Jacinda Ardern and her Government would have you believe they are all about kindness. Well, they are but not in a pleasant way. They actually reek of it. In their world kindness = control. ‘By being controlling we are being kind’ is their unwritten motto. This is the reality of how
If there’s one thing Covid has increasingly illustrated it is how different Auckland is to the rest of the country. Without wishing to be insulting to those outside of Auckland they could probably be best described as our country cousins. This was very apparent in the current lockdown. Most
Three polls in the last week and they all carry the same message. The tidal wave of support for Jacinda Ardern is receding. If the trend continues it threatens to become something of a dangerous rip. One poll was conducted by a left-leaning organisation, one by an organisation on the
Jacinda Ardern is hell-bent on killing off democracy in this country, aided and abetted by a compliant media she has bought using our money. I noted there was nothing on One News about the very large protest in the Domain on Saturday. Ardern is displaying all the hallmarks of a
Right from the outset Labour’s approach to the Covid pandemic has been laboured and divisive. Jacinda Ardern has adopted the philosophy of divide and rule, black against white, the vaccinated against the unvaccinated, area against area. I can only assume the rationale is that it’s better to have
This government, like any other democratically elected government, was elected by the people to govern for the people. If the polls are to be believed, Ardern and her Government are performing this fundamental task pretty well. The polls however, do not paint a true picture of people’s universal opinion
This government seems oblivious to what is going on in Auckland. We are supposed to be in level three but the reality is quite the opposite. There is no level three, apart from the closure of businesses, not even remotely level two. In my neck of the woods around the
New Zealand’s economy is being trashed by the latest “short and sharp” lockdown. Even if Jacinda Ardern is too scared to open up the borders she should at least let the retail, hospitality and tourism sectors restart their businesses. It doesn’t matter how many times she comes on
4pm last Monday and the big announcement. Well, what we thought would be a big announcement. Instead, we were informed that Auckland would remain at level three. The real news was that the government had eliminated their elimination of Covid strategy. Another giant cock-up by this government. The elimination lasted
After Monday’s Covid announcement every Minister in this apology for a Government should do the honourable thing and knock on the front door of Government House. They should say to whomsoever opens the door, “I wish to see the Governor-General. I wish to hand in my warrant as I
The only people who think level 3 is being observed in Auckland must be the Labour Government and its health advisors. The number of hospitalisations and deaths predicted if we loosen up were about the same as the cars that passed me on my 45-minute walk in rural east Auckland
If you pay attention to the modus operandi of this Labour Government, you could be forgiven for thinking you were living in a land where democracy is dying. Jacinda Ardern is behaving like an amateur dictator. She is an amateur because, while she has found it easy to lock down
I was surprised to see Judith Collins on Newshub Nation. I understood that she had decided not to appear because the interviews rarely cover issues important to the viewers. I am now aware that subsequent to that decision, Judith’s chief press secretary was contacted by the producer of Newshub
I rarely watch the 6 o’clock edition of news on TV1 or particularly TV3 as I try to avoid the risk of visually running into ‘Toxic Tova’. This hallmark to describe her seems to have been picked up by those of us on the right of politics and it
Jacinda Ardern continues to demonstrate her inability to handle the Covid situation in a way that shows an understanding of business, an empathy with those wanting to return home and an admission that both their MIQ booking system and the facilities are dogs. As we got no apology concerning the
It’s always good to start the weekend with a good piece of humour, and page C4 of the Business Section of the Weekend Herald provided it. The page was devoted to a typically well-written opinion piece by Bruce Cotterill. Cotterill was commenting that any chance of the media being
