“I think within my lifetime I think it is a likelihood we will transition [to a republic]”
Jacinda Ardern March 2018
Overseas media have a better grasp of Jacinda Ardern than our own bought and paid for NZ media.
British columnist Sarah Vine, a writer for the Daily Mail since 2013, gave a blow by blow account of the good, the bad and the ugly in attendance at the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebrations.
British citizens paid homage, royals did their duty and celebrities and politicians sent their good wishes from afar, doubtless expecting to soak up a little moment in the sun themselves.
There were some fairly excruciating pre-recorded messages from assorted random people of note, including Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood (is the Queen a Strictly fan?) and that dreadful woman who runs New Zealand.
Daily Mail Australia
Oh dear, this is the Voldemort principle of not speaking someone’s name lest evil fall upon you as bad fortune. Ardern emulated the principle from the Harry Potter series of novels by promising to never again speak the name of the Christchurch killer, and Vine has followed suit by refusing to name our PM.
Your Majesty
On behalf of the government of New Zealand, I extend our heartfelt good wishes as we celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Your Majesty’s accession to the Thone.
This Queen’s Birthday weekend in June is a time when people across the Commonwealth will celebrate and reflect on Your Majesty’s seventy-year reign. This is an extraordinary achievement, and your reign has spanned extraordinary events, changes, and challenges in each of the Realm nations and across the entire Commonwealth.
As Queen of New Zealand, Your Majesty continues to give service to our nation as the embodiment of our constitutional monarchy, bringing to many a sense of stability and continuity. Your dedication and commitment to service, your deep interest in the people of Aotearoa New Zealand, and your concern and caring for our nation’s life and wellbeing, are warmly respected and celebrated across the nation.
We wish Your Majesty great joy during the celebrations at Queen’s Birthday weekend, and through the whole Platinum Jubilee year.
Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
PRIME MINISTER
Message to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth from the Right Honourable Jacinda Ardern
Let’s hope the Queen never reads this travesty direct from the colonies on how not to use her English. Either Jacinda Ardern or an inattentive speech writer forgot to proofread it before sending it off to print.
In the first paragraph Throne is spelled Thone and in the second paragraph extraordinary is used twice in the same sentence when remarkable or unusual could easily have been employed the second time around.
But that’s not all! Does the Queen know that “dreadful woman” changed our country’s name to Aotearoa New Zealand without public approval?
Does she also know that “dreadful woman” expects New Zealand to transition away from the monarchy and become a republic in Ardern’s own lifetime, probably after the current Maori co-governance (in which the public has no say) is more fully implemented?
When I have been asked for an opinion, I think within my lifetime I think it is a likelihood we will transition. It is not something this government is prioritising at all though.
The most important thing for New Zealand is we have a very special arrangement and relationship via our treaty of Waitangi, and the relationship between Maori and the crown, so before any conversation like that occurs, that is something that will need to be resolved within New Zealand.
Jacinda Ardern 30 March 2018.
Don’t believe that “dreadful woman” when she claims she is not prioritising ditching the monarchy. In 2019 she prioritised societal wellbeing in her groundbreaking wellbeing budget, but how well did that work out for those still living in poverty? In 2020 she prioritised child poverty for the second time after campaigning on it in 2017, but in 2022 even more children are living in poverty.
That “dreadful woman” is not transparent about her priorities. If she promised to prioritise something and did not, surely it proves she was lying? If she says she isn’t prioritising, but it turns out that she was, isn’t she also lying like a flatfish?
