AN OPINION PIECE BY AMY BROOKE IN THE SPECTATOR AUSTRALIA TODAY ACCUSED JACINDA ARDERN’S GOVERNMENT OF TURNING ‘GODZONE’ INTO A SECOND WORLD COUNTRY.
Economic mismanagement, declining living standards, and undue favouritism towards Maori interests have pushed New Zealand to the ‘point of no return’, wrote Brooke.
The Ardern government exacerbated existing issues and underminded democratic principles and traditional values.
Despite record migration levels and population growth the country has entered a recession, fueling concerns about economic stability and societal wellbeing.
Housing affordability has hit crisis levels with the International Monetary Fund flagging serious issues in New Zealand. Ardern’s tenure had seen a rapid increase in government debt, sluggish progress in fixing inflation, and a decline in living standards – all evidence of the Labour government’s mismanagement. Despite this, former Minister of Finance Grant Robertson was recently appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Otago.
Brooke also took aim at the Labour government’s approach to crime, healthcare, and judicial processes. Criticism of lenient sentencing practices and perceived favouritism toward Maori interests in policy decisions has led to the erosion of democratic principles and traditional values.
Brooke accused the ailing mainstream media of bias and misrepresentation, particularly in regards to their reporting on Winston Peters.
Ardern’s pledge of $30 billion towards the Paris Agreement on climate change was slammed.
“Worst perhaps of all Ardern’s economic damage has been, against all professional advice, personally committing $30 billion from New Zealanders, without consulting parliament – or a country already on its knees – toward the nonsensical Paris Agreement on climate change, endorsing its spurious CO2 climate scam – an agreement that, if not repudiated, will cost each family $24,170.
“Have New Zealanders taken too long to wake up to the fact that, as has been pointed out, a majority that stays silent does not long remain a majority?”