Just when things were turning the corner for Chris Hipkins, the tyrant opens her big yawning yap hole and gives Labour the kiss of death.
Former prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern has broken her election silence, backing Labour during a near 11-minute Facebook live from the United States.
Dame Jacinda, who shocked the world when she announced she was quitting politics in January, is now at Harvard where she is doing a fellowship.
While not a presence in this year’s campaign to date, she told viewers she’d “hate to think” people thought because she wasn’t there she didn’t have an opinion.
She had recently voted in New York, and she encouraged New Zealanders to “vote for what you believe in” and the country they wanted tomorrow, in five years’ time and in a decade.
Dame Jacinda said she based her decision on what party was focused on child poverty. She said the numbers were “starting to track in the direction we need it to”.
“It is not a given that if Labour is no longer in government that will stay the same. In fact, we know it won’t. So if you believe in continuing to reduce child poverty, then that’s a simple decision and Labour is the party that is continuing to promote that.”
As well as child poverty, climate change, inequality and housing were also important.
“Labour has had two terms in office. Long enough to make progress but not long enough to finish the job, and our country needs them to finish the job. So I would encourage you to look again to those simple principles and what you believe in and vote for that.”
She said Kiwis could trust Chris Hipkins. “I can tell you, hand on heart, that what he tells you is true.”
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