2017-2023
Do Not Rest in Peace
I can’t help but think as I see the terrifying images of the MV Dali, the container ship taking out the Key Bridge in Baltimore, that it can be seen as an analogy for the Labour Government and its destruction of this country. The country is broken. Just as is the Key Bridge.
Once the event began to unfold, there was no stopping the vessel. It continued past the ‘dolphins’, those structures designed to absorb and mitigate an impact. There have been suggestions that those were sparsely placed and inadequate. “Pictures of the Key Bridge show some sparsely placed dolphins that are placed well in front of the so-called “piers” that hold up the structure.”
It has also been suggested that the ship lost its steering after experiencing a power outage.
Without any ‘dolphins’, apart from those inconveniencing Sir Russell Coutts, and a single-party majority inflicted on the country by Covid-crazed idiocy, there were no checks and balances to prevent the Labour Party, the Government, from doing just as it pleased to the country. And so it did, without any mitigating structures to soften or prevent the inevitable collision.
And, just like the MV Dali, the Labour Government similarly lost direction along with both steering and power.
The Captain of the country simply walked off the job, leaving the ship to take on water, to continue to list dangerously to the left, and inevitably, to capsize. They then installed an inexperienced and sycophantic Captain, and some of the crew were revolting. Had the Captain of the MV Dali behaved in such a way, action would have been taken against him. Undoubtedly there will be action: there will most certainly be an investigation. In Baltimore. The Captain of the good ship Lollypop, the failed Labour Government, should also be required to answer for her behaviour. Her actions were tantamount to treason. She was, as she so smugly said, making “Captain’s calls”. So, you need to answer for those, ex-Captain Ardern.
Much like the Labour Government with Ardern and her sidekick Robertson, the MV Dali, with two pilots on board, continued on its way to the inevitable destruction of the bridge, taking lives with it. That more lives weren’t lost is testament to the quick actions of a few and the Mayday call that saw the bridge closed to traffic.
In New Zealand that Mayday call was the 2023 general election.
Because those of us who could see the inevitable voted for change. We were the dolphins if you like. The structural ones, not the Sir Russell Coutts ones. We now have a system with some checks and balances and with the wisdom of three very different leaders and, to their credit, they are keeping this ship level, on course and stable.
But the coalition Government now finds itself without the bridge. The division caused by the wilful destruction of this country will take a long time to rebuild. It will now take many years, as will the Key Bridge, to reconnect one side with the other. And billions of dollars. They have to start again. The economy is under the massive weight of all the trusses and sections of the collapsed bridge. A brief post-election upsurge in market confidence is now like a wobbly part of the fallen bridge and it is unclear whether it will fall further or manage to hold up.
Reinstatement of the bridge here will not happen overnight. It will not happen without huge investment in infrastructure. It will not happen without careful, professional, expert planning. And a massive dose of courage.
To be fair, the coalition has begun the process of uplifting some of the debris that is now firmly embedded in the superstructure of the vessel but, just as the rescue operation in Baltimore is required to lift it carefully, piece by twisted piece, that is what this coalition Government must also do. The tough stuff lies beneath. The amount of time and sheer bloody hard work to resolve this absolute tragedy and rebuild the bridge is incalculable. In Baltimore. And in New Zealand. And so, piece by piece, they are doing the job that needs to be done.
The coalition’s forty-nine achievements in one hundred days are the bits of the bridge that can be seen, lifted and removed – not easily, but they had to come off first, before tackling the mess that is further down.
And it is the mess further down that PM Luxon seems yet unwilling to consider removing. And it is this that sees his partners, David Seymour and Winston Peters, running rings around him. To be fair, I have this week seen a couple of clips from Parliament and the PM has spoken extremely well, answered questions without the ‘rejection of the premise’ of that and every question as by Ms Ardern in her illustrious (sarc) reign. Over the disability funding issue, he made Hipkins look like a toddler trying to argue with Einstein.
And Ginny Andersen trying to be clever and looking like an incompetent fool in the face of Mark Mitchell’s implacable logic and calm common sense regarding the recruitment of police officers.
But if the coalition Government does not begin to remove some of the other broken beams and trusses of the broken bridge, the country will never see the rebuilt structure meet in the middle to take traffic once again.
The continuing takeover by the so-called Maori elite must be stopped. We are en route to Zimbabwe. We are a nation divided by race. The enough will never be enough mentality of the entrenched inter-generational dependence on welfare and the supply of public housing: but it is a human right to have a tax-paper provided home and to wreck it and threaten and intimidate neighbours and not pay the rent – let alone the right to defecate on floors and live in squalor. That is apparently all a human right too.
The police force is more focused on illegal zebra crossings now incomprehensibly deemed to be legal. Rainbows now defended and re-painted as multi-coloured and illegal stripy sections on some roads. The repainting of crossings to make them legally compliant is a hate crime, or so we are told. But defacing the Treaty in Te Papa was not. And punching old ladies was not a hate crime either. How utterly wrong.
The tikanga enshrined in law meaning everything and everything they want it to say – but we are too simple to think that a word has a real, determinable meaning. No, tikanga, can and does mean anything that suits. Former MP Stephen Franks described tikanga as a “morass of unknown custom” that “bleeding heart judges” will use to “start making up things up as they go”.
https://northandsouth.co.nz/2021/07/27/peter-ellis-tikanga/
He was and remains 100% correct. We will have a separate Maori legal system if it is not stopped – now. That rolling stone IS gathering moss.
And there is the hugely damaging interference with parents’ rights to NOT have their children brainwashed and gender reassigned.
Also there is the left-captured judiciary who give incomprehensible discounts and rewards for good behaviour. Never mind the thrice raping and filming of a 15-year-old whose rapist says “it takes two” in court, thereby victim blaming – and all of that is perfectly fine. No. It’s not. The judiciary is now a loony-left enabler for criminals. To hell with their victims. Wrong, so wrong.
There is so much that is broken and needs to be redesigned, re-built, and renewed. Revitalised.
There is so much to do to rebuild the bridge. In Baltimore. And here in New Zealand.
