OPINION
It’s a fair question to ask if the entire raison d’être of the left is based on the premise of a socialist dream they had the previous night. There has to be something that possesses these people to come up with the ridiculously half-baked ideas they try to pass into law. Maybe it’s a flood of nocturnal endorphins.
Endorphin comes from endogenous, which means within the body, and morphine, an opiate pain reliever: endorphins are natural pain relievers. They are ‘feel-good’ chemicals because they make you feel better and put you in a positive state of mind. With a reading of just 21 per cent in the last Roy Morgan poll and a poor showing in the recent Curia poll, Labour MPs will be hoping this year is flooded with endorphins. They are sorely in need of them.
However, endorphins do not help ignorance, idiocy, stupidity or a lack of ability. All these factors contributed to Labour’s unseemly demise at the ballot box in October. As the recent fiscal update showed, socialist dreams were most likely the cause of the current state of the economy and are certainly not the solution. The legislation this government will pass between now and the next election is aimed at stemming the river of socialist dreams they inherited and turning the direction of the country.
The left don’t seem the least bit cognisant of this. The Greens are still bleating on about the environment and the poor (and the odd one might even be concerned at the cost of dressing in the latest expensive fashion regalia). And the Maori Party are stuck in a ‘loss of mana’ mode and can’t see beyond it. None of this sort of nonsense is in anyway helpful in getting the economy back on track. These two parties are illustrating their complete ignorance of the problems facing the country. It appears that they sit in parliament for no other reason than to oppose all legislation the new government introduces to avoid economic bankruptcy.
The Greens wander into the House draped in shawls representing a people who voted for and are very happy to be ruled by a terrorist outfit. As well as dressing up they also pretend to be an environmental party. In question time, when standing in for the prime minister, Winston, in his answers to their inane questions, ‘smoked them’. He seems to enjoy treating them like the recreational reprobates they are.
One or two of their MPs are legit but the rest are riding high on social issues they only have a hazy grasp of. Their idea of utopia would be the government owning everything, which is where Jacinda was taking us. They are rabid followers of climate change and treat it as if it’s a novel and new experience. The fact is the earth has experienced hot and cold cycles approximately every 100,000 years for millions of years.
Cannabis, a favourite of the Greens, evolved about 28 million years ago and climate change has had little effect on it. Smoke a bit of meat on the summer barbie, though, and that’s a different matter altogether. Four-legged farting animals must be gone: emitting emissions as they do is a complete no-no. The fact we need meat and milk seems to have escaped the dopes in the Greens. Red may be a favourite colour of theirs but not when it comes to meat. They are as ignorant as they are mad. They don’t want farming, oil and gas exploration or mining. They are as blind as Freddie the frog Shane Jones referred to. They are duped.
The world’s largest emitters of carbon and biggest users of fossil fuels have no intention of reducing, much less stopping. This is the Real New Deal, not the Green New Deal they keep talking about. What this country does is meaningless in global terms and certainly shouldn’t be at the expense of our economy. Half the stuff the Greens want to ban means they couldn’t have half the stuff they want. They are fanatical fools.
The Maori Party are somewhat different but equally dangerous. If the legislation being debated doesn’t concern their mana they’re not interested. Half the time they’re not even in the House. These people are trying to fool the rest of us. Instead of their mana they might like to worry about their crime and family violence. The frightful figures in these areas have absolutely nothing to do with colonisation: that is a weak but convenient excuse for them not having to take ownership of the disasters befalling their people.
Their questions in the House are all about the Treaty and the resultant negative effects on their people, instead of working jointly with government on policies that might help them. Winston is banging his head against a brick wall trying to get them to understand government policies are for everyone and are made on the basis of need, not race. He cited the recently announced 50 million dollar immunisation programme specifically for Maori, but they were not interested. Not even a thank you. It didn’t fit their narrative.
The Labour Party is either in denial or incapable of working out why they lost the election. I have listened to them in parliament. Barbara Edmonds is a case in point. She talks as if her party was right all along and gives the impression they had the necessary ingredients required to bake the economic cake. The fact that what they cooked were the books seems to have escaped her. The electorate rated the cake she talks about as wholly inedible.
These parties, if they want a chance to govern, will have to redesign their direction of travel. As of now the stars are not aligning for them. The ‘stars’ they have to worry about are all on the government benches. They are currently outshining the dimwits in the opposition and the light we are witnessing is in sharp contrast. Those endorphins might provide a nocturnal night ride but daylight always reveals a different reality, one the left are struggling to cope with. It must be disheartening to watch their ideologies disappearing in a puff of smoke. There are very few ‘highs’ for the opposition as a whole. If Carmel Sepuloni’s end of year speech was an example of intellect, then the coming year is looking very bleak for Labour. She said they were up for the fight, but in her rambling rhetoric she failed to land a punch. It was embarrassing to listen to. If that’s the best Labour can produce from a potential future leader, then 2024 will most likely be a year to forget.