Originally Posted by
Blue Skies
I can tell you, most wealthy successful people think Luxon embarrassed & humiliated himself claiming an accomodation allowance.
For goodness sake, what other Prime Minister or leader of a country, who also happens to be a High wealth individual, goes about claiming an "accomodation allowance" to live in his own home, & then pleads he's "entitled to it" !
It's embarrassing, undignified, makes him look mean, self entitled & small minded.
And its astonishing his minders didn't advise him not to, unless they did & he ignored them.
He's supposed to be the Prime Minister, not some grasping little backbencher looking for every taxpayer perk he can get his mitts on.
Not one PM in the last 35 years has claimed it until Chris Luxon.
"Im entitled, entitled" he kept repeating & then terrible choice of words for a PM, dismissively labels $52,000 "becoming a distraction," in the middle of a cost of living crisis.