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# NZ Gangs Really Are Ardern’s “Genuine Kiwis”
- URL: https://goodoil.news/nz-gangs-really-are-arderns-genuine-kiwis/
- Published: 2021-02-25T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-02-26T20:02:02.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: AUS Politics, Crime, Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

In a show of shrewish squawking that seems strangely at odds with her endless prattle about “kindness”, **Jacinda Ardern** has repeatedly publicly berated her Australian counterpart, **Scott Morrison**, on policy differences ranging from [climate change](https://goodoil.news/ardern-embarrasses-us-at-tuvalu/) to [deporting NZ-born crims ](https://goodoil.news/arderns-deportation-rant-is-just-more-hypocrisy/)from Australia. It is the latter that has inspired Ardern’s most acrid harangues. Squealing that the policy was “corrosive” (unlike, apparently, scolding an ally from a shared podium), Ardern huffed and puffed that Australia should take care of its “own” problems instead of contributing to New Zealand’s growing gang crime.

**Of course, she’s wrong on both counts.**

Firstly, NZ citizens are only Australia’s “problem” insofar as they break the law here. In which case, Australia has every right to send them packing – just as, hypocritically, Ardern’s government does with hundreds of Pacific Islanders.

**Secondly, Ardern is just plain wrong that Australia’s deportation of Kiwi crims is behind New Zealand’s skyrocketing gang crime.**

> New Zealand’s gang numbers have exploded over the past three years with new figures showing a 46 percent increase in membership.  
>  
> And\[…\]despite what the Government has been telling us, only a minuscule amount of that increase can be blamed on Aussie deportees.

**Gang membership has exploded under Ardern’s watch.** Since her government took office, official figures show an increase of 46 percent – nearly 2500 new, ‘genuine Kiwi’ gangsters.

Jacinda Ardern wants you to believe that that’s all wicked Scott Morrison’s fault.

> The Government has consistently pointed the finger at Australia, saying deportees are fueling the gang boom.  
>  
> “It’s exacerbated by the deportation that the Australian Government has undertaken,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. “It most certainly contributed to what we’re seeing in New Zealand now. Absolutely.”

**Except it’s absolutely not.** Either Ardern is utterly ignorant of the facts or she’s lying through her teeth.

> **Of the 2500 new gang members in the last three years, only 41 are deportees from Australia. That makes up just 1.7 percent of the new recruits.**  
>  
> “The Prime Minister seems to like blaming Australia for our problems, but in this case the data does not support her position,” says ACT leader **David Seymour**. “This gang growth under her Government is 98 percent homegrown.”

So who really is to blame?

> “This Government is soft on crime,” says National leader **Judith Collins**.  
>  
> [Newshub](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/02/australian-deportees-make-up-minuscule-amount-of-new-zealand-s-gang-explosion.html?ref=goodoil.news)

Well, that’s just unfair. Look at the tough, no-nonsense they’ve taken in response to [Waikeria Prison rioters](https://goodoil.news/call-it-what-it-is-kelvin-a-riot/), or [illegal Maori roadblocks](https://goodoil.news/ardern-seen-no-evidence-of-gangs-involved-with-illegal-roadblocks/).

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/the_bfd_jacindahuggangs.jpg)

New Zealand’s growing gang numbers are Jacinda Ardern’s “real Kiwis”. The BFD. Photoshop by Lushington Brady.

Still, I suspect Scott Morrison will be too polite to ask Jacinda Ardern for a public apology.

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