Essay by Eric Worrall
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s green campaign to shut down all private sector New Zealand export industries appears to be succeeding.
Jacinda Ardern is losing support in NZ, but can the PM’s international star power save her?
By Emily Clark in Auckland
Posted Yesterday at 5:05am, updated 23h agoJacinda Ardern is polling at her lowest level since becoming Prime Minister as cost-of-living pressures squeeze New Zealand households and the shine of her COVID-19 response wears off.
Key points:
- NZ’s Opposition says Kiwis are facing a cost-of-living crisis, and analysts say it is impacting support for the PM
- Ms Ardern’s government now has less support than the National Party, according to recent polling
- Analysts say the key issues at next year’s election will be the economy and inequality
New Zealand’s last election was at the end of 2020 when Ms Ardern and the Labour Party won a clear majority — something that had not happened since the country changed its voting system.
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In the most recent 1News/Kantar poll, support for New Zealand’s Labour government had dropped to 33 per cent, which is behind the opposition National Party, which is sitting on 37 per cent.
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“I would definitely say there’s a discrepancy between brand Ardern on the international stage and what New Zealanders think,” she said.
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When Labour retained office with a sweeping victory in 2020, analysts noted Ms Ardern had picked up National voters who were in favour of the “fortress New Zealand” COVID strategy and who were “rallying around the flag”.
In that election, New Zealanders who had never before voted for Labour swung to support Ms Ardern.
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The ‘business guy’ Opposition Leader
Until recently, the opposition in New Zealand appeared ineffective and plagued by infighting, but with Christopher Luxon at the helm, the National Party has been enjoying a period of relative stability and increasing support.
“National has gone through a bit of a renewal,” Dr Greaves said.
“National has framed inflation as the ‘cost-of-living crisis’ …so they’ve managed to frame it not as an issue that’s about inequality, but an issue about economic management.
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I’m not kidding about Ardern’s government attempting to shut down all income generating industry.
Jacinda Ardern shutting down agriculture – in June this year she introduced a methane meat tax, and acquiescing to green demands to limit the size of livestock herds.
Jacinda Ardern shutting down manufacturing, promising “the government will not hold back” with their ambitious emissions reduction target.
Jacinda Ardern shutting down mining, like her bill to shut down offshore Vanadium mining. Vanadium is a key green mineral, one of the few possible theoretical routes to building affordable city scale battery backup systems is Vanadium flow batteries. But a lot more Vanadium will be required to ever make this a possibility.
Jacinda Ardern shutting down tourism – do I need to provide a reference? We all know about Jacinda Ardern’s fortress New Zealand Covid lockdowns, even stricter than Australia. She did apparently make an exception for the super rich – über rich elites in 2020 flocked to their underground New Zealand survivalist bunkers, to escape the Covid outbreak in their home countries. If you think that the slopes of one of the world’s largest super volcano complexes is an interesting choice for an apocalypse bunker, you are not alone.
Did I miss anything? If I did, I’m sure Ardern and her green allies have a plan to shut it down. Except for the public sector, which is rapidly increasing its head count of bureaucrats who earn at least six figures. And the owners of those apocalypse bunkers seem happy with their choice.
But Ardern is very popular on the world stage, where she keeps telling her globalist fans about all the New Zealand export industries she is shutting down.
Now, big surprise, Ardern supporters are discovering their money doesn’t buy much anymore. I mean, who could have seen that coming?
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That Jacinda Ardern is insane has been obvious for 2 years. And it’s news now that her popularity is dropping?
She should have been chased from office — literally and physically — 18 months ago.
It’s murder by policy and everyone acts as though life is normal.
Honestly, it seems apparent the Kiwis are insane, too. And the Aussies. And most of the Canucks. And the Californians, too.
Mattias Desmet is correct. We’re watching masses of people normalizing their own destruction.
“It’s murder by policy and everyone acts as though life is normal.”
What murder, what policy? I think you meant to write the name Trump in there instead. NZ’s performance through covid has been outstanding, more so when you compare it to the US.
How about the active suppression of effective early-treatment protocols, Simon. Their use would have prevented about 80% of Covid deaths, including those involving co-morbidities.
Suppression of life-saving drug-treatments should meet the definition of murder-by-policy even in your benighted world.
I’ll still to the tried and tested thanks. There is enough quality research out there to show those (HCQ and the like) drugs don’t work. You just have to read it without a bias. Clearly you can’t cure crazy.
” There is enough quality research out there to show those [ HCQ and the like ] drugs don’t work …..Clearly you cant cure crazy “…. The Journal of Virology published peer reviewed research [ 2005 ?] confirming chloroquine is an effective SARS – Covid prophylactic and morbidity ameliorative medication …….The journals editors and the papers authors were ‘crazy’ were they ? ….Why dont you try reading that publication devoid of bias ? ….
“ On 15 June 2020, the FDA revoked its emergency use authorization, stating that it was “no longer reasonable to believe” that the drug was effective against COVID-19 or that its benefits outweighed “known and potential risks”.[65][66][67] In fall of 2020, the National Institutes of Health issued treatment guidelines recommending against the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 except as part of a clinical trial.[50]“
Actually, Pat, if you knew a little more about Jacinda, you would realize that whatever else, she is rational. She is a protege of Helen Clark – who overtly stated herself to be a Fabian Socialist, all in on the Globalist agenda. Not to mention Jacindas time as an acolyte of Tony Blair. Agenda 2030 may well be insanity writ large, but its shock troops are well organised, and wide spread, and have had decades in the shadows to conduct the Long March through our institutions. I fear that it will take a calamity to pull us back from their malign influence – and there are signs that we may be about to get just that. I hope we come through
Pretty much agree, David. Insane doesn’t mean stupid.
The polls during Covid found 80% support for the lockdowns and border closures and they worked as the Covid was eliminated for long periods – until much more infectious variants arrived.
Eradication was never possible but long periods of elimination was achived.
Medical intervention by poll. Great thinking Duker.
That was taken after the events happened.- think about it the people polled couldnt support it before it happned
Its naive to think modern elected governments and their opposition parties dont do their own polling on decisions and policies. Also particular approaches to problems are focus grouped first before being announced
Why was she ever popular in the first place?