too timid to reject? i wonder how many university students th displays attract.Will the maori press compare with the number of rooms for the homeless which the cost would have covered.
Hope it was a one-way ticket. China is welcome to the lot of them, as New Zealand doesn't want them back here.
The haka is a vicious statement of war.
So is NZ threatening China?
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