Chris Luxon is done. He staggers on but he no longer has the command or respect a Prime Minister needs.
He’s proved middle management at best. His policies are Jacinda’s. His social media posts appear like skits. His media interviews are train wrecks.
The man in the pub has no clue what he stands for. His team cringes at his attempts to connect. Chris Hipkins can’t believe his luck.
Two unforced errors that an average politician would sail through have scuppered him.
The first was Mike Hosking asking him if he would have sacked Andrew Bayley if he had not resigned. It was a softball question. Mr Luxon could not answer. Mike Hosking lobbed the question gentler and gentler every-which-way like the Good Samaritan repeatedly throwing a life buoy to a drowning man. Luxon thrashed in the water resolutely refusing to save his own life.
It was hard to watch but impossible to turn away. Just answer. Any answer. But no. It was about his expectations. And the former minister knew what they were. And that was that. It made no sense.
The Hosking question brought into sharp focus that Chris Luxon stands for nothing. He has no resolve. He has no bottom line. He is a ditherer and a follower. He is not a leader. And even in his dithering he is cack-handed and inept.
The second incident is more troubling. A caring pre-school teacher emailed the PM concerned:
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑘𝑎𝑦. 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠? 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑖𝑣𝑒 -- 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 -- 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 "𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦/𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, ℎ𝑒/𝑠ℎ𝑒". 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑢𝑙𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑛𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑇𝑉 𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠? 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑜𝑑."
The reply from his staff is gob-smacking:
Kia ora --------
Thank you for your email to the Prime Minister, Rt Hon Christopher Luxon.
Christopher is a proud supporter of the LGBTQI+ community and wants New Zealand to be a country that celebrates and supports diversity, including our rainbow community.
Nga mihi nui
That lands with a thump.
The Prime Minister is told of pre-schoolers confused about whether they are boys or girls or something else. They are wanting to be called they/thems or he/shes. His response is not to express alarm. Or to investigate.
His response is to support it. No, not just to support it, but to celebrate it. I can see no other way to read his response. It’s true he did not type out the email. The email was sent by his Correspondence Lead Advisor. But that is his postion. At the time of writing, she still has the job. Mr Luxon has not retracted her statement. We can take it as the Prime Minister of New Zealand’s position.
The country gasped when Prime Minister Chris Hipkins needed to be briefed to answer the question, What is a woman? Prime Minister Chris Luxon had time to formulate his answer and his answer is clear: he supports and celebrates 3, 4 and 5 year olds being confused over whether they are boys, girls, or something else on the alphabet plus spectrum.
And he is unequivocal. He can’t say whether he would have sacked Mr Bayley but he’s clear he supports and celebrates our preschoolers changing their sexual identity like it’s a game of cops and robbers.
And so Prime Minister Chris Luxon is toast.
Family First’s Bob McCoskrie has broadcast the email and Mr Luxon’s response. Bob is New Zealand’s foremost conservative commentator with a reach right around and across New Zealand like no one else. He is a media force. Of course, he has been deplatformed for years but has spent the years building his own media platforms through Family First. He produces news and commentary of better quality than anything the legacy media can achieve and has a commensurate and committed reach.
Of course, it is not only conservative Christians upset by Mr Luxon’s support and celebration of trans preschoolers. It is most parents. That is not what we want for our kids.
And so it’s not just the transactivists who want to rainbow our toddlers but our very own Prime Minister who for now has the title of leading the National Party. It can’t be for much longer.
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