National - FFS!

[iceman]

And once again you conveniently forget that income tax reduced that more than compensated.

Panda doesn’t conveniently forget. He’s a Labour troll who’s only purpose appears to be to spread misinformation. If forum moderators applied same rules to Panda’s posts as they did to people who questioned the COVID approach on the relevant threads, almost all of his/her posts would be removed. But the cancel culture doesn’t work that way

[Panda-NZ-]

And once again you conveniently forget that income tax reduced that more than compensated.

Only for the wealthy elites.

[Balance]

Only for the wealthy elites.

The wealth creators and hard workers.

Cannot keep feeding & breeding the bottom dwellers like Ardern & her team of communist sympathisers.

[Panda-NZ-]

Some have more money than sense.

Witness the 1 million given to Act each election, for a party which only recently broke above 1%.

[BDL]

Some have more money than sense.

Witness the 1 million given to Act each election, for a party which only recently broke above 1%.

Most of the country has no money AND no sense. Hence, Ardern got in.....

[dobby41]

Unfortunately, Luxon doesn't think ahead.
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[dobby41]

Luxon ties himself up in another interview - if he is going to comment on Te Tiriti issues he should understand Te Tiriti.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/shan...T3WNWPWTRTTXI/
Maniapoto: Do you think that it's feasible that Māori would have ceded sovereignty?
Luxon: Well, that's ... I think we are one sovereign country ... article 1 of the Treaty, you know, that's what that's about.
Maniapoto: Te Tiriti.
Luxon: ... of the Treaty.
Maniapoto: Te Tiriti.
Luxon: Well, we have different interpretations.
Maniapoto: No, what is in Te Tiriti?
Luxon: Well, what I'm saying to you is, I think that that, you know, I'm looking at the articles ... the first article was really about ceding sovereignty - that we're one country ...
Maniapoto: No, it's not.
Luxon: ... the second article was about rangatiratanga, that the people can have ...
Maniapoto: So you're talking about the English text that was signed by about 50 people.

[moka]

Same article about Luxon as above but since this is Sharetrader I found the comments about risk interesting.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/shane-te-pou-troublesome-interview-betrays-luxons-values-and-priorities/BX7GQFIRN3WHBT3WNWPWTRTTXI/

Some say Luxon shares many of John Key's strengths. both were successful businessmen who spent extended periods of time abroad and have chosen to commit to politics after achieving their impressive career goals.

And yet, I'm not sure those similarities will end up being as important as the differences between the trader (Key) and the institutional CEO (Luxon). The most glaring point of difference comes down to their attitude towards risk. The CEO spends all day and night mitigating risk, especially so with a company as weighed down by stakeholders as Air New Zealand.

To a foreign exchange trader like John Key, on the other hand, risk is the true currency of choice, and success is measured by how quickly you can turn it into profit. What the trader personality manifested in Key was a comfort with spontaneity, extremely fast reaction times, and an almost superhuman capacity to read a room.

As Luxon's interview with Moana Maniapoto showed, as did subsequent outings with Jack Tame, Tova O'Brien and Kim Hill, those risk-averse CEO traits were in abundance, but none of the currency dealer's fleet footedness and disarming humour.

[dobby41]

Mathew Hooton not so bullish on Luxon
Christopher Luxon is the best National's got, but he's no John Key
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...WQN5PGYXAEVJ4/

Concerns are growing in the business community and in his own party about whether National leader Christopher Luxon is quite up to it.
....
While Key quickly positioned himself as a Burnside boy done good, wanting to help the underclass, Luxon has allowed himself to be framed as the Remuera businessman who wants to give his $2 million-a-year neighbours a $2000-a-week tax cut.

He has offered the middle class no convincing solution to the cost of living crisis but firmly cemented the idea that Grant Robertson deserves the blame for rising inflation, and therefore the credit when it falls.

On co-governance, Luxon's waffle pleases neither end of the centre-right's Don Brash-to-Christopher Finlayson spectrum, nor many in between.

After talking a good game on National needing to be more diverse, he has allowed party officials to come up with a short-list of four white men for the Tauranga byelection.

[fungus pudding]

Mathew Hooton not so bullish on Luxon
Christopher Luxon is the best National's got, but he's no John Key
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...WQN5PGYXAEVJ4/

Concerns are growing in the business community and in his own party about whether National leader Christopher Luxon is quite up to it.
....
While Key quickly positioned himself as a Burnside boy done good, wanting to help the underclass, Luxon has allowed himself to be framed as the Remuera businessman who wants to give his $2 million-a-year neighbours a $2000-a-week tax cut.

He has offered the middle class no convincing solution to the cost of living crisis but firmly cemented the idea that Grant Robertson deserves the blame for rising inflation, and therefore the credit when it falls.

On co-governance, Luxon's waffle pleases neither end of the centre-right's Don Brash-to-Christopher Finlayson spectrum, nor many in between.

After talking a good game on National needing to be more diverse, he has allowed party officials to come up with a short-list of four white men for the Tauranga byelection.

Who cares - as long as they are the 4 best!