The BFD | A Whiff of Common Sense Promises More

Getting out and about in Auckland has become a pleasant experience lately with barely a mask in sight, save for on a few permanently petrified faces. My goodness, it took long enough!

Two and a half oppressive years before smiles returned and this on the back of the first term of the Ardern government worsening homelessness, crime, access to hospital care, child poverty and increasing cost of living.

A metaphorical rainbow appeared over Auckland last week because Auckland spurned Ardern’s chosen puppet mayor and sensibly voted in Wayne Brown.

Brown’s first week in office saw him smack Nanaia Mahuta’s hands away from the cookie jar containing our water assets and instruct Watercare and council chief executive Jim Stabback to stop work on the Government’s Three Water reforms.

Auckland hearts leapt for joy at their champion challenging Wellington. Brown was keeping his election night promise when he said Wellington should no longer call the shots for Auckland, promising to reverse the trend of Wellington dictating what Auckland gets and instead listen to what Auckland wants.

It’s called commonsense, do you remember it? It’s how we used to make decisions. We talked and listened to the advice of experts with good-quality data. A far cry from Ardern’s ideological dictates as we experienced in her Covid response supported by speculative, shonky modelling.

Public servants should be sitting up and taking notice, at least in Auckland. Their career prospects will be limited if they cannot justify their existence and ratepayers will be delighted to see the number of Council employees reduce after reaching numbers not seen prior to the super city amalgamation.

Based on her track record, Ardern’s latest ideas are doomed, a fact Brown happily pointed out.

The writing is on the wall for Ardern.

If she has any good sense at all, which is doubtful, she will pack up and quietly leave through one of the Beehive back doors that all 120 politicians used earlier this year to avoid speaking with protesters.

At the time, every standing MP studiously avoided meeting with the protestors Michael Wood MP ignominiously labelled a “river of filth.”

These good people were hurt and angry about being banned from public activities because of their unvaccinated, second-class status.

They were the newly unemployed and financially disadvantaged, the vaccine injured, vaccinated defenders of medical choice, families of those the vaccine killed and Wellington’s homeless who were housed and fed during the duration of the protest.

But of course, politicians didn’t know this, did they? They were busy listening to media lies while spying through the Beehive windows or scuttling out the back doors at the end of the day.

The protesters’ brutal eviction will go down as one of the darkest days in NZ history and as such should never be forgotten.

WARNING. Photoshopped image credit Eurokiwi. The BFD

The Ardern government still says vaccination saved thousands of lives despite the MoH website showing 70% of NZ Covid fatalities are vaccinated and boosted. We now know that vaccination does not prevent Covid transmission, but when did our health authorities know this?

This government should be publicly apologising to the unvaccinated.

The unvaccinated were never a threat to public health, that responsibility belongs to the Ardern government currently overseeing a rise in excess deaths that cannot be attributed to Covid.

What is causing it and how long can we expect it to last? Don’t expect to find answers in the bought and paid for media.

Who will do a “please explain” after our top health officials have done a runner?

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