Prininja

"You said 19 times, I rule her out" Chris Luxon blithely renegs on a major campaign promise- to not negotiate with the far left high taxing Opportunity party. The National leader is in reality giving a big hint as to the real play here. He's unhappy about losing power to NZ First and ACT and intends to insulate himself from this discomfort by bringing Opportunity into govt. When he stresses the term "irrespective of the numbers", he is revealing an intent to forge a greater alliance with the left bloc. Based not on necessity but choice. Why? To give him the buffer he needs to control the policy requests that might come from his two former but now much more powerful coalition partners. Or to pass legislation they will not agree to. Like the Under16 Media Ban. MR Luxon has IMHO always been a leftist in the wrong party. He's learnt nothing from what is (so far) a near defeat and sees the solution to his unpopularity as going further left. The refreshed National party needs to dump this nihilistic compromiser at the first opportunity. (No pun intended).