We broke our Prime Minister – New Zealand Civil Society is the loser this day

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Martyn Bradbury
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We broke our Prime Minister

The exhaustion increasingly etched on her face from dealing with the most challenging times outside war plus the toxic vilification of her has worn her down as we ride rudderless as a political movement on an ocean of anxiety.

We were lucky to have her, she brought out NZs best & sadly our worst.

The radioactive bile that has been vomited up on her has been a shameful low in public debate.

There were many legitimate reasons to disagree with the Prime Minister, this blog did so on many occasions, but there is a difference between reasonable difference and that hate speech she and her family have been buried under.

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Civil Society is the loser this day.

We are all a lesser people this week.

What a terribly sad goodbye.

We broke our Prime Minister.

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75 COMMENTS

  1. Im not worried about jacinda, she’s only 42, she’s rich and will get given amazing job offers.

    I am truly worried, no terrified about the poor and working class of this country who she is supposed to represent and care about , who were in crisis when she was elected and whose lives have only gotten worse in the last five years and will get extraordinarily worse under a national/act govt.

    Labour doesn’t care about us and has lost the glossy leader who tricked us into thinking they did now they’ll make some second rate Goff like Hipkins the leader and do sfa until they are voted out on election day.

    Unless…. They put Kiri or Michael in and they hit the ground running on popular policies Ardern was too conservative to do like a cgt, decriminalizing weed, dental etc

    But they won’t. They’ll elect a robot who won’t announce anything or do anything interesting to excite people.

    • If you’re terrified about what’s to come you should be. The devil you know was no devil, what’s to come , Nact, is the apocalypse.

    • Dirty politics and the ‘Goodfellows’, have feral, nutty bedfellows.

      The Karens, the Sherriffs, The Tamakis, the FARC’s, the conspiracy theorists, the racists, Groundswell, headswell, the misogynists, ramraiders, motel-dwellers, the death-threateners, Christian Right and arrogant pricks like David Seymour …

      I’d walk away too if this bunch of ne’er do wells were attacking me every platform and venue I went to. It’s bad enough commenting

  3. Totally agree with you Martyn. It is indeed a sad commentary on NZ society that even after we have been guided so well through the extraordinary events of the last 5+ years, and offered a new style of leadership, that political partisanship drives some to voice such vitriol as has been evident today.

  4. I often agree with you Martyn but this piece is “over the top!” Civil society may well be a winner considering how much it deteriorated under Ardern’s primeministership.

  6. She broke civil society with her mandates.
    “Two classes..Yep! Yep!”
    Remember?
    Many of us haven’t forgotten.

  7. I can only say: Thank you, Jacinda!

    My guess is the convincing majority in ’20 was a mixed blessing: it set her up to never be able to live up to the gigantic range of expectations it created.

    At the time, she had my vote and to be honest, it was the first time in my life that I was crystal clear as to who to vote for. I’ve never regretted it.
    Many mistakes, much good stuff.
    I wonder…. we don’t know what we had till it’s gone?
    Not holding my breath for the next (nact) lot. It scares me rather.

    • Not quite, she didn’t create the Stupid, but COVID and her respect for fact sure brought them out of the woodwork.

      • Richard+Christie Respect for fact? Wrong fact like saying that the IPCA would cover the politicians’ antics down at Parliament ? Fact that numerous voices keep pleading to keep the Commissioner for Vulnerable Children ?

  9. Completely over the top.
    Despite everything she’s done she’s never faced the kind of vitriol that Muller, for example, faced. The campaign of hate that ended with his breakdown and resignation – and he wasn’t even PM or in a position of genuine power.

  10. So there may be two union candidates: Former leader Andrew Little (Engineers’ Union), and Michael Wood (Bank & Insurance).

    Would either actually change any policies?

    I seem to recall that when Little was leader, Labour policy was to bring back the Industrial Awards System. That would be one decent victory for working people.

    The question is whether the Bernie Bros. will still have nobody to vote for, and if the new leader can win back a few Trumpers who have abandoned Labour for Winston.

    The election rules are also crazy. The members may not get to vote? And then if they do, it can easily be overruled by the Parliamentary Party?

    Obviously someone like Jeremy Corbyn must never be allowed to win.

  11. A sign of a broken society is the level of mental health issues and what is done to deal with them.
    In that sense we have not done well.

    That said, a comment on one site is “Adern is a nasty person. She has all but destroyed New Zealand.” Now is that perspective down to mental health issues or other simple realities about the person’s intellect and grip on reality?

  14. Saved 25,000 kiwis from death by covid.
    Increased minimum wage by 35%
    Cut immigration to cut unemployment.
    But lets not forget she was bad for business cause Labour creating the boomingest economy in 50 years is bad for business.

    How long til we see the placards “Bring Bac Jac! “

  17. I don’t think we broke PM Jacinda, I think it was the intransigence of the troughers and dolts in leading positions in government that had become ‘money for old rope’. Unfortunately it’s so old that its frayed and if used to hang them would break and release them from the end they so richly deserve. I have obviously little respect for these grifters and to save her good standing in the world she needed to leave, with the ability to continue on a career in which her past success will still shine bright. Stay on and only tarnish would be seen.

  18. As someone commented elsewhere

    “My take is she inherited the whole stupid central bank/central planning machine with it’s impossible-to-get-rid-of monetary policy that dominates everything, and all she could do is fiddle at the margins of that.

    I wonder if she will ever realise she didn’t matter all that much?”

    I think she did and if she rocked the paradigm too much she’d be in their sights?

    I wonder how much Luxon realises it too. I’m assuming he will play along and be a nice lap dog.

    Capitalism will eat itself.

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