National with under 30% has a nominal allocation of 35 seats, but with 42 electorate seats that was extinguished by some margin, any chance for Willis, Bishop, Goldsmith as list MPs, gone. National would have needed another 8% of the party vote and that was not going to happen. Yet Simeon Brown and Luxon remained in denial. So does Luxon actually have a single soul he will listen to?
He may have managed to keep Peters and Seymour at the Cabinet Table but politics is not clients and shareholders, they have a different degree of skin in the Game and Mr Luxon’s inability to read the room does not auger well for the Nation going forward.
Hung parliaments are an inherent outcome for MMP-style systems. The world has observed countless pauses in governments in caretaker mode, with the accompanying paralysis of decisive decision making that can arrive uninvited for any Nation State.
Just consider for a moment what an undamaged Iran might be doing to take advantage for its proxies as Israel struggles to deal with an indecisive poll last week. It appears Netanyahu has lost is ability to command a majority of the new Parliament and for Iran it does not seem a better time to attempt another action such as was unleashed on October 7th three years ago.
So is there anyone who can sit down with Mr Luxon and remove the scales from his eyes.
I note Bradbury is sticking pins into his Harry Mowbray doll , but did he not move the needle at all. I do believe the splitting of votes was well underway before Mowbray and Brash said anything, I was not alone in such booth behaviour since the day MMP was delivered. only this time many more quickly came to realise that Two-Ticks-Blue was going to fail to see the Coalition return in the face of National polling in the 20s. The old legend about a tree falling in a forest having any impact beyond the immediate zone? No, it is just nature renewing itself, so Bradbury’s shrieking in his echo chamber may as well be done in the forest.
Mr Luxon needs to very quickly get out more, not to the safe places with a coterie of acolytes but on his own, meeting the real people as citizen Luxon and just listen to others, something he clearly does not do, just listen?
Gravedodger posts regularly on No Minister - where this article was sourced.
Hung parliaments are an inherent outcome for MMP-style systems. The world has observed countless pauses in governments in caretaker mode, with the accompanying paralysis of decisive decision making that can arrive uninvited for any Nation State.
Just consider for a moment what an undamaged Iran might be doing to take advantage for its proxies as Israel struggles to deal with an indecisive poll last week. It appears Netanyahu has lost is ability to command a majority of the new Parliament and for Iran it does not seem a better time to attempt another action such as was unleashed on October 7th three years ago.
So is there anyone who can sit down with Mr Luxon and remove the scales from his eyes.
I note Bradbury is sticking pins into his Harry Mowbray doll , but did he not move the needle at all. I do believe the splitting of votes was well underway before Mowbray and Brash said anything, I was not alone in such booth behaviour since the day MMP was delivered. only this time many more quickly came to realise that Two-Ticks-Blue was going to fail to see the Coalition return in the face of National polling in the 20s. The old legend about a tree falling in a forest having any impact beyond the immediate zone? No, it is just nature renewing itself, so Bradbury’s shrieking in his echo chamber may as well be done in the forest.
Mr Luxon needs to very quickly get out more, not to the safe places with a coterie of acolytes but on his own, meeting the real people as citizen Luxon and just listen to others, something he clearly does not do, just listen?
Gravedodger posts regularly on No Minister - where this article was sourced.
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I just cannot explain why the continuing fiscal failure of our Ministries are announced and the CEO says I will take full responsibility and doesn't .
What absolute garbage that Mr Luxon accepts as corporate speak and obvious malfeasance.
In construction and farming and most private business you back cost the previous month's income and expenditure and tentatively open the bank statement on paper or electronically.
Why are these CFO,s held in such glory but are scandalous losers and tossers so often .
If only the PM would demand a monthly report with a simple question - Are you over budgeted expenses?
I've never had a reply to any of my emails to Luxon apart from a meaningless boilerplate response .
Nor anyone else that i know.
Sticking your fingers in your ears Mr Luxon doesn't work.
Look at your appalling election results and realize that it's all down to mis-aligned neurons in your head.
With his "tow ticks blue" nonsense Luxon ought to consider cataract surgery but that would still leave him with the wool pulled over his eyes by the Iwi Chair Forum.
Mr Luxon is not the man to be our next PM. He simply lacks the spine to take the tough decisions that are now essential for this nation. If he continues in the role post Nov the deep dysfunction in the govt and the nation will only continue. The results of that will be most unpleasant to experience.
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