Jacinda Ardern owed her last electoral success to traditional National supporters voting for her management of Covid but since then she has forced people to choose between heating and eating as a result her government’s Carbon Zero policies, which have catastrophically driven up fuel prices while threatening to turn out all the lights.
The prospect of Jacinda Ardern winning next election based on support for her Covid management has now disappeared. Once the harsh elimination restrictions imposed by the PM were relaxed, with no natural immunity against this highly contagious virus and a vaccine that doesn’t prevent infection or transmission, New Zealand has suffered escalating case numbers and a mounting death toll.
It is plainly obvious from recent poll results that Jacinda Ardern has suffered a loss of public trust and confidence in her leadership. For our ideologically-driven Prime Minister government incompetence is largely to blame.
Who could possibly have imagined when Prime Minister Ardern announced at a World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland that New Zealand was leading the world in the use of “wellbeing” as a measure of government success that under her watch public services would fail so badly?
Right now, all across the country, thousands of scheduled hospital treatments are being cancelled, patients are being sent home, specialists are being overwhelmed, doctors are unable to cope, and staff shortages are threatening services at every level.
An elderly woman was left to die while living in a car parked on the side of the road in a residential suburb of Auckland – even though concerned neighbours had contacted authorities on many occasions.
A woman suffering from a severe headache was effectively turned away by the Emergency Department of Middlemore Hospital at 1am because it would be many hours before she could be seen – only to arrive back three hours later in an ambulance, unconscious from such a “massive” brain haemorrhage that she died the next day.
Our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has authorised a $500 million overhaul of the entire health system in the middle of a pandemic – just to satisfy the ideological demands of her Maori Caucus for co-governance.
By disestablishing community health boards and sacking health leaders, our Prime Minister has left the health system rudderless and in meltdown and meanwhile, the new power-hungry Maori Health Authority, which intends prioritising health care in New Zealand on the basis of race rather than clinical need, is swamping health staff with bureaucratic demands, instead of allowing them to focus on managing the crisis.
The incompetence of the Ardern government is not just related to the health sector. They also promised to build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 years, to enable first-home buyers to enter the housing market and after four years, only 1,366 homes have been built.
Meanwhile, over $1 billion has been spent on emergency housing, and the waiting list for a State house has escalated from 5,000 in 2017 to over 27,000 today.
Then there’s Labour’s wasteful spending – including $53 million on planning, announcing, and then cancelling the “Skypath” cycle bridge across Auckland Harbour. Or, the massive $1.9 billion that was announced with great fanfare to address problems with mental health, that seems to have disappeared almost without trace, even as demand for assistance skyrockets.
And how about the Ministry of Transport’s plan to spend $197 million by 2024 on road safety and education campaigns to support their ‘Road to Zero’ strategy – instead of spending the money on fixing roads!
Rather than removing the red tape and bureaucracy that’s holding the country back, Labour is busy creating more, with an example being their carbon tax which is now fuelling inflation across the whole economy and putting huge pressure on household budgets.
Ever since being first elected, Jacinda Ardern has been big on promises and expensive public relations campaigns, while often failing to deliver results.
Labour has put in place funding for the mainstream media through their $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund and part of the criteria for this funding is to support the government’s propaganda. They are also planning to spend over $370 million merging Radio NZ and TVNZ into one ‘captured’ State-run organisation.
The reality is that the Ardern Government needs to have a friendly media that turns a blind eye to their many of failures.
In the end, it’s not just the lies and broken promises that are causing a loss of trust in Jacinda Ardern’s Government – nor the wasteful spending, the cost-of-living crisis, the housing crisis, the health crisis, the crime crisis, or even the education crisis. These are damaging and justification enough for the government to be defeated.
In education school truancy is at record levels and New Zealand is leading the world in declining standards with more than 40 percent of school leavers now unable to read and write properly. Yet it is a priority for this government to produce a sanitised view of New Zealand history that is acceptable to Maori.
Even graduating students at our tertiary institutions are forced to submit to compulsory Maori cultural propaganda in order to receive their qualifications.
The greatest act of shame that this Labour Government must be held accountable for is the way in which they have divided our nation by race.
Jacinda Ardern prior to the 2020 election deliberately failed to inform the public that if elected, she would be prioritising co-governance and tribal rule as recommended in the He Pua Pua report.
With the total election majority giving Labour the power to govern alone, Jacinda Ardern’s government has been making radical changes that have undermined our economy and attacked our democracy.
Clearly what matters to Prime Minister Ardern is not defending our democracy and standing up for the Rule of Law, it’s cosying up to the iwi elite, introducing tribal rule through co-governance, and rebranding all of our government departments with unpronounceable names “gifted” by Maori.
With the failure of the fourth estate to question government decisions the essential character of New Zealand is being transformed from a country that was doing well by world standards, to a deeply divided society that is in decline.
For the sake of New Zealand’s future Jacinda Ardern and her government need to go.