nuts securing the tower to its baseplate were removed

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It's all about creating distractions and the biggest distraction of all came today from Luxon. Falling pylons, grounded ferry, more armed robberies, but look over there.... cancer drugs being funded.

This government is out of their depth and struggling to maintain credibility on many of their failing policies.

So you think there is some conspiracy to take pylons down merely as a "distraction"?
For a start it was a private contractor who was working on the lines that somehow made a major fuckup during routine maintenance.
Those shitty ferries that are breaking down  are something inherited from the last govt and now they have to try and find the money.
But hey cancer drugs are far more important anyway.

My implication was that the cancer drug U-turn announcement was the distraction, to deflect attention from the shit show that was playing out that week which included a pylon incident that highlighted the lack of redundancy in Transpower's grid infrastructure, a ferry steering failure and grounding that refocussed on the coalition's cancellation of ferry replacements with no creditable 'plan B', the failure of an Air Force 757 (again) during a high profile political mission, continued armed robberies despite Mark Michell's announcements promoting getting tough on violent crime, plus whatever else was looming on the horizon.

Sure cancer drugs are a primary concern for many NZers, which just highlight's the tone deafness of Luxon and co in their dismissing the electioneering policy they used in this regard. The electorate are wising up to Luxon's 'corporate' prime ministerial style and lack of recognition of social responsibility. Numerous comments that he received a full on booing when his presence at the Warriors' game last night. Outside of his business buddy group he is not a liked person.