OPINION
The old saying ‘Never judge a book by its cover’ came into play in Parliament this week. Not surprisingly it concerned the Prime Minister. It followed her answer to a question from David Seymour who, in my opinion, is the most eloquent questioner on the Opposition benches. He frames his questions in a very direct manner but also in a way which is designed to get under the skin of the responder.
In a cataclysmic moment, the false cover of kindness Ardern has paraded around the world was removed. Having struggled to answer Seymour’s question she, in her usual fashion, banged her bottom back into her seat and muttered, “He’s such an arrogant prick”. Tim Dower on ZB breakfast pointed to the irony of it. He’s right. There’s more irony running from that comment than emanates from a squeeze pot of Arataki honey.
Ardern was forced to apologise. I say forced because as Prime Minister this is the first time she has apologised for anything. It’s one of the tenets of left-wing politics that you never apologise. Bullying and lying are perfectly acceptable but you should never apologise.
I have no doubt the rest of her caucus was perfectly okay with what she said. Most left-leaning people, not liking Seymour, were probably also applauding. Newshub’s Jenna Lynch, an Ardern devotee, posted it on social media and what’s left of the Ardern sycophants rallied in support. This is the latest example of this type of behaviour from the ‘nasty party.’
Perhaps the biggest irony of all in her whole false kindness narrative is Covid. The result of the last election proved the majority were conned into thinking she had saved their lives and gave her a vote of thanks for her ‘kindness’. She was anything but. She used it as a means to install and revel in her form of tyranny. Remember her at the ‘podium of truth’ daily spouting that only she was the bastion of truth and no one else was to be believed. There’s a series on Netflix at the moment with a similar narcissist spinning the same line in her fantasy world.
The Labour Party is in big trouble. They are falling further behind in the polls for reasons they are failing to acknowledge. The policies relating to ownership of water and the media merger, to name but two, need to be ditched but won’t be for ideological reasons. They are electorally cooking their own goose. They are spit-roasting themselves. As for talking around the Christmas barbecue, they might as well be on it. Not sure how tasty the finished product would be. Post-election it will probably just be burnt offerings.
Ardern’s unparliamentary odious remark has now gone global. Thanks to Ardern, Seymour is now almost as well known as she is. Due to her own stupidity, she has put him in a good light and done herself no favours. As part of her apology, she quoted her mother (who if you remember taught her how to wrap fish ‘n’ chips), that if you haven’t got anything nice to say about someone it’s better not to say anything at all. I would rephrase that and say if you haven’t got anything sensible to say it’s better not to say anything at all. That would be doing us all a favour.
The media, made up of 81% of left-wing journos, are of course more focussed on a comment someone made about a garage in South Auckland. Pathetic.