Jacinda Ardern is not getting the love she is used to, so now she’s fallen back on her old favourite, pimping out her child to get some positive headlines.
She’s lost the golden touch, however, after tipping up in Canterbury with a basket of scones, when the locals need far more than a batch of scones as they start the recovery from the floods.
Then, clearly shamed into action by a local builder’s generosity, she tips up in South Auckland with a bunch of toys pinched from her daughter’s toy box:
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has visited people affected by the tornado that ravaged parts of south Auckland on the weekend.
She has given some of the victims soft toys passed on by her daughter Neve, 3.
She said Neve had heard about the tornado and wanted to give something to the affected families.
The freak weather event killed a worker, Janesh Prasad, at a freight hub in Wiri, and damaged hundreds of homes.
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If you seriously believe that a three-year-old was sitting there watching the news and voluntarily decided to hand over some second-hand toys then I have an unfinished bike bridge across the harbour that I can sell you.
These people don’t need a half chewed bunny with its eyes missing, they need roofs and windows and doors repaired. After the scones, you’d think she would stop all this twee stuff, but no.
She should be ashamed of herself using her daughter for PR, but when you have had weeks and weeks of bad headlines, pinching your daughter’s toys for some soft news seems relatively minor.
I can imagine her ranting now at how ungrateful the farmers in Canterbury were and now how she’s had to pinch some toys from Neve in order to get some good headlines.
One question I do have though…is why are both her and Phil Goff wearing masks in South Auckland? Is there something they aren’t telling us? Has Wellington moved 600km closer to Auckland?
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