The left media either don’t realise how far behind public opinion they are or they’re deliberately trying to annoy us. These lefty journalists who inhabit newsrooms for the sole purpose of inflicting their less than wholesome opinions upon us need to get a grip. They need to stop bombarding us with puff pieces about their poster child, Jacinda Ardern. Where, why and what is the need to keep focusing on this despised individual, now popularly regarded as the country’s worst prime minister EVER!
We don’t want to know about this woman. We don’t care about this woman. She is not welcome here and the longer she stays away the happier we will be. She has left a stain on this country that even the strongest remover available could not get rid of. We are rid of her though, well rid and seeing the back of her is a much more appealing proposition than the thought she might front up again at some point.
A puff piece, published on 5 December, appeared in a publication that prides itself on dumbing down its declining readership for most of the week. I’ll give the Herald some kudos for its Saturday publication but this is largely due to articles from contributing writers rather than what emanates from what they like to call their newsroom.
The puff piece was what the Queen told Ardern during Covid. (Unfortunately, the more intelligent of the two is no longer with us.) The point is why does the Herald, some years on, think we’re interested in what the Queen, obligated to meet this woman as she was, said. In meeting Ardern she was probably no more than fulfilling her promise that my whole life, be it long or short, shall be devoted to her subjects’ service.
For the record, according to Ardern, the Queen said it was lovely we could stand at the end of our driveways on ANZAC Day. She thought that was so moving. Not moving enough in my opinion. The fact of the matter is this tyrannical piece of work should have allowed us sufficient movement to attend services of commemoration. Standing at the end one’s driveway was a nonsense bordering on farce.
In fact her whole reign of terror was a nonsense bordering on farce, aided and abetted by some in her party who are still there, including its current leader. It is something we never will forget or want to go through again. While we are doing our best to obliterate this woman’s existence from our minds, the media continue to alert us to the fact that they think she’s still the greatest thing since sliced bread.
As far as the majority of the public are concerned nothing could be further from the truth. We want nothing more to do with her. The constant reminders from the media are unwelcome and, so long after her welcome departure, not even news. This political ‘has been’ should be left to share the nightmares she inflicted on us with like-minded people elsewhere.
The very next day, 6 December, another puff piece in the same paper: this time about her appearance on the Graham Norton show. It never occurred to me this man was so desperate for guests. Ardern was promoting the movie Prime Minister, an intimate look at her miserable existence on planet Earth. According to the promotional blurb she continues to fight against isolationism, fear and, get this, the DISTORTION OF TRUTH. To give her due recognition, that is one topic she is well and truly qualified to enunciate on, no doubt distorting the distortion as she speaks.
While on the subject of distorting the truth, Peter Bradshaw, writing in the UK Guardian, said the documentary records a shrewd but LIKEABLE premier who did without the usual politician’s defences. It might be news to Mr Bradshaw, but an attack dog is not normally in need of defences. He goes on to say she emerges from the documentary portrait the way she did when she was in power…as a human being.
Furthermore he says, more than any politician anywhere in the world in my lifetime, she looked like an actual member of the human race who was catapulted to office too fast to have acquired the defensive carapace of the professional politician. She was vulnerable and scrutable and likeable in ways utterly alien to everyone else. One can only conclude from those comments that the documentary is a distortion of the truth, something on which the Guardian also has a track record. (The BBC is not alone.)
To return to the Queen and Ardern. When the Queen was on the Throne the catchcry was ‘Long may she reign’ and she duly obliged. With Ardern it was a call for her to resign and, like the Queen (probably the only thing she has in common with her), she duly obliged. The media must stop their constant invasive propaganda about this woman which is akin to a cruelty upon our senses.
Winston Churchill had a clever take on what makes a successful politician that, to my mind, sums up perfectly the career of Jacinda Ardern. He said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Her enthusiasm only waned when she saw the public had turned against her and she promptly ran away. In my opinion that was an act of cowardice and all she deserves to be remembered for.
