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There’s a reason I am not a Herald subscriber and Helen Clark, the political pensioner, has just illustrated why. This tabloid, having discovered the Foreign Minister Winston Peters released some emails to do with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's views on the war in Iran, decided to go for the kill and that the person with the most effective fangs to spout the venom they desired was Helen Clark. Helen, who lives in a suburb best known for its extinct volcano, didn’t disappoint. Appearing on the Herald’s Today programme with Ryan Bridge, the 75-year-old tried to blow up the coalition Government on the spot.
She expended her hot air by saying that she doubted it will last to the election. “They’re eating each other,” she said. I wonder if the elderly lady was subconsciously thinking of her own side consisting of Labour, the Greens and, most notably, the Māori party. The feast on that side of the political divide would be a far more substantial offering than the coalition could dream of serving up.
Peter’s office made an error releasing the emails without consulting the prime minister, which has been recognised. But to get a political hack, well past her use-by date, to comment on it is nothing short of mischief making, at which the left-wing media, including the Herald, are very good. To suggest that the coalition won’t last until the election is akin to saying the All Blacks are going to lose every one of their upcoming tests. It simply won’t happen.
The three parties on the right have no option but to stick together. A recent Curia poll shows 83 per cent of NZ First supporters want the party to stay with the right. The left has no appeal, people wise or policy wise, to attract them. Never mind, the scurrilous media intend to make hay with this while the sun shines. Thomas Coughlan put his leftist bent to good use by hysterically announcing the coalition was now in crisis talks, no doubt hoping by the end of the day it would have imploded.
It’s so pathetically obvious what these lefty journalists are trying to do. We’ve seen it recently in America with CBS 60 minutes and Trump. The upside is the majority of the voting public are too intelligent to bother with this nonsense and get more reliable news from elsewhere. The public will see this attempt at hijacking a situation for the Herald’s own purposes for what it is: same old, same old. It will be ignored and soon forgotten. The lefties will then have to search for their next bit of nonsense to make a picnic out of.
