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.
11 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?
I think if Luxon and Nats became more like Act the opposition would rise in the polls. Many believe the narrative spun by msm and in our institutions and many believe the ,,anti -Maori stuff,, talk of Te Hapua etc is all made up. No radical threat,after all we believe RNZ and our TV channels. it us just nasty racist old whites and clipons like Winnie...you all dead soon too. the focus for many is benefits, percieved cuts in health and the old pay packet. It is hard to make headway on the race and power issues when it is never covered properly or ignored
Anyone who traveled overseas knows The Haka (thanks to the all blacks) is synonymous with NZ.
A manager of Luxon's pedigree understands the importance of using unique and familiar: sounds, sights, and symbols (logos) which depict quality when selling NZ Inc.
Is there no limit to the ignorant fiction you people come up with to abuse the best qualified PM NZ has ever had?
Now lets talk about how....
1. the 2025 health targets have already been met,
2. the roads have been repaired and new ones built,
3. our kids are once again going to school,
4. our jails are filling up,
5. the gangs have gone incognito,
6. our mortgages are cheaper
7. our police are happier and more numerous
8. ram raids have ended.
9. GDP grew 8% last quarter.
etc.
It's likely the best part of $100K taking those 'tongue pokers/face pullers' on this junket, but then what are a lot of the others doing there - like Mark Mitchell? Perhaps learning how to quell a protester with a tank?
But $100k in travel is peanuts to the $56M (reputedly) the taxpayer has funded Maori to claim the foreshore and seabed under MACA - all thanks to Christopher Finlayson keeping himself and his 'learned friends' well-heeled.
Meanwhile Goldsmith ponders, and ponders, and ponders some more - all the while the costs, and no doubt the grounds for grievance, keep mounting.
Reply to anonymous at 4.07. The haka maybe the golden grail for some, but I venture to say many of us see it as a primitive expression of culture and not representative of an advanced society. Especially when showcased overseas. What is wrong with aiming for the best and finest in life rather than reverting to the Stone Age? I believe if it wasn't for ACT and NZF, New Zealand would be heading towards New Zimbabwe territory.
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