Dave Stewart

Is it any wonder New Zealanders don’t like Christopher Luxon, when he regularly talks to them as if they’re imbeciles?

His spin on Monday on the divisions in Te Pati Māori are almost Monty Python style.

For the record – both of his coalition partner parties grew out of divisions in the National party.

New Zealand First came about when Winston Peter’s ego was crushed by the post-Sir Robert Muldoon neoliberal National party and Act was formed when the then far right in National, led by Derek Quigley, decided they needed to bring down the Muldoon government and they got great support from Sir Bob Jones to do that.

What we’ve seen practically daily since is continual division, bitterness and bickering among these parties, right up to today, where New Zealand First is at odds with Act over the rural vote.

But for Mr Luxon to carry on about the divisions in Te Pati Maori when he came to be an MP after Jamie Lee Ross got the pricker because his then-mate, Simon Bridges, didn’t give him the baubles of office he felt he was entitled to, and we all saw that mudslinging take National to the bottom of the barrel.

Mr Luxon became an MP at that time due to his party going to war with itself.

For him to point the finger at anyone else proves he thinks New Zealanders are all stupid.