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Christopher Luxon is - Big in Japan

Come fly with him, A listers only.

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This week our Prime Minister Christopher Luxon… mmm, let’s take a moment to consider just how good that sounds. Hope you weren’t eating.

Anyway that guy. Better? That bloke from the telly, he said - what I would say to you is… I’m big in Japan. My kind of people, hard working, industrious, don’t question authority, always show respect.

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Take me there on the Airforce plane. I know I said it was terrible before but it’s mine now so c’mon. For pity’s sake, even I’m getting tired of rolling out the old “I used to run this place” line when boarding.

So it was that Big Chief Luxon flew with his entourage of A-listers, some of whom had formerly been known as C-listers, and got as far as PNG where Airforce Tahi said I’m beached as bro and could go no further.

But never fear, up stepped the old firm and got all the concubines and hangers on the rest of the way to Japan where they were greeted with hugs for the ladies, handshakes for the lads, by none other than “Big in Japan Man”…

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