It's not fair to say that Cluxon has no solutions to EnZed's problems. He has solutions, but they don't help the people facing the problems. The people they do help are the comfortable people sitting in the halls nodding their heads thinking that tax cuts would be pretty cool, yes they would, thanks.
The poor struggling with the cost of living? Tax cuts for the rich who are having to wait a bit longer for those luxuries they're used to having.
Too much shit in our waterways? Let's pay the farmers more - ostensibly to farm cleaner but in practice turning shit into a commodity that can be a nice little earner for a few years.
Climate change? We can afford to fix the planet after we've all made a few million using it up.
Not enough housing in our cities? Can't mess with our fancy neighbourhoods, let's build suburbs way out in the pasturelands - yes everyone will need a car but we can build more roads! And we can always truck in the foodstuffs that we used to produce locally.
Why oh why can't all those dingbats 'nodding their heads like those little dogs people used to put in their rear car window' see what a lot of rot he talks? Surely they can't all be innumerate misogynistic fools?
And now he is rabbiting on about curbing inflation while expecting us to ignore the fact that his Tory Truss-esque tax-cut plan would be highly inflationary!
The Reserve Bank has said we are in a relatively good shape, that inflationary pressure is global not local.
I'm sick of Luxon's lack of ideas, his middle management doublespeak and his total lack of imagination. Tax cuts are the least effective way to increase growth - direct investment the most effective. Low wage, low productivity, massive inequality is a debunked and failed experiment. FFS
Talking is our best form of communication, there are others they work best when the people communicating have known each other for a stretch of time.
So, jmo, treating words as a plaything, throwing them around, stitching them together like crazy squares, applying them in nonsensical contexts damages our communication and maybe people listening.
I do remember reporter JackTame asking Luxon about a year ago the very same question; "which New Zealanders were being squeezed and who would benefit from National’s tax cuts?" Mr Luxon could not adequately answer and was a laughingstock for maybe a week. But like MTAF here, Jack had half an hour to probe his answers and Mr Luxon's minders have since taught him how to use up his time with long winded soundbites. Just keep talking. And it works although I am sure his colleagues would prefer he was more personable. His multi-faceted deputy is
Listening to Luxon, one is tempted to question if he has a learning disability. He can't seem to articulate a single concept and keeps spouting talking points in random order like a spluttering fountain. His attacks on the government are virtually incomprehensible, but I suspect if he keeps repeating them enough, people will believe him. That's if they can decipher what he's saying.
When I read your daily blog I can stop reaching for the pills as I know I’m not alone in knowing that the superficiality of Grabaseat is not just in my head . Can superficiality be profound or is this an oxymoron?
It's not fair to say that Cluxon has no solutions to EnZed's problems. He has solutions, but they don't help the people facing the problems. The people they do help are the comfortable people sitting in the halls nodding their heads thinking that tax cuts would be pretty cool, yes they would, thanks.
The poor struggling with the cost of living? Tax cuts for the rich who are having to wait a bit longer for those luxuries they're used to having.
Too much shit in our waterways? Let's pay the farmers more - ostensibly to farm cleaner but in practice turning shit into a commodity that can be a nice little earner for a few years.
Climate change? We can afford to fix the planet after we've all made a few million using it up.
Not enough housing in our cities? Can't mess with our fancy neighbourhoods, let's build suburbs way out in the pasturelands - yes everyone will need a car but we can build more roads! And we can always truck in the foodstuffs that we used to produce locally.
Etc.
I really despise that shallow little man.
Why oh why can't all those dingbats 'nodding their heads like those little dogs people used to put in their rear car window' see what a lot of rot he talks? Surely they can't all be innumerate misogynistic fools?
Sigh - cause I reckon they feel so disenfranchised and ignored that they're failing to see that this emperor has no clothes
I'm lying in my 'nearly recovered from COVID-19' sick bed laughing my head off in delight at today's column! I hope you're feeling better too.
Brilliant crap detection and fluff delinting
Your speeches from the prone show no evidence of Covid-diminished capacity - much thanks!
On one hand OMG complains our government has "... no delivery, and as a result, the outcome not being achieved." On the other hand, he is going to repeal a whole bunch of stuff that has been done: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130273077/12-things-the-national-party-says-it-will-repeal-reverse-and-scrap
And now he is rabbiting on about curbing inflation while expecting us to ignore the fact that his Tory Truss-esque tax-cut plan would be highly inflationary!
The Reserve Bank has said we are in a relatively good shape, that inflationary pressure is global not local.
I'm sick of Luxon's lack of ideas, his middle management doublespeak and his total lack of imagination. Tax cuts are the least effective way to increase growth - direct investment the most effective. Low wage, low productivity, massive inequality is a debunked and failed experiment. FFS
Doublespeak, wafflespeak, flufflespeak and bunglespeak.
But please reserve most of your ire for the febrile media who platform and parrot and praise this stuff as though it makes wondrous sense.
Lovely list of speaks
Talking is our best form of communication, there are others they work best when the people communicating have known each other for a stretch of time.
So, jmo, treating words as a plaything, throwing them around, stitching them together like crazy squares, applying them in nonsensical contexts damages our communication and maybe people listening.
Old mate should be ostracized for that alone
I do remember reporter JackTame asking Luxon about a year ago the very same question; "which New Zealanders were being squeezed and who would benefit from National’s tax cuts?" Mr Luxon could not adequately answer and was a laughingstock for maybe a week. But like MTAF here, Jack had half an hour to probe his answers and Mr Luxon's minders have since taught him how to use up his time with long winded soundbites. Just keep talking. And it works although I am sure his colleagues would prefer he was more personable. His multi-faceted deputy is
Listening to Luxon, one is tempted to question if he has a learning disability. He can't seem to articulate a single concept and keeps spouting talking points in random order like a spluttering fountain. His attacks on the government are virtually incomprehensible, but I suspect if he keeps repeating them enough, people will believe him. That's if they can decipher what he's saying.
Luxon's speechwriters must surely be laughing their heads off about looking into the future.
I picture CL peering into a crystal ball wearing hoop earrings and a head scarf.
Google Translate has an amazing abilty to capture the absolute essence of a statement. Excellent!
It's clear that you're not suffering from Covid brain fog - great column thank you.
Laughed like a drain! Genius. Woodle doodle superb.
When I read your daily blog I can stop reaching for the pills as I know I’m not alone in knowing that the superficiality of Grabaseat is not just in my head . Can superficiality be profound or is this an oxymoron?
So very happy to have confirmed renewal of my subscription today. You are a light in a world of increasing darkness
You must be having a great lie down; this is so good.
Ardle quoodle wardle erdlex diddum pustle! Lol.
Perfect...
Brilliant.