Chris Luxon is done. He staggers on but he no longer has the command or respect a Prime Minister needs. 

He’s proved middle management at best. His policies are Jacinda’s. His social media posts appear like skits. His media interviews are train wrecks. 

The man in the pub has no clue what he stands for. His team cringes at his attempts to connect. Chris Hipkins can’t believe his luck. 

Two unforced errors that an average politician would sail through have scuppered him. 

The first was Mike Hosking asking him if he would have sacked Andrew Bayley if he had not resigned. It was a softball question. Mr Luxon could not answer. Mike Hosking lobbed the question gentler and gentler every-which-way like the Good Samaritan repeatedly throwing a life buoy to a drowning man. Luxon thrashed in the water resolutely refusing to save his own life. 

It was hard to watch but impossible to turn away. Just answer. Any answer. But no. It was about his expectations. And the former minister knew what they were. And that was that.  It made no sense. 

The Hosking question brought into sharp focus that Chris Luxon stands for nothing. He has no resolve. He has no bottom line. He is a ditherer and a follower.  He is not a leader.  And even in his dithering he is cack-handed and inept.

The second incident is more troubling. A caring pre-school teacher emailed the PM concerned:

ℎ ℎ . ℎ ℎ ℎ? ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ — ℎ ℎ — ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ “ℎ/ℎ, ℎ/ℎ”. ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ. ℎ ℎ ℎ? ℎ ℎ ℎ ℎ .”

The reply from his staff is gob-smacking:

Kia ora ——–

Thank you for your email to the Prime Minister, Rt Hon Christopher Luxon.

Christopher is a proud supporter of the LGBTQI+ community and wants New Zealand to be a country that celebrates and supports diversity, including our rainbow community.

Nga mihi nui

That lands with a thump.

The Prime Minister is told of pre-schoolers confused about whether they are boys or girls or something else.  They are wanting to be called they/thems or he/shes.  His response is not to express alarm.  Or to investigate.

His response is to support it.  No, not just to support it, but to celebrate it.  I can see no other way to read his response.  It’s true he did not type out the email.  The email was sent by his Correspondence Lead Advisor.  But that is his postion.  At the time of writing, she still has the job.  Mr Luxon has not retracted her statement.  We can take it as the Prime Minister of New Zealand’s position.

The country gasped when Prime Minister Chris Hipkins needed to be briefed to answer the question, What is a woman?  Prime Minister Chris Luxon had time to formulate his answer and his answer is clear: he supports and celebrates 3, 4 and 5 year olds being confused over whether they are boys, girls, or something else on the alphabet plus spectrum.

And he is unequivocal.  He can’t say whether he would have sacked Mr Bayley but he’s clear he supports and celebrates our preschoolers changing their sexual identity like it’s a game of cops and robbers.

And so Prime Minister Chris Luxon is toast.  

Family First’s Bob McCoskrie has broadcast the email and Mr Luxon’s response.  Bob is New Zealand’s foremost conservative commentator with a reach right around and across New Zealand like no one else.  He is a media force.  Of course, he has been deplatformed for years but has spent the years building his own media platforms through Family First.  He produces news and commentary of better quality than anything the legacy media can achieve and has a commensurate and committed reach. 

Of course, it is not only conservative Christians upset by Mr Luxon’s support and celebration of trans preschoolers.  It is most parents.  That is not what we want for our kids.

And so it’s not just the transactivists who want to rainbow our toddlers but our very own Prime Minister who for now has the title of leading the National Party.  It can’t be for much longer.