Opposition leader defends calling New Zealand ‘wet, whiny’ ...Middle East

WELLINGTON: Four months before a general election, New Zealand’s opposition leader is discovering that calling his country “wet, whiny” and “inward-looking” is a fraught political strategy.Christopher Luxon, leader of the centre-right National party, was for a third day on Wednesday forced to defend seemingly disparaging remarks about his homeland, made to farmers and caught on camera.“We have become a very negative, wet, whiny, inward-looking country and we have lost the plot,“ Luxon said Monday, lamenting the state of the nation.“We’ve got to get our mojo back with a lot more ambition and aspiration.”Facing days of questions from media and political foes, the National's leader has insisted

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