So what?
At least he was elected and not simply given a place on the list like some.
How much experience is needed in your books?
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Luxon keeps making unforced errors.
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Luxon and Matt doocey, can't beat that duo.
I suspect Luxon will need a few more of these graves in time to come
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Luxon was well advised by his newly created Gaffe team to avoid another gaffe & repeating the same mistake his predecessor Simon Bridges made when blaming a misleading post on "an emotional junior staffer" .
Good leaders don't blame others for posts they are responsible for.
Doesn't sit well with the voters.
He stood up and said he was taking it on the chin.
Compare and contrast with Ardern, Little, Mahuta, Poto, Hipkins etc who blame all the disasters under their watch :
Housing
Cost of Living
Law & Order
Healthcare
Child Poverty
all on others - anybody but themselves.
Polling will confirm NZers and voters see through the 'most transparent government' ever under Ardern.
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So he didn’t post it himself, but took responsibility, so living up to your high standards. Shame you don’t hold labour to the same standards.
Like Adern and her lot who admit no failures, blame anything else they think they can stick it to, and accept no responsibility, ever.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Luxon's responsible for his own social media even if he needs a team to help him with it. And it would be incredibly naive to think a senior politician like Luxon isn't fully conversant with what's he/ the team posts on his social media. Don't forget there were posts all week while he was in Hawaii inferring he was hard at work here in NZ & either he or Willis could so easily have corrected it, although there's mounting speculation Nicola Willis may well be being strategic & happy to let Luxon make these gaffes with an eye on future leadership herself.
It was far more the initial denial by Luxon that the post were misleading (when they obviously were ) and then the afternoon walk back, admitting they were a mistake which undermined his credibility as a future PM.
He should have just admitted the posts were a mistake in the morning & it would have all been blown over.
It's the pattern of repeated walk backs & gaffes, having to explain & explain himself which are hurting his credibility.
He's not good at thinking on his feet, comes out with word salad & looks flustered, too many own goals when the focus should be on the govt.
There's a growing thought Nicola Willis would make a stronger opponent for Adern.