Luxon

[Wainuiguy]

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Bottom feeders Is derogatory you are right.  But then he is referring to that small section of NZ society who prey on others.  And that just isn't the poor - in fact in most instances isn't the poor at all.  Payday loans companies, shopping trucks, businesses who bring in foreign workers and then treat them like slaves (and worse they often bring in their own people to do it to), criminals, gangs.  These are the bottom feeders people know and recognise.  The author tried badly to lump in working poor into that and worse nurses who would likely be more middle class workers.  That shows how the author thinks- not Luxon.
Then he  starts quoting the Bible in an effort to make out Luxon isn't a "real" Christian.

That's just bollocks Wainuiguy... you're seriously trying to spin this as if he were referring to less than reputable businesses?

we don't just do bottom feeding and just focus on the bottom, we focus on people who want to be positive and ambitious and aspirational and confident, right?"   
National leader - Christopher Luxon

I think the reference to "PEOPLE " makes it very clear he is NOT referring to businesses , but PEOPLE - basically all those who are NOT a poster child for the National Party enrolment campaign (that would be the "positive and ambitious and aspirational and confident")

If anything, that description probably describes better than anything the very people running those  "Payday loans companies, shopping trucks, businesses who bring in foreign workers " - you could also add in, predatory to mix for that lot though...  

If I was to have a guess at what he intended, it was a dig at Labour and their support base that went spectacularly wrong...

Once again you miss the point .  I wasn't saying he said that because he didn't.  That was me saying bottom feeders can apply to many not just "the poor" as tge article suggested he meant.