Hey all, Jegga here. Forgot my passwod and wanted to join in the celebrations.
There was an exchange between Amber Heard and Johnny Depps lawyer during their recent trial which I thought summed up Ardern nicely. His lawyer was asking if she ever actually gave the money to the ACLU and she kept replying that she had "pledged it" . Basically she'd told everyone she was going to do it, soaked up all the praise but never bothered with the messy business of actually following through. Ardern made lots of "pledges" during her reign of error .
She pledged to build 10000 houses a year, there's around 1800 kiwibuild houses now. when they should be 40000 plus. She pledged to get 1 billion trees planted , that went the way of kiwibuild . She pledged to build Auckland light rail and have it completed by 2023 -it hasn't even started
She said ending child poverty was the reason she got into politics and we have kids who've never known anything but living in the festering sores that are the social housing motels. and child poverty got worse under her watch. Being able to claim a refund on rental interest was effectively a subsidy on rent, Labours hatred of landlords is second only to their loathing of farmers and rents have skyrocketed since the removed the refund .
In the meantime whenever there was a photo op of her dishing out a hug she was always front and centre . Particularly if it was going to get international coverage. The cynicism of her tearing up when she decided to have a press conference about Grace Millanes death only to lose interest when it came out that she was travelling the world hooking with strangers for b and d sessions was pretty gross and I'll never be convinced that she ever held that press conference for any other reason that to push her brand overseas where she was lauded as the "anti Trump".
Key being on Letterman was regarded as cringe by the same people who had no problem with her sucking up to Colbert and even flying him out here at taxpayers expense .She was always looking for that international audience despite the fact she shamelessly tried to pretend she was uncomfortable with it.
The Branch Ardernians who have spent the past 24 hours distraught over her resigning have made utter fools of themselves saying things like "no pm has faced the challenges she did" .
Christchurch shootings- made one speech you'd expect of any western world leader , wore a hijab and rushed through legislation that overnight created a lucrative black market for firearms.
White island - no idea why she gets credit for this, apart from getting photographed hugging some rescue workers she deserves nothing for this. The son of a guy at work was involved in the body recovery, I'll ask on tuesday but I'm fairly certain he would have mentioned if Ardern was there helping scoop up the disintrgrating corpses.
Covid,- almost fucked up isolating one of the most isolated countries on earth to get international attention with the march 19 commemoration the Muslim community didn't want. . Forgot to set up miq until well into the lockdown when Simon Bridges forced her to then fucked up the vaccine rollout which resulted in the preventable 2021 lockdown .
A real leader of the calibre people claim she is would have fronted and taken the hit for the continual fuckups at the border rather than throw the likes of a kfc worker under the bus and would have visited Auckland during their extended lockdown.
Its a continuing theme of Arderns reign that when she avoided fronting up and tainting her brand and the media she doled out millions to prop up certainly helped her avoid the tough questions. She never fronted at Ihumatao, when David Clark was caught mountain biking she missed her first 1 pm press conference for an emergency zoom chat with Nigel Latta, the list just goes on.
I think she knew she was going to lose the next election when the parliament protests happened . She was always really the pm for the laptop class who could work from home and think posting a black square on instagram is an actual protest. Here she was confronted by the poors who'd left their homes to work in level 3 and in some cases level 4 and they loathed her government .Stuff and the rest of the media soiled themselves calling them white supremacists and far right when they themselves were never able to crop their photos hard enough to exclude the brown people there and a curia poll showed 45% of them voted Labour/green. As usual she never fronted while her mates in the media lied and lied about the protesters
I'm not surprised she quit, like Key she's too much of a narcissist to take an election loss . The threats she faced as pm being used an excuse are no worse than the crap Key got thrown his way and she leaves behind a country in far worse shape than the one she took over in 2017. We're more divided than any time since the Springbok tour trust in institutions has plummeted -particularly the media .
We live in a country now where a serial rapist gets 6 months home detention , gangs are effectively NGOs and violent crime is rampant, the health system is in freefall as nurses and doctors leave and preteens make tictocs of themselves ramraiding vape shops. Her supporters in the laptop class seem oblivious to this reality that her leadership is responsible for .
Hers was a government for the professional managerial class who she gave subsidised Teslas to paid with a tax on tradies and farmers work vehicles, she gave $650 million to business to decarbon but couldn't be bothered bringing in free dental care which cost the same amount .
I hope Labour are soundly beaten at the next election and are out of office until they expunge the career politicians like Ardern that have never worked a day outside of politics ,.I hope National strip the media of the PJIF and Stuff goes bankrupt because few people have helped prop up Ardern more than Sinead Boucher . I'm not expecting much from National, I don't care if Luxon doesn't make inspiring speeches. or talk utter bullshit about "kindness " or "well being". I'd happily settle for a base level of administrative competence ,