National Party Conference: Luxon doubles down on bashing beneficiaries by unveiling welfare privatisation agenda

86
2548

The 1800s are calling and they want their cruel social policies back!

Wow.

How desperate has National become?

In a time of climate crisis, inequality crisis, housing crisis, crime crisis and cost of living crisis and where will the great Christian Philosopher Christoper Luxon guide us?

Doubling down on bashing the dirty filthy beneficiaries, Luxon bewilderingly attacks young people on welfare without understanding those numbers include sick, ill and disabled youth!

His chilling promise? Mass privatisation of welfare!

Jesus wept!

Let’s be very clear – what Luxon is promising is a privatisation of welfare – understand that, understand that now!

TDB Recommends NewzEngine.com

His entire misdirected dog whistle, let’s bash up the youth on welfare is best summed up in this Herman Melville quote…

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

…this country is still reeling from the impact of Covid and he’s bashing beneficiaries?

WTF?

Where does a 7 property owning Hawaiian mansion holidaying CEO get off shitting on poor people in such desperate times?

We are handing out over 100 000 food grants a month with Food Banks spiking 500% and he’s bitching about the lowest unemployment rate in forever?

It’s like he can’t help but bully anyone economically weaker than himself.

Does he think this is shits ands giggles for everyone? Right now a vast chunk of our brothers and sisters in this country, regardless of who they vote for, are doing it bloody hard, and only someone really insulted from that reality like he is would say this sort of crap!

I thought that ‘bottom feeder’ comment was a slip up, a mistake, a poorly worded brain fat, but the more I see of Luxon, the more I see a preening vanity in his success, a naked self aggrandisement that sees his wealth as a direct blessing from Jesus making it a sin to be humble.

I don’t like his policies.

I don’t like the way he pushes around the poor.

I don’t like the constant and embarrassing u-turns.

I don’t like him!

I thought Luxon was a dumbo boofhead who believed in prosperity religion and thinks Jesus has blessed him because he owns 7 properties. He oozes a misplaced sense of confidence because of this and it’s that misplaced sense of self faith that National are selling an uneasy and nervous electorate.

Listening to him spout far right welfare privatisation garbage marks him out as a dumbo boofhead who is incredibly dangerous.

With National privatising welfare and ACT amputating 5 ministries, a National/ACT Government represents the most radical departure from the norm NZ has seen since Roger Douglas met Ruth Richardson.

We have lived through a political period of time since MMP that has managed to dilute and temper the idealogical extremes of Left/Right politics in NZ. The need to compromise and pull punches is fundamental to the MMP dynamic HOWEVER that completely gets thrown out the window if there is no political centre left.

The political centre has been hollowed out so much under MMP that Labour and National are almost indistinguishable in their acquiescence to neoliberal mantra.

The far left and far right have enormous pent up political tension that will rupture once Labour or National are dependent on their numbers for a majority.

National think privatising welfare is the solution, the backlash will suggest they’ve misplaced the centre.

Kiwi’s don’t want to punish one another, they want help and direction in these frightening times, National trying to goad a public stoning of teenagers on welfare is misplaced malice that won’t generate the political excitement they think it will.

We are a bigger people than National think we are.

This sudden desire to privatise welfare is a terrible strategic blunder by National. Trying to out right ACT on welfare isn’t a political solution, it’s a virtue signalling exercise amongst crypto-fascists!

Labour have achieved so little because of the trainwreck National left the country in, oh and let’s not forget the little issue of ‘Covid’.

Labour deserve and have earned another vote from reasonable people when you consider the position Covid placed us in. Jacinda has been a remarkable leader and the narrative that it’s all Labour’s fault simply rings false and the solution of privatiziang welfare to give teenagers on benefits a clip around the ear is just bullshit alpha bullying by a beta bully.

I mean Aloha Luxon can’t even pick on someone his own size, he has to go after kids on benefits!

Luxon manipulated people’s legitimate fear and pain from the cost of living and then went to Hawaii while his social media handlers pretended he was in Te Puke meeting people suffering from the cost of living crisis.

They did that because they knew holidaying in Hawaii would make his concern over the cost of living crisis look fake and insincere.

Which it is.

The glitter has quickly rubbed off this turd.

Remember, Luxon was the negotiated leader, not the most talented. He became Leader after Collins made her hate pack vote for him after she ratfucked Simon Bridges.

Once the mainstream media comprehend he’s attempting to privatise welfare, his inability to answer questions and critics of what that actually looks like in real life will avalanche.

This was a poorly thought out knee-jerk without a knee-cap.

 

 

Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.

If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media

86 COMMENTS

  1. Labour started this all in 1984-1990 Roger Douglas, David Lange and Richard Prebble.
    The Natz and Labour have continued this programme for the last 38 years.

  2. Nobody who can work should be allowed to be on a benefit, period.
    To do so not only weakens society but destroyed the people.
    I won’t be voting National but he is correct that Labour have allowed the number of beneficiaries to rise while we have incredibly low unemployment.
    That is the very definition of failure.

    • It was only a few years ago that National was telling us that many of the unemployed were not suitable for work for various reasons, maybe as a compromise, we could have National party business owners employ those they previously called unemployable to give them some real-world experience on the variety of people looking for work? You need to consider the quality of the jobs on offer before passing judgment on those who are unwilling to participate in what is not far removed from the slave trade in some respects. Like you I think it is best if people have work but there are a range of reasons why that is not possible for all people.

  3. These jobs coaches are just another way of ‘managing’ the unemployed via another endless stream of meetings in which they are shown how to redo their CV for the umpteenth time.

    Better off just giving long term unemployed a one way ticket to Australia so they can find work there.

    • And every time a contracted provider gets a ‘client’ to write and re-write a CV. They get $22-$25 a pop.
      Money for jam!

    • yup tried ‘case managers’ it didn’t work and was quietly dropped….but hey this is NZ re-doing failed policy is our thing.

  4. Can I just write… What a greedy, half-wit narcissistic psychopath. What a coward. He only picks on those most at risk. He’s a useless corporate flunky fondling the money of others with his soft, sticky little pink fingers. He’s the pornography seymour and douglas will be streaming into their bath house as they bob about in champagne and cash money. He’s a bald headed money fetishist who’s one-track hate narrative will only appeal to the terminally simple minded unfettered by any semblance of humanness or basic love but who know all about how to take ‘good coin’ from the poor and down trodden who are an essential element of the argument for terminal greed surpassing basic human needs. He’s effectively a used car salesperson without the class. If he mated with a real estate agent we’d see a new kind of financial depravity.
    He’s a dangerous re enactment of the disastrous freak show that’s roger douglas’s neoliberal con job. A ‘thing’ we’re still suffering with the effects of.
    “…bashing beneficiaries by unveiling welfare privatisation agenda.”
    Do you know what that is right there? That’s called slavery. All the terminally soulless have to do to create cheap labour is by impoverishing the most vulnerable.
    The cunt should never, ever be allowed anywhere near our politics or our money.

  5. Luxon just doesnt get it but to be honest, I am not sure anyone in National does.

    Labour has taken us on a hellish tangent which has screwed the country but at least they dreamed a dream and tried something new and Luxon’s solution is “Here’s a bandaid, I dont have any views on anything but making money for me and my mates but I am pretty sure if we turn the clock back 20 years it will all come out great”

    He’s not wrong, we do have an intergenerational welfare problem and we have young people who dont want to work but that’s like looking at the tip of an iceberg. Saying to people you get a year on the dole and your own personal job coach is only going to change 5% if that. Because it’s all the stuff under the waterline that is the problem. But I doubt that there is anyone in National who can even understand that.

  6. Has anyone explained to them it’s actually 2021?
    I thought Uncle Fester was supposedly the great hope to save National and indeed A/NZ.
    How many out-of-their depth, baldy white guys remain for the Tories foist out into our faces before they anoint someone with appeal to moderate voters?

  7. Cutting people benefits who don’t comply will simply add to more ram raids, family breakdowns, more mental and anxiety problems, more crime, more Maori imprisonment, more violence, more us and them, more have-nots, more migration to Aus. And all this talk at a time when Ms zip it sweet is advocating for the opposite approach. God help us if this rich prick out of touch turd gets in.

  8. Cutting people benefits who don’t comply will simply add to more ram raids, family breakdowns, more mental and anxiety problems, more crime, more Maori imprisonment, more violence, more us and them, more have-nots, more migration to Aus. And all this talk at a time when Ms zip it sweet is advocating for the opposite approach. God help us if this rich prick out of touch turd gets in.

  9. Cutting people benefits who don’t comply will simply add to more ram raids, family breakdowns, more mental and anxiety problems, more crime, more Maori imprisonment, more violence, more us and them, more have-nots, more migration to Aus. And all this talk at a time when Ms zip it sweet is advocating for the opposite approach. God help us if this rich prick out of touch turd gets in.

  10. Cutting people benefits who don’t comply will simply add to more ram raids, family breakdowns, more mental and anxiety problems, more crime, more Maori imprisonment, more violence, more us and them, more have-nots, more migration to Aus. And all this talk at a time when Ms zip it sweet is advocating for the opposite approach. God help us if this rich prick out of touch turd gets in.

  11. Yes and by outsourcing he can claim to be reducing staff numbers
    Another ploy used by Nats in days gone by.

  12. Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that.

  13. Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that. Where is zip it sweety she’s now singing from a different so g sheet.

  14. Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that. Where is zip it sweety she’s now singing from a different so g sheet.

  15. Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that. Where is zip it sweety she’s now singing from a different so g sheet.

  16. Out of touch most of what he’s trying to do is either being done already or we have been there done that. Where is zip it sweety she’s now singing from a different so g sheet.

  17. – Labour have achieved so little because of the trainwreck National left the country in, oh and let’s not forget the little issue of ‘Covid’. –

    Oof! Disingenuosity aplenty!

    Even train wrecks can be cleaned up with the right equipment and willing workers.
    If the workers don’t want to do it, it won’t happen no matter what supermarionation equipment they get hold of.

    The only obstacle in front of the Labour caucus is the Labour caucus. They just don’t WANT to change anything. Much as I looove blaming National for everything wrong, this is one case where it won’t work. Labour has an absolute majority at the moment; they could do anything they wanted.

    BUT THEY FUCKING DIDN’T!

    Jacinda’s legacy: “We didn’t do anything; how cool is that?”

    • JS please explain how they could do anything they wanted, every thing they have tried has been criticized by both left and right. The tory press with their blue tinged spectacles harp away at 3 Waters, co governance, new health system, new polytechnic merger etc.etc. Everything has had to be drawn through kicking and screaming by the so called neutral public service. When the right wing policies are to wipe everything this government has done you really have to worry about our so called democratic system and electoral system of 3 years. Also you really have to worry about where the money is coming from to not only dismantle these new entities but also how the proposed tax cuts are going to cut all these essential services anyway. The National party and the ACT party are in constant negativity mode which is also a worry for the country because these negative attitudes will put the country through austerity if they become the government ( shudder ). Luxon doesn’t know shit, Seymour thinks he knows it all another dangerous combination for the country doesn’t bear thinking about.

      • so they don’t have a majority that allows them to do what they want without any help from anyone irrespective what anyone would say?
        oh you are saying that they are not reforming the things that desperately need reforming because people may say un-nice things and may or may not be super kind to our labour overlords? But 3 waters, He PuaPua, Sex Self ID and all of that they managed to get done despite people complaining?
        mhh, maybe they really just don’t want to reform Winz and how benefits are set. Maybe they really don’t thing that people who have a partner and who lose their jobs are now the property of their partners and its them who should take care of the unemployed person. Maybe they really don’t think that people should not live in motels for years on end. Maybe they really don’t think that nurses are that needed and ditto for doctors
        But bad words…oh my that will prevent Labour from doing stuff they have no nothing about. Like Welfare Reform, Cannabis Law Reform, Building Public Housing, building new training institutes (free ones) for doctors, nurses and engineers.

        But like National the Labour Party now has joined the Chorus : Twasn’t me, Twas them who were there 7 odd years ago. Mind they would be honest by saying it can’t be me, cause i never did do anything but pour oil on a fire.
        Also who will replace Jacinda, or is it too early for that? And will that clown be electable such as previous clowns Cunliffe and Little?

    • JSB No they don’t want to change anything. They darn well ought to have the guts to do something, but are so afraid they won’t hold back the rush from entitled wealthies that they keep their heads below the parapet. We should get Rowan Atkinson over here as Blackadder along with Tony Robinson and his cunning ideas and make a film about our government.

      The peacocks that lost their feathers are now like hens in close captivity pecking at each other. The Beehive has been turned into a henhouse where Labour has employed
      Rumplestiltskin to supply them with golden eggs. Might as well have flights of fancy – nothing else will fly, as the hens find that golden eggs make them too heavy to move far or fast.

  18. 8 words of utter shite Bob the first. No evidence, no links, and you have no clue Bob.
    Are you sure that your bosses and employers at Dirty Politics Central BPD (Blogposts Payment Division) will actually pay you a fee for this drivel?

  19. I agree that this is not great politics from Mr. Luxon. He may or may not have a point about the consequences of inter generational welfare dependency but this is not the solution – one of them is policies and incentives aimed at getting our young people back to school (since Labour appear not to be phased by our current third world school attendance rates) after the socially devastating drop off in school attendance as a direct result of the Covid lockdowns.

    By way of balance not everything that came out of the National Party Conference has been negative. For example Prof Elizabeth Rata gave a very thoughtful presentation entitled “In defence of Democracy” which although not covered on MSM (that I can see) can be found summarised on non-government subsidised news sites.

    • Yep Prof. Rata is a brave soul. She was singled out for tweet-bashing by the bigot who now runs our Ministry of Truth Joanne Kidman. I’m not a Nat voter and I agree with you on the importance of focus on education – but I don’t think there is anything wrong with a youth dole time limit and professional assistance to get into the workforce. I recently heard a Tauranga cafe owner interviewed, who in the first lockdown had 500 applicants for a position, recently he advertised and got 0 applicants. You can’t tell me there are not a couple of young unemployed people in Tauranga who would not benefit by waiting on tables. It’s seems it is easier to stay on the dole for some. That needs to change. Some people need benefit’s – fair enough, but probably not all.

      • Jason, I don’t suppose that you have a reference for Joanne Kidman attacking Professor Elizabeth Rata? I was hoping that Kidman had toned down. Thanks.

        I’m wondering if Joanne read her own job description wrongly, concerning extremist excellence.

        • GA – it was her tweet re: the Listener 7 – who had the temerity to suggest the Matauranga Maori was something different to science…
          “Oh settlers! I opened the Letters page of the Listener to find a bunch of Auckland University professors, inc Liz Rata, denying that Matauranga Maori is science. Where do these shuffling zombies come from? Is there something in the water.” She didn’t need to single out Liz Rata – my point is that Prof. Rata is brave to keep voicing her opinions – I don’t expect everyone to agree with her but if Ms Kidman wants to run with the Twitterati attack dogs – she’s probably not well suited to run the Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism.

          • Jason. Thank you. Yes I did see a report later today on Elizabeth Rata’s response to Matauranga Maori being considered the equivalent of established science; I don’t see why or how that should trigger Kidman, unless of course Joanne Kidman doesn’t know what science is – assuming that’s what she was attacking Professor Rata for. Prof Rata shares her podium with some very distinguished academics, and discourse among colleagues can be productive – and also enjoyable – but I think that Kidman may be out of her depth here.

            Victoria University’s centre for extremist excellence could be disastrously counterproductive and one would hope that there is a redress mechanism available for victims erroneously targeted by them; I thought Kidman’s dress designer issue was totally pathetic, but at least Trelise Cooper has sufficient stature to ride the waves, others may not.

          • Jason. Oh dear. Kidman could consider pondering these words from Karl Popper :

            “ If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. “

            Or perhaps :

            “ You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you than being convinced by you.”

            My apologies, Jason, for repeating a gender-insensitive term like “man”.

            • Yes Snow – or as George Orwell said “If liberty means anything it is the right to tell others what they do not want to hear”.

      • Jason Perhaps once off the dole you can’t get back on or something like that. If you get a job in a shaky work sector catering to tourists, and it closes, and perhaps there is a stand down period, what do you live on if your wages only enabled you to live on a daily hand to mouth basis. Really I don’t think we understand how bad it is out there. And government has to ignore hat because otherwise their hair might start falling out with anxiety and other problems. Trevor ducked out in time, he’s either worn out or he never did think much anyway.

  20. Let’s play a game. It’s called Pretend Jacinda did. Pretend Jacinda did announce the jobseeker policy with consequences for not wanting to work. You’d all be on your knees kissing her feet for being a kind visionary who knows that tough love is sometimes needed. But because Luxon announced it you go into mouthfoaming hypocrite mode. This policy will resonate with anyone who pays taxes that is not from state income in some form . Are there any of those left in NZ?

    • Saur Kraut it will be the welfare system run like the private prison system , look how well that worked.

    • Yeah right on that Kraut,… and to state “Labour have achieved so little because of the trainwreck National left the country in, oh and let’s not forget the little issue of ‘Covid’.”, beggars belief. Spare me!!! They had two bloody terms to be “transformational” and a two year Covid runway to sort out a few more ICU beds and nurses and what did they do – diddly squat. As I have said before this is a government that is world-class at banning things – absolute dunces at building things. Time for a change.

  21. Is that privatized welfare like the new unemployment tax/insurance for middle class pencil pushers as per Labours Grant Robertson? Benefit the very few at the cost of the many many?

    • no, it’ll be like the welfare system in the UK, where private contractors are running the welfare system into the ground, and getting rich doing it.

    • Exactly Bratwurst, Bomber quite happy for all the struggling taxpayers to subsidize Wellington bureaucrats moving from one role to another: in the Public Service, a new role in another department technically involves resigning and immediate rehiring – so now bureaucrats get a taxpayer-funded holiday as well. Just a Labour pay-off for the PSU mass votes.

  22. Of course it wouldn’t be the dailyblog if you weren’t sticking it to National.

    Privatized welfare. You mean subcontracting. Like the Government does with so many things.
    Schools, medical, some MSD functions. Prisons

    But I guess you had to find a bogeyman. 🙂
    Good for a Sunday chuckle Bomber, but cant take you seriously

    • ra, name one public service either here or any other neo-lib economy that is better or cheaper than it was when run by the state, at a much lower cost because the state doesn’t need to pay shareholders a cut….g’wan just one instance of privatisation actually working for customers.

  23. ” Labour have achieved so little because of the train wreck National left the country in, oh and let’s not forget the little issue of ‘Covid’ ”

    The carnage from the train wreck of neo liberalism enforced by LINO and the Nasty Natz has continued in under Jacinda’s premiership and while Covid is a factor and as you keep pointing out Bomber all the worst poverty related stats have worsened in over the last five years and not improved or been made the main focus in any of their policies like tax and regaining control from treasury and others.

    Luxon is doing what all Nasty Nat leaders do when they are trying to reconnect with their base and are a year out from the general election campaign they hit the many who have no representation of weapons to fight back and it will strike a chord with many NAT/ACT supporters who won’t believe the boot is steel capped enough and to kick em harder.

    Jacinda and her army of very well paid bureaucrat’s like Bloomfield on over $520,000 a year finally stepped up and out of obscurity and did their job and they got it right no doubt about it but governing is also about dealing with major events and having a plan which as you keep pointing out they never did because they get told what they can do within the parameters of the neo liberal machine.

    The nasties threaten and attack the poor and the middle with their death by a thousand cuts to public services but with an unprecedented electoral mandate Jacinda and her neo liberal apologists have apart from tinkering with the Labour law done nothing to protect the people your writing about , no new safeguards , no ideas or strong policy positions to protect and change the current economic order.

    There is no sudden desire to privatise welfare it just sits waiting to be used at the right time and place …another neo liberal draconian approach because New Zealand still is not poor , hungry or desperate enough yet.

  24. National’s cheerleaders are assisting Luxon and National where they can and show once again their obvious bias.

    ” The prospect of non-residents getting money from our government was met with rising anger among our cohort of media commentators. Over at Today FM, Rachel Smalley argued the payments showed Labour is unfit to lead.

    “This could be the defining moment in Labour’s leadership. It should be,” she said. “It is inept. It is irresponsible. It’s chaotic. It is economically and fiscally reckless.”

    Shortly after, her fellow host Tova O’Brien said it was “emblematic of the government’s achilles heel” and told National’s leader Christopher Luxon he might have already won the 2023 election because of it.

    At Today’s talk radio rival Newstalk ZB, hosts Nick Mills and Heather du Plessis-Allan blasted the payments on their panel show The Huddle.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018852280/mediawatch-a-government-in-the-gun-over-accidental-generosity

  25. OMG such shit. It will all be contract and if you get someone into a job then you will get paid but otherwise….. fiddle away.

    Beneficaries are such easy pickings. How come he isn’t going for all the big tax dodgers.

    • cos universal credit in the uk and robodebt in oz where such resounding successes, this isn’t designed to work in anyway shape or form but just to throw red meat at the nats slavering mass of rabid dogs…it hits 2 birds with one stone ‘bloody lazy bastard bennies’ and ‘bloody kids’

  26. David Seymour doesn’t own any houses. Does not holiday in Hawaii. Was not the CEO for a state sponsored airline. His credentials are looking very good all of a sudden.

  27. Luxon, looks and reminds me of Muldoon, maybe, thats why, look at us again, why, your farm fence, has not altered care, and your social welefare, certaintly not. Same as it ever was.

  28. Allways the same, city farm fence , greed exploit, with blame, the workers,allowed pay rise, your expoited drive you adhere to, wage drive, your home debt, that you will never union, in your place of employment. Trust us, our social welfare, shall be minimal, you shall care our understanding care.

  29. Allways the same, city farm fence , greed exploit, with blame, the workers,allowed pay rise, your exploited drive you adhere to, wage drive, your home debt, that you will never union, in your place of employment. Trust us, our social welfare, shall be minimal, you shall care our understanding care.

  30. they are going round in circles. they always do this and then things get worse.. john keys remember .. ho bout they do something new for once

  31. Politicians draw down the biggest benefits Chris, you know that. Another thing, if anyone in New Zealand works for at least one hour a week they are classed as employed. So this ‘work will set you free’ mantra you are peddling just doesn’t make sense, it’s like saying the two million people currently getting the cost of living payment aren’t on benefit, or those businesses that manipulated the covid subsidy didn’t receive corporate welfare. It’s just tired political theatre performed by bad actors for a gullible audience. Actual work and career opportunities are really only available to you and your entitled mates, you know that. True, Robertson is the king of two-tier welfare but your people have perfected the art of the kiwi caste. And really, who wants to work for minimum wage serving you coffee on the way to your next holiday. Why would anyone want to work a job whose sole purpose is to earn enough money to fill their car with gas so that they can get to that job and earn enough for gas, so on ad infinitum. It’s ridiculous, and it’s carbon intensive. So go back to your gated community Chris, let the adults get on with it.

  32. National are desperately looking for an issue to tackle and has reverted to its usual target of picking on beneficiaries even when there are few grounds to do so. So what would this policy cost? And what damage would be done to the self-esteem of the targets? Willis said something about returning to the 1970s this could be a step on the way.

  33. Nah! he’s not a Rob Muldoom, Muldoom rubbed shoulders with black power he set up trade training (which is why they did a haka at his tangi, respect) Luxon will run a mile maybe fly he knows a lot about planes.

  34. After this speech. People in Te Puke were wondering where all the dogs were going!

  35. It can’t be wrong to ensure that able-bodied people work to support themselves instead of relying on others to work and pay taxes that are then given to those able-bodied people who are too lazy to work for themselves. That is definitely NOT beneficiary-bashing.

    I am not against helping those that are unable to work either through mental of physical infirmities but I am definitely against helping those who are too lazy to help themselves.

    • and the taxes taken from your pocket to subsidise the incomes of WORKING kiwis on poverty wages? money stolen from your pocket to subsidise nz business addiction to low pay….tell us how you feel about that.

      • Would but don’t understand the question or to use an Ardern fall back don’t agree with the premise.

Comments are closed.