A compliant and unquestioning media wears the blame for Jacinda Ardern’s flawed authoritarian agenda, writes Caroline Di Russo.
Caroline Di Russo SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Political Commentator
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern “acknowledged” her job was “fantastic” following her shock resignation announcement today and her term ending on the 7th of February. “That’s a tremendous privilege to be able to do that job,” New Zealand’s Opposition Leader Christopher Luxon said. “Very few people get the opportunity to do so and it’s important that when you do you make the most of that opportunity.”
As I was pondering a second long black this morning, news broke that Jacinda Ardern would resign as New Zealand Prime Minister and call an election for 14 October, 2023.
Her resignation was chock full of the usual platitudes about what a privilege it was to lead New Zealand, how she wanted to spend more time with her family and that she didn’t have enough left in the tank for continue with the job.
Her trademark weaponised compassion was again on display, and surely, she will be remembered for how effortlessly she pretended to care.
Until recently, she was fawned over by a compliant and unquestioning media which totally failed to keep her and her authoritarian agenda in check.
Remember the wellness budget and KiwiBuild?
They were the lowlights of a policy platform so laughably deficient it was hard to work out whether Ardern was malicious or just masterfully incompetent.
I believe her that she doesn’t have anything left in the tank.
I trust it took considerable effort to wreak the kind of havoc she did on the Kiwis.
After inflicting one of the longest and harshest COVID-19 lockdowns on her people, openly admitting to creating separate classes of citizen on the basis of vaccination status, and torching the domestic economy, she is washing her hands of the consequences and has executed a perfect hospital handpass to the next NZ Labour leader.
And why would she stick around?
She won her second term in an intra-pandemic election when Kiwis (like Australians) were heavily influenced by the politics of fear and gagging for politicians to keep them safe.
As her second term rolled on, and the Kiwi economy and social fabric deteriorated under the strain of the Ardern regime, her poll numbers plummeted.
Her convenient exit bears all the hallmarks of a rat fleeing a sinking ship. It has a decidedly Oakeshott/Windsor look to it.
Clearly, her jaw is so fragile that she refuses to face the electorate and be accountable for the destruction and division she has visited on New Zealand.
So, as the media’s love affair with Ardern wanes, and she is asked questions she has no intention of answering, she takes her bat and ball and goes home.
The final act of this tragedy is Ardern leaving a mess for someone else to clean up.
And this tells us all we need to know – because the mark of a true leader is that they do not leave to others what they are not willing to do themselves.
Ardern’s ultimate legacy will be as a shirker of responsibility.
Great article. Good riddance to our most tyrannical evil fascist leader who has done nothing but destroy New Zealand!
“Ardern’s ultimate legacy will be as a shirker of responsibility”.
There is more ……………… she will go down as the biggest liar we as citizens of NEW ZEALAND have had to endure; a Prime Minister who has lied her way through her tenure, getting worse and worse by the day; and not forgetting that smug-smiling-face in her sharing her lies.
Interesting how the “auntie helen” (yes, that clark woman) is reported by the Stuffers as follows :
“Ardern had done an “extraordinary job” at leading New Zealand through crises as well as delivering social policies, and the economy had performed better than “most of its peers in challenging global circumstances”, Clark said. She had positioned New Zealand “as a country which stands for international co-operation and decent values”.
Clark is as delusional as Ardern …………. two peas in a pod.
Guess where the jabcinda is headed in the near future !!
What an appalling state of affairs for our country, and the world.
Surley she should get her snout out of the trough immediately and allow her electorate to have a bi election.
Yes, but She’s happy to leave Her voters without a local MP for 6 months.
‘Dolly did it’
As an ex-pat, I am SO deeply proud of all New Zealanders who held the line, refused to submit to the tyranny of the enforced ‘mandates’ and death shots, et al. You never let up the pressure and fought every inch of the way. It is your collective bravery and determination that has finally driven the malevolent force aka Ardern off! YOU HAVE WON! a major part of this war – but keep fighting coz it ain’t over yet. Aussies have a great deal to learn from this – but sadly they’ve been too occupied either rolling over, apportioning blame or simply bitching and moaning. A bit like the footy eh lol.
Yep, the battle is won, but the war isn’t over. I’m proud to have been part of the freedom village at Parliament. We aregood, honest hardworking (until mandated out of our jobs( New Zealanders. We are continuing the fight to restore our democracy and our human rights. The next elections can’t come soon enough. I hope whoever gets in isn’t as corrupt and broken as the current regime. The fight for democracy worldwide is imperil. People are waking up, but msm do not publicize what is really happening around the world.
The evildoers and communists and delusional climate doomsayers will fail in the end.
Precisely! Poppicat0596D8B162. The next battle, is to drive off this other equally repulsive (inside and out) murdering POS Hipkins. Albeit Ardern’s understudy and fellow protegé puppet of Clark – he’d better enjoy his short lived ’15 minutes’ Hahaha. Labour, despite espousing how “very tight” and “unified” they are – have now entered their death throes. And they know it!
This article finished with Jabberwocky being a shirker of responsiblity. Well, I have something to say about that! Not many people would know that a shirker is ‘to practice fraud or trickery, live by one’s wits’ also “a needy, disreputable parasite”. I could continue with the meaning of a parasite, but I hope you get my meaning here. She has been a parasite since the day she took control of our beautiful lands of New Zealand.