Luxon survives his third coup attempt

Damien, what did you make of that? Do you love the imagery

of Chris Laxon after just surviving another coup attempt with essentially all of the plotters lined up behind him like some Soviet Politburo, all promising to be loyal to the leader this time, despite the fact that they have been consistently disloyal? It is such a dysfunctional government.

It is catastrophic.

And they're just about the only competent minister they had been let out the back and shot out of the back of a gulag.

This is a deeply dysfunctional government, catastrophically so.

And somehow they've got to try and convince the public that they should be given another three years.

It is a carnival of clowns, Oliver.

It is particularly depressing, especially when you consider that...

Some of the people standing behind Chris Luxon have done really outstanding work in their ministries.

The only exception

to that would be

Nicola Willis.

Yeah, and that's actually where I started to disagree with you already, because you said it's a deeply dysfunctional government.

But when you saw them all standing behind Christopher Luxon looking rather glum, actually – What you could also have seen is, of course, this is a government with some really outstanding ministers.

So, yeah, deeply dysfunctional on one side.

But the other thing is actually we've got some ministers who actually got a lot of stuff done.

So it's actually not as if they were failing as individual ministers.

It's actually just that the combination doesn't seem to work under Luxon.

Isn't there like a sports team analogy where you have 15 really outstanding soccer players, but as a team they don't work? Well, if you had

15 soccer players, you would have four too many anyway.

Well, no, they're the reserves.

They're the bench.

So I don't know anything about Cyprus.

It's called football.

No, it's not.

Damien, what did you make of that? Do you love the imagery

of Chris Laxon after just surviving another coup attempt with essentially all of the plotters lined up behind him like some Soviet Politburo, all promising to be loyal to the leader this time, despite the fact that they have been consistently disloyal? It is such a dysfunctional government.

It is catastrophic.

And they're just about the only competent minister they had been let out the back and shot out of the back of a gulag.

This is a deeply dysfunctional government, catastrophically so.

And somehow they've got to try and convince the public that they should be given another three years.

It is a carnival of clowns, Oliver.

It is particularly depressing, especially when you consider that...

Some of the people standing behind Chris Luxon have done really outstanding work in their ministries.

The only exception

to that would be

Nicola Willis.

Yeah, and that's actually where I started to disagree with you already, because you said it's a deeply dysfunctional government.

But when you saw them all standing behind Christopher Luxon looking rather glum, actually – What you could also have seen is, of course, this is a government with some really outstanding ministers.

So, yeah, deeply dysfunctional on one side.

But the other thing is actually we've got some ministers who actually got a lot of stuff done.

So it's actually not as if they were failing as individual ministers.

It's actually just that the combination doesn't seem to work under Luxon.

Isn't there like a sports team analogy where you have 15 really outstanding soccer players, but as a team they don't work? Well, if you had

15 soccer players, you would have four too many anyway.

Well, no, they're the reserves.

They're the bench.

So I don't know anything about Cyprus.

It's called football.

No, it's not.