Luxon, like NZ, is bogged down with the hand-brake jammed on

Knowing the status quo is unsustainable, but unable to move without the permission of an 81-year-old (self-described) handbrake on the nation, National’s caucus fails again to get rid of PM Luxon

Luxon’s original sin that has cursed this government was a thoughtless rush to lock down a deal with Peters so he could became PM before Christmas 2023, and in the process conceding much more power to NZ First and ACT than he really needed to. Photo: Lynn Grieveson

I wrote at the beginning of the year that Aotearoa’s political economy felt like it was in…