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Once again Jacinda Ardern has proven she only practises diplomacy when it suits her and only with those whose ideology she shares. In her clumsy efforts to insult Scott Morrison and elevate the new Labour leader Albanese, her new bestie across the Tasman, she made a factual error, quickly picked up by the media and (at least) reported on Newstalk ZB.
Attributing the flood relief payout to New Zealanders in Sydney as Albanese’s initiative, it was quickly discovered that Morrison had introduced it in February during the floods: with little fan-fare obviously, as Ardern had not heard of it.
No room for her mistake in the NZ Herald (and others) online amongst reporters’ rapturous accolades of her brilliant ambassadorial skills and devastating charm offensive. I can’t agree, sorry.
The NZ Herald, on the other hand, had plenty of room for the desperate meanderings of Shane Te Pou warning us of the dangers the evil Chris Luxon will inflict with his harmful views if made PM.
Her charm is a quality the PM turns on and off at will, according to her mood and preferences. The actions of a flake. Obsessed with the limelight (less so with the facts) she was led by the media in Sydney to the cliff edge: over went the dim-witted one, to smear the former Prime Minister with lies.
She is a narcissistic liability to New Zealand, blowing hot and cold and showing a nasty, mean streak
The conditional diplomat displayed this unfortunate quality in her first term when she spent her time ignoring or insulting Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Scott Morrison, whose personal opinion of the man he kept to himself, practised diplomacy, as is a Prime Minister’s job, and got the American tariff lifted on their aluminium exports.
Trump was publicly polite to Ardern, even sending good wishes when her baby was born. However, his largesse did not extend to lifting the tariff on our aluminium exports to the US. Her petulant approach to diplomacy proved to be a liability to New Zealand business on the world stage.
Miraculously, like Columbus discovering America, after the last election, Ardern seemed to as well. She was fleet-footed in her urgency to meet the new President when travel was allowed to ‘do diplomacy with Joe’.
We discovered part of that brief included PDAs with the dementia-ridden President known for his wandering hands. The compromising photo of the two of them from behind gazing at some painting with his arm around her waist told us all we needed to know about the liability that runs our country.
