Media lies and internal assassination attempts are par for the course for this woman with the fortitude of a proverbial NZ brick s***house.
Surviving Suzie Ferguson’s onslaught, Collins refused to be sunk come hell or high water. Ferguson constantly cut off Collins mid-sentence and changed the subject when Collins was winning by pressing a point.
Collins had to fight for every word to explain why Samoa beat New Zealand in the going hard and early COVID stakes which did not suit Ferguson’s predetermined narrative that Jacinda Ardern and New Zealand led the world in the fight against COVID.
Listening to an interview like that one confirms my belief that there was absolutely no good reason to keep such media idiots afloat by paying them $50M.
Then, as if Collins didn’t already have enough on her plate she got assaulted by members of her own team.
How does Collins manage to keep fighting against the odds?
The answer is years of watching and waiting and keeping her powder dry as one National leader after another fell on his face and she was bypassed yet again only for another “woke” leader to rise up and repeat the mistakes of his predecessors.
Collins finally succeeded in nailing the leadership when Michelle Boag’s days of pulling the strings from behind the Nats’ puppet show were ended. A few traitors remain in the ranks, but you can be sure that Collins had plenty of time to take stock of these snakes in the grass well before she took the leadership. Their political days are numbered.
Whatever you have seen in politics you can be sure Collins has seen it many, many times before. Like a dog with a bone Collins hangs onto her leadership for grim death.
Media have questioned her future, suggesting that she stand down rather than be rolled if she fails to win. The measure for media is the Nats’ history of taking heads for failure. They have asked her what she will do when she fails, but it is clear that Collins does not entertain failure. It simply is not an option.
Smart young politicians like Nat MP Simeon Brown can be spotted in the many small group photos with his leader, while hopeless disappointments like Denise Lee are notoriously absent in photos since Collins’s appointment.
Make no mistake, Collins would have summed up the worth of her team well before she was crowned. Her disciplined legal brain and excellent judgement of human character stand her in good stead now and will do so later when she picks up the leadership reins for the country.
The trick of course, is not to give up when the chips are down. Tenacity and patience are essential elements of success.
Collins’s progress is only one way and that way is up. Against extreme opposition she has single-handedly dragged the Nats off the floor to within touching distance of a win in 2020. I bet she can smell victory in the air.
The more people see of this amazing woman, the closer she is to a win.
Despite enjoying the advantage of simpering left-leaning media bias, Jacinda Ardern should be afraid. She is under direct threat of losing her crown to one of the greatest Kiwi battlers we have had the privilege of witnessing.
Like many NZ leaders before her, Collins dismisses such optimism and praise with disdain, saying as she has done many times before “I am only doing my job”. But what a job she is doing.
“The Reserve Bank released its outlook for the economy today in the Financial Stability Report which shows that New Zealand is set to face the largest economic shock in 160 years.
The PM downplayed the horrendous effect of the lockdowns and border closure by reducing the Reserve Bank’s assessment of a 160-year economic disaster down to an 11-year blip. Ardern may as well have said “blink and you will miss it, nothing to see here”.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is backing New Zealand’s economy to “rebound” amid the country’s first recession in 11 years.
Collins has not been idle. She has set her ducks up in a row ready to knock them off when the weather clears and she gets the go-ahead.
Meantime Ardern prevaricates, discounting awful job losses and business closures as a temporary downturn. Her eternal optimism is totally unsubstantiated. She has no idea about the state of the nation, having consistently displayed all the attributes most conducive to failure: lack of planning, and poor execution. They taint every milestone this government failed to meet on its way through the most devastating period of governance in our country’s history. Roll on election 2020!
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