Politicians rarely get the signals about when their electoral currency is ebbing. Usually, the first time they realise they are stuffed politically is when the vote goes against them. Take Efeso Collins, for example. He and his enablers in the Labour party thought they were heading for a resounding victory until the votes came in. Can you imagine the faces Simon Wilson and the lefty sycophants at The Spinoff made when the results were posted?
Helen Clark thought she would win the 2008 election, even though she barely made it back in 2005. She cried a river of tears all the way to her post-election HQ, then put on a brave face to concede to John Key.
John Key knew his goose was cooked, which is why he left early to avoid the ignominious defeat that befell Bill English running as National’s leader for the second time. English clearly had a blind spot for voter sentiment.
Max Bradford once told me that you know when you are going to lose when people stop wanting to talk to you, or even cross the road in order to avoid having to bang into you.
But one of the most common signals you get as a politician is when they start naming ordinary things after you, and it is obvious that they aren’t terms of endearment.
‘Cinda Blocks’ are just one example right now. Across Auckland, they are turning up everywhere. In front of jewellers, bottle stores, dairies, gun shops and anywhere that has been hit repeatedly by ram raiders.
They reflect the exasperation that business owners feel with a government that has emptied the prisons, repealed Three Strikes, stopped Police chasing criminals, attacked and denigrated the law-abiding and has a Police Commissioner nicknamed ‘Cuddles’.
The voters are sick to death of Jacinda Ardern and her hapless band of ‘special’ ministers and MPs. They’ve taken awards for participation to absurd new levels. Most of their MPs aren’t fit to run a bath, and the best among them wouldn’t be qualified for a committee spot at the local tiddlywinks club.
The special people pushing trolleys at the supermarket or clearing trays at the local McDonald’s have a better idea of what hard work and initiative are.
And so, we now have ‘Cinda Blocks’ guarding buildings across Auckland as crime runs rampant while Police continue to victimise and attack licenced firearms owners with policies, regulations, and laws that treat them more like criminals, as they masquerade as window washers to catch naughty drivers using cellphones; all while actual criminals are bashing and smashing their way across Auckland.
By the time the election comes around Jacinda Ardern will still be blithely unaware that all we want to see is the back of her as she is run out of town on a rail.
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