The pressure Jacinda Ardern is now under is there for all to see. She has gone from the giddy heights of 60% adulation, thanks to her buddies at the UN putting the fear of God into everyone over Covid, to 29% popularity in the latest polls. Her apology in Parliament regarding her caustic remark to David Seymour was typical of her objectionable behaviour and again showed up her true persona.
Her apology was nothing more than a double down on her offensive remark of the previous day. In case there was any doubt she made it perfectly clear in her answer to the initial question from Christopher Luxon. She told him she stood by all her policies including insults. This made a mockery of the apology. Ardern is demeaning the office she holds and therefore is eminently unsuitable to be Prime Minister.
How about she give us all an early Christmas present and sack herself? She could give us a double dose of Christmas cheer and take the other (Prime) Minister Mahuta with her. There was a nice pic of the two of them on Backchat with smiley faces offering Treasons Greetings. Congratulations to Asian Driver.
She is portraying herself as someone far removed from the garbed Muslim who wandered around a crime scene hugging and kissing. Fast forward to a few weeks ago and one could legitimately ask where the Indian shawls were in her own electorate. Couldn’t she find them in her wardrobe? It appeared she had trouble even finding her own electorate.
It’s easy to do the hugging and kissing bit for the news clips at 6 o’clock but when things turn sour, as they have, things get tough. There is an old saying ‘when the going gets tough the tough get going’. But that is not Jacinda. She proved that recently in the by-election. There was Christopher Luxon out on the street corners supporting his troops but where was Jacinda? A last-minute drop in to some crummy little office headquarters doesn’t cut it, I’m afraid.
Next year is an election year. Campaigning for the Labour Party will be of the utmost importance and will require more than visits to early childhood centres and electorate offices. The die has already been cast. Next year for Labour, politically speaking, will be death by a thousand cuts. As things get worse the slide in the polls will continue and the nastiness will ramp up. When on the back foot, that’s all they know. National and ACT will increase their dominance. Luxon will overtake Jacinda as the preferred PM and Labour will be facing electoral annihilation.
Clare Trevett, another Ardern devotee, says the “arrogant prick” jab was a rare slip of the PM’s mask. I disagree. Jacinda ripped the mask right off and exposed her true self.
Labour’s problem is that she’s their best bet but, as to her winning the election, I’d say all bets are off. It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that, in equine terminology, she could be a late scratching. If that happened the next one into the starting gates would be Grant Robertson and polls show he’s far from being a favourite.
As of now, it’s National who is looking like the safer bet.
