The last time a protest arrived on Parliament grounds on December 16, 2020, the Red Queen and her courtiers had already fled. A bit like Justin Trudeau, her doppelgänger, who fled to an undisclosed location when 50,000 truckers and 100,000 demonstrators arrived recently in Ottawa. Tucker Carlson said that Covid 19 was used to destroy ‘democracy’ in Canada. This statement could equally apply to New Zealand.
This week at the opening of Parliament a convoy of truckers and vehicles stretching 70 km arrived to make their protests known. All the way from the North Island and the South Island ‘pop ups’ have appeared on overhead bridges giving support to the convoy. Other vehicles on the road have shown their support by ‘honking’. It was the day New Zealand made a noise and honked. It was the equivalent of blowing the shofar.
Citizen journalists and New Media organisations have been making reports and publishing photos and videos. Let’s hope our overseas friends in the media like Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Fox will give us the good oil. Surprisingly, TV3 reported the arrival of the convoy in Wellington. It looked like the capital city had been turned into a parking lot with nowhere for the vehicles to park except on the road.
Perhaps TV3 have woken up to the fact that the current government is on a downward spiral. A bit like that slide that was put up on the grounds of parliament. The Red Queen is dropping in popularity twice as fast as the Labour Party, according to the latest polls by Kantar and Roy Morgan. A famous line in a ‘Diehard’ movie is, “The quarterback is toast.” The quarterback’s rating is at 15+, a drop from 55+ at the last election. Even poor Todd Muller was on 10+ at one point so the Red Queen is in dangerous territory.
The ‘boosters’ don’t seem to be going gangbusters either. The cloud that was supposed to cope with the rush on Auckland’s waterfront seemed empty, just like the once-thriving restaurants and bars down there. You would think lockdown was still on. Of course, there is a new type of lockdown. It’s called isolation, which can go on for at least two weeks plus, if other family members get Omicron. Perhaps the populace have woken up to the fact that boosters don’t work against Omicron? The CDC in America, no friend of the right, says the same thing.
Grease was the word!
It was the squeaky wheel that got the oil when Charlotte Bellis went on Fox. The Americans were incredulous that a pregnant NZ female journalist in Afghanistan had been refused an MIQ spot to return to her home country to give birth to her baby girl. They obviously didn’t know that we have been putting up with the ‘Fox in the Henhouse’ for years now. The Americans were probably quite relieved that there was a leader worse than Biden. Tucker Carlson referred to Ardern as that “squeaky little woman from NZ with the weird teeth”.
Assistant Health Minister Ayesha Verrall has reprimanded the knight of the realm, Ian Taylor, for his ‘bad faith’ articles in the Herald. He was only doing what a chivalrous knight is supposed to do: give help where needed. In this case, it was the MOH (Ministry of Plenty) who did not know you could order RATs online. The MOH has finally admitted they did requisition a private company’s supply of Roche RATs when the shortfall loomed.
The Convoy protest is now going worldwide with the Americans joining in at the Ambassador bridge near Detroit. This protest is unprecedented, and New Zealand is a part of it. Not that leaders of the two main parties in New Zealand at Parliament would meet with the demonstrators, who seem to be viewed as ‘Untermenschen’ or at best Hillary’s ‘Deplorables’.
CW McCall’s song might be written for such an occasion.
Here are a few choice words:
We is headin for Bear on I-10 Cause we got a great big Convoy, Rockin through the night Yeah! We got a great big Convoy Ain’t she a beautiful sight? Come on and join our convoy Ain’t nothin’ gonna get in our way We’re gonna roll this truckin convoy Cross the You-S-A We is head for Bear on I-10 Bout a mile outta Shaky Town I says Pig Pen this here’s the Rubber Duck And I’m about to put the Hammer down.