With humble apologies to Stu P.D. Lefthard, Ardern and Labour are a joke. They sit around, not capable of having an original idea in their collective noddles, and wait for National to release a policy, then pretty much copy it. If this is their so-called strategy it’s pathetic. The BFD has a photo of the Labour caucus, and if you take a look at that you identify the problem. They look a ragged muddle-headed lot, not capable of running a commune never mind a country.
Any ideas of their own are like something they stumbled upon in a trivia quiz. They wouldn’t have been able to answer the question but thought the answer, when they finally understood it, a great idea. They just don’t possess the mental capacity to get to grips with the bigger issues that matter. Take the debate the other night. Ardern got the two biggest rounds of applause for sanitary towels in schools and unisex loos. I’m not sure if the majority of the invitees were from the LGBTQXYZ community but those appeared to be the two issues at the top of their minds.
There were two announcements earlier this week which showed the stark difference between National and Labour. National announced $600 million for planning and infrastructure for water storage, something Auckland desperately needs. This will assist both urban and rural parts of the country. On the same day, Labour’s big announcement was to ensure we weren’t being ripped off at the supermarket or when purchasing building supplies.
If you are fretting about the cost of a cauli then boy has Jacinda got a promise for you!
Compare the two. One is desperately needed, the other is a pointless exercise. There are all sorts of reasons why the prices of some of the 40,000 products on supermarket shelves vary from time to time. Weather affects fruit and vegetables. Lockdowns affect them, such as when Ardern wouldn’t give an exemption to those in the baking industry to get through the roadblocks. Is every single product going to be checked? I thought that was the job of the Commerce Commission. Labour claims to be business-friendly and then proceeds to bash them around the ears.
Let’s look at housing. Five years ago National wanted to abolish the RMA. Rather than support something that needed to be done, the preschoolers on the left spat the dummy and climbed into the sandpit. In other words, they wouldn’t support it. Ardern, in the debate this week, had the gall to accuse National of not doing something about it. This woman seems incapable of recollecting events from the past. Or is it just selective memory?
Five years on and National again say the RMA needs repealing. Labour, whose grey matter has finally come out of hibernation, now realise this is imperative for increasing the number of houses built. Five years it took them. Having turned themselves into a comedy act they proceeded to set a house building target. Instead of building 100,000 homes in ten years, they are now aiming to build 8,000 by 2024. This joke is two fold, they have already proven themselves to be useless at it and these homes have already been announced in the Budget. A mix of copying National and making the same announcement twice.
At the end of the day, most of their policies have an underlying theme – control. COVID must have been like manna from heaven. What an opportunity to try out their Marxist theories. Control the people. Investigate business charging policies. Control the prices. No charter schools. Control the leftist indoctrination of children. Confiscation of guns. Control law-abiding citizens. Tax higher income groups. Control the wealth. Hate speech laws. Control free speech.
Ardern needs to wake up to the fact that in a free capitalist society control doesn’t work. It is anathema to people’s psyche. Human nature does not react well to excessive control. Ardern has to choose between capitalism or communism. On the one hand she doesn’t have a clue about how capitalism works and on the other hand there is little chance of her ability to properly implement her preference.
The question has to be asked – where does that leave the country under Labour?
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