Judith has immediately got Ardern and the media on the run. Both are now showing their true colours. It is no surprise that they have immediately implemented their anti-Judith, anti-National strategies. What they appear to be unaware of, or are too thick to see, is that they have put themselves on the wrong side of public opinion. As this is probably a deliberate move they will be stupidly unconcerned.
Immediately after Judith was elected Jacinda no doubt detected a certain inclement feeling in various parts of her anatomy. Following this she chose to ignore the fact of the leadership change and therefore Judith. You can’t show yourself to be more immature and rude than by doing that. What she is doing is illustrating that she is running scared of Judith. Her dismissive talk suggesting she wasn’t giving much thought to the election or Judith was at best insulting and at worst a porky. The opposite is the truth.
To prove this she tried to make COVID the story of the day which was a pathetic attempt to knock Judith off the headlines. We were threatened with a regional or even a national lockdown. We were threatened with compulsory use of the tracing app. This behaviour has all the hallmarks of a woman in a panic, resorting to what she knows best, control and bullying. The methods commonly used by cowards. Question Time is the initial inflicting of misery courtesy of Judith. Then she has some weeks to have nightmares over the Leaders’ Debates.
The media are understandably not happy and can’t help themselves when it comes to showing it. What they portray as negatives we supporters see as positives e.g the departure of Kaye and Adams. The hopelessly biased media paint this as the equivalent of the forty day flood and National need to build the Ark. Whereas we see it as the showers disappearing and the sun coming out.
Both Jessica Mutch-McKay and Tova O’Brien, while having to report on all the good things Judith is doing, are highlighting anything that might look slightly negative. Whether these two lefties are aware of what idiots they’re making of themselves, who would know. Mutch-McKay is married to Ardern’s chief bodyguard so in my opinion, there’s a conflict of interest right there.
The problem the media are having is they’re not getting anywhere, and will not get anywhere, with Judith. They have now met someone who is intelligent, quick on her feet and easily bats their puerile questions away. There’s no one hundred and one facial contortions, just facts laced with humour as required. The media mob are going to get increasingly frustrated and will become increasingly irrational in their reporting. As Judith further increases her aplomb the media pack are going to lose it.
Public sentiment right now, as online polls have shown, is with Judith. If the media carry on as they have started out they will find their strategy will work against them. It won’t occur to them that they will be assisting the increase in Judith’s popularity. If these political journos think they can influence public opinion then they have a highly inflated opinion of themselves. Certainly those on the right pay little attention to their biased verbiage.
The conclusion we can draw from the events of this week is that Judith has won all twelve rounds with some good verbal punches thrown in. Ardern got the equivalent of a TKO the moment Judith was elected. In view of what is to come expect to see her pretty much permanently on the ropes if not the floor. As for the media there will be a lot of tails between the legs moments to enjoy. As things get progressively worse for them expect something akin to senility in their reporting. What we must prepare for, but ignore, is a largesse of insults and viciousness the likes of which we have never seen. When the left are backed into a corner this is all they know.
Here is Jacinda’s song to Judith. Slightly altered but with apologies to Joe Melson and Roy Orbison.
Just running scared each place we go so afraid that you might show
Just running scared what would I do if the people really wanted you
Just running scared feeling low yeah running scared the people love you so
Just running scared afraid to lose thinking which one of us would they choose
Then all at once you were standing there so sure of yourself your head in the air
My heart was breaking which one would it be
Then the people turned around and walked away from me
ELECTION WON!!!!