Forever Tuesday Morning

Are you going to deliver the tax cuts you promised before the election? Yes.

The same amount? That is our intention.

And the same timeframe? That is our intention.

Here was the foggy language of "intention" again from Luxon that we all saw for weeks about the "intention" to not support David Seymour's Treaty Principles Bill - until that language eventually firmed up to a definite statement free from the fog, but only after blow torch heat after Waitangi Day.

Luxon was using the fog of "intent" today to mask the terrible uncertainty about delivering unaffordable tax cuts and media could smell it a mile away.

Yesterday the Nicola Willis was not able to confirm whether her Government will meet the July timeframe for delivering the tax cuts it promised, but said it intended to do so.

Nicola Willis was uncertain about cabinet and getting the tax cuts across the line while Winston talked about a $5.6 Billion shortfall.

Yesterday Luxon at the post cabinet press conference used a heavy handed blanket saying you will just all have to wait for the Budget at the end of May - and it seems overnight his handlers had coached him to start talking about "intention" again.

The other language Luxon is deploying is "our tax cuts are fully funded" but for details - you must wait - for that Budget at the end of May - which is a way of saying Willis is going to borrow big time and attach that money to something else other than tax cuts - rearranging the deck chairs ...to make up that $5.6 Billion shortfall ( according to projections ).

The so called "deteriorating economic situation" and "six years of economic mismanagement" are really just propaganda terms that Luxon uses to signal a justification about why all that extra money is going to be needed - when everyone knows the unaffordable election bribe is the real problem that needs to be solved.

That bribe is too expensive and we are seeing unnecessary cuts being made to accomodate it. Worse Landlords have come first and working people have been shoved to the back of the queue, while Willis and Luxon talk about their "intentions".

Mike Hosking squealed like a neoliberal balloon and shot off into the "shit my nappy" stratosphere at the shaky sounds emanating from Luxon this morning and wee Mike packed a big sad after Luxon had signed off - telling one caller who said "Give him some time for pity's sake Mike" - "How much time does he need, he's been there since October?"

Yes there was trouble in DumbTown as it split asunder and salivating Nat trolls attacked each other because well Luxon was a flop, on 4.6% out of 10 in an IPSOS survey and we are pretty far away from getting back on track.

The Neoliberal myth that National was best equipped to solve 14 out of 15 issues was a reminder that DumbTown is pretty dumb and about two thirds of the population have no time to pay attention to politics.

Mike foamed at the mouth like a miniature attack dog straining on its leash - that Luxon had lost 3 points as Preferred PM in the most recent Talbot Mills poll and he barked at the curtains, "He's failing to connect, woof, woof, woof".

No shit sherlock, and then there was the weak way Luxon claims to have spoken to Winston about his highly offensive misuse of a comparison to Nazi Germany but it's private so the public can get stuffed.

Luxon has no power over Winston and Wintson would just make life even more difficult if Luxon dared to try to yank his chain - so Luxon crawls back with "its private"...as the forests echo with laughter at the fool on the hill.

Then there was Luxon making a false equivalence between what Winston said and what Chippy said.

What Chippy said was winning an election does not mean you can behave like a dictatorship in reference to the Coalition trampling on democracy with a record use of urgency and deliberately shutting down regulatory impact analysis and select committee debates.

All of which was highly anti-democratic of Luxon and Chippy was correct - yet the media beat Chippy up into "He called Luxon a dictator" which was factually incorrect.

Putin just staged a bogus election where democracy was mocked and the mockery of democracy back here on the face of Chris Bishop feels not too far off - as he cackles about how he campaigned on urgency - when he did not.

It's fair to say the comparison Luxon made between Chippy's comments and Winston's "Nazi Germany" line was out of order by many orders of magnitude, and Luxon's handling of the matter was slow, wet, weak, without merit because Winston will carry on as he always has...

So many layers on layers of BS to unpack but there it is.

Luxon the lost paddle floating down stream off the falls.

Worse Luxon had no idea how many children might be booted out onto the street as a result of his get tough on unruly tenants policy - and it will be left to the Salvation Army to deal with.

It's a really callous look - when you can't answer how many - even how many do you expect might be thrown onto the streets through no fault of their own - and to be so unsure about this like Luxon is - smells of "I don't give a fark about those kids".

That callous man calling himself our Prime Minister is entitled to the $52,000, while stealing the free luches off the kids and booting them onto the streets, not to mention the 7,000 forced back into poverty by 2028 thanks to his axing of benefits ( indexing to wages ).

According to a poll run by Stuff today most of their readers think the Government's handling of the cost of living crisis had been very poor.

19% said poorly and 57% said very poorly which adds up to 76% are not impressed. Only 6% said very well ...which is some kind of pressure cooker steam whistling in Remuera ...

It's hard to name how Luxon has helped even one child in need - in this cost of living crisis - because the cost of living crisis ( the number one issue to the public ) has been far from Luxon's mind living in his out of touch world where Property Speculation and Oil and Gas mining come first for his crony mates.

They voted for change and now - most have signed out because its hard to grow up and admit you made a massive mistake.

We all want to be consistent and justify our decisions, why we voted the way we did - but like buyer's remorse - it's important to eventually reach the point where you admit based on all the undeniable facts - you bought a neoliberal lemon, an entitled rotten egg and a drunken uncle at a wedding.

Forever Tuesday Morning

Morena

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