Jacinda Ardern has been caught out contradicting herself. During Tuesday’s interview with Mike Hosking talking about the handling of COVID she said, “Mike, if in your view there’s a perfect model here, you are welcome to that view. Mike replied, “No you are being too linear. It’s not a matter of a perfect or non-perfect model, it’s about nuance and subtlety”. Jacinda responded, “Mike, if you’re saying you’re now a person of nuance and subtlety, bless. I am not going to claim perfection but I will stand by our response”.
Apart from giving a condescending reply, she trapped herself. Back on the fourth of May, on hearing that there were zero cases reported she said, “I’m a perfectionist. I want to see those numbers after we’ve been in alert level three long enough for it to be a reflection of alert level three”.
On the fourth of May she was a perfectionist but fast forward to the twenty-second of September and she’s not going to claim perfection. You may well ask what has happened in between. The answer is of course stuff up after stuff up. You could argue, if you wanted to be kind, that she was being honest and fronting up to her government’s inept handling of the virus.
Personally, I don’t think you can stretch kindness that far. People who play fast and loose with the truth often get themselves into this sort of trouble. They are people who tend to forget what they have said last week, never mind some months back. If you are one to talk a lot but say little of consequence then it’s easy to forget statements made.
While she might be confused as to whether she’s a perfectionist we certainly are not. Her best plan would be to stick with the line she gave Hosking and forget about trying to be something she patently isn’t.
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