Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he has full caucus support as National MPs return to Wellington after nearly three weeks.
This comes after weak polling and reports of internal concern.
Speaking to media, Luxon denied avoiding chief whip Stuart Smith and said no issues were raised directly. He insisted he speaks regularly with MPs and retains their confidence.
Senior ministers publicly backed him on arrival for a Cabinet meeting.
Luxon downplayed talk of unrest, saying only a small number were frustrated, before softening that claim. He remains confident he will stay prime minister. He said the government is focused on strong economic management. He expects frank discussions at caucus but says the party remains unified.
Luxon, people are the poorest they have been for a long time. They see you as a hard nose asshole who doesn’t give a toss about the well-being of the average citizen. They have no faith in your ability to get things right.
The early indication was the massive exit of New Zealanders to Australia. Except for people owning property and property investments, people have departed.
NZ is an unstable environment for business. Consumers have drastically reduced. Compliance is still extremely high. Tax, also called levies, fees, licensing costs, rates, gst, provisional tax, exercise tax and just so many other names to remove money from our spending power is the reason why the economy has crashed.
Wellington highways are a lonely place to be after 7pm.
Luxon may have the MP numbers, but he no longer has the public numbers. If necessary, drag Luxon from his seat. Get him out.
Our focus should be on making it worthwhile to live and work in NZ. To get ahead.
It is not just business. This complete nonsense of owning half a partners belongings in after such a short period has to go. NZ birthrate isn’t anywhere near replacement.
Redistribution of wealth based on race has danger, destruction and bankruptcy written all over it.
Apart from that – it’s fine.
Normally I would agree. But it’s still raining, and the floods are likely to increase insurance costs. Blame WCC for not removing the dirt, stones, twigs, and rubbish from the storm water sumps. WCC please provide the record schedule for cleaning these sumps out.
So true!
with one addition: “Luxon may have the MP numbers…” That is so because they ALL are of a similar mindset, including their colleagues from the opposition, and that mindset is to see the people as something THEJ can rule, can herd, can use for their psychopathic social modelling, for their extortion to distribute as they see fit, to impose their delusional ideas of grandeur.
NONE of these parasitic functionaries could make it in normal society or enterprise, so they have taken it up on themselves to tell others how to live, what to do, how to spend. It is a ruling class of useless imposters, finding vocation in busy-body importance.
To hell with all of them.
We left NZ 5 years ago after the Ardern nightmare. Had genuine hopes for a bright future. Devistating to see National doubling down on the social collapse. GOVT has failed most at the expense of a few.
Well said. You are right they don’t care at all. This trade deal with India is going to let them hide the losses of departing Kiwi by importing cheap Indian labour. Of course, those people are far from stupid and will see what’s happening and in time leave for Australia (until it bans New Zealander’s as a result) or return to India. This country is in an economic death spiral and these globalist party’s are the core problem.Excessive taxation is a chief cause, as is chronic over borrowing and wasteful spending on nonsense rather than things that people need to leave a decent life.
We would love to retire here in the future when we have stopped working but its obvious that is simply not practical or increasingly;y even desirable. Our child needs a decent life too and in spite of her high IQ we don’t think she will find that here. I pity people who still vote Labour and National and think things we still be “okay”.
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RIPNZ for PM
The economic outlook for NZ over the next decade is bleak. You might have a degree, you may have a trade or skill. You may have a business idea. But heres the thing.
Housing is in abundance because the people who occupied those dwellings nolonger live here. So you ain’t going to see services or products to those people.
People who don’t live here, do not have childen here so we will not require as many teachers.
Less car sales and servicing requied.
Less people working in farming creating products to sell locally amd overseas.
Less legal services required.
People who dont live here, don’t participate in paying taxation in all its forms here.
New Zealand debt is so high, it would take serveral generations to pay off.
People have decided to get away from the toxic politics that has led to what used to be a pleasant place to live and work.
Now your work income doesn’t provide enough to cover a basic lifestyle.
Focused on strong economic management? Squandering public money on nonsense like kumara patches (Taxpayers Union), borrowing more than Liebour, ignoring the people, even when something has 97% opposition, like the so called Gene Tech Bill. You and you little friends need to be shown the door mate.
Fake political parties masquerading as a fake democracy.
The parties are all that matter in the Beehive – the citizens just get the bill.
Subsidiaries of the New Zealand Company, a military church order and answerable to the Roman Curia (central government of the Catholic Church).
This narcissistic plonker thinks strong economic performance is making sure the big Corporate interests that line his pockets will line ours ( the ordinary everyday kiwi) by keeping the nzd low and the cliché we get sold to us as the mythical trickle down effect. With jackboot jacinda we knew what we got, with Luxon who knows? I mean, who can forget that hug? Maybe he wants National to lose and hand over the baton to the communists. Its a big club and we ain’t in it. Now we have become little India we are a third world country with first world prices, this trend will continue.