Andrew Dickens: Is Luxon in trouble?

Say what you like about Cam Slater, but the boy can write.

He's had his ups and downs and paid for some bad behaviour on his website, but he has a good flow in his writing.

He’s also had a good contact book but whether those contacts are still talking to him is anybody’s guess.

On his website, now called good oil, he’s written a think piece called the coming National coup.

He reckons Christopher Luxon’s continued bad numbers mean the National Party is now seriously talking about replacing him as leader. 

He claims sources inside caucus say that Luxon has three months to turn around his numbers.

He claims Women don’t like him.

People who believe in anything don’t like him because nobody knows what he believes.

His Coalition partners know what they believe.

Free marketers can go with Act.

Nationalists can go with New Zealand First.

He says the opposition can smell blood and then lumps the media into the opposition camp.

Even though ironically, he is the media as well and getting stuck into Christopher Luxon.

Slowly Christopher Luxon seems to be losing the support of the centre right.

Not that he had much in the first place.

He was not given a honeymoon period because I think the electorate could see the performative nature of his politics.

But these are easy editorials to write. Everyone can point out the flaws and the problems with anything.

Only the truly talented can provide a solution.

So, if the problem is Luxon. What is the answer?

Willis? Bishop? Stanford? or Simeon?

They’re the next four. If you want to go deeper. Would Mitchell, Goldsmith, Collins be any better? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cam Satter say what you like about him. He can
certainly write. His head is ups and downs. He's paid
for some bad behavior, but he has good flow in
his writing. He always had a good contact book. But
whether those contacts still talk to him as anybody's guess.
But anyway, he's now renamed Whale Oil to a website
called good Oil, and yesterday he wrote a think piece
called the coming National Coup. He reckons Christopher Luckson's continued

(00:23):
bad numbers means the National Party is now seriously talking
about replacing him as leader. Even cams and on game
these days, he claims sources inside caucus say that Luxon
has three months to turn around his numbers. He claims
that women don't like Luxon, people who believe in anything
don't like Christopher because nobody knows what he believes. Kam

(00:43):
Satter says his coalition partners know what they believe, and
he says the free marketeers can go with Act, the
Nationalists can go with New Zealand first, so who's going
to go with Christopher? He says the opposition can smell blood,
and then he lumps the media into the opposition camp,
even though of course he is acting like an opposition
right now with this opinion, but slowly Christopher Luxon seems
to be losing the support of the center right according

(01:04):
to cam Slater, not that he had much in the
first place. To be fair, he was never given a
honeymoon period. I think the electric could see that he
had a very performative nature in his politics. But these
are easy editorials to write, and everyone can point out
the flaws and the problems with anything. Only the truly
talented can provide a solution. So if the problem as

(01:28):
Christopher Luxen, what is the answer? Is it Willis? Is
it Bishop? Is it Stamford or is it Simeon? There
the next four on the list. You want to go deeper?
Would Mitchell, Goldsmith or Collins be any better than Christopher Luxon?
Fkam is correct and a coup is coming inside the
next three months? Could that be National shooting itself in

(01:52):
the foot? Well, of course it is. Did they learn
nothing from all the long years in opposition where they
chopped and changed their leader without going forward in any way,
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