National Party leader Judith Collins has doubled down on her decision to travel from Auckland to Wellington during lockdown and without being tested to attend Parliament in a clash with Breakfast presenter Indira Stewart.
Stewart questioned Collins on her decision to attend Parliament in person despite the nationwide lockdown and whether she was tested before she flew.
But Collins, who did not take a test, said she had been in isolation for two weeks, was fully vaccinated and used the contact tracer app. Stewart pressed her further on the decision, and Collins began raising her voice.
“Why is this all about me today?” she said. “This is ridiculous.”
Judith tried this exact same trick a couple of weeks ago with John Campbell.
It’s the outrage Olympics game, the Woke use it all the time.
She takes offense at some tiny slight and then strikes with that tone of self indulgent anger that arouses frightened people to notice her while trapped in our collective self impatience.
No one knows what’s going on but they do understand the tone, it resonates with their own fears and it calls to us.
It’s the punch rather than the reflection.
Judith does it to get noticed, draw attention and manipulate people’s fears and she’s very good at it.
The National Party have no philosophical values, they are cowards whose venal self interest corrodes all who come into contact with it.
As the Right see people flee towards the State, their small Government mantra and free market dogma can’t survive Covid.
With no intellectual beliefs worth arguing, National have imploded from having the capacity to articulate what they believe and have instead become a guttural snarl of Judith Collins.
Not one word of a debate, just a nails on blackboard sound of seething resentment and small town bigotry. A banjo twanging over open wounds.
It shows Judith is prepared to manufacture dissent to be politically relevant.
Judith won’t just play to our lesser angels, she’ll give them a formal dinner and a waltz.
That’s pretty grim
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Your thoughts Frank, on this rabble that have no moral compass or integrity?
Oh, she’s getting noticed alright, but not in a good way.
Seems Judith Collins has an anger management problem, judging by her sniping comments to Indira Stewart on this morning’s Breakfast show. Something frightening is brewing underneath that vicious persona. The interview exposed that point!
Indira did a great job given the circumstances, while Collins sunk back into the odious swamp from which she emerged!
Mary, I thought what the interview exposed is what you and I and most of N.Z. new anyway, Collins is not professional and the furthermost away from Prime ministerial one could possibly be.
Collins at it again in the NZ Herald accusing the host of having a political agenda. Last time I checked Collins was a politician?
That interview was a real doozy. Indira and the Banshee. I almost felt embarrassed for the woman although in this neo-liberal space that is lil ‘ole NuZull that punches above its weight, I don’t think I could find the emotional capital to feel anything for her other than pity. (She’s apparently in touch with Pasifika because hubby is a brown fella doncha know).
Seriously gNatz! And if Luxon is going to be your answer, I’d better stock up on popcorn.
What a really ghastly specimen
‘When your opponent is making a mistake, do not interupt them’.
These no method, just Judith being hideous and attention seeking.
How many Nat MP’s are considering giving it away knowing getting rid of her is like ridding a condemned building of cockroaches!
….. or Termites eating the house alive ?
Judeath looks and is acting like she has lost the plot. Given Jude came from Auckland where the virus is rampant why wouldn’t you ask her if she had a tests before she jumped on the plane. And consulting with her Samoan husband is not the same as consulting with PI whom she claims to care about so much especially when there is an opportunity to promote herself. As for her attitude we don’t need such a person with such negative shite constantly coming out of her mouth. We need to be positive and upbeat and we need to believe as a collective of 5 million we can do this. I myself have managed to convince many of my reluctant whanau to have the vaccine. And we need to encourage others its not all about them it’s about all of us, as we are all in this together.
You can see why Jacinda is 1000% more popular than Jude.
Collins’s behaivour/reaction from start to finish was a train-wreck of an interview on her part.
She just doesn’t Do It for National and her interview and the National Party Damage Control afterwards has become a joke both of Collins and of course National.
National again and as per usual resorted to blame games. An excuse that has now way passed its Used By Date. Blaming others for the reaction of Collins is unacceptable. What she did today was abhorrent and disgusting. But for National to blame others is equally as ridiculous as Collins came across.
What National has become is something I am sure no political party would ever want to be. In say 10 years time they will be celebrating 100 years in existence. But it has taken ONE woman with a NPD to destroy that very party within ONE year.
So what National have on their hands is an insane and mentally unstable and obviously personal jealousy ridden person called Judith Collins who has done more damage to National than one person could achieve in 100 years. She is their leader and she is a poor reflection upon that now minor political party.
Here we have it!!! If Collins is incapable of answering a question without resorting to sniping and jealousy ridden temper tantrums how can we expect her to be a leader of New Zealand and NZ if by some misfortune she becomes prime minister of this country????!!!!
We are in the middle of a pandemic and all Collins seems to be obsessed with is sniping and having school yard bully boy/girl tactics whilst throwing her toys like say Zoom out of her crib in attempt of saying “Look at ME(Collins). Aren’t I fantastic?????!!!!!”
She isn’t leader material and I am sure National could do better than a bitter old woman who has allowed personal jealousy of a much younger woman over-ride any sense of caring about NZ and NZers.
But then I doubt Collins cares about anyone else but Judith Collins. She is very much ego-ridden and self-obsessed.
Typical Lawyer
Sadly so true JustMe.
Bring back Simon
MP Judith Collins can always try promising further house-price-increases.
But really Labour have beat her to the punch. How can she compete with Labour’s historic house-price-increases and direct cash injections to businesses?
All she has left to promise is a crack-down on the growing anti-social behavior of the poor, the rolling back of healthy-home-standards and reversing the foreign-buyers-ban.
Labour have already reversed the money truck up and dumped billions into the living-rooms of property speculators and the business community. The asset price inflation under Labour has not just pushed-the-boat-out – it’s set it sailing!
MP Judith Collins could promise austerity along with her crack-down on the poor – after all they’re mostly Labour voters whom have seemingly dug themselves this hole?
What about Tax Cuts and raise GST to 17.5% that should do the trick, it worked b4 for National ?
John Key borrowed $NZ50bn and relied on housing speculation to feed his so called rock star economy. House/land prices increased 120% between 2010 and 2017 and we are still paying it back. If Natz get into Govt they will introduce tax cuts for the rich and remove tax interest restrictions so property speculators can feed their GDP. In addition they will open the borders to delta and infect Maori and Pacifica and their demographics – old grumpy men and women.
It’s seems many people out there are consumed by hate for anything to do with the Labour Party.
Anyway I guess that’s what politics do to people, they lose any sense of objectivity or indeed fairness.
I watch the evening news with a sad heart . Months of no covid and time to prepare for the time when the inevitable happened and it struck again. Immediately we did the easy move of lockdown a necessary move but two weeks in and we are told nurses are in short supply for the ICU beds people are going without food for 5 days as food banks run out. Still no spit test to speed up testing. MIQ closes down all,together for overseas people as we need the space for home grown cases. The call by experts to build purpose built accomadationignored.Maori and Pacifica leaders have been ignored and now the cost to the nation is adding up.
This government has wasted an opportunity to get ahead of the play and instead spent time on banning gay conversion and hate speech making life harder for businesses and farmers to operate while doing nothing about providing housing either to buy or rent .
While all this is going on the opposition is trying to score aimless political points .
Trevor, again I agree. What we require is a massive investment in infrastructure, the likes our country has not seen before. This will require massive borrowing to meet the need of our bulging population. Sadly this won’t happen as the attack by opposition of crippling our country with debt is just to much for any Government to bare.
Thus we are left with a different type of debt, with increased poverty, wage stagnation and a massive gap between the haves and the have nots.
Thanks Bert. Like me you would remember the M.O.W. that did all the massive work likes dams tunnels etc. I arrived in 1973 and meet many ex workers . who got their start in life working for this organisation. I imagine if these works were proposed today there would be years of protests from different areas and the finished job would be underpare like Transmission Gully
. How do we get this message to those in power to stop their silly games and face the future with a will to work towards the common good.
My grandfather( would be 121 years of age if alive today) worked for the M.O.W. and they built the Tapu / Coroglen road by hand/ shovel. It is still loose metal chip to this day. You would think with all the modern technology, these projects would be completed on time. One can only assume, it’s all about the politics and all about the money. One thing about the M.O.W, they got things done.
Sadly we have, as you say Trevor, silly games at play.
Trevor S – Are they banning gay conversion ? It looked like the PM wants to imprison parents who deny their children puberty blockers – and that government hate speech proposals are to stop people criticising them. It’s Simon Bridges who doesn’t want to punish parents for exercising the same cautious stance as a rather large consensus of overseas medical experts do.
Children being hungry angers me as much as politicians waffling about it does, but the bigger picture of children receiving a message that they don’t matter, and governments designating the poor a sub-species, is as bad as it gets.
Say it like it is, Denny. And sending in a significantly younger curvy female, making Collins look that much older, was sort of slimey – it’s the sort of thing that some men think funny – and a creeping workplace dynamic in government depts and academia, younger female heads being used against older.
When Stewart asked Collins whether she’d had something done which she wasn’t required to, I thought her impudent, and just trying to rile Collins – the personal probing about the Samoan community wasn’t exactly relevant either – it was a straight out hit job on Collins and a colossal waste of time – nothing useful at all.
Lux(ury)on is even worse than Collins but Ardern is no different. They are all elites trying to enrich themselves and not caring about the country as a whole. Jacinda does not believe that ghost homes are a problem and cancelled a CGT. All while her and her families wealth are exploding due to her policies. How can she front us without being completely ashamed with so many poor and young totally destroyed by HER polices?
Collins claims she talks to her husband every day. My question is does her husband really LISTEN to her or has he too been bullied into submission like she has probably done to the National MPs and especially those she quickly promoted in a Zoom cabinet re-shuffle????!!!!
Just me. Whether Collins talks with her husband every day, and whether she does so constructively or not, is not your business or mine. Transposing her political goings-on into her personal spaces achieves zilch.
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