Friends don’t let friends hate babies – Why Jacinda & Neve’s appearance at the UN trumps LOTR & Lange’s ‘Uranium on your breath’ as our identity
Jacinda at the UN with her infant baby Neve and her stay at home partner Clarke supporting her has done as much to build our image and lead on the global stage as much as universal suffrage, the 40 hour working week and nuclear free has done.
This was a moment of joy, a moment we could all feel proud of ourselves as New Zealanders. We had our Prime Minister, supported in her having a family speak at the UN General Assembly during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit. It was an extraordinary speech and a golden moment where Jacinda as our leader, reset the brand that is New Zealand.
Lange’s ‘Uranium on your breathe’ and our hollow LOTR tourism publicity have been replaced by a modern progressive and inclusive vision where women are not forced to choose family or career, where we support women to have equality in agency and they flourish for that support.
This is a moment where we can share some collective joy in the purpose and identity of us as a people, a culture and a society.
When Western liberal democracy feels denigrated by Trump, Jacinda and her new modern family has provided hope.
If you are genuinely angry at the Prime Minister taking her infant baby to the UN (as the comments sections of most msm newspapers suggest), then perhaps you need some time out, a cup of tea and a lie down because friends don’t let friends hate babies.
Since the UN was established, nations have failed to prevent wars, have failed to protect the environment, have failed to prevent extinction of species, and have failed to prevent disastrous increases in population.
Having exterminated much of the life on Earth, humans are now failing to take measures to prevent extinction of the human species. And, apparently, the UNIPCC is not providing the necessary guidance.
http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/08/ipccs-political-fix-on-15c-will.html
“..This was a moment of joy, a moment we could all feel proud of ourselves as New Zealanders. We had our Prime Minister, supported in her having a family speak at the UN General Assembly during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit. It was an extraordinary speech and a golden moment where Jacinda as our leader, reset the brand that is New Zealand…”
In a nutshell.
I thought the same Martyn.
Just being there with her baby as the PM of a country, speaks volumes.
I use to cringe every time John Key represented NZ on the world stage, now I feel proud that finally a truer representation is being displayed.
The world needs to grow up and face it’s realities! Fast!
Yes, comments sections have been very sad to read.
So much bitterness, how does that play out day to day?
Completely agree. Such a contrast from Trump to Jacinda. She made a mark for NZ this week and made me proud to be a kiwi.
The reality: All puff and wind and no real substance.It reminds me of the Italian immigrant organ grinder and a chained monkey in a red coat complete with begging bowl of the 1880’s. Jacinda Blair and baby Neve Blair portraying what exactly? Certainly not the horrific fate of Yemen, the holocaust that is Palestine,the treacherous disenbowelling of Syria, the insane demonisation of Russia. I do not feel proud of this vacuous grovelling women.The world burns and she smiles prettily.What is needed is a personage of courage to speak truth to power to the Western civilization that by attempting to exert hegamony over the world is bringing misery to millions, and bringing the very existence of the world in jeopardy.Is she doing anything of substance to combat this? Does she even have an awareness of what I speak?
Totally agree historian pete,and she is enabled and supported by the free riding joke that passes for fair and accurate reporting in this country. Happened to be in the vicinity of a television set recently, playing (da news) in the background and a very misleading piece on Syria caused me to look at the screen, in large letters bottom left, direct from cnn???
Agree totally. To suggest that her superficial performance somehow surplants Lange’s brilliant ‘Uranium on your breath’ performance at the Oxford Union is actually an insult to Lange’s legacy.
I so seldom get to use the words “sycophantry” and “virtue signalling” in the same sentence. Thank you Martyn.