Mike's Minute: Two important points on the Luxon story

Luxon - 1, media - 0. 

After no small effort on the media's part to drum up a crisis on a bad poll, there's two important points and we can put this whole nonsense to bed. 

1) Luxon doesn’t have a coup brewing. Despite all the detractors' best efforts, there is no one counting numbers. The nearest they have managed to get is Chris Bishop, who was more interested in being in India over the weekend than lining up a new job for the new week. 

Also, we don’t vote for Prime Ministers. They are not presidents. We vote for parties and policies and results. If you like National you don’t not vote National because the leader isn't to your taste. 

2) The revelation from the Curia poll, that on one hand they tried to tell you how unpopular Luxon was with a net negative rating of -19. It turns out Bishop is about as bad on -14. Erica Stanford is -16. Everyone is underwater. 

Chuck in Winston, Seymour, and Hipkins, you'll see no one is in positive territory and that tells you a couple of things as well. We live in an era where likeability is irrelevant because we hate everyone. 

Post-Covid we have never got over the funk, so as much as you want to bang on about Luxon not connecting, according to the numbers, no one connects. 

It's all over the world. Trump is underwater, Starmer is underwater, Albanese is underwater and Macron is underwater. 

Chris Minns who runs New South Wales is popular currently because of his handling of Bondi. Apart from that pick a politician because we hate them all. 

In the likeability numbers, the likes of which we see in the TV1 poll, if Hipkins was 50% and Luxon was 20% then that's an issue. But they aren't. They both have been stuck at about 20% forever and all the others are below that. 

That's why none of this matters. In the past the polls have shown an answer, a suitor, a name that drives a bit of fizz. We have no such names. 

Now, you can debate the merits or otherwise of great leaders with great personalities, or lack of them. But we are where we are and none of the current lot will go down as Churchill's, to paraphrase Trump. And Churchill, by the way, for a lot of the time wasn’t popular either. 

So let's see this nonsense for what it is: we are voting on the economy, not show-men. There is no coup, this is but one poll. Mountain versus molehill. A waste of time. 

Let's all try and do a lot better. There is too much at stake. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have Luxon one, Media zero after no small effort
on the media's part to drum up this crisis on
a bad pole. So two important points and we can
put this whole stupid thing to bed. One, Luxon doesn't
have a coup brewing. Despite all the all the conspiratorialists'
best efforts. There is no one counting numbers. The nearest
they managed to get as Christopher Bishop it was more
interested in being India over the weekend than lining up

(00:21):
a new job. Also, we don't vote for prime ministers,
they are not presidents. We vote for parties and policies
and results. If you like National, you don't not vote
National because the leader isn't to your taste. And two,
the revelation from the Courier pole that on one hand
they tried to tell you yesterday how unpopular Luxon was
with his net negative rating of minus nineteen, turns out

(00:41):
bishops about as bad at minus fourteen. Erica Stanford's minus sixteen.
Everyone's underwater, Winston Seemore Hopkins. No one's in positive territory.
And that tells you a couple of things as well.
We live in an era where likability is irrelevant because
we hate everyone post COVID. We've never got over the funk.
So as much as you want to bang on about
Lucky and not connecting, according to the numbers, no one connects.

(01:02):
It's all over the world. Trump's underwater Starmer's underwater Albanese
is underwater. Macron's underwater mens who runs New South Wales
is popular currently because of his handling a Bondai. Apart
from that pickup politician, we hate them all in the
likeability numbers, the likes of which we see on the
tv I Poles. If Hepkins was fifty and Luckxon was twenty,
that's an issue, but they're not. They're both stuck at

(01:24):
about twenty and have been forever, and all the others
are below that. That's why none of this matters. In
the past, the Poles have shown an answer, a suitor,
a name that drives a bit of fizz. We have
no such names. Now. You can debate the merits or
otherwise of great leaders with great personalities or lack of them,
but we are where we are. None of the current
lot will go down as Churchill's to paraphrase Trump and Churchill.

(01:46):
By the way, for a lot of the time wasn't
popular either irony of ironies. So let's see this nonsense
for what it is. We're voting on the economy, not showmen.
There is no coup. This is but one pole, mountain, molehill,
waste of time. Let's all try and do a lot better.
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