Luxon’s Pathological Lying Is A Problem For New Zealand

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I’ve been following politics since this Coalition government got into power. Initially gave Luxon the benefit of the doubt. I knew he wasn’t good, but hoped he would find it in himself to change.

To my mind, David Seymour and Chris Bishop were clearly nefarious, but Luxon still had the chance to show us he was different to them.

Intention matters.

But as each of his policies contradicted his stated goals of growth, care, fairness, prosperity, I meekly wondered whether he was well meaning but just highly incompetent.

(As evidence of this sentiment, my piece from early last year: I feel sorry for Christopher Luxon)

However, a very disturbing feature of the Prime Minister’s personality was also becoming apparent – pathological lying.

It’s intentional and consistent. For example, him lying about a huge “unexpected” Health NZ deficit to the NZ people in July 2024.

Then casually telling Mike Hosking he actually knew about it in October 2023. And just underfunded Health anyway *shrugs, right?*

Last year, I finally wrote: “Is Chris Luxon a liar?

At this point the evidence is already insurmountable. It doesn’t even register anymore - it’s a simple fact.

Just recently, in less than 3 minutes, he lied about key policies his government had made while in power. He did it in Parliament. No surprise.

Our Prime Minister is not only a liar — but a consistent, unabashed, sincere one.