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Phil Green
Today I’m reacting to the latest poll showing National at its lowest ebb of 28 per cent and more reacting to my fine friends on The Good Oil blog – similar political nuts like me.
First, I think we’ve been driven into overdrive by our reaction to Labour’s descent into authoritarianism during their second mandate of 2020–23. Like many we didn’t suffer but were nonetheless compelled to oblige diktats we’d only previously heard of from eastern Europe. But lest we think we were unique martyrs, these deprivations were largely observed around the Western world.
I lived through it but I didn’t have to go through MIQ while pregnant; I was in my country and didn’t have to barter to get back in, and I still managed to shop where I was allowed to, so I didn’t suffer. I didn’t starve. Many obviously did suffer more, which is why the freedom movement is so much more keenly attuned to the permutations of each decision reached by the coalition Government.
Now, if we had a dart board and each dart were to accurately diffuse a government policy, we’d not have enough darts and the board wouldn’t be large enough. There are simply too many leftist agendas concurrently in play to defeat in such a short time. The bureaucracy simply turns a tap on, but the coalition Government needs a spanner 100 times greater (for example) to turn the leftist tripe off.
We’ve heard the analogy many times, but it’s like King Knut trying to turn back the tide. These are very real political problems that our coalition heroes (and they are that) are trying to achieve every single day, under the assault of a Labour compliant media and a bureaucracy simply marking time until Labour is re-elected.
Labour and its proxies could be re-elected this year. It’s something we know is possible, given that basically half our country is left of centre. Are we, like Hillary Clinton, to decry that half our citizens are “deplorables”? I agree, it’ll be a disaster, but, as the UK is now experiencing, it’s a trial by fire that the country may have to undergo to realign itself. If all else fails, Trump will invade and save us.
I don’t like the gene therapy bill and I don’t like the pandering to the World Health Organisation, nor the Paris Accord: the last two were legislated by the last Labour Government and are an albatross around NZ’s neck. And it is every Kiwis right to criticise the leader and party if these offend your democratic fealty.
But let us not forget the good Luxon has done: primarily holding a coalition together of very disparate parts and, I would say, because of the humane and good instincts of Christopher Luxon. There have been many wins by this coalition Government, not least the efforts of Stanford with her education policies and Mark Mitchell’s stellar improvement on the crime stats. These are not small wins, but huge.
But no cheers from the right or right of centre.
Give Luxon a break, and turn your jeers into cheers, because nobody’s perfect. And, if you tear down Luxon, you’re only helping the crazy left.
